eric rochow

In a posting about his decision not to go forward with Abbey Corps, Andrew Baron talks about why he does what he does, which is to create a new Rocketboom episode every weekday. His explanation is very similar to how I feel about gardenfork and the new projects we’re developing:
I feel so lucky to have [...]

[Read more →]

Motivated once again by Chris Brogan, I’m going to to do something I’d been toying with, but now will do it better.
I write a weekly email newsletter for the small CT town I live in. I’ve thought about putting the newsletter in a blog, but wasn’t sure if people around here would understand it. [...]

[Read more →]

Henry and I had to go out, despite the pouring rain, because rain meant even more puddles to swim in in Prospect Park this morning. So I wanted to show you all an example of blip.tv’s cell phone video posting capabilities. Record a clip, send it by email to a unique email address blip provides, [...]

[Read more →]

I just spent most of today with Chris Brogan, accompanying him to the Pulver offices in Long Island to be part of their 4 person audience watching Jeff and Chris’ live streaming video show on Ustream.tv

As I watched, I thought about corporations ( my clients ) that have invested thousands in live streaming technologies for [...]

[Read more →]

Pardon me for being the blip.tv evangelist, but it is rare to work with a company that is so pro-active. We installed the blip.tv ShowPlayer on the gardenfork home page last week, and there were a few hiccups, but every time i emailed them with questions, I got an answer very quickly. Several times they [...]

[Read more →]

The migration of gardenfork.tv to blip.tv is now complete. Blip.tv rolled out their new flash player over the weekend, and we’ve been tweaking it and the gardenfork site. The blip.tv player works very nicely, and more enhancements are in the works.

here’s the player, try it out.
Why the move to blip.tv from brightcove? Blip.tv is [...]

[Read more →]

Eclipse picts
OK, I come to the office yesterday and the DSL line is dead. I’m figuring the 7.5 inches of rain knocked out something along the line that runs in the backyards here. I’ll wait until Tuesday to see if the dries out. So today, I plan to call Verizon. But first, I thought I [...]

[Read more →]

Wow. I’ve always wanted to attend TED, but wasn’t enough of a luminary or had the $6K to attend. In the NY Times yesterday, an article by Bob Tedeschi on how TED is posting 100 of their talks online.

…TED is at the vanguard of a trend in the conference industry, where organizers have begun [...]

[Read more →]

I had talked about this in an earlier post, of how cell phone video cameras would come into play as an imediate source of breaking news, and now we see it happening with the shooting in Virginia. CNN’s I-report, which is powered by Blip.tv, has posted a cell phone video from the VA campus. From [...]

[Read more →]

Here’s a quick highlight edit of my part of a session ( What’s it like to create a video podcast? ) I spoke at PodcampNYC about my experiences producing my internet video show gardenfork.tv . A big thank you to Randolfe Wicker for shooting the session.

Click To Play

here’s highllghts of me speaking [...]

[Read more →]