eric rochow

Network2.tv is having a contest for us ‘media disruptors’ to create a video:
We’re looking for inspired producers to create an episode of their Internet TV show or post a videoblog or make a clip that shows people “How to Watch Internet TV.” We want to drive awareness of your work, as well as the medium [...]

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A blogger writes that the Clinton campaign plans to report that Borack Obama attended a muslim school as a child, and it runs through the media for 10 days. Its disproven,
but it still gets discussed, now in articles about how blogs can spread false news.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Barack Obama hardly could [...]

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I posted on YouTube what I think is one of the more compelling episodes of gardenfork.tv, where henry attacks me while i build a wooden-wire frame for the potatoes, on YouTube back in October. The idea was to drive viewers from YouTube to gardenfork.tv
Now 3 months later, I got two comments, from the same person. [...]

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I was in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle last nite and Time Warner Cable had a display of a “wireless” kitchen.
Prominent is a “Samsung H269LB/SH wireless ICE pad” fridge. It has a built in LCD screen for watching cable TV as well as some rudimentary software for tracking food inside it and leaving [...]

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One of today’s New Podcasts on iTunes is the State of the Union, posted by the White House. People  have posted comments on the video podcast, and people who have subscribed to the State of the Union also subscribe to Fox News Radio, and the Navy Marine Corps Video News. Proof that iTunes is not [...]

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Bill Sobel has a monthly breakfast meeting of his NY:MIEGS group, and this month the subject was podcasting. Info here: http://bsobel.googlepages.com/ny%3Amieg
John Havens, podcasting expert of About.com, hosted the panel, and naturally I have some comments.
The topic of how to promote one’s podcast came up; and there was talk of one’s RSS feed, and I’ve found [...]

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Bill Sobel calls me a media disruptor, and I read this article in the NY Times today about Isa Chandra Moskowitz who has a cable access show called Post Punk Kitchen that is also available thru Google Video.
The shows they’ve posted on their site are great. Quite long ( 22 minutes ) for a format [...]

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Apple will not release any traffic or visits information on podcasts on iTunes, but when one types in ‘gardening’ in the iTunes search bar, gardenfork.tv comes up as the first podcast. Not bad. I’ve learned fine tuning your XML RSS Feed helps. - I use Feed For All - to create them for gardenfork.tv

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I like how Jeff Pulver posts entries to his blog, it looks and reads like an email.  I also find it much easier to send out an email than to log in to my server and post blog entries. Get a thought in my head, send out an email; especially from my Treo.
So as you [...]

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The NY Times writes about how HD may be too real for the skin industry:
Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.
They have discovered that the technology is sometimes not so sexy. [...]

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