Disco on the ATEC Island!

From Christi:

This is from our little disco party in Mary's studio after our meeting Monday night. Mary thought it was cool that we were dancing on her video!

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

GooberTV & BigBlingTheory

Our first vodcasts!

GooberTV by Betsy, Valerie, and John.

And GNO's BigBlingTheory

Revision3

Will it work? Saw a lot of these come and go in 1998-2000. Maybe the time, content, approach is right?

More on the new video network from the Digg guys.

Open it up and Let Go

From an article in Business Week - some self reflection at the end of the piece:

What would this article look like if it were a real blog, and not just this glossy simulacrum?

Think of the way we produce stories here. It's a closed process. We come up with an idea. We read, we discuss in-house, and then we interview all sorts of experts and take their pictures. We urge them not to spill the beans about what we're working on. It's a secret. Finally, we write. Then the story goes through lots and lots of editing. And when the proofreaders have had their last look, someone presses the button and we launch a finished product on the world.

If this were a real blog, we probably would have posted our story pitch on Day One, before we did any reporting. In the blog world, a host of experts (including many of the same ones we called for this story) would weigh in, telling us what's wrong, what we're overlooking. In many ways, it's a similar editorial process. But it takes place in the open. It's a discussion.

Why draw this comparison? In a world chock-full of citizen publishers, we mainstream types control an ever-smaller chunk of human knowledge. Some of us will work to draw in more of what the bloggers know, vetting it, editing it, and packaging it into our closed productions. But here's betting that we also forge ahead in the open world. The measure of success in that world is not a finished product. The winners will be those who host the very best conversations.

Letting go of control is proving to be very difficult for mainstream media organizations...

Digg This

The Digg guys go after the web video market - at least for the geek set. NYT Story here.

Free Podcast Service

There are a lot of them, and here's another called PodServe.

ScobleShow

He has his own show now... here's a preview.

Also - try this: type "Robert" in google and look what comes up... Like him, hate him, or bored by him, he's the top Robert in the world because of blogging.

PEW Future of the Internet Report II

Read it here. Full report PDF here.


By 2020:

# A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening” world.

# Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents” proliferate. However, a significant 42% of survey respondents were pessimistic about humans’ ability to control the technology in the future. This significant majority agreed that dangers and dependencies will grow beyond our ability to stay in charge of technology. This was one of the major surprises in the survey.

# Virtual reality will be compelling enough to enhance worker productivity and also spawn new addiction problems.

# Tech “refuseniks” will emerge as a cultural group characterized by their choice to live off the network. Some will do this as a benign way to limit information overload, while others will commit acts of violence and terror against technology-inspired change.

# People will wittingly and unwittingly disclose more about themselves, gaining some benefits in the process even as they lose some privacy.

# English will be a universal language of global communications, but other languages will not be displaced. Indeed, many felt other languages such as Mandarin, would grow in prominence.

At the same time, there was strong dispute about those futuristic scenarios among notable numbers of 742 respondents to survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. Those who raised challenges believe that governments and corporations will not necessarily embrace policies that will allow the network to spread to under-served populations; that serious social inequalities will persist; and that “addiction” is an inappropriate notion to attach to people’s interest in virtual environments.

The experts and analysts also split evenly on a central question of whether the world will be a better place in 2020 due to the greater transparency of people and institutions afforded by the internet: 46% agreed that the benefits of greater transparency of organizations and individuals would outweigh the privacy costs and 49% disagreed.

What do you think?

Blogging for Dollars

Business 2.0's Blogging for Dollars

Money, Meaning, and Community

An interesting post from Media Shift for those of you interested in the future (and plight) of newspapers.

And here's a post on ownership of Social sites - and the differences in management style.

Both of these posts speak to the conflict between private corporate interest and the interests of the communities they are supposed to serve.

In case you were sleeping in the 1990's

If you somehow missed some part of the Internet evolution here's a nutshell history, courtesy of Raj. I think the end is a cop out and not particularly bold or insightful about future directions, but that's for us to help decide...

Web Video Biz Model Gets Clearer

A video Business Model Emerging... thanks Steve! (Jobs that is)

Now let's make something worth watching...

Class Participant Sites

Send me your website: Note that on the right side of this page I've started listing them. Please visit the sites and leave comments as appropriate.

BTW - doesn't "class participant" sound better than "student?"

Paper Trail - University Blogs & Papers

A meta blog from US NEWS

Spy on other schools... Yeah!

LonelyGirl15

Viral, episodic fiction on YouTube

And here's one of the episodes

The Raj Blog

Raj has a great blog, following the emerging media and web news & trends - I'm finding it very helpful. check it out!

A Few VLOG links

A Guide to the Online Video Explosion

The New Networks

Google Video Exec Interview

PouringDown

Chasing Windmills (daily fiction vlog)

Amyville

29fragile days

Too Much Information (all at once)

This talks to the real time vs time shifted element in the context of social network sites on the web... some things should be time shifted, others not. NYT Story

Business Consulting in SL

Virtual Fashion Designers need good advice too...

DIY!

Interesting little blip on self marketing. excerpt:

If so-called "MySpace phenomena" such as the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen (bands) continue to emerge through self-promotion and are given unprecedented direct selling access to their MySpace-addicted audience, where do the big guys fit in exactly?

The big guys in this case being the record labels..