eric rochow

Brightcove is going to start working with small video publishers like myself. I had on my to do list some research into how to get gardenfork.tv to a larger audience, and i like the Brightcove idea.
Rather than me rehash what has already been written, here’s a link to the blog entry
and the announcement on [...]

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For those of us who know enough to be dangerous, but probably should not be writing our own code, Feed for All comes to the rescue to write your RSS Feeds.
An RSS feed is an index of your website, your blog, or in my case: a video podcast. To post your podcasts to iTunes, you [...]

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An article in Wednesday’s NY Times, United Talent Agency has formed a group to scour the web video sites for potential talent to bring to Hollywood:
The move by the United Talent Agency — best known as the home of comedians like Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and television producers like [...]

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On Monday Rocketboom host Joanne Conlan offered up her tax receipt from Red Cross for trade.
Earlier she had posted on eBay a bracelet she had received in a trade ala’ the Red Paper Clip being traded for a house; promising the proceeds to the Red Cross
On the show she asked what people would trade [...]

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OK it took me a week to figure it out, but I now have a director’s account at YouTube. Apple’s Safari browser doesn’t work with all of YouTube’s features, so I used FireFox, which works fine.
I couldn’t find a link on YouTube to a page describing how to get a director account, so I googled [...]

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Trolling around YouTube to see what gardening videos have been posted - I’m going to post some gardenfork.tv episodes up there - i run across a Tekserve iPod domino spot posted by the consumerist. Its been watched 1.2 million times.
wow.
Super simple to produce, I’m sure they used dead iPods (they are a Mac Retail [...]

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David Pogue writes in the NY Times about Sony’s new portable e-book reader the day after I write aobut them:
E-books may have flopped the first time around, but you can’t deny that they offer some intriguing advantages. You can add dozens of them to your luggage without adding any more weight or bulk. You can [...]

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I subscribe to a number of small business marketing blogs. While I don’t always connect with what they are saying - as they speak in ‘market speak’ a lot of the time - I did run across this one today that shows the brilliance of how one can publish a book, or mini-book, or manifesto [...]

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Technorati has jumped into the daily tech and culture oriented daily video blog fray with a show hosted by Liz Dunn and Aaron {i can’t find his last name}. Just like they flash on the screen the URLs they are talking about, they could flash their names, not too hard.
Peter Hirshberg appears in a [...]

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Most visit YouTube to see some guy attempt some stupid stunt or to watch faked video diaries. People are now posting videos of attacks on US troop in Iraq on YouTube and Google Video, some from the view of the sniper.
Among the scenes being viewed daily by thousands of users of the sites are [...]

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