Careers in Podcasting and New Media

Everyday we read about the on-going conflict between new media (podcasting, YouTube et al, live video streaming) and traditional media (television, radio). While I believe there is a place for both in our media diet, there is a clear inevitability that new media will displace television, just as television did to radio.
Many-to-many media is quickly […]

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Chris Brogan writes a long blog post explaining why the next PodCamp Boston will require a $50 registration fee.Unfortunately, this is only the biggest in a long line of “unconferences” that are turning from a community-driven, open access event into a closed, money-making conference. Here is my response which I posted as a comment to […]

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I have been talking for a while about how podcasting can help to promote sales of books and it seems some authors are starting to get on the podcast bus.
I love The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, but I found I was rarely around a radio when it aired. As podcasting started, I found […]

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Here is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier when I said that all authors and booksellers should be recording their talks and presenting them on their web sites and podcasts.
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, presents a talk on the ideas in his latest book at Harvard’s Berkman Center for […]

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Last week I wrote an essay on how booksellers and authors could make great use of new media to help get their message out. The first step in the process is to simply capture the content they are already creating each time they host a book reading in their store. In that regard, I am […]

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As the economy started its recent downward slide, the overall mood of the country (and the Internet) has turned dark, too. This is only to be expected, of course, but it can bring about an even more insidious problem. It can cause your most important lessons and messages to be buried beneath the weight of […]

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Last Wednesday night, I went to a friend’s book reading at the Barnes and Noble nearby in Encino. Unlike a typical attendee, though, I made a point of talking to our friend and asking if he had thought about recording, and then podcasting, his reading. In fact, he had not, but quickly thought it would […]

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Since last weekend there has been a lot of talk about a possible end to the on-going WGA strike against the AMPTP. While it will certainly be great to get everyone back to work, I wonder if the writer’s new found interest in New Media will be one of the first casualties of any agreement. […]

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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 percent […]

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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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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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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 and […]

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We writers often kick ourselves when we don’t act on an article idea and someone else beats us to the punch. That said, today’s article in the Los Angeles Times entitled, “Striking writers in talks to launch web start-ups” re-states exactly what I have been telling my WGA-member wife and anyone else who will listen. […]

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I find myself facing a constant flow of arguments, both online and in person, along these lines…
“Everything on (insert Internet service here) is crap and nothing but idiots jabbering to idiots!”
Comments like this say much more about the commenter, than the actual usefulness of any online service. The commenter doesn’t find something useful so, to […]

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Wednesday night I spoke at the regular monthly meeting of the Orange County Podcasters on “What’s Next and What Needs to be Next in Podcasting.”
As is typical with podcasters, they were a great group of people and I had a great time, both during the meeting and later at some after-meeting time at the local […]

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Frank Castaneda had me on his show, The Struggling Entrepreneur, this week. We talk about working as an independent in high-tech, writing and new media.

Struggling Entrepreneur
15- Doug Welch- From Writer to High Tech to New Media Entrepreneur
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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we have an interview with Douglas Welch. I had […]

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