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Visionary publisher and Silicon Valley’s number one networker Tony Perkins was in Manhattan this week. Tony is always ahead of the next big thing: He founded Upside and Red Herring magazines, and the AlwaysOn Network, a fascinating publishing, networking and conference business. We caught up with him in TimesSquare yesterday. He’s been talking a lot […]

Click To Play We caught up with Shoba Purushothaman of The NewsMarket at the Arthur Page Society Conference last month. Shoba is a PR pro turned entrepreneur/video evangelist. Her company works with TV news professionals, providing broadcast-quality video over the Internet. Shoba took a break from the conference for senior corporate communication executives to talk […]

Click To Play While chatting with NYT.com Editor in Chief Len Apcar, we asked the man at the helm of one of the pioneering new media newspaper websites how journalists could make the transition from traditional media to the fast-pace, multi-dimensional world of new media. Len saysthat journalists must now be ‘mentally ambidextrous’ when it […]

Click To Play The Beet visited the newsroom of The New York Times Digital and had good chat with Len Apcar’s, editor in chief of The Times online. He says that the Gray Lady has embraced video as a way to add personality and dimension that can’t be capture in text or stills to stories. […]

Welcome to Beet.TV In April, The Economist coined it the "The Clip Culture" — the extraordinary explosion of online video and astounding numbers of community created video clips being uploaded to the Web.  Not only are "citizens" uploading video and sharing it through social networks, smart publishers are embracing video in creative ways to benefit […]

The Beet was wondering how all these video clips are being made and posted to the ‘Net in such extraordinary numbers.  Do kids have all these camcorders?  We asked our tech guro David Carnoy Executive Editor at CNET.com who told us that many people record video on digital cameras with the "movie mode" function.  He […]

Click To Play The Beet was curious to know about the future of the Internet. A big part of its continued growth is how this whole global network will be administered. And that’s becoming quite a debate these days. So we went straight to the source and asked Esther Dyson. Esther Dyson has played a […]

Click To Play The Beet was wondering about the topsy-turvy world for advertisers — how they can make headway selling their stuff with all this decentralized media, social networking and all types of technology platforms like wireless.  Can they get the attention their clients want? We had chat with technology oracle Esther Dyson high atop […]

Click To Play Long an innovator in online publishing, Salon.com is becoming increasingly multimedia these days with its very new cool Video Dog vlog. We caught up with Salon’s Kerry “Top Dog” Lauerman, co-editor of the vlog, in his bustling office at the New York bureau. He tells The Beet that Salon’s posting of Stephen […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with Internet visionary Esther Dyson on the roof of her Manhattan office to talk about the exciting developments surrounding online video.  The balmy spring breeze didn’t warm Esther’s heart to the usefulness of online video for marketers trying to reach busy business people. Despite the buzz surrounding online […]

Click To Play Peter Hirshberg, Exec VP at Technorati, is back with The Beet to share that video blogging is becoming more and more sophisticated by the minute. Video bloggers are editing their content, incorporating cut-aways into their videos, and using vlogs as a platform for shorts and humorous video creation. But video blogs won’t […]

Click To Play Here’s more from the Beet’s chat with Jason Pontin in his Cambridge office, overlooking the Charles River and the Boston skyline beyond.  Jason was the longtime editor of Red Herring magazine before coming to Tech Review, and he has chronicled the rise of the Internet and the growth of community created content. […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with the famed Xerox researcher, John Seely Brown at the Arthur Page Society Conference in New York City.  John was on hand at the annual spring conference of the prestigious society for senior public relations directors and corporate communications professionals to talk about how the wealth of external […]

Click To Play Peter Hirshberg, Executive Vice President of Technorati, the leading blog search engine, currently tracking over 36.7 million sites, sounds off on the move of traditional newspapers, like the Washington Post and the New York Times, towards cultivating an online presence, including the use of video.  It will certainly be interesting to see […]

Click To Play The Beet was in Beantown and stopped in to query Jason Pontin, editor in chief of MIT’s Technology Review, about searchable video in his Cambridge office.  The feature, says Jason, means search has moved beyond the realm of text and into image, thanks to the use of meta tags, ala Flickr.  Anyone […]

Click To Play Jerry Swerling, Director of Public Relations Studies and Strategic PR Center at Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California explains how employee blogging can be an effective form of corporate communications. Swerling was interviewed on April 6 at the annual meeting of the Arthur Page Society, a professional association […]

Click To Play We caught up with Professor Paul Argenti of the Tuck School at Dartmouth at the Arthur Page Society meeting in Manhattan.  The Beet got his take on the appropriateness of corporate blogging. According to Paul, the value of a blog authored by a senior exec is problematic; an exec at a high […]

Click To Play John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto PARC center, explains how successful video blogging will take shape. It won’t be bloggers speaking into a camera, but will contain compelling content, vignettes and information that takes advantage of the form. Brown is currently a senior fellow […]

Click To Play Peter Hirshberg, Executive VP at Technorati, charts the emergence of "citizen video journalism" and considers how community-generated content might impact mainstream media.  And, he talks about some early successful uses of video by The New York Times, notably recent video segments David Pogue.  Hirshberg was interviewed on April 6 at the annual […]

Click To Play Len Apcar, the editor of the New York Times online, explains how the Internet is changing traditonal media — and how big media Web sites like the Times are more and more willing to provide hyperlinks to relevant information.  He cites an example where an article about a recall of Ford vehicles […]