Podcaster Leo Laporte explaining how much income and expenses he has for This Week in Technology podcasts: he makes $1.5 million per year, doubling every year and spends $350,000 on costs including 7 staff.
This video is absolutely worth watching in it’s entirety although here in Australia, for me it lagged and burped the entire time. Gosh I wish we had our National Broadband Network already!
This video has nearly 8,000 comments. A lot of companies, governments, brands, famous people think that creating some content (in isolation) shoving it up on a social media channel and never looking at it again (unless there is a negative comment, cos y’know, we have to protect our ‘image’) is engagement. Well, for me it’s not. Look at the last part of the this video where she responds to some comments left on her channel. Can anyone name a corporate video on YouTube that does responds actively to comments? I think one of the American politicians did – last year? Continue Reading…
And they say Heritage Media is not dead! Pfft. It’s pretty rough when even the newsreader would rather be on a social media site than read the News: 3AW presenter misses bulletin for Facebook THE team at 3AW have been instructed to watch their computer usage after the radio station missed an hourly news bulletin because the newsreader was on Facebook. Last Sunday at 4pm the news theme was broadcast but was followed by a series of advertisements. According to an insider, a producer raced to the newsroom to see what was happening and found the reader on the computer. Continue Reading…
IndieGoGo is an awesome Film and TV community for creating independent projects. In a nutshell, post your idea for a film project and find others to help you create it – the project management/producer stuff is handled on the site. IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to address the Continue Reading…
… or, are blogs dying/dead?Click for readable diagram: Any content site that is pre-prepared content, single channel, little crossover, lecture style etc. The problem with blogs is they aren’t collaborative. Yes of course it’s possible to have a conversation. People can leave comments on your blog – the Dine In version. Or they can comment in their own blog post, linking back to yours (Take Out or TakeAway). Or a mashup of the two, by commenting on an RSS feed about your blog. But it ain’t collaborative. I’m speaking here specifically about Blogs. Blogs are portals for content you create Continue Reading…
This could be a fascinating exercise in collective Australian imagination, I reckon. Ellenor Cox is a brilliant TV producer, and has come up with a great concept with Scorched!I think the actress is some famous young star off of ABC TV or something? Read the comments on YouTube… funny buzzy little micro-discussions. Place yourself in the Year 2012, and there’s no water left in Sydney – or Melbourne or Adelaide, or anywhere. And ‘cos there’s no water, life changes drastically. Imagine you are a teenager living in a world that is scorched. Channel Nine is picking up the TV show Continue Reading…
If you shut down social networks where members are active – spending time and money to build community- sooner or later there will be a backlash. Disney should think before they shutdown yet ANOTHER online community site. Why would you join ANOTHER Disney site when you know how they are going to treat you?
SilkCharm in Eyeore Pajamas and yellow Fluffy Duck slippers in Second Life (SilkCharm Sachertorte). I was running around Second Life in my Eyeore pajamas and fluffy duck slippers that light up last night -well, it was waaaaay past SilkCharm’s bedtime – when I bumped into Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas, lecturer at University of Sydney). They have a job for someone arty/animator-y: very creative project for someone – contact the producer, KateRichards (kate.richards (at) bigpond.com) : I’m producing a Second Life prototype for a arts-based client and I’m looking for a Art Director/animator with experience in Virtual Worlds development. Graphic production Continue Reading…
s’not often you see ‘cocktails’ in a header image I managed to wrangle a VIB pass to Media08. VIB stands for Very Important Blogger. Media08 don’t call me that – I’ve given myself that title – let’s call is a ‘user generated title‘? heh. The organisers of Media08 have been nice enough to treat me like a real journalist. Which means I should probably take up smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky, getting into fights and accepting cash for… oh ok, lets play nicely. Here’s an email from the organisers, God bless their little cotton socks: Hi Laurel, a quick note Continue Reading…
Are you going? Media 08 Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals. Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008. “Media ’08″ brings together world leading experts from the UK, the US, India, China, Australia, the Middle East and Korea, to present on the most significant trends and innovations happening or about to happen across the spectrum of digital media: The Media and The Message; Generation Cellphone; Video and Interactivity; Platforms Continue Reading…
Virtual world job at Disney, via Monster: Job Description:Senior Producer, Virtual Worlds, Multiplayer Online Games – Job ID 138859Disney Online is committed to leading the market in creating, marketing and operating, industry defining, entertaining, interactive and high quality, premium online experiences for kids and families. Products in the team’s portfolio include Disney.com (including Disney Xtreme Digital), Disney’s Toontown Online – the award winning and first massively multiplayer game for kids and families, Disney’s Game Kingdom Online – a subscription product for kids 3 – 8, Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online – a subscription product for preschoolers, Disney Connection – a Continue Reading…
Bit of a silly article from The Times: Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life Can online friendships ruin real-life relationships? Some users of a very popular social networking site believe so – and that’s why they’re taking drastic action, says Emma Justice Stephanie Painter’s death was swift and painless. At 9.10pm on February 11 she bid her 121 Facebook friends goodbye with one last “poke” (mood: sorrowful), then left the virtual world peacefully with a quick click of the mouse. “It was hard to kill the profile I’d spent so long creating, but I felt it was the Continue Reading…
2Spare.com (2 Much Time 2 Spare) have a list of the top 87 bad predictions in all sectors. The list has 590 votes. Let me extract out the ones of interest in computing and such – and I’ll add a few at the bottom of recent ones: «640k is enough for everyone.» William F. Gates III «I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.» IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943. «Everything that can be invented has been invented.» Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899. «This antitrust thing will blow over.» Bill Gates, founder Continue Reading…