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By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » 39 seconds of fame

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » 39 seconds of fame — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:05:34 +0000

[...] One of my favorite shows in any medium, big or small — the vlog 39 Second Single — is going to be featured on Weekend Today this Saturday. It’s a hip Valentine’s thing. [...]

By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » And God said, ‘It’s TV, stupid’

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:17:25 +0000

[...] The creation and building is coming on many fronts. Some people are inventing the new creative forms for the medium — that’s the fun part, I say. There are plenty of distribution plays: YouTube, of course, and Bright Cove, Blip, Motionbox, Revver. There are many trying the important work of bringing revenue to this creativity: Google, of course, plus Revver and now, I think, Fred’s venture. There are efforts to guide people to what they want to watch: Network2, Dabble, ViralVideoChart, VidMeter. TV is exploding. [...]

By: Ken Robertson

Ken Robertson — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:30:46 +0000

So you’re looking for fresh video content?

A good friend of mine has been wandering around the backroads of Colorado, weilding his camera like a digital fishing net, and pulling up some great pieces of local, sub-cultural color. Reminds me of some of the best episodes of that great TV nugget, Northern Exposure.

Check out the Burro Race.
And the Kinetics Festival.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:36:50 +0000

Hi, Kate. 39 Second Single is a completely factual series in that Liza is reporting her first hand dating experiences. Sadly, her stories are all true and her perspective very real, humor and all. You want a calling card? Check out this doc. series that has the video blogging community abuzz.

http://www.americanking.net/

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:08:16 +0000

Kate,
Her videos cover a range of techniques. And, yes, they should be her calling card.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:15:06 +0000

She’s not experitmenting with story-telling: she’s making a sit-com. These pieces are great, but they’re not fact-based reporting–they’re humor pieces, and I’d guess they’re her calling card for work on the Daily Show, etc.

By: Alex Rowland

Alex Rowland — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:42:00 +0000

this is precisely what we are doing with http://www.cozmotv.com . We’re looking to help people find video that is relevant and interesting to them and not just what is most popular. This is not a big issue today, but as th universe of web video grows exponentially over the next few years, the current crop of ‘top 100′ aggregators will fail to deliver on the personalized promise of the web.

By: howard lindzon

howard lindzon — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:31:09 +0000

Thanks Duffer - and yes Jeff - check out wallstrip.com

By: Duffer

Duffer — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:58:36 +0000

http://www.wallstrip.com
Not youtube.com, but revver.com based.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:23:02 +0000

Jeff,
Everything you say is true. That ABC interviewed you for 2 and a half hours and may, on all its platforms, someday, if you’re lucky, use something like 3 minutes of it, is indicative of how they operate. Of course, maybe they were essentially getting you as a free story consultant. Maybe the info you imparted will weave its way into the show script.

But what I’m REALLY writing about is: What methods did you use to find the good stuff? Whether on YouTube or Revver or elsewhere, it’s easy to find breasts and exploding Menthos and goofy shit. But where is the way to, say, find the real long tail stuff? For the people, say, interested today in what Saddam’s death means to Middle Eastern Arabs, or some interesting thoughts on the baseball/steroids info … and what if you want “humor” but only certain types, not whatever happens to bubble to the top of the lists, because you want stuff that may not be the most mass appeal….Got any tips?

By: rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » The revolution will be DVR’d

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:08:23 +0000

[...] Last night, I recorded Blog Wars on the Sundance Channel. Tonight, I am recording 20/20 because Jeff Jarvis says he was interviewed for two-and-a-half-hours for it, so I figure he’ll be on for at least 30 or so seconds. [...]

By: Stan Hirson

Stan Hirson — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:53:40 +0000

Taking you up on your offer to submit a gem that might help define the appropriate form for small TV. This is a personal, private (but to be shared) moment between a father and daughter. What I like about it is its authenticity of human contact and that it is not imitating a “show” or the style of “big TV”. It’s by Michael Verdi, found at http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2006/12/10/i-was-wrong/

But it is not just “Big Media” that is obscuring the gems. It is the “vlogging” community itself. A lot of oxygen of small TV is getting sucked up by auditions for mainstream media. And aggregating videos into derivative “shows”.

I endorse your trying to find the appropriate form for this format.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:26:36 +0000

ha. got a good one for you -

it’s called lunchbox; it’s a satirical vlog about politics, mostly new york. here’s a recent episode about the trans fat ban in nyc:

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/lunchbox/lunchbox_so_trans_phat.html

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:18:41 +0000

This one’s worth a watch http://americanmicrophone.blip.tv/file/121807/ New media lawyer Colette Vogele interviewed on American Microphone.

The folks at http://dabble.com are crowdsourcing video discovery.

The pre-launch startup I now work at (SplashCastMedia.com ) will be assembling a network of topic editors to put together channels of the best media content. They’ll be displayed in our multi-file embeddable player with updates by RSS.

All that said though, you’re right that it really is a challenge to find the needles in the haystacks - even if there are a lot of needles. I’m working on a post right now comparing the major automated and social video meme trackers. Hopefully that will help.

Excited to see what videos other people will post!