eric rochow

I had heard about Facebook’s Beacon project, but I did not realize it was an opt-out rather than opt-in program, and now people are discovering their web purchases outside of Facebook are being broadcast to their friends.
Sometimes I read about what a company is doing and I think: OK, what made you think people would [...]

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OK, its the day before Thanksgiving, I just walked Henry, and I have to get down to the community garden to do my compost work shift for the Park Slope Food Coop before cleaning the apartment, editing a new episode of Gardenfork, and getting ready to drive upstate.
But then, Chris Brogan sends me this cryptic [...]

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Not to sound like a broken record, but just this morning, while walking Henry in Prospect Park, I was talking with an advertising person about how there’s a ton of junk video on the web, and people are now starting to watch content with higher production values, and they will watch for longer periods.
Now Business [...]

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I’m a bit delinquent here in posting a recap of my recent talks at VON - Video on the Net and Podcamp Boston, but Steve Garfield took these great picts of me. The text will follow soon.

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On the Blip.tv Yahoo group there has been some discussion about integrating more social tools into Blip.tv. Most web video shows on Blip have some sort of website separate from Blip, it may be a WordPress blog, just a HTML page, or a Ning site. Real World Green and Gardenfork now share a Ning site, [...]

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I’m not one to write long missives, here or elsewhere. I’m just not good at it. I also don’t believe that we all have to re-invent the wheel when someone already has a good idea, why not just add your own thoughts.
I do a lot of what some call micro-blogging, I post comments on other [...]

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My friend Chris Brogan, who is exhausting just to read, let alone try to emulate, has started a daily (hopefully) videoblog Attention Upgrade that runs on top of Magnify.net . Like regular blog, you can post text comments, but the cool thing about Magnify’s product is you can post video comments.
True to Eric form, I [...]

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From Shelly Palmer’s Media 3.0 :
MOVE NETWORKS has released viewer data that shows evidence of long-form online viewing on the players it has created for ABC, Fox, ESPN360 and others. 6 million people watched long-form online content on Move technology during October. The company is also seeing an impressive 100,000 new viewers of long-form content [...]

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I’ll elaborate on this later, but I’ve launched a community site for viewers of Gardenfork & Real World Green called The Greenhouse.
Its another one of my experiments in social networking and media. I get many emails from viewers, and I thought it be neat to create a destination where viewers could share with each other, [...]

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Getting off the plane at Logan for Podcamp Boston, I am recognized.
“YOU’RE ERIC!” Ah, yes, I am.
I’m still not good at the D-List internet celebrity thing.
It ends up I’ve just met Beth and Steve, who live in Canada, and Beth has a neat blog: Grow See This.
She said some nice things about me, so I [...]

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