eric rochow

social media handyman, creator of Gardenfork & Real World Green

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Entries from October 2007

John Federico’s recap of my presentation

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

John Federico did a nice recap of my presentation at PodCamp Boston. You can read it and his other comments on the event here.

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Tags: social media · social networking

Gardenfork most popular “gardening” podcast on iTunes

October 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

OK, I know stats are a dark art, but from what I can tell, when searching for ‘Gardening’ podcasts on iTunes, Gardenfork comes out on top, ranked as the most popular gardening podcast on iTunes. It even beats The Victory Garden and HGTV. wow.

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Tags: Online Video · social media

PodCamp Boston

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I will be speaking at PodCamp Boston tomorrow, expanding on the talk I gave at PodCamp NYC. “What’s it like to produce a Video Podcast?” is the title of my talk. There are over 1,000 people registered. This will be fun.
Natalie Gelman, who was nice enough to make a few intro and outro pieces [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · social media · social networking

TV Networks are “temporarily prehistoric”

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

via Shelly Palmer’s MediaBytes:
BARRY DILLER told a group of conference attendees that major media companies still don’t “get” the Internet. He advised media companies to create new Internet properties from scratch, citing Time Warner’s popular TMZ.com as an example to follow. Diller believes media companies suffer from a fear of investing in companies and developing [...]

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Tags: Online Video · social media

This is exactly what television should be

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A very nice post about Gardenfork by Douglas E Welch
A few weeks ago, after finding nothing on broadcast television I wanted to watch, I went in search of more video podcasts to fill the void. One of the shows I have fallen in love with is Garden Fork TV with Eric Rochow. He covers everything [...]

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On Radiohead

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Radiohead recently released their latest album online without the backing a record label. They just did it themselves, much like many indie bands do. Only thing is that Radiohead is a major headliner type of band. All the major news outlets covered Radiohead releasing an album on line with a pay what you want price [...]

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Tags: social media

A new daily web video show

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I ran across this new daily web video show, The Daily Special, which is part of Elastic Waist: Rants and musings on weight, body image, celebrities, fitness, food and other fixations.
I have my own body image issues, ( just watch Gardenfork a few times… ) but it was fun to watch a daily show produced [...]

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Tags: Online Video · social media