eric rochow

A friend of mine is a journalist for a major news network and he writes an online column. I asked him if people could subscribe to his RSS feed. He didn’t know what one was. So I sent him to the wise people at Common Craft, who made a real easy to understand video about [...]

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I’ve often thought, as I’m downloading yet more pictures from our digital camera into the computer - what to do with all these picts? Last night at a Meetup, I met Anny Manby of SharedBook, whose company has a brilliant idea.

Make photo books of all those pictures.
Shared books takes the Print feature of [...]

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as part of building the community blog The Colebrook News, I’m going to add a public community calendar.
I got an email from the minister of the local church asking if the town had a master calendar, something which all town groups posted their upcoming events. The town doesn’t, but I immediately thought to add [...]

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Here’s a fun spot created by the Microsoft Digital Ad Solutions crew in Europe. Originally posted on Bringtheloveback.
We want to try and tell that digital media is not about technology but about quality of communication, about the interaction between 2 people. There is no better medium than a movie to symbolize the one-to-one communication between [...]

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My friend Bill Cammack started this contest for videobloggers called the Vlog Deathmatch. It started out as a simple challenge between two people and then it grew to have many contributors. The premise was simple, make a music video in the style of your videoblog.

I did not contribute, as between work, consulting, and producing [...]

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I attended the Brooklyn Blogfest and was interviewed by WNBC-TV. nice. It was a long interview, but the used the soundbite they wanted to get across.

click here to watch the clip

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As part of my effort to create more of a community around gardenfork, I’ve been posting more photos and short video clips on the blog section of the gardenfork website, its a good place for me to share thoughts and news that don’t make it into one of the episodes.
Lately I’ve been playing with the [...]

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Eric Skiff , clipmarks guru, twittered me with his new Clipversity posting, and I ran across this interesting clip while at their site. http://clipmarks.com

clipped from www.breitbart.com

More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox than at
the same time last year, statistics show.
Everyone has a theory to explain the [...]

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My friend Chris Brogan, who always writes better than I can about networking, has a post about personal branding tips, which i learned something from. My blog here doesn’t really convey to readers what things I do for a living. so we will fix that.
As Chris says, it is crucial to have relevant information [...]

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I’ve talked about this before, as the ad model I see for gardenfork and similar online content. A short 15 second pre-roll ad is about all that most online viewers will probably watch before a show. Now Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media tells us about an NBC announcement.
NBC announced that it would no longer run [...]

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