CBS debuted Katie Couric last night. She's been brought in to market the traditional newscast. Viewership keeps going down for traditional timeslot network news. CBS want Katie to reverse that trend. So CBS have started to consider blogging, vlogs, streaming. Except dumbly they don't stream live to the West Coast. Nope. Gotta wait until the [...]
Rocketboom has fired Amanda. That's silly. Egos must have got in the way. Amanda was Rocketboom. Rocketboom started and explored the possibilities of vlogs in a big way. Somebody has therefore made a mistake. Intriguingly, whatever the reason for the split, opinion is on her side. Farewell, Rocketboom.
In the ongoing battle between two formats, news comes to hand that the basic bill of materials to construct a player for either format is in the region of $400. I can not imagine how it will be possible to make this into anything other than a still borne technology with this basic price point [...]
I started subscribing to the Rocketboom RSS feed about 5 or 6 months ago – based on a recommendation from Richard McKinnon, one of the Perceptric partners. As a program is has its ups and downs, but when it is hot, it is really great. And the one thing that Amanda and her partner do [...]
Rocketboom comes to Tivo. The hilarious online vLog can now be programmed directly into my Tivo via the net and home wireless connection. That's signals the final end game for the networks. Amanda and the gang are only the first of many, many more independent operators to come who will program a whole new TV experience. Everyone's who's [...]
Paid Content sent their man to a Digital Magazine Conference. He gets there and finds no Wi Fi. He rips the organizers. Why not? He uses the WiFi link to communicate vertically to an outside world via email, instant message, skype, blogs and who knows, in the future, vlogs. Predictions are flowing about the wifi future. [...]
Books crystalize thought. They kick off different conversations.So as we traveled, pitched, consulted, worked, blogged, over the last few months we started writing the first draft of a book targeted for publication 2006.
The book is about the revolution.
Today, we publish one of the first chapters; A Snapshot of the Future. We allowed an Australian Venture Capital Group, The Venture Group, to distribute a copy with their monthly dispatch to encourage feedback. We want lots of discussion. We publish it here today. Thats the new model. Distribute widely. Field comment. Encorporate ideas. Keep the conversation moving forward.
Snapshot Tomorrow.
What is the future?
Long term it's amazing, perhaps even scary, if you believe Ray Kurzweil’s predictions from his new book, “The Singularity is …
Sydney; Los Angeles Immediate Media release 3 November 2005 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Influence Marketing Company Launched. Perceptric, a new international Strategy and Influence marketing company has been launched in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Sydney, Los Angeles, and shortly Tokyo, to work with companies in the United States, Australia [...]
Video blogging is taking off. Everyone is walking around with handheld video cameras or they have webcams; they have tons of bandwidth; they have cheap storage. They have personal websites. Why wouldn't video join audio join the written word on the web?. Check out Amanda Congdon at RocketBoom. Her file on 15 Sept is an interesting anti-Cheney/anti Bush slant. [...]