eric rochow

social media handyman, creator of Gardenfork & Real World Green

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Entries from September 2007

The Web changes focus, a bit

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

We always hear how advertisers are trying to reach the 15-25 crowd, and I’ve always said, “Older people have more money.”
In a recent article, The Graying of the Web, the NY Times has some good points on the use of the web by older people, and why advertisers and websites should start making their websites [...]

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Tags: social media · social networking

Crackle

September 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I was listening to the podcast brothers and they mentioned Crackle, so i clicked over to it and found this nice animation, Umbrella, by Rosana Hughes

From Crackle: Umbrella

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Tags: Online Video

Crash Test Kitchen on Guardian Word of Mouth Food Blog

September 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Just found out my friends Lenny & Waz of CrashTestKitchen, who inspired me to start producing Gardenfork, have a video on the Guardian food blog. Nice. Go check it out and leave comments

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Tags: Online Video · social media

I just watched Live Internet TV

September 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

My friend Kathryn Jones has been working on a project to produce a live webisode drama, that will they will perform live September 19th -30th, 2007, wednesday through sunday, 9 PM est.
I just watched the first episode, and it just struck me how amazing this was. A group of people, not associated with a TV [...]

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Tags: Online Video · social media

What is CornGuy.tv?

September 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Heard about this on Twitter this morning, a very home made looking clip about Corn Guy, but then there’s a shot of a very nicely branded truck with Flex Fuel decals all over it. At first I thought it was made by an individual, as they are using Show-in-a-box Wordpress tools, and Blip.tv, but the [...]

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Tags: social media

Eric speaks at PodcampNYC

September 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m going to speak at a session at PodcampBoston next month, and I ran across this video of me speaking at PodcampNYC, thought I’d share it again.

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Tags: Online Video · community development · social media

NAMAS inaugural event

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I was invited to attend the first breakfast meeting of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences by Shelly Palmer, Vice Chair of the group. The meeting was held in the new New York Times Center, and it is a really nice space. Martin Nisenholtz and Vivian Schiller of the NY Times, and Peter [...]

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Tags: Online Video · social media

Simple email blast connects photographer to customers

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

 

Roberto Falck  sends out an Image of the Month to people who have signed up on his blog to receive it.  A single picture with a few lines of text. This works really well to keep in touch with previous and future customers, it keeps his name in their heads monthly, and I bet he [...]

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Tags: social networking

We need cars like this.

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Just a fun documentary about snowboarders who build a pedal powered car, brought to us by Crank My Chain, a fellow blip.tv powered show

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Tags: Online Video

Internet People is just really brilliant

September 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment

wow. now i know why Fred Seibert and Tim Shey aren’t syndicating Real World Green. They’re too busy with content people will enjoy.
Internet People is by Dan Meth
a crazed cartoonist from the ‘burbs of New York, who has arrived on the scene just as a new video-based Pop Culture is being born on the Internet. [...]

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Tags: Online Video · social media