Yup. Jumped in with both feet he did. My brother Phil is a vlogger now. With the help of Jessica, the world is already a bettah place. Can’t wait for the stream…
updated 9/10: changed image link to Phil’s Blip home page for now.
In the second episode of Weekend Weather, Ben and Kenji report from the Berkeley Kite Festival held on July 29-30 at the Berkeley Marina. See a one-man kite team, an ancient japanese kite launch, a Rokkaku kite battle, flying squids and more!
What to do on these long days of summer with summer camp out and school still weeks away?
From the kids that brought you Silly Sandwich Sunday, Ben and Ken proudly present: Weekend Weather with Ben and Ken!
Today Yahoo and Tivo announced consumers will be able to schedule recordings of TV shows on their TiVo box from a special Yahoo portal.
This just in: Wall Street Journal Online (subscription required) is reporting that CBS and NBC, have agreed with Comcast and DirecTV, respectively, to allow their viewers to watch popular shows anytime they want. You should be able to read the full story in tomorrow’s paper.
Shows include “Survivor” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”. the price? 99 cents! What started with Tivo and was naturally extended with iPod, it appears that time shifting is here to stay.
NBC Nightly News is now online, starting this evening.
From their website: “For the first time in the history of NBC Nightly News, tonight’s airing of the broadcast will be the FIRST and not the LAST and ONLY airing of the evening. Beginning tonight at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, the NBC Nightly News Netcast will be available.”
The most amazing thing is, this is only audio, which suprised me. Update: it actually is a truncated video, but requires IE and Windows Media Player.
Regardless, iPod Video looks to have been the tipping point. The damn has burst; the wall has come down; describe it as you will. With accelerating adopting of packeted information, what changes are in store for media, both commercial AND personal in the next few years?
To share the momentum of Personal Media (Consumption AND Creation), I bring you this TechCrunch link from yesterday. It is a good starting thread comparing the Flickrs of Video. Make sure you read through the comments to find a dozen more sites that they failed to see on the first pass!
Just a day after seeing Jeff Jarvis talk about Recovery 2.0, a major earthquake hit South Asia. After the Tsunami and New Orleans, has the online community built the needed neworking and resources to respond effectively? Looks like there is still alot of work to do. Check out some thoughts from Global Voices Online.
update Recovery2 is pointing to South Asia Quake help to organize efforts. I’ve also resized the video of Jeff’s speech to a much more manageable size (less than 5 megs now). BTW, I am new to this media stuff, so if anyone is in the SF Bay Area that would like to give me a few tips, I would be deeply appreciative!
Google has a reader. Yahoo does podcasts.
I’ve got two new podcasts up from the Web 2.1 BrainJam that happened last Friday.
In Breakthrough Session #1 Stefan Klocek, Camilo Ramirez, Susan Tenby and I chat about Discovery and Serendipity. Breakthrough sessions were small groups of 5-8 people that shared ideas about the future of the web and how people fit into it. These sessions lasted 15-20 minutes and then we broke apart and reformed new groups to do it over again.
In Breakthrough Session #2 Our group included Cal Henderson, lead developer for Flickr. In this podcast, Cal discusses the origins of Ludicorp as a MMOG, and shares his view on the basic architecture required for Web 2.0.
Celebrity sighting:
Pete Townshend is using blogger to post his novella “The Boy Who Heard Music”.
Tags: web2.1BrainJam, podcast, flickr, mmog, townshend,
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With the new thinking of a distributed web ala web 2.0, a new collaborative feedback loop is possible in news.
iTalkNews is a democratic journalism project that I am involved with. They’re currently in beta-mode, and are planning an official launch soon.
Liz Lee just set up a vlog from a road trip iTalkNews.com did earlier this summer. Check it out.