New Media

TechPodcasts.TV

Posted by geeknews at 10:08 PM on February 14, 2010

I want to Introduce TechPodcasts.tv which is part of the Tech Podcast Network. TechPodcasts.tv will centralize the best tech video content in the new media space. Content for the site comes from member shows. TechPodcasts.Tv like the Tech Podcast Network will be a central place where you can get family safe content by a variety of content creators.

We built the best audio network, now it is time to segregate the video content into its own channel. All from well established shows in the tech space. As opportunities of distributing video content is exploding we are well set to capitalize on well established shows making the jump from Audio only, to add Video.

With TechPodcast Network member shows currently reaching 10’s of million listeners each month, we know that the market for video content is exploding.

While in its early days of launching we will be adding more shows to the lineup in the coming weeks.

Tags: New Media, TV

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Will online media become a monthly subscription?

Posted by Nolan at 8:43 AM on November 3, 2009

Rumors are circling that Apple is proposing an online TV media subscription model. For just $30/month you could possibly have access to the archive of syndicated shows and the new shows as they come. Later in the day I read of a favorite tutorial site, which shall remain nameless until I do a proper review, was bumping its fees to about $15/month. Many of my favorite podcasts have donation links on their site for $2/month or so. Please understand, I am a believer in paying for labor. I am just beginning to wonder when this evolving online monthly subscription model will break.

Some people believe a service like Apple’s would get rid of the need for Cable or Dish and save some money. I don’t see that. The streaming system is not ready for the high-def load and most people will keep the Cable and Dish for their instant viewing. For those that jump into the online media, how many monthly payments do you want to sign up for? I just can’t keep signing up for more monthly payments. The inflation on monthly tech and media services is getting pretty high.

Cable and Dish consolidated traditional media into a monthly package. What about online media? It will forever and always be a mix of traditional and common man media. How many packages can I pick up? One traditional media package, ten small media packages, one cell phone media package. . . A revolution in content delivery is underway and will continue to occur, I just wonder where and on what there will be a price tag.

Tags: inflation, Media, online, subscription

Posted in Apple, Media, New Media, advertising, business

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Want to see an Internet Oxymoron?

Posted by Jeffrey Powers at 9:47 AM on September 8, 2009

Check out this screenshot. Tell me why it’s an Oxymoron:

If you said “This is an Associated Press article – I CANNOT share it on Mixx, Buzz, Digg, Reddit, Facebook or Newswire”, then you are correct!

If you go to the A.P.s site, you do not see any sharing widgets. However, if you go to the sites that pay for the content, they could have these little add-ons to try and promote their brand. But with these widgets, they could be in breech of their contract.

The Associated Press has said it doesn’t want to squelch new media, but it will go after sites that post it’s content and make money on it. Isn’t that like EVERY site on the Internet?

Back in June, the AP told their reporters to police social media like Facebook and Twitter. The idea would be to identify and irradicate any posts that violate their usage policies. So you could get a take down notice if you post or “Re Tweet” those A.P. articles.

If you have a website and you have A.P. content on it, you might want to think about those little blurbs to suggest sharing the articles. You may be inadvertently breaching your contract.

I wonder if someone should start a list of Websites that use A.P. so we all know not to share the data from it. Of course, I am not going to rock that boat. However, if you know of a website that is an Associated Press site, you might want to comment on it below…

Tags: Associated Press, content, Facebook, Legal, news, notice, oxymoron, retweet, take down, Twitter, websites

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Social Media Past and Future

Posted by KL Tech Muse at 8:58 AM on May 24, 2009

We, humans are social animals, we communicate with each other by any means possible, originally it would have been by voice, or drum or smoke, what ever worked. Let’s face it though those methods are not very reliable and the messages tended to get muddled. Then came the written language which was more reliable, but only a few could read or write so knowledge was controlled and available to only a few.

In the 20th Century most people gained at least a rudimentary level of reading and writing, which meant knowledge became available to almost everyone. Individual’s communicated either by letter or by phone, both were for most people a one on one conversation. Mass communications, such as newspapers, magazine, TV and radio all cost a lot of money, so a very few still controlled the distribution of the news. Then computers and the Internet came along opening up the world of mass communication to everyone

This didn’t happen immediately, computers were too complicated and dial up Internet was too slow too make distributing media sensible for most people. Starting in the early 90’s things began to change. First Windows 95 came along. Then Netscape and Internet Explorer came out opening the Internet up to the general public. In 1997 RSS was developed Dave Winer and others. In 1999 Pyra launched Blogger, which began the blogging explosion. Finally around 2004 podcasting became available, when Dave Winner with encouragement from Adam Curry created a way to enclose an audio or video file into RSS. Around this same time, there was an explosion of the use of broadband, which made streaming video and audio more reliable and realistic.

The latest stage of this story started with the advent of Twitter, which allowed people to send out short messages to their followers around the world. At first it was used mostly by early adopters, who used it to send out messages to their friends. The true power of Twitter became clear when it was used during the attacks on Mumbai, to send the news as it was happening from people on the site. That event and the use of it in the 2008 election helped it exploded among the general populous

What is the future of the media is it real time or something else, only the future will tell. The one thing that is certain communication, both one on one or one to many is no longer dependent on having a lot of money or being a part of big media.

Tags: communication, Media

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Bloggers have it. Newspapers want it.

Posted by Nolan at 6:58 AM on May 23, 2009

There are many articles comparing the pros and cons of physical print news versus the online/blogging news. The following lists are not pros and cons but what each group has that the other side wants. What could happen with the merging of the two? Thanks to Tech Crunch for stirring my brain.

What Newspapers Have and Bloggers Want/Need:

Bloggers have less official access to many press conferences and meetings. Who gets the press pass? How do you get the press pass? Will it not eventually recreate a few sources for news as different agencies pick and stick with favorites? Newspapers made narrowing it down easy.
Bloggers have less incentive/time to investigate and search out multiples sources. Bloggers seem to surf the web not pound the streets and interview people face to face. Newspapers live that way.
Bloggers write about what interests them, not what interests others. With no boss giving assignments, who will report on those needed but sometimes mundane happenings? Will we be stuck piecing together all of our news from 500 RSS feeds? Newspapers make basic world, national, and local news easy.
Bloggers are not the one “go to” place for news. Difficult to find a local blogger. I do not know of a single blogger reporting on news in our area of 175,000 people . I guess I would have to look if the paper shut down.
Bloggers have less accountability/oversight to preserve the truth. I know, I know, that the community could police itself just like Wikipedia. I’m not sure they will or really have the ability. Besides, most people believe whatever they read and probably won’t go back to see any updates or corrections.

What Bloggers Have and Newspapers Want/Need:

Print Media has a narrow chain of command that dictates what and when news is published. It is no wonder why dictator, communistic, and extreme governments want control of the media? Why are news agencies tending to endorse political candidates? The news has been far from fair and balanced for a long, long time. Blogs are more numerous, yield less individual influence, say what they think, and allow more free interaction.
Print Media has a need to make a larger profit. Bloggers hope to pay the bills. There is nothing wrong with this. It is the goal of every business owner to make money. Why should newspapers be any different? The problem is that it is a very low margin/no margin business that is about to go on a ventilator. The motivation and ability to survive is decreasing.
Print Media has a high overhead for getting the news to the reader. Ouch this is number one. Manufacturing and delivery is expensive. Presses are extremely expensive, paper is expensive, labor is expensive, management is expensive, delivery is expensive. The web does it on the cheap. I can deliver the same news to as many people for pennies on the dollar as a blogger. And it won’t take much ad revenue to pay for that delivery.
Print Media has few ways to guage how much of their content is read. The newspaper does not create a log file ever time my eyes read a certain article or ad. Advertisers are left to subjective decisions on whether business increased because of the ad most of the time. The web brings freedom and analytics.
Print Media locks down the content and its distribution. There is no open source in this land. Republish the AP article and receive a DMCA. Everything is copyrighted.
Print media now publishes old news. 24 hours is not soon enough. 12 hours is not soon enough. 2 hours is not soon enough. What do you mean “The game was not finished as of press time”? By the time your article reaches me 36 hours after the game, you have lost me. I can visit a site, use an RSS reader to get the headlines, or subscribe to email updates and text alerts. I do not even have to wait for the “top of the hour”, “quarter of the hour” news on the radio.

Enough of my opinion. What is the real truth? Will you, the community, let me know? Are we really ready for this new world of news?

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Gary Vaynerchuk responds to Howard Sterns Social Media Rant

Posted by geeknews at 7:38 PM on November 6, 2008

Gary had a great response to some things Howard Stern has to say about social media. For those of you that have been holding back from jumping into new media you should listen to this.

On a side note you all know that I have said since 2004 that the new media evolution will continue to force those in the traditional media space to change or become irrelevant.

Check out Gary’s site today.

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Advertising trouble on TV

Posted by shane at 1:02 PM on September 21, 2008

I got a tivo a few years back & have had a dvr of some kind ever since. I now have dish so I use theirs which is a good one but not quite as good as the tivo. The biggest plus is of course the time shifting factor. But the ability to skip past commercials is a close second. I keep wondering how the advertisers are going to spend their money in the future on ads. I very rarely even see an ad now but I still know more people without dvrs than I do people who do have them. So the ads are still being seen by a large percentage of people. But at some point the scales will tip and advertisers will no longer be able to justify the huge dollars they give to have their products displayed only to have them skipped over by the consumer. If 50% of people have dvrs then the value of advertising time is greatly diminished.

So what do companies do to avoid being fast forwarded into the red? Well they can place ads in sporting events which are more enjoyable if watched on time instead of the next day when you may have already found out the score. Also they could use the new media as a venue to put ads inside. Instead of paying for ad space during Lost (a popular show on ABC which I hate since they pretty much make up the story line as they go. If you are hooked on it, get out while you can!) a company could pick a popular blog or podcast that covers Lost to advertise with. Not only are people less likely to fast forward a podcast to avoid commercials, they are more likely a super fan of the tv show thus more apt to support a product that supports their show. Another thing I see happening is tv channels placing ads on top of the show in the corner like they do with their network logo (ex. NBC placed in the bottom right corner of all their shows). Or they could place “crawling text ads” 24 hours per day. However it comes about I do not know, I just know it change is on the way.

Tags: advertising new media, blog, dvr, Podcast, TiVo

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Don’t let old media drive up Gas costs

Posted by shane at 2:32 PM on September 13, 2008

I sure hope the IQ of new media consumers is higher than that of the average old media watcher. I do not watch much news on TV. It is a waste of time. Well last night my friend is telling me about gas going up. We are in Georgia. So apparently the hurricane has disrupted a refinery in the Gulf of Mexico ….again. The talking heads on the news are saying gas will be in shorter supply and the price will rise. They say you might want to fill up before it happens. Well this sends the thundering herd of idiots out to line up at the gas stations. What do you think happens when people are lined up to buy a product whether or not there is a shortage? The freaking price is going up big time. If I am a barber & I see a line of people out my shop doors, I only have time to do so many haircuts. So my time becomes more valuable so I can raise the price. Supply & demand people! I have no doubt the news people are right when they say prices will rise but they cause a panic by promoting fear as usual. So the prices go way beyond what they would naturally. New media providers are hopefully more responsible than the old school TV people. They don’t have to promote one bad thing after another to keep consumers watching or listening. What if CNN said that drinking bleach is absolutely necessary for good health? I bet 5% of the population would wake up dead the next morning! The herd mentality has to stop. If all I can do as a part of new media content is call out people for doing dumb things so be it.

Tags: cnn, gas shortage, hurricane ike, New Media, old media

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A Basic Lesson in New Media for the Uninitiated

Posted by geeknews at 1:34 AM on August 20, 2008

Jeff the content director and I were joking at the beginning of the New Media Expo that the saying “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” would not apply during the New Media Expo.

We joked that with all of the video cameras around and live streaming that our wives would very easily to get Intelligence on exactly what we were up to just by watching live qik.com videos and watching the Twitter stream.

I explained to my 10 and 12 year old tonight at the dinner table is that one thing that they have to remember in this new world where everyone has a video camera built into a cell phone that they have to mind their P’s and Q’s, because one never knows who is watching while at the same time recording and or streaming live what is going down.

New Media / Podcasting is here to stay and will never be put back in a box. I have a Flip Camera in the glove box of both my cars and I carry one in my computer bag, my wife has one in her purse each within quick grabbing distance. Thus if something goes down we are going to be able to capture it.

While I have several multi-thousand dollar high definition video cameras that shoot great video the camera I carry in my pocket will capture something really big someday, and it cost less than a $100.00 bill.

So next time your out and decide to get an attitude with someone do not be surprised if it is being streamed live on the Internet. My Podcast reaches 40,000 – 50,000 plus highly devoted fans twice weekly and you can bet they get first hand accounts of peoples antics. They then spread the word to their friends and the next thing you know people are getting fired.

So before you do something stupid that will get you highlighted on a national television network, or even on a small show like mine think twice and watch your P’s and Q’s

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Dr Horrible

Posted by todd at 8:04 AM on July 19, 2008

If you are a fan of Joss Whedon’s work (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, etc), and I’m presuming there might be a few in the audience, then make sure you check out Dr Horrible’s sing-a-long blog this weekend. The third episode is up now and the series is only going to be available for free until the end of Sunday. After this it will disapear from online and only be available on DVD.

Apart from being an entertaining production it is also an interesting experiment in new media production. The idea came to life because of the recent writers strike with the plan being to discover whether an alternative method of high production quality media distribution can actually make money. While it is not the most expensive production ever put together it has a number of sets and locations and some fairly big television names writing and starring in it.

The plan looks to take advantage of the propesity of their intended audience to like to view programs multiple times. Many people will see it and a large number will presumably want to not only watch it again, but to also see the extra content that will undoubtedely be included with the DVD version. That is if it works. It will be interesting to watch the result.

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Justin.TV Alpha Geek gets jacked up by Dave Winer

Posted by todd at 12:04 AM on August 10, 2007

Was watching Justin.TV and Alpha Geek at Gnomedex party when he chatted with Dave Winer for a few moments only for Dave to realize mid conversation that the conversation was going out live.

This is a question new media creators are going to have deal with. Filming and streaming live without disclosing it is not cool. Alpha Geek called the Justin.TV folks and asked for advice, seems form the call that they did not have much advice to give.

Alpha geek made a make-shift sign that said he was recording and streaming live. But this does not solve the problem that people are still being recorded without their knowledge and when people have paid to go to a private event and their conversations are being recorded then this is a real issue.

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Podcaster News Network Launch Press Release

Posted by geeknews at 1:54 AM on November 11, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 9 2005

CONTACT:
Jeevan Padiyar
718.928.9961
press@rawvoice.com

RAWVOICE INC. TO INTRODUCE PODCASTER NEWS NETWORK

ONTARIO, CA – November 11, 2005 – Internet media company RawVoice Inc. plans to unveil the PodcasterNews Network (PCN) at the Portable Media Expo this weekend. The Podcaster News Network allows listeners to assemble and download personalized podcast news shows with incredible ease. The PodcasterNews Network can be found at http://www.podcasternews.com.

“This is the ultimate customized audio news program,” said Todd Cochrane, President and CEO of RawVoice “The PodcasterNews Network lets someone pick the topics they want to hear and puts them together into one program feed, called a MyCast. You want a little tech news, some sports and some fashion tips each day, then that’s what you put in your MyCast.” Cochrane, who is also host of Geek News Central and author of Podcasting: The Do it Yourself Guide, said PCN is the next step in personal media evolution. The site focuses on user experience and will be a terrific advertising opportunity to reach targeted audiences .

Jeevan Padiyar, the CFO of RawVoice and an admitted geek, said PCN is for anyone who wants free, on-demand, customized news. “PCN is for people who are tired of waiting to hear what they care about. It allows them to construct and download a news program that is 100% in tune with their interests.”

Podcasting is an increasingly popular form of audio content delivery that requires far less equipment than what is needed for over-the-air broadcasting. Podcasts are radio shows that can be downloaded from the internet and listened to on an mp3 player like the iPod.

The podcasters contributing to PCN inject their own opinions into their shows. “By being passionate about their subject areas, our podcasters bring the news to life,” Cochrane said. PCN contributors already have established long format podcasts. The best part about PCN, according to Cochrane is that each news segment has fresh ideas and commentary, and runs just five minutes.

PCN is designed to work with iTunes, Yahoo, or any other podcast software that syncs a user’s mp3 player. Visitors can also listen to shows from the website directly. “We want to ensure complete user satisfaction, and the best way to do that is to give the end user as many choices as possible,” added Brian Yuhnke, the companies Creative Director, “but the greatest part of the site is the MyCast which allows visitors to create an account and pick only the segments they want included in their MyCast.” The proprietary PCN software then takes care of the rest. It automatically updates each MyCast with the newest content from only those categories already selected, so that a fresh news show is available each day, living up to RawVoice’s philosophy of providing “Fresh Organic Media.”

The diverse podcaster line up includes Mental Health Guru Dr. Fran Babiss, New York GLBT activist Allen Roskoff and Bay-area pastor and commentator Reverend Tim Hohm. Users can include segments from as many podcasters as they want, and podcasts on a variety of topics are being added to PCN every day.

More information about PCN can be found at http://www.podcasternews.com.

About RawVoice, Inc.
Founded in 2005 in Reno, Nevada, RawVoice, Inc. distributes fresh organic media with a commitment to avoid the one-size-fits-all corporate blandness of the major media outlets. The Podcast News Network is the premier product of RawVoice, Inc.

Tags: pcn, Podcast, podcaster news

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RawVoice whats RawVoice?

Posted by geeknews at 10:45 PM on September 30, 2005

I have been getting some e-mail asking me what RawVoice is? I am not yet at liberty to say, but will be able to talk more in the near future! [www.rawvoice.com]