Archives for October 2006
Reinventing Television #5: Mark Lesser, Chief Joke Officer of thejokeproject.com
This week’s guest, Marc Lesser, is on the front lines of reinventing television with his independent videoblog, The Joke Project. What’s is it like to produce a daily online video documentary about what is perhaps the oldest storytelling form, the joke? The Joke Project is starting to get approached by various media outlets to license its gut busting content. What are the possibilities and pitfalls in trying to get a funny video project to provide its creators with a serious revenue stream? This is your chance to find out answers to these questions, and many more as you help me pick the brain of this up and coming media mogul. As usual, you the audience will be able to text chat questions and participate in our open phones segment.
In addition to his work on The Joke Project, Mark is a producer-editor at NBC Digital Studios. Hope to see you at this bellylaugh-o-ricious installment of Reinventing Television.
When: Thurs, Nov 2, 10PM Eastern
Where: Right here in the Reinventing Television Virtual Studio
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 31 .
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Live talk with Iraq Vloggers on web Thurs, Oct 26.
(Photo Credit: Alive in Baghdad)
I am thrilled to have Brian Conley and Omar Abdullah of the groundbreaking videoblog, Alive in Baghdad booked as guests on Reinventing Television tonight, Thursday, October 26 at 7PM Pacific (10PM Eastern).
Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, ‘Live From’ news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.
Omar will be with us by phone, assuming he can get through from Baghdad, which is, as you can imagine, a bit iffy. I am keeping my fingers crossed. Either way, Brian will be with us, so we’ll have plenty to talk about.
As a special bonus, we’ll have a appearance from Irina Slutsky (of Geek Entertainment TV and Podtech) who will give us an upddate on the Vloggies.
As always, you will be able to ask our guests questions and make your voice heard through text chat and the open phone segment. You do not want to miss this episode.
When: 7PM Pacific (10PM Eastern), Thursday, October 26.
How it works: Log in to the video conference Right here
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 26 .
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Lists of podcast and videoblog feeds
Mefeedia has a new list feature: you can create lists of RSS feeds that belong together. It also creates a page for each list that mashes up all the entries from the various feeds, so for example, this page contains a mix of entries from RSS feeds about SecondLife. Some more lists already available:
Published by Peter on October 23 .
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Help interview Bre Pettis on Reinventing Television, Thursday, Oct 12, 10PM Eastern
You can help me interview We Are the Media founder, and Make Magazine video podcaster, Bre Pettis on episode 2 of Reinventing Television, the interactive web video talk show about the rapidly mutating world of TV (and I’m defining TV as videoblogs, IPTV, HD, broadcast, cable, sattellite, the whole shebang).
Here’s how it works.
When: 10PM Eastern, Thurs, Oct 12
What: An interactive live web video talk show
How: Log in here to enter the virtual studio. You will need a broadband connection for the video and a phone for audio. During the show you can text chat questions and comments, and there will be an open phones segment where everyone, including you, will be able to join the live discussion. Come join the frenzy!
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 11 .
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Help Maria Make Amazing Video Series: 5 days left!
Maria Gomez is the latest candidate for Have Money Will Vlog, an innovative project to fund innovative vlog projects. Maria is in the midst of producing a documuntary on migrants to the USA, future and past, from her native Columbia, and the pressures that have driven over 10 percent of Columbia’s citizens to migrate from that country. Maria has already intereviewed many Colombian immigrants in New York City, and now she wants to take a 4 month trip back to Colombia to gather stories of those still waiting to
migrate north.This is just the kind of innovative media that deserves our support. If you want to help Maria reach her goal of telling these migration stories, go to Have Money Will Vlog and help her fund this project.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 11 .
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