Monday, September 8, 2008

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Friday, August 22, 2008

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

Making money in podcasting (Audio & Video)

Quick, go turn on your television and radio! Go grab a magazine and open the news paper. What you will see and hear will be "old media" running their machine.

It is time for the real truth in why eMedia will not make money. Yes, there will be the select few that do, but for the most part the masses of producers will not make money. And yet, big media will continue to grow viewers on the internet for their inventory. Why?

When you turned on your TV or radio and opened the news paper and magazine, you saw ads for the shows on the stations. Millions of dollars are spent monthly on ads to promote the media we consume.

Currently we are all in silos with little exposure to the outside world. We have had a few break out stars, but it has not been anything to write home about. The fact is, we are always talking about the same things. The more viewers that come, the more ads that will be placed in your media. But that is unlikely unless you plan on buying a lot of Diet Coke or get 2 girls to crap in a cup and then drink it. EEWWWWW! You depend on being viral but it will only last for your 2-5 minute video and then you will lose your viewers because the people that are watching videos now are on the cutting edge. Our attention spans are short and we jump to the next thing after seeing if there is anything that makes us laugh.

How can we grab more eyes and then keep them watching? Instead of Podshow, Vimeo, Blip, and other sites of the same ilk, they need to take some of the funding that they get and try to grab new eyes. They need to start advertising in old media to get new people to the table. Instead of competing for the same 500,000 people that are already watching and listing in the space try and get 1 million more. Try running cheap ads on late night cable or in a local newspaper. See what happens. You got new desks and computers in your offices right? What will get you more money in the end? A desk or an ad. I would be curious to see the listenership history of Kevin Smith's Smodcast before and after his appearances on XM's Opie and Anthony. Or, how about after an article mentions Ask A Ninja or Epic-Fu in the paper. Hmm, I bet they jump up a lot. What is it going to take to do a micro study in one market?

Let's not add more companies to the TechCrunch Deadpool. Instead of always needing to think outside the box, we need to think inside the box on this one. Take your pride and try to sse not everyone can make NEW paths.

Get to Work!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

And we will try this again......

For too long I have worried about what people think about the thoughts I have. That my opinion will somehow be less important than that of the people I read daily has kept me from posting my thoughts on a daily basis. That and my lack of focus due to sitting at my computer playing games, watching internet TV, and just being plain lazy. Now my grammar may at some times be wrong, my passion will always be real. I am not here to impress, but to only get my thoughts out there.

I was once told that passion could take you a long way, but never allowed that passion to be displayed other than with people I know or people that I have never known that have pissed me off. I was a medic in the Army but didn't follow up after because I don't like whiners. 7 years were spent at Best Buy as a Sales Manager and Project Manager. I am now at Lowes selling appliances because it makes me money. It is not my passion. What I will be talking about here will be my passion.

I will give advice to companies on what they need to do to get into the new age of technologies. I may even give suggestions to Lowes and get myself in trouble at my paying job. Apple will get a new stream of income from me. Entrepreneurs every where will be scrambling to get into my head for my next great idea. Although it may not be my first post here, this will be the day that I begin throwing the sugar cookies in the trash. I will call BullShit when I see it as I hope people do with me. I can't promise that I won't piss you off at some point, but the one thing I realized recently is that I will live this one life so I shouldn't keep quite because I am afraid of what YOU think of me. I am here to help bring my ideas forward to make the space better.

Let's have fun.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Friday, January 11, 2008

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

NewTeeVee to change their name to NewTeeVee for Technology Stories!

As the week has passed and we have and numerous activities to follow I continue to watch how the new media types cove the stories. Passing us as of yesterday is the New Hampshire Primaries which was touted by some as the most important event in political circles since 1992.

It is amazing to think that NewTeeVee.com has totally missed the boat on the scoops that have been coming out of New Hampshire. The stories told by people on theUpTake and by people like Steve Garfield. In the past week they have posted one politically "inspired" video, the Obama Girl. What does this say about the generation. Twitter and Seesmic have been non-stop politics and we can't get one "real" story on the political happenings in the nation. There is a lot of good UGC on the web and they can't show one.

Maybe if a candidate made a video that would rate. More press for them........

Friday, January 4, 2008

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

At mickey d's


This is the new mcdonalds in merrimack,by waitng for our movie. It

looks a lot like a mcdonalds in Germany. Clean and almost fancy!

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Speaking Outside the Fishbowl


This morning while viewing twitter, I saw that CC Chapman had posted a new article. As I was reading I saw the topic on "Speak More Outside the Fishbowl". This caught my eye as it is something that I think everyone needs to do in the space that we have created. This is a topic that is near and dear to me and something that I try to do on a daily basis with friends and family. The picture here is of my mother on my mac and we are talking on Skype. She is 62 years young and has only used her computer for e-mail and light browsing. While home in October to announce our pregnancy we decided to run to Best Buy and get her a webcam. The weekly ritual is not on the telephone anymore, but on the computer. And free...... When my brother was deployed his children were able to see him every night. It has improved our families lives greatly.

MySpace for what it is worth is a great platform. We scoff at it as "New Media Experts", but it has brought more people into the space than all the "A" list bloggers combined and it is continuing to grow. As a manager for Best Buy, the one greatest thing I taught the employees was to talk in people speak and not geek speak. If you went to your doctor and he told you that your child had Osgood-Schlatter Disease you would probably freak out. But if he told you that it is pain in your knee caused by growth spurts, you would be alright with it. Do not scoff at MySpace, but embrace it as a platform to reach the unknowing. Remember you play in the space hourly. They do it weekly, Maybe.

So, this is my first true post to any blog I have had. Maybe I will continue to do so if I can keep my thoughts to one subject at a time.