"A steady YouTube contributor, a character named Lisa Nova who posts updates as to how her fictitious singing career is developing, posted a video seven hours before the Richard Simmons clip went up, 'Lisa Nova's Life is About to Change & So Can Yours,' and had received 491 comments."I'm crushed. Thanks Advertising Age for shattering the dream.
"NBC is mulling broadcasting Friday night rehearsal sessions of 'Saturday Night Live' on the Internet."Now there's a good idea.
"We're trying something a little different this year. Instead of reviewing millions of searches in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary to find our most frequently looked-up words, we're asking you to submit your choice for the one single word that sums up 2006."Vote Videoblog.
Home movies form the Mutascio Family of Jamaica Plain, MA 1939-1963
Contains moving images of Centre Street, Horse Riding the Jamaicaway, Jamaica Pond, Sledding, a wedding, Franklin Park Zoo.
Fleeting moments captured on film.
"If NBC's comedy 'The Office' feels like nothing else on television, it may be because the actors and writers are so often on the same page. In fact, they're frequently the same people."I love The Office.
The Brightcove Network Opens Commercial Internet TV to any Video Owner; Introduces Video Download Sales and a Broadband Video Advertising Network for Monetization; And Adds New Distribution through AOL Video and Brightcove.com.Brightcove recently added a lot of features. The video landscape is getting very interesting.
"Coming at you straight out of the Sudbury schoolyards, Girl Authority is on the brink of celebrity. Or not. And it’s not just the band’s future on the line: The girls’ unlikely indie patron, Rounder Records, also has a lot riding on their hitting it big."They opened for the Dresden Dolls in April.
"The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home."What's scary about this story is that it seems real, even after reading the whole thing. What tipped me off was the next story on the sidebar, "MPAA to Thwart Pirates by Making All Movies Suck."
"1. French Maid TVHead over and take a look at some of these fun shows...
2. Rocketboom
3. Beach Walks with Rox
4. AmandaAcrossAmerica
5. 88SLIDE
6. Steve Garfield's Video Blog
7. The Ilana Donna Show
8. the eye
9. the show with zefrank
10. Wallstrip.com"
"..this year, with little fanfare, word spread that the Enchanted Village would not be open this season. The city said more than half of the display's parts are broken.I guess the city spokeperson has not seen Animal House:
Boston Mayor Tom Menino may have saved this tradition in the past, but this year he's not talking. A spokesperson said that the parts are very old and cannot easily be replaced."
The first thing I thought about when I heard that the Enchanted Village has broken parts was the creative community.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
"The idea here is that you have to press play on the following videos (in vertical order) so that they all stream to you at the same time. You may need to adjust the volume on each respective network, though. Press play on the top (YouTube) video, then immediately press play on the second (Google Video), and then press play on the third (Revver). Bam, bam, bam - and you should see ‘em playing back simultaneously."
Today we had a really good meeting and lunch. The best part of the day was when our meeting went off on a tangent and we started discussing the current election. After lots of talk about Saturday Night Live and the Hamburger sketch (watch it in the screening room Season 3-5 3/18/78), we decided that this stuff had to be logged somewhere.That's when my first blogger blog started.
I captured that video on my cellphone, and what that enables is an army of citizen journalists to be out there, and when they capture a fleeting moment and then share it, that's powerful.Check it out.
A few weeks ago I saw a man at the Hess Mobile gas station in West Roxbury pumping gas with his car engine running while smoking a cigarette and talking on a cell phone.
It was the trifecta of terror!
Instead of confronting him, because he would have beaten me up, I told the gas station attendant about it.
She replied that they have an inbuilt sprinkler system that would handle it.
You would think that the attendant should actually handle it BEFORE the explosion.
"'I'm allergic to my apartment,' she said, with her familiar dry humor. This time, though, she was serious. The carpet in the bedroom, she said, is making her sick. That's why, she said with a grand sweep of the arm, the bed is in the living room."Ironic.
"When life hands you lemons, you can whine about the unfairness of it all or you can sing. The latest ripples in the blogosphere are coming from the cheerful sounds of Complaints Choirs!"Watch both the Birmingham and Helsinki videos!
"Vaudeville was an actor-centered mode of production. There was no director who could build an ensemble piece. Actors chose their own material, refined their own skills, and lived and died entirely on the basis of their ability to connect one on one with the audience. It was a form which placed a high premium on virtuosity -- on the ability of the performer to impress the spectator with their mastery. Similarly, YouTube is a space of individualized expression. This video is about nothing if it isn't about the mastery and virtuosity of these young performers. We watch breathlessly to see what they will do next and if they can pull off a high risk performance."Brilliant.
My mom gave me this photo to post to her blog. She says it's from Carol and my first Thanksgiving in our first home.
I don't have that sweater anymore. Carol hated that orange kitchen counter.
She's thankful that we don't have an orange kitchen counter anymore. I'm thankful that we now have a gas stove. That old one was electric.
A few friends have posted nice Thanksgiving blog posts. Take a look:
Ronni Bennett: An Elder Thanksgiving List.
Compared to jetting off to exotic cities and staying in four-star hotels, these new pleasures may seem tame. Don’t you believe it. Crabby Old Lady is in a different season of her life now and this new one suits her as well as her other lives did then.Mike Hudack: Happy Thanksgiving
We started this company almost a year and a half ago, and while every serious project has its ups and downs, this one has had fewer downs and more ups than we could have reasonably hoped for. There’s only one reason for that: All the wonderful people who are a part of blip and who surround blip and who believe in us and support us on a daily basis. Thank you.
Just came across this on flickr. Really interesting.
"Boston's new multispace parking meters along Newbury Street stopped accepting credit and debit cards yesterday, as city officials acknowledged that their minimum payment requirement appeared to violate Visa and MasterCard regulations.Amazing.
Tinlin said city officials were not aware of the rule until the Globe reported on it yesterday. 'It has never come up,' he said.
Tinlin said he didn't know whether the city could afford to alter the meters to allow people to pay with credit or debit cards for whatever amount of time they want.Even more amazing.
'It's good government that you want to cover your costs,' he said. 'With every transaction, there's a transaction fee.'
Tinlin said he didn't know the size of the city's credit card transaction fee."
Interview with David Blaine suspended inside a gyroscope
The trick here is for Joanne to try and get David Blaine to talk.
USA Today: David Blaine goes for a spin in NYC.
"PrepRite - Quick Seal Alkyd PrimerNow that's a good painter.
* Assures uniform appearance of topcoats
* Fast drying
* Seals stains from water, graffiti, smoke, tannin, knots and sap
* Topcoat with latex or oil paints
* Can be applied down to 40 degrees F
* Ideal for use on wood, hardboard, PVC piping and previously painted surfaces"
Boston's new high-tech parking meters may be running afoul of Visa and MasterCard rules that prohibit vendors from imposing minimum purchase requirements on their customers.Earlier on Off On A Tangent, Parking Meters: Piggybacking and Minimum Charges.
"'What's my mantra?' As I reflected on this question, I came to realize that, yes, I do have a mantra, and yes, I've been acting on it for the past thirty or more years. My mantra is:Woody Allen forgot his.
“Look for the Second Right Answer.”"
"YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim on How YouTube Got Viral.
1) related video recommendations
2) one-click emailing to spam a friend about a video
3) more social networking and user interaction tools like video comments
4) an external video player
Re: #4, the external video player did have an amazing impact. In a matter of months, YouTube seemed to go from nowhere to everywhere due to that slick and easy to embed player."
"David Tames talks with Thom Fitzgerald about his new film, 3 Needles, which opens in several U.S. theaters on Friday, December 1, 2006 in conjunction with World AIDS Day. The cast includes Lucy Liu, Chloe Sevigny, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing, and Shawn Ashmore."
"Big-screen star Jack Black will soon be seen on the small screen.
The comic actor and half of acoustic heavy-metal duo Tenacious D is partnering with VH1 to executive produce 'The Department of Acceptable Media,' E! Online reports. The weekly comedy sketch show will feature user-generated content and short films occasionally starring Mr. Black.
Mr. Black's partners are Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, who teamed with the actor three years ago to co-found Black Channel 101, a Web site featuring digital shorts made by novice filmmakers in a competitive forum. "
Micki Krimmel Rules!
As does laughingsquid.com.
After paying, parkers get a receipt showing when their time expires. The meters recommend posting the receipt inside the vehicle's curbside window using the removable sticky backside as tape.Umm, recommend? Sounds like a requirement to me.
The city had projected about a 20 percent increase overall because drivers no longer could piggyback on others' time.I'll have to go down to Newbury Street and research the issue, but doesn't is sound like the driver leaving the space that has time on it could hand over his/her receipt to the new driver taking the space so that they could use the remaining time?
...the city decided to require a two-hour purchase with credit cards because of the convenience offered and the fees involved in processing payments.The problem for the city is that credit card companies do not allow minimum charge requirements.
Visa's and MasterCard's regulations prohibit minimum charge amounts. American Express's regulations do not explicitly prohibit minimum charges, but its policy is to discourage any merchant practices that create a "barrier to acceptance."
"Minimum PurchaseSounds like we have some work to do.
Visa merchants are not permitted to establish minimum transaction amounts, even on sale items. They also are not permitted to charge you a fee when you want to use your Visa card.
If you run into a problem like this with a merchant, please notify the financial institution that issued you your Visa card. These institutions have access to the appropriate Visa rules and regulations and can help you document and file your complaint. You'll find their address and/or telephone number on your Visa statement. Their telephone number may also appear on the back of the card itself."
"Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way."Stop the Draft!
This is an excerpt from the new issue of "Rolling Stone," on newsstands until November 30th.The excerpt is really good. you don't often hear the real Sacha Baron Cohen.
See the "Jay Rosen on Open Source Journalism" video. [ QuickTime ]
On Monday, November 13th at 4:00 p.m. EST, Jay Rosen was at The Berkman Center at Harvard to talk about Open Source journalism and his new project, www.newassignment.net I interviewed him after his talk.
"So far, Hollywood has not exactly embraced Beckett and Flinders. With CAA's help, they landed meetings with studios and TV networks. But their first sit-down with a major broadcaster was, Goodfried says, an 'exercise in futility.' Beckett tried to explain to the executive that the central theme of online entertainment was interactivity, as opposed to the passivity of television. He wanted to create shows in which the line between reality and fiction is blurred, where viewers can correspond with the characters and actually become involved in the story by posting their own videos. The exec responded by walking them through his fall lineup and pointing out that the network's Web site had great supplemental video material for the season's upcoming shows.Let's learn the lesson and make media.
Beckett is clearly frustrated. 'The Web isn't just a support system for hit TV shows,' he says. 'It's a new medium. It requires new storytelling techniques. The way the networks look at the Internet now is like the early days of TV, when announcers would just read radio scripts on camera. It was boring in the same way all this supplemental material is boring.'
What's needed, he says, is content that's built specifically for the Web. It doesn't need to be lit like a film -- that would make it feel less real. The camera work should be simple. There shouldn't be a disembodied third-person camera -- a character is always filming the action. Each episode needs to be short, no more than three minutes. 'You wouldn't show a sitcom at a movie theater, right?' Beckett says. 'You make movies for the big screen, sitcoms for TV, and something else entirely for the Internet. That's the lesson of Lonelygirl15.'"
"Rob Dickinson, the former lead singer of Catherine Wheel - and cousin of Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden - has published the music video of his song 'Oceans', which was fully filmed with Nokia N93."I enjoyed watching "The Making of "Oceans" video.
"This week, Red Sox management agreed to pay $51 million for the right to negotiate with Matsuzaka, whose signature pitch is the 'gyroball.'"Wrong.
The gyroball is baseball's version of alien life. No one knows if they've seen it. No one knows what it looks like. No one knows much about it. Except there's a small pocket of American fans who graze the Internet champing to see Matsuzaka, because they're all convinced that he throws a gyroball and they're all convinced it will revolutionize the sport.Fact checking the Boston Globe so you don't have to. ;-)
"Jamaica Plain artists Ravi Jain and Sonia Targontsidis , have launched Wiki-Cake, which they called an online experiment in collective cake-baking. 'It's kind of like picking out your wedding cake, only with a lot of people,' Targontsidis said."What's ironic is that Jain's Wikake wiki was deleted from Wikipedia and the collaborative cake making is happening on a blog.
"We're just really trying to embrace new media, and we've been fascinated with wikis the past few months," said Jain.I applaud my friend Ravi's artistic look into the collaborative nature of wiki's but question whether the Globe makes it clear that there isn't a real wiki involved in the cake making, just a virtual artistic wiki happening in real space.
"Social software sites don’t require 100% active participation to generate great value."
"The BBC is now going to pay for citizen journalist reports, the Editor's Weblog reports. The BBC's staff has been authorized to pay for cell phone footage and/or digital images. "Congratulations BBC.
Diddy, Andy Hunter, Mark Warshaw, Josh Bernoff, Betsy Morgan and Henry Jenkins at the Futures of Entertainment conference at MIT.
I'm watching the future of television on my MacBook Pro, it's the new Diddy video playing on Brightcove in Full Screen with the new version of Flash.
Ironic.
The future of entertainment is sitting in the third row from the front, plugged in and online!
