eric rochow : social media handyman

Here’s a comment I posted on Chris Brogan’s post about networking.

I usually hand my card to people as I say my name, -which can be hard to pronounce- and my card has a picture of my dog and horse on it. that usually elicits some sort of comment that opens into a conversation about people’s [...]

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At my session at podcampNYC, the issue of using music in your video podcast came up, and several people suggested archive.org as a source.
Here is a listing from Our Media of more sources:
http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open

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I’m a big follower of chris brogan, who could write a book about how to meet and network.

And in the vein of imitation being flattery, I’m going to write more about how to network and how not to network.
At podcampNY, bunches of people came up and talked to me. One of the first things most [...]

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Looking thru the sections of the NY Times today, I see they have done a redesign of the lifestyle sections. Lots more white space between text and pictures, pull quotes stand out more, illustrations have more air around them.
The type seems more dense and blocky, modular-like. My first impression is not great. Its not [...]

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via Josh Paul I found this post on OurMedia that compares the Terms of Service of different video hosting sites. They like blip.tv’s terms the best. ( gardenfork is on blip.tv )
Bottom line: Blip is perhaps the best solution for video producers who want free, reliable hosting for their works in a community setting. [...]

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despite the stomach flu, i attended my first podcamp. i was very impressed. i attend a number of conferences yearly, and this one, run totally by volunteers, ran better than pay events i have attended.
i attended a session with Dan Rayburn, of Streaming Media, being interviewed by John Havens, podcasting guru of about.com. Listening to [...]

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So, I haven’t even gotten to posting my post-ramblings on the PodcampNYC last Saturday and the Times and CNET run an article on it:
A good article about Podcamp, Eric Skiff spoke well.
“If someone wants to speak, our answer is yes,” Eric Skiff, a PodCampNYC organizer and tech evangelist of Clipmarks.com, said in an interview with [...]

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Chris Brogan invited me to join Twitter last month, and I didn’t see the need for me. My initial impression was that Twitter was a way for friends to message where they were, what they were doing. I reasoned that I’m only in one of 3 places, the NY office, the NY apartment, or the [...]

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wow. PodcampNY is finally here. Lots of hard work done by the Podcamp organizers. I will be speaking at 2 pm in a session with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage “What’s is like to create a video podcast” I’ll talk about my experiences in creating gardenfork. some nuts and bolts, but also some more [...]

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