Note to Calacanis and Scoble: Don’t waste your users bandwidth.
This is something that I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while. I actually started a post about this a few times but never really finished. But here I am again thinking about this so what the hell, might as well get it out. My friend Schlomo asked on Twitter one day, “Why is the Calacaniscast in video.” That’s a question I’ve been asking for a while. I guess the only really good answer to it is because he can. The same can be said for a lot of Scobles videos as well. A good question that anyone that is thinking about doing video...
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I’ve had some things to blog about lately but really no motivation to do it. I’ve been feeling a bit behind the 8 ball lately, dunno why. But I think I’m finally been shaking this funk. One thing I wanted to come back to was the Filmmaker/video blogger issue I mentioned last week. Interestingly this subject came up on the Videobloggers list not long after I mentioned it here. One of the most insightful observations came from Adrian Miles who wrote: film makers fetishise film (or video) and so are much like authors in 1995 when the web...
read moreThanks Fox 2 News
Paul Schankman of Fox 2 St. Louis did a piece about me and vlogging on the 9 o’clock news tonight. I was worried it would suck, but it was pretty good. Check it out here.
read moreGibson Guitar Image Library
I found this by accident while searching google images. A library of high res image files of Gibson Guitars. Obviously these images are protected by copyright so you couldn’t legally just grab them and start using them where ever you want, but it’s pretty cool to be able to zoom in and see some really fine detail on some of these things.
read morePoor sap writes an opinion piece, blasting opinions
So funny yet so sad. From the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Blog this: We need you more than we need your opinion. By Scott Anderson 03/12/2007 The Wall Street Journal recently reported there are more than 70 million blogs — diary-like Internet sites where individuals post their opinions and readers post their reactions — in the United States today. That’s twice as many as there were just a year ago. Which means that more than one in five Americans are providing ongoing commentary on topics ranging from politics to Ashley Simpson to high...
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