2007 was a formative year for internet-TV. In fact, I think 2007 was the year in which we witnessed the emergence of a truly a distinctive medium and art-form fueled by open distribution. Josh Cohen and I were continuously impressed with the staggeringly imaginative, moving and meaningful video content created just for the web.
As the [...]
Through a mysterious “formula” that takes into consideration “view counts, most shared, most discussed, top rated, and general popularity,” YouTube has released a list of its “Most Memorable Online Videos from 2007.”
Aside from the incredibly awesome, wild animal Battle at Kruger (which was facilitated by a Zapruderian stroke of happenstance) and Obama Girl (which one [...]
This past summer, the CBC – our neighbor to the north’s oldest broadcasting service – launched an online video contest dubbed Exposure, hosted by the illustrious Lara Doucette of Tiki Bar TV (Tilzy.TV page) and the new media Renaissance man with an affinity for Jeff Goldblum, Billy Reid.
Out of hundreds of entries vying the grand [...]
A new book, One City by Ethan Nichtern, sits on the stand beside my bed. Nichtern describes the global interdependence of humanity which he calls “the real internet.”
Each day, without much care or attention, I interact with, and rely on, people from across the world, past and present. From my “alarm clock made in the [...]
In a likely act of subterfuge to divert her subjects’ attention away from the expected, yet no less despairing loss of Borat and Ali G, Queen Elizabeth II took her Annual Christmas Day Broadcast to the phosphor screens of cyberspace by way of her newly christened YouTube channel.
During yesterday’s 50th anniversary of the royal message’s [...]
The winter solstice was three days ago. That means, while nestled up in a family friend’s chateau for the holidays in northern New Hampshire at a latitude of roughly 44N, I engage in any activities that require natural light before 4PM. Fifteen minutes later it’s pitch black. That leaves an excess of afternoon and evening [...]
The talk of capital chasing film and TV writers to the web is exciting. It signals an ever-increasing wave of talent gravitating towards the open medium (with minds to monetize it) where they’ll be free to license and distribute work in the most suitable ways for the content and its creators, and, in turn, an [...]
My latest distraction has been the 12th Annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The event was held a couple weeks ago at the Kodak theatre in LA, broadcast on CBS, and can be viewed on-demand through a CBS-branded site. Aside from a cheesy, “Eye of the Tiger” intro that network producers probably thought was hysterical, the [...]
