In 1996 I wrote a piece in the American Journalism Review headlined Net Gain that included a passage about Steve Rosenbaum, then the brains behind MTV’s “MTV News Unfiltered.” So it was great, after nine years, to meet Steve face to face at Vloggercon on Sunday (when we both appeared on panels opposite each other). […]
Online video editing goes mainstream
NY Times: Camera. Action. Edit. Now, Await Reviews. The music video for the surreal folk song “I Got a Bunny,” written and performed by Juanito Moore, is not something you will see on VH1. ut the video, shot on a rainy sidewalk in front of Mr. Moore’s home in Grand Rapids, Mich., has another distinction: […]
Digital media: on the front lines
Spent Wednesday at Under the Radar Conference: Why Digital Media Matters. A crowd of 300 or so of the digerati turned out at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View for a day of Web 2.0 demos and hallway schmoozing. Early on, Stowe Boyd and I discovered that the wi-fi set up for the gathering would […]
VertigoCon: Sharing, interoperability and openness
I’ve been swamped even more than usual this week, so I haven’t been able to mention the VertigoCon gathering held Monday on the heels of Vloggercon. Some 45 developers and figures in the grassroots media movement showed up at the San Francisco State University Downtown Center for a combined meeting of Video Vertigo and the […]
In-text ads: Pure evil
(Click to enlarge) Kontera Technologies — motto: Creating In-Text Relevance! — contacted me the other day about advertising possibilities on the New Media Musings blog. Which is fine. Except that what they’re offering isn’t the usual text or banner or pop-up ads. They want to embed text ads right in the middle of the editorial […]