eric rochow

after a bit of wrestling to figure out how iTunes works, i’ve now got gardenfork.tv on iTunes as a video podcast. Traffic has not been huge, but as of yesterday gardenfork.tv is now a “New and Notable” on iTunes. not bad. Here’s the link to gardenfork.tv on iTunes

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Richard Siklos of the NY Times writes in his Media Frenzy column
The good news — and my second point — is that there’s gold in them there hills. Video delivered over the Internet is clearly shaping up to be an actual business that advertisers are interested in. The broadcasting (netcasting?) of television programs and clips [...]

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While announcing Apple’s iTV work in progress, Steve Jobs also showed a video podcast from Rocketboom, which I think is great. It be better if he showed gardenfork.tv, but I do watch Rocketboom every day. Here are some picts from the presentation on Andrew’s blog, Dembot.

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In the back of all our minds we are planning the next YouTube. Neave.tv is a new aggregator that lifts clips from several sources and runs them on this flash heavy site. I couldn’t get it to run very well, but our web connection is tugboat slow today.

Jeff Jarvis writes about Current, and thrases them [...]

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All I did was email everyone in my address book, (about 400 people) and posted a link at a few vlog sites, and in the 2.5 months gardenfork.tv has been live, its stats continue to grow. I think its great.
unique visitors, #visits, pages, hits, bandwith
Jul 2006 258, 635, 1565, 3033, 2.15 GB
Aug 2006 513, 1152, 2940, 7346, 3.16 GB
Sep 2006 274, 589, 1483, 2444, 1.14 GB

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Probably a story the CBS marketing people would like to hear more of:
I’m helping paint the town’s old storage barn last Saturday, and I’m talking with a friend who has seen my online video show gardenfork.tv . He says he and his children have been watching other video online, notably, that of CBS News.
Today [...]

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Steve Jobs talked of the newest gizmo coming out of Cupertino which will allow you to watch movies you’ve downloaded thru iTunes on your television. Firing up the desktop machine today I’m prompted to download the newest version of iTunes so I can buy those movies. The first movies are from Disney, and as the [...]

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Because I am a subscriber to home delivery of the NY Times, I get access to the Times Select portion of their website, which allows a user to search thru their archive of articles. I find this very handy, as then I don’t have to save all these newspaper clippings, I can save them in [...]

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The Vonage phone is working very well. Can’t really tell much difference between it and a regular land line. I especially like that you can have your voicemails emailed to you, as standing next to the answering machine to listen to people ramble can be a drag.
From the Vonage website one can check voicemail and [...]

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I own an Apple Macintosh G4 Powerbook, and it works great. I noticed right away at how warm the battery was, so whenever I charge the laptop, I slide a pen or something under it to allow some air flow, and I never leave the laptop charging alone.
A bit of paranoia, but after seeing [...]

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