This Wednesday evening (Aug. 29) I’ll be one of the judges at the fourth Pier Screening put on by NewTeeVee, featuring citizen media videos. The event takes place outside on Pier 38 in San Francisco in all of its splendor and heat lamp warmth. Other judges are Wall Street Journal tech columnist Kara Swisher and […]
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Tom Green on his Internet TV show
From the NY Times the other day: Tom Green works from home (you can watch). A rundown of Hollywood actor Tom Green’s go-it-alone Internet TV show. I interviewed Green a year ago in Hollywood as he was just launching his channel.
6 tips for shooting effective Web video
Here’s a 4-minute video with Jessica Kizorek of Two Parrot Productions, conducted at the Web Video Summit in San Jose, Calif., June 2007. Jessica provides six tips for shooting effective Web video. Watch MPEG-4 video | Ourmedia page Low-quality Flash version on Internet Archive Cross-posted to Real People Network
Images and videos of the bridge collapse
A woman whose husband was killed in Wednesday’s bridge collapse (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Here’s some coverage of the tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Mainstream media certainly did a better job than citizen media on this one, though the first-person accounts were harrowing. Disappointing, though, that I didn’t see a single traditional news organization offer video […]
Kent Nichols on starting an Internet TV show
At Pixelodeon last month at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, I had a chance to interview Kent Nichols, co-founder of the popular Internet TV show AskaNinja, a few minutes after he gave a presentation on how to create entertainment content for an Internet television show. He covers the basics like how to get started, […]