I recently moderated a webinar that explored online video, with an amazing trio of participants including Bart Feder from the FeedRoom, Stephen Harris from TLC, and Lee LeFever from Common Craft. It turned out to be a raging success and were flooded with questions that we didn’t have the time to answer due to [...]

The AP has run a good story on the role of online video in the 2008 elections, including a list of some of the more prominent examples of online video that has both helped and hurt the candidates.  The article makes some pretty good points about the loss of control that accompanies online campaigns; the [...]

Farrell Kramer, who is an absolute sharpie when it comes to all things media, picked up on our Feature Video release and interviewed me for episode 21 of his podcast, Talking Communications.  We had a great discussion and he shared some great insight on the new media release after the interview, which I sort of [...]

It is with a great deal of excitement that I’m blogging about Feature Video - a new product innovation released this morning that allows PRWeb users to embed a video in their press release.  The way it works is relatively simple: you basically upload your video to a video sharing Web site like YouTube, Google [...]

A few highlights from March 2007:

Continued growth in Second Life: I really figured that SL would be in the trough of discontent by now but they continue to press on.  This past month, the European Union has expressed interest in opening up a digital embassy in SL; judge Richard Posner entered Second Life to promote his upcoming [...]

When a friend told me about Current TV a while back I wasn’t really impressed. “Yeah, yeah,” I thought to myself. “User-generated content on television. Big deal.”
Actually, it sort of is a big deal.
Basically, Current TV has a programming schedule that draws from professionally produced video pieces as well as user-generated content [...]

In an article entitled, The Future of Cable TV in an Open World, Steve Rubel announces that cable TV is “no longer going to be controlled by the big cable or satellite players.” It will “open up to the masses.”
I agree with Rubel that control of the medium may no longer be consolidated [...]