I Make My Living Doing Videos for YouTube – CES Report
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRd4IDKFSxM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Courtesy, Pat Younge, BBC The CES has always been a place where you get to take a look at the near future, and it would seem that with the monetization of YouTube via Google Adsense, it is now possible...
Read moreYoutube Hits 1 Billion Subscriptions
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU[/youtube] There’s Something Happening Here… Yesterday, Youtube announced their one billionth subscription. That is, the one billionth time someone has hit the yellow ‘subscribe’ button on Youtube. Youtube is only 5 years old. How much is a billion? It’s a...
Read moreThe Library of Youtube
Yeah…lemme see American Idol from last week…. In 1988 I left my job as a producer at CBS News to go to Gaza with a small video camera and start shooting my own stories. I spent a month in...
Read moreMy iPhone4 So Far….
So far, so good… I have been a lifetime proponent of Apple products. I was editing on Final Cut 1.2 for air. I still have an eMac downstairs.. somewhere. And through the various Academy projects, we own about 60...
Read morePutting Social Media To Work
Ft. Peck Dam, the first cover of LIFE Magazine, by Margaret Bourke White In 1936, when Henry R. Luce launched LIFE Magazine, the world’s first ‘picture’ magazine, it was the depths of the Great Depression. Luce imagined that he...
Read moreJanet Street Porter Does Not Get It
Who? For Americans, the name Janet Street Porter does not mean a thing. But in the UK she has been very well known as one of those people perpetually on the cutting edge of the media revolution. Which is...
Read moreHere Comes Facebook – Video
What’s on? Facebook, the killer online social networking site announced yesterday that they were now the number 3 video streaming site on the web, with no signs of turning back. While Youtube is still the giant online source, with...
Read moreTV – It’s Now Officially Over
Big Brother UK – any time, any place Television as we knew it is now officially over. It’s only a matter of time. Channel 4, the UK commercial network has just signed a deal with Youtube to put up...
Read more1 Billion Videos Viewed in One Day
What’s on? We are rapidly becoming Video Nation, or rather, video world. A place in which all ideas (and everything else) are communicated in video. Yesterday, Youtube passed an astonishing statistic – 1 Billion videos viewed in one day....
Read moreWe All Live in Youtubia
Larry Page and Sergei Brin….ca. 1776 July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson, with help from a few other folks, finishes up the Declaration of Independence. In the days when there was still a smattering of education in the United...
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