Julie had a good observation about my NBC post: Kent’s 12-step program to creative frustration was amusingly stereotypical and as with many stereotypes, bashfully true. … What bothered me most about his list was how it breezed by two of the traditional model’s most valuable aspects: apprentice/mentorship and a paycheck. Yes old media does provide [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 23, 2008
NBC throws gas on the fire
Thank you Jeff Zucker! Jeffe is pulling the plug on the braindead corpse of television development. No pilots from NBC and no upfronts. The other major players considering following suit. The old model for people that wanted to create television was thus: Graduate from Harvard (lesser Ivies are okay, but let’s be realistic), where you [...]
January 20, 2008
Joost Needs a Boost
Andrew is right. Joost is sorta irrelevant in an RSS/flash video world. Like this comment on NewTeeVee says: Joost is: Proprietary. DRM-encumbered. Not available for GNU/Linux, *BSD or Solaris (the only systems I use). So my conclusion is: I couldn’t care less about Joost, good riddance. Joost is just trying to recreate TV. Which is [...]
January 19, 2008
Please Don’t Patronize New Media Creators
From UnitedHollywood.com: It’s the “kid-in-the-garage” problem–content coming from everywhere and everyone. As I described it in a panel discussion I just spoke at this week, it’s similar to the off-shoring of work in manufacturing. You have the world of the WGA, where the standards are decent, with wages, health care and pensions. And, then, you [...]
January 16, 2008
Scoble’s Got A Brand New Bag
Scoble is moving to Fast Company to start Fastcompany.tv. I think it’s a brilliant move, a much more natural fit than with Podtech. Both he and Fast Company are about the new. He’s the tech world’s canary — buy the Kindle, love Kindle, hate the Kindle, sell the Kindle, and that was in the span [...]
January 15, 2008
Macbook Air isn’t worth it
I love macs. I’ve only owned Macs — mostly. I bought a 486 stripper to load Linux on in 1995. And I now own an EEEPC. Today’s announcement of the Macbook Air is certainly cool and beautiful and they’ll probably sell a lot of them. Hell, Scoble is buying one. I paid $400 for the [...]
January 10, 2008
Online Video Continues To Look Up
Several big things for online video producers over the last couple of days: Online Video Use Soars Because of the Writer’s Strike Tivo opening up for more Podcasts Online Video Traffic Doubles in 2007 Some brief thoughts. I’m with Liz, it’s hard to know the exact effect the strike is having on driving the short [...]
January 5, 2008
David Lynch is a tool
Look David Lynch. I respect that you’ve made a career by confusing people and by pretending to be smarter than them. I also like that you’ve advanced the careers of odd looking character actors in the hopes of making scenes more dreamlike. Really, congrats. But you’re getting to be a cranky old man. If someone [...]
