Hey all, just wanted to drop a line here with a new project Ive been
working on called Magma.
Unlike Rocketboom, which is essentially a content/production studio,
Magma is a video platform and Im very, very excited about it. I think
it fills an obvious void in the online video space, on a
Greetings, a world-wide pillow fight is going down *today* and we are
seeking video for Rocketboom from cities all over. So we are sending
out this message to all:
#1
Are you able to capture 30sec - 1 full minute of raw footage (doesnt
need to be edited)?
#2
Do you know of anyone in your
Revver is not down its just being upgraded:
http://tinyurl.com/budsku
On Jan 30, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Jay dedman wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Kim Waldauer k...@cubenews1.com
wrote:
Does anyone know if Revver is completely out of business? I
haven't been
able to get onto their
Anyone have any thoughts on this open video initiative?
http://www.techmeme.com/090126/p99#a090126p99
CODEC:
http://theora.org/
When I noticed this a few months ago, I thought to myself, how awesome
that Blip is in control of McCain's message - perhaps we could get
Mike and Dina drunk one night at the office and pull an October
surprise: Oops! Delete. (hickup).
But seriously, if it's legal, it should of be allowed.
Hey thanks so much to all! This is a serious milestone for us!
I wrote a long winded post here if anyone is interested:
http://dembot.com/post/44804077/sony-pictures-acquires-exclusive-
worldwide-cross
@ractalfece it get's to your point as well.
Cheers!
Andrew
On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:36
This group was instrumental in helping to innovate the standards of
delivering online video. However, I would argue, most of the
conversation on this list had almost nothing to do with content
production, it was mostly all tech talk.
Its no longer about what you can do with the tech (e.g.
Take a breather and browse my Twitter Down Art gallery:
http://dembot.com/post/25197975
On May 20, 2008, at 5:21 PM, schlomo rabinowitz wrote:
That's what makes it so endearing!
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Charles HOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twitter goes down several times a
Diddo on the need for 5.0.2
Any other version creates sync problems for some of the new ipods.
We still LOVE it.
I haven't seen a more compatible, better looking, smaller sized file
as a result of the 3ivx CODEC.
On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Steve Watkins wrote:
Which version of 3ivx you
Many who have depended on Technorati have moved onto Google Blogs:
http://blogsearch.google.com/?hl=entab=wb
On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:12 PM, John Coffey wrote:
I've never had much to do with Technorati till
videoblogging2008 but I've learned much the last day.
First, it hadn't updated my blog in
Im looking around for another free platform kinda like TubeMogul.
Where you upload your file and metadata once and then it farms out
the uploads to many other sites.
Anyone have any experience with any platforms they like?
are incredible and
my Grandpa told me to watch out for anything that was too good to be
true.
Tim Street
Creator/Executive Producer
French Maid TV
Subscribe for FREE @
http://frenchmaidtv.com/itunes
My Demo Reels Blog
http://1timstreet.com
On Mar 29, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Andrew Baron wrote:
Im
Thats a loaded question ;)
On Mar 29, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Tim Street wrote:
should we not care and just go along for the ride and see
where it takes us?
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Super major congrats to Kent and Doug for the film deal!!! You guys
are [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ awesome!
For those who do not know, the Ninjas will be writing a remake of
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a major cult classic film.
This is an incredibly brilliant leap. I predict an even greater
The idea is that a videoblogger could make a living from just 1000
true fans:
what can an artist do to escape the long tail?
One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans. While some artists have
discovered this path without calling it that, I think it is worth
trying to formalize. The gist of
We've been using TubeMogul daily for Rocketboom for a couple of
months now, its really great.
Its super fast too.
On Mar 2, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Sheila English wrote:
I have a preference to TubeMogul as well. I see they just added
Viddler. And though I've not seen anything official, I have a
Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show, Pop17 which launched today.
The show is a a daily exploration to track, analyze and understand
the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity.
http://www.pop17.com
You might think Im biased because Im close to Sarah but I truly
think
Thanks for the mention Tim. Schlomo, and all: funny enough, as we
speak, Im trying to finish one of my uber blog posts and this time
its about just that, YouTube. This blog post is truly meant for
everyone here, and everyone on YouTube.
There is a wall between vidoebloggers and youtubers
We just got the RB episdoe up a few minutes ago. Thanks to everyone
who contributed!
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/rb_08_feb_11
Also, here is a blog post I wrote about this:
http://dembot.com/post/26007384
Protests against The Church of Scientology were held by Anonymous at
11am this
Just a reminder about 11am on Sunday around the world. Would love to
see some footage from anyone who can make it out.
Ive been reading the forums and here in NYC it looks like its going
to be huge, I cant believe how many people are participating.
Andrew
On Feb 7, 2008 7:42 PM, Andrew
We've got ads working on all of our YouTube videos.
There are several components to this. Ads on the videos on YouTube
site, ads on the YouTube videos off-site on embeds, and ad-sense
share which allows you to have your content sent through the ad-sense
pipes onto other peoples sites.
This Sunday there will be an amazing protest of Scientology by the
Anonymous group. If anyone in the US can make it out to capture some
footage in your own locale and would be willing to sync up, please
email me off-list.
Thanks!
Map of Protests around the country
WTF!?
Begin forwarded message:
North Americas Oldest Appliance Video Contest Ends January 31, 2008
APWagner.com, an appliance parts website, is holding North
Americas Oldest Appliance Video Contest. Visitors to the site can
enter to win $16,500 in Cash and Prizes.
Buffalo, NY
According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video
sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end
of October.
In September and October, Crackle enjoyed an audience of 1.2m users
which doubled to 2.4m in November and December, it found.
Some 22% of
for making money, unless you wrangle licensing deals.
We've done some stuff putting old episodes on YouTube and Veoh, etc.
Exposes us to new audiences and drives us some traffic.
Congrats on the explosive growth Andrew.
-K
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
We are set up the same way but have this additional ability to sell
for and be on for the other platforms too.
I see your point though in terms of a drastically different
publishing schedule.
On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Kent Nichols wrote:
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Drew [EMAIL
Or! Do you have the flexibility to offer the sponsor their choice
depending on what works best for them?
On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Bill Cammack wrote:
I don't have anything to add to this thread, but wanted to say that
for people that are planning to monetize their podcasts, this is
Actually, I think your use of Ning social network is really great. We
have a lot of work ahead of us in this area. . .
I'd encourage everyone to check out the Ninja Ning site because its
pretty easy to get up and running and has a lot of cool features.
On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Kent
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Andrew Baron
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:30 AM
To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: marketing and distributing videos
Yea, its funny how licensing revenue isn't really leading to much
online. Everyone wants to distribute your
Kent, I'd like to get you comments on this. The $, Im not so
concerned about. It sounds like a fair and positive amount for a
gross figure.
Its the issue of distributing only on your site that Im curious about.
In the second half of 2007, we underwent major growth to our web site
traffic
This was posted on Slashdot:
The Guardian is running an article about members of the Writer's
Guild, still on strike, creating their own ventures to deliver
content over the internet. The intention is to get their work to
consumers while bypassing the movie studios. Their effort will
Just a side track I guess on what may be a rhetorical question but a
question nonetheless:
On Dec 26, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Eddie Codel wrote:
How many
people do you think it takes to put out a daily Rocketboom episode?
In context of your show on Podtech, along with the very nice budget
that
To anyone out there (including Robert), I would recommend checking
out Heath's vlog. I personally like it from a technique angle. I
still use iMovie whenever I edit and so I can appreciate the use of
simple lighting and production techniques to make a clean, simple
piece. Makes you think.
Here, here. I consider Epic-Fu to be THE break-out hit of the year.
On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:03 PM, cfmccaleb wrote:
Steve and Zadi are pioneering not only a format, but the very
landscape of New Media.
They produce an excellent, entertaining show about modern culture,
and I feel they
Cheers David, onward and upward!
On Dec 24, 2007, at 11:26 AM, David wrote:
Andrew, I saw your post yesterday and read the dembot blog post as a
result. I never responded, however, because I'm not sure what I
foresee the future of networks being so I didn't have a meaningful
reply. Maybe it
On Dec 24, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Steve Watkins wrote:
Collaboration not as easy as it should be, but is this a failure
of tools or a
failure of will?
Ah the metaphsical. If I could just prove that space is finite and
time is infinite then I could show by deduction that the problem is
On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Sull wrote:
i'm glad you received appreciation and offers based on that post...
but i can assure you...or maybe at least bet... that if it were I or
many others that tossed that blog post up no such offers,
publicity or appreciation would result.
This is
I've been working on this post for awhile.
My premise is that the old TV studio business is in a horrible
position for the change in landscape. I had not seen this before, but
if you look at the way in which the TV studios have done business in
the past, their strength is the new weakness
On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Steve Watkins wrote:
So whilst I admired the fact that rocketboom didn't seem to be
selling out in the
usual sense, for money, I became disturbed by some possible signs
that Mr Baron was
seeking to achieve a different sort of power.
AH YES!!! Its all about
to saner scales in all things?
Cheers
Steve Elbows
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jason McCabe Calacanis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Coffey
jimmycrackhead2000@ wrote:
I'm with you Richard. I suggest Jason have lunch with
Andrew Baron
Ive cross posted some more on this topic:
Why Mahalo is Fundementally Flawed
http://dembot.com/post/19305296
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, John Coffey wrote:
Wow, Andrew comes out bitch slapping! Let's book this
on Jerry Springer!
Speaking of Jason, he's most known for:
1. Stealing
I am seeing the posts rolling in now about taking this off list as I
am just about to publish the below. I'd like to go ahead and publish
it, I think its relevant. It has to do with videoblogging, blogging,
history of the space and people who are involved:
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:50 AM,
In the long run, I think you will get to the same end quicker by
asking a different question: What can you do to make the show better?
The major studio writers are on strike starting today. They are
interested in obtaining royalties or monetary compensation for their
work that airs online. I think the studios are moving slow and can
not agree on how money will be made in the future are have been
unwilling to commit. Most
Forgot to send the news in: Rocketboom is now on blip.
I posted details about it here:
http://www.dembot.com/014203.html
Thanks to Mike and Dina and the rest of the blip gang for working so
hard while we continue to be so finicky. Blip is the only company
that could come close to working
Leave Britney alone.
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Jay dedman wrote:
I just read this blog post and came across this paragraph:
http://newteevee.com/2007/09/21/college-humor-pwns-funny/
And for a business, popularity is key, which is why CollegeHumorTV
taps
into the rich vein of pop
Cross posted: http://www.dembot.com/014169.html
Josh, founder and creator of FireAnt is one person who has always
been on the about page of Rocketboom. We met at school and connected
over building the first blog at Parsons School of Design and always
discussed online patterns and activity
The NYC Videoblogging meetups are really kickin these days. We have
another one this Thursday night:
http://videoblog.meetup.com/8/
We meet for an hour where everyone introduces themselves and their
projects and then we discuss two or three projects from various
videobloggers in depth.
The
Andrew Baron has invited you to try a new meat grinder, a kitchen
appliance for Americans that helps you grind better meat. You can buy
a meat grinder here:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enq=http%3A%2F%
2Fgreenhouse.mahalo.com%2FSpecial%3AFollowDownload%3FidbtnG=Search
Meat
Exactly. Kinda sad to see that they have resorted to this to try and
get people to the site.
On Aug 27, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Bill Streeter wrote:
It's spam because he's using this list to promote something that is
not even remotely related to the subject of this list. Spam doesn't
have to be
We use Texation:
http://home.netvigator.com/~feelorium/feelorium/Textation/
This great program is well worth the $23 in time saved.
The only reason why we were able to use chapter markers and hyperlinks as a
daily part of
the process is because of this program: it's so quick.
A++
--- In
Thats funny that you would say that she hasnt learned anything new.
You must not have been reading her blog or her other stories that she writes
for BUSINESS
week.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heather Green has written about Videoblogs before. I
I didn't read the terms, but however philanthropic it may be, asking people to
sign away
perpetual rights to their content, especially without even having a
conversation, is about
as extreme as it gets in terms of taking advantage and it certainly feels
gross to even
think about.
Is that
it, and
thats fine with us. This might not be the best channel.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I didn't read the terms, but however philanthropic it may be, asking
people to sign away
perpetual rights to their content, especially without
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, esteban_k2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This clause helps
us to avoid any user from coming back and sue us saying HEY YOU OWE
ME $XXX.
This is just my personal opinion - my personal interpretation:
I don't believe you.
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To
@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thankfully you have graced us with your presence, now check out the
wonderful vid pjkproductions has posted.
http://55broad.video.blip.tv/Pjkproductions-PaulsDream988.mp4
paul
knight
On 13 Jan 2006, at 22:22, Andrew Baron wrote
Thanks to Enric for suggesting the place below: The Beredford.
See any and all at 7!
Afterwards we will head to Shlomo's bar on Montgomery St. Between Market and
Mission.
It's called. . .whats it called Schlomo? We should be there maybe by 9pm.
There's a Hotel with a restaurant and bar on
Both of the victims could have received a much greater settlement if
the angle of this story, and perhaps the story itself, was one of
psychology and not one of law.
On Sep 28, 2005, at 4:08 PM, robert a/k/a r wrote:
beeb news online posts article re guy getting jailed for showing
someone
Thanks for the really amazing words everyone!!!
I didnt think the story would be that big of deal; I hear just a bunch old people mostly still
watch the news on TV.
But I have never yet seen such a dramatic increase in activity around a single instant. Our
site and e-mail intake has been
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hehehe - precisely my point. You got it. Since journalism has gone to
the dogs, better to be a faux one - closer to the truth.
Jan, and this is exactly the irony of the Kevver Report you pointed to below. Jamie's
number
A review of the smallest and lest expensive HD camera, the Sony HDR-HC1:
$1700
http://tinyurl.com/dye2c
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Not sure what the killer features are. Anyone want to explain? I don't see it. Flash is not
going to go away, and it may be best right now for a lowest common denominator
solution, but I can't see how Flash will compete with quality video distribution over IP,
especially portable video.
Ok, so again, what are the features? This just sounds like marketing hype to me.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, LeanBackVids.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The breakthrough features allow for easier development of video in
Flash. This basically means all the Flash interactivity you've
There is no reason to be down on, or blame main stream media. Its not anyone's fault. The
limited access has been a restriction of technology.
Growing up with only 3 stations on TV, its not hard to imagine how it came to be that it
would be expensive to deal with.
Now that technology has
groups.
ER
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no reason to be down on, or blame main stream media. Its
not anyone's fault. The
limited access has been a restriction of technology.
Growing up with only 3 stations on TV, its not hard
Wow Kyle, this video is gorgeous:
http://www.vilekyle.com/videos/Video_Blogs/Kyle%20Fasanella%20-%20A%20New%
20Age.mov
High Definition is specific to to a new digital technology Jen that is enabled ultimately by
the HD Digital Camera (someone correct me if I'm over simplifying it). Quicktime
I just logged in and noticed there are no messages. A glitch? What a strange feeling to
imagine that this group disappeared.
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A lifetime of computing has taught me one thing: shortly after a new operating system hits
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Oh sure
I do my best to limp along with the antiquated hardware. After all, my
computer is always well within
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