Click To Play play_blip_movie_555095(); Earlier today I interviewed Cynthia Farrar, the CEO and producer of PurpleStates.TV Tomorrow, the first of nearly a dozen video segments produced by her new company and reported by non-professional citizen journalists, go up on the Op-Ed pages of the NYTimes.com The videos will be uploaded…
Tina Brown: CNN is “Softer and Softer”….and “Network News has Become Almost Irrelevant”
Click To Play play_blip_movie_552981(); Today I spoke with Tina Brown, the doyenne of the New York media world. Having served as longtime editor of Vanity Fair and New Yorker, she is now a best-selling author with the recently published book about Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles. There are reports that…
“Alive in Baghdad” Videographer Killled in Baghdad
Click To Play play_blip_movie_312908(); We were saddened to read about the death of Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, a 22-year-old reporter for the award-winning online video show "Alive in Baghdad." About a year ago I interviewed the Brian Conley founder and executive producer (above) who gave an overview on the show and…
Brightcove Hits 120 Million Unique Users Per Month
Click To Play play_blip_movie_296269(); Brightcove provides video services for 4000 commercial publishers, which in turn serves video clips to 120 million unique users per month. Having dropped its consumer facing portal and its business as an advertising network, the company is fully focused on its platform business. These are…
“Outsider” Blog Posts Are Saved on NYTimes.com via Blogrunner
Click To Play play_blip_movie_547372(); In the "battle" of technology news aggregators Techmeme vs. Blogrunner, little Techmeme has the juice: it is the "water cooler" of the blogosphere, wrote power blogger Michael Arrington last month when Blogrunner was integrated into the NYTimes.com Technology page. While Techmeme grows in influence, Blogrunner has…
The New York Times Has Deal for ‘Reality TV” Coverage of the Presidential Primaries
Click To Play play_blip_movie_545288(); The New York Times is expanding its online video offerings by creating syndication deals with independent content producers. Last month, it brought the Bloggingheads to the paper’s op-ed page. In the latest development, it has an agreement with Purple States TV for a series of about a…
The World’s Most Influential Video Blogger is Italy’s Beppe Grillo
Here at the purple channel, we’ve been covering video bloggers who are exploring and establishing the medium. But none have had the impact of the Italian video blogger Beppe Grillo. In today’s Technorati rankings of the most influential bloggers, determined by the number of other blogs that link in, he…
AOL “Gets Its MTV”…and CNBC Has a Home on Yahoo! Finance — Welcome to the New World of Syndication
Click To Play play_blip_movie_543380(); The world of online video syndication between major content creators and portals has shifted into high gear over the past two days. Yesterday, Yahoo! Finance announced that it would host hundreds of CNBC clips. Today, MTV Networks announced that it is syndicating a substantial amount of…
Video Revolution from W3C: Video Codec Must Be Free…..and Mozilla and Opera are (Nearly) Ready
Click To Play play_blip_movie_541205(); Just as software for putting still images on a web page is free, so should codecs for encoding and decoding video, said Philippe Le Hegaret, Architect Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) headed by Tim Berners-Lee. Video encoding, the essential process in which…
Breaking: YouTube Opens Advertising Program to the Masses–”Cash in on Your Creativity”
Click To Play play_blip_movie_489624(); YouTube, which has offered an advertising revenue sharing opportunity to about 100 "qualified" partners, meaning "established" content creators like Ford Models, Rocketboom and Beet.TV, is now offering advertising participation to vast range of content creators. Update: 2:00 PM EST: Ad revenue will split on a CPM…