eric rochow

With so many of us trying to create ‘viral’ or ‘meme’ marketing efforts, being at the right place, at the right time, ( and having your elevator speech nailed ) pays off.
Our friend Amanda Curry, a marketing guru for Walsh Family Media, who is working on an animated feature Cool Beans, gets herself on David [...]

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I had lost this article from last month, but its a good one. Those of you who have TimesSelect can read the whole article here. Comments are from a forum held at the Nextfest last month in NY, and David Carr’s own experiences.
THE MEDIA EQUATION; Idiosyncratic And Personal, PC Edges TV David Carr:
Jennifer Feikin, the [...]

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Andrew Baron of rocketboom has a verbose but interesting entry on Dembot on how does one determine how many people watch rocketboom.
gardenfork.tv is certainly not in the same ballpark, but the two stat programs I use to track viewers always show different results.
While I started off thinking this statistics stuff was easy, I now truely [...]

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Everyone seems to have a story about how slow their high speed connection is. Recently installing Verizon business DSL in our new office, I tested the line with the test page at DSL Reports to find the speed nowhere near what we were paying for.
A call to Verizon with this question was answered by, [...]

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Yes, Jeff Pulver has been showing up a lot lately here, his blog is set up to email readers new posts, so they get read quickly by me.
Jeff’s web directory of podcasts, network2.tv, has created a Windows based application, Feedyourzune, that manages podcasts for the Zune player much like iTunes does for iPod.
FeedYourZune is a [...]

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A quick note to thank Jeff Pulver and Chris Brogan for hosting their network2.tv event and Drew from rocketboom for inviting us to the party. Nice mix of people, spoke at length with Mark Mathewson and Joanne Colan of Rocketboom, and Michael Schreiber of TV360.tv

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Not that I’m the only one that’s been predicting this, but Tivo is moving forward with the convergence of the TV screen and the internet by making available more content from the web that one can watch via a Tivo box.
“Broadband video is growing rapidly on the Web, but the television will continue to [...]

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Here’s a good article by John C Havens about PodCamps and PodCamp NY. John has asked me to be part of a panel at PodCamp NY. I’m flattered.
An Insider’s View from the Podcamp “Unconference”

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Network2.tv is hosting an event this Wednesday,
If you will be in NYC on Nov 15th and would like to meet with people interested in the state of Video and TV on the Net, please join us. To RSVP, please click here
Jeff has built Network2.tv, a sort of TV Guide for the web. My friend [...]

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OK, I’m jealous. My friends at Crashtestkitchen across the pond were contacted by Simon and Schuster publishers of The Joy of Cooking to give away 10 copies of the new edition (the 9th edition, BTW). So they did an episode where they cooked a recipe from the Joy of Cooking, and after watching the episode, [...]

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