eric rochow

In my defense, when I read the promotional material for VON, it sounded more like a software coder’s convention, lots of tech talk that I understand, to an extent, but I didn’t see myself flying west to attend.
After reading Chris Brogan’s post about the event, and hearing about it from friends, I realized I [...]

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From the March 27, 2007 Wall Street Journal ( sorry i can’t get the link ) Alan Blinder, noted free trade economist/evangelist, is having second thoughts about the mantra that all free trade is great. On the front page of the paper is a list of “Most Vulnerable” jobs that are “highly offshorable” included [...]

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I was looking for an article from the Wall Street Journal on Google News ( since I don’t have a WSJ account ) and I found this headline from Variety, so I had to read it.

Brian Lowry writes:
Buoyed by their novelty, producer podcasts and online games, deleted scenes and character blogs have become all [...]

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OK, haven’t posted in a while here. But I did meet up with the Network2 crew last nite. I got to talk to Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Eric Skiff, Bre Petis, andBill Cammack. I know i’m missing some people here, but i had 3 beers. Oh yeah, i talked with Chris Brogan, who finally [...]

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I will be speaking at podcampNYC April 7th 8:45 AM - 6 PM at a session titled:
What’s its like to create a video podcast? -
Adam Quirk of Wreck & Salvage, Eric Gunnar Rochow of Gardenfork.tv will describe how they came to create online video content, what they use to make it all happen, where [...]

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lots of good entries in the Network2.tv contest. here’s the winner, Mike Ambs. really well done. not sure if the guy works at an ad agency, but he could.

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I created a gardenfork episode to submit to Network2.tv’s “How to watch Internet TV contest” . I thought it was a pretty good clip, but I think I’m going to lose to a hamster video.

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A fun animation a jingle, and hamsters…. Our submission pales in comparison. But our clip does adhere to [...]

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OK, not sure if you want to call it that, but a big step forward in bringing internet access to rural and underserved areas happened, and few noticed, as the Viacom - Google lawsuit hit the same day.

Tom Evslin writes in his Fractal of Change blog about this, and its best just to go [...]

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Jeff Pulver and Chris Brogan of Network2.tv asked us to create a video for their How to watch internet TV contest. Finally finished this yesterday. Thanks to my friend Bill Lyon and Lynn for standing out in the CT winter ( of course we pick the coldest day to shoot ).

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Social media is one of those buzzwords of Web 2.0. I hear it a lot. What is it? Wikipedia says it well:
Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.
A few prominent examples of social media applications are Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), [...]

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