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One of the coolest things about Vloggercon is all the digital and video cameras.  Imagine 400 vloggers with everything from tiny digital cameras to professional camcorders. What a scene. Scoble is very proud of his Sony HD. (Beet.TV uses the Panasonic DVC 30) In his comments, he really frames the power and value of video […]

I caught up with vlogger’s most enthusiastic booster Peter Van Dijck, a founder of Vloggercon.  Peter is astonished by all the developments in video blogging over the last two years. He says it’s a very exciting time and we’re all pioneers.  Thanks to Peter and to everyone who has organized a fantastic conference. More updates […]

Robert W. Scoble, the pioneering video blogger, will leave Microsoft Corporation where he lead corporate blogging at Microsoft and paved the way for many other companies and individuals to do the same. Beet.TV has confirmed that he will be joining a Silicon Valley start-up, PodTech.Net, a company founded by John Furrier. The Palo Alto based […]

Robert Scoble has defined the role of blogging in the corporation. The long-time blogger for Microsoft is a trailblazer with his blog. What some of us didn’t realize is that he is an early adopter of the video blog idea. He’s been creating video for his blog since the beginning. His title is "Technical Evangelist" […]

Henry Jenkins, the leading academic thinker on media convergence, is perfectly clear about this point: the consumer is gaining control — and not merely by creating their own home-grown blogs and social networks, but in the emerging influence they exert over traditional media.  It’s an inexorable force, whose implications will have a profound impact over […]

It was great to catch up with Hunter Walk, a product manager in the Google Video group.  As you probably know, Google is still in Beta on its video platform. The company has recently initiated new ways to upload video that seems to be much easier.  We learned that uploaded video is immediately given a […]

Click To Play We caught up with Stuart Elliott outside the office of the New York Times this week. The longtime ad industry watcher sees this as a particularly exciting time in the advertising world. He sees a great deal of exploration happening on a variety of new media platforms. Stuart is fascinated with all […]

Click To Play Ken Auletta is certainly the most insightful, informed and connected media journalist working today. For all of us interested in understanding what is happening with the media, his articles in the New Yorker are a must read. I wanted to ask Ken how traditional media is making the transition to the “new.” […]

Click To Play David Carr, media columnist for The New York Times has been one of the most astute chroniclers of media transformation for quite a while. We have enjoyed reading his view on things since the good old days of Inside.com in the late ’90’s.  David is a Renaissance man; not only does he […]

Click To Play Looking at clips on YouTube, Google Video, video blogs and various video aggregation sites, we find lots of sophomoric humor and some just plain asinine behavior. Is the face of community content really going to be so silly? Are the young people being empowered with video and these new content sharing platforms […]

What are the social forces at work behind "Web 2.0"  — what’s with all this social networking, why are young people displaying the personal information and images in public — what does this mean to the future of society?  How can the mainstream media remain relevant?  These are many of the questions we try to […]

More business people are consuming video as part of their daily business intelligence diet. But I’ve often wondered if busy execs can sit through long video presentations and streaming conferences. Will people really have time to sit and watch video? Is it engaging? What works? Seeking a smart guy to ask, I went to the […]

Click To Play It was great to catch up with my friend and former client Tony Perkins (co-founder of the Red Herring, which my firm represented in the go-go late nineties) in the hustle bustle of New York. Tony is usually found in the far quieter, bucolic climes of Woodside, California. He was in town […]

Click To Play Scott Heiferman says that the power of the web is not necessarily in podcasting, blogs, media or even publishing; the biggest impact of the web will be the opportunity to organize and mobilize online that the Internet provides.    Scott takes a long view: he says groups organizing online will be the […]

Click To Play I was invited to bring our camera up to the newsroom of the New York Times Digital to meet veteran Times man Len Apcar, editor in chief of the NYTimes.com. The Times is creating a lot of interesting video these days — including some which might be considered "off brand" — but […]

Click To Play I trekked to the very cool offices of Meetup in lower Manhattan to speak with co-founder and visionary CEO Scott Heiferman.  Scott and his team have built an extraordinary business using the tools of social networking to organize people into special interests groups which meet in person to pursue their passions. There […]

Click To Play Salon.com has been a pioneering online publisher for 10 years, which some might think makes it old enough to call it old media. I don’t think so, and its new vlog, Video Dog, is showing how established publishing companies can take advantage of community generated video. I caught up with Salon’s Kerry […]

Click To Play The age of individual “online brand” creation has arrived says Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, the networking, publishing and conference website. Interviewed in Times Square, Tony drew our attention to the fact that the days of big media consolidation are over: in the new media environment everyone is capable of creating their […]

Click To Play Visiting The New York Times website these days, we are finding lots of video prominently displayed.  Some look like network-produced TV segments, some simple commentary by staff reporters and others are unpolished, folksy pieces by emerging video stars including Seth Schiesel, David Carr and David Pogue.  Pogue’s home style approach to video […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with Larry Walsh, editor of VARBusiness, the influential tech trade publication.  We asked him if business people really have time to watch video. Moreover, is video an effective communications platform in the business-to-business world?   Larry gives us an emphatic yes.  In a previous post on Beet TV, Internet […]