Careers in New Media and Podcasting

I have been using Twitter for a while now and watching my over 200 “friends” twittering away I began to see a definite “personality” associated with each individual, myself included.There was one, fairly well-known, podcaster who I began following as I have enjoyed his shows, his writing and his talks at the annual Podcast Expos. [...]

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As you can see from my recent blog posts, I am using a wide variety of online video tools to capture classes, comments and conversation whenever I can. One concern has cropped up recently, though. Most of these services record the video in FLV (Flash Video) format. This means I can embed the videos in [...]

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A lot of people are crowing about the DGA/AMPTP agreement today. Looking over the details of agreement, though, it looks like the “same old, same old” to me. For me, New Media requires that the bulk of monies generated by creative products belongs to the creator of those products. When I see figures like sub-one [...]

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I am involved a wide variety of new media projects these days, both large and small, but one important point is quickly being “brought home” to me. In traditional media, projects that required millions of dollars, but held promise to earn even more, could take months, year or even decades to come to fruition. In [...]

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Doug’s Neat Friends is a new concept I wanted to try out using the Seesmic.com Video Chat/Conversation service. On Seesmic you can make a video post and other members can reply and then you reply..and so on. Since I have so many neat friends, I wanted to bring them into the conversation and share their [...]

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I had a great conversation on Seesmic tonight about podcasting and this particular piece has some great information on the 3 1/2 big advantages of podcasting.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Douglas speaks on New Media during the founding meeting of StrikeTV: Adventures in New Media at the WGA Theater on January 9, 2008. This is a question and answer session touching on a wide variety of podcasting, new media and social networking topics. [Audio clip: view [...]

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This piece was written in response to an email discussion I am having with a friend who is working on a major new media project. Our discussion got me thinking, rather deeply about what new media projects need to do in order to compete with the traditional media behemoth. By its very name, New Media [...]

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A great show from The Accidental Creative on how we need to regularly create for ourselves if we want to be able to create for others, on demand. Accidental Creative #90 – Unnecessary Unnecessary creating is the source of brilliant “create-on-demand” work. (Via The Accidental Creative.)

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I was out preaching the new media gospel today to some clients and I got talking about this concept – the New Media Multiplier. In a pinball game, you can increase your score dramatically by hitting various multipliers on the playing field – 2x, 3x, 5x. Each hit and each bonus gained is worth more [...]

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I took a few moments with my statistics today and pulled out the most popular blog posts and pages at WelchWrite.com. Did you miss any of these? Most popular blog posts and pages on WelchWrite.com for 2007 My Word: Elsewhere Online: 10 Ways to Add Variety to Your Digital Photography My Word: Norton Internet Security [...]

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