Today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Video bloggers claim spotlight. Online diaries looking a lot like television. Headline aside — online video and videoblogs decidedly do not look like television — Ellen Lee nicely captures some of the currents of the online video revolution, led by people like my friends Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson, pictured above, […]
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JD on user-generated video
In today’s edition of CNN’s Digital Life podcast, CNN Headline News anchor Renay San Miguel talks with me about Hollywood and user-generated video on the web. Play MP3 Audio. | Subscribe to the podcast.
Videos from Santa Barbara forum
Here are the video interviews I conducted last week at the UC Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions, which I just posted over at my Real People Network videoblog. • Josh Silver (above), executive director of FreePress.net, discusses the grassroots effort to reform the media. (ourmedia page | m4v video) • Angela Beesley, co-founder of […]
YouTube CEO hails ‘birth of a new clip culture’
At MediaShift, Mark Glaser has a Q&A with YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley about the meteoric rise of his video-sharing site. The startup, which launched its site less than a year ago, is now serving up 35 million videos PER DAY, with people adding 35,000 new videos per day. But the enigma is how […]
The online video revolution
I just remembered: I was out of town so forgot to blog this front-page story in Thursday’s San Francisco Chronicle: Online video sites blend the bizarre with the mundane to reshape visual entertainment. (Photo: Chad Hurley (left) and Steve Chen started YouTube when they realized how difficult it was to exchange dinner party videos. ) […]