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The great humorist Art Buchwald has died and he has announced his demise on a video clip/obituary just published on The New York Times.  "Hi I’m Art Buchwald and I just died," — he declared on the segment.  It’s the first segment of "The Last Word, the new series of online video obituaries published by […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Esther Dyson, one of the most insightful observers of technology, has just started to blog for the Huffington Post.    More than just an observer, she has had a profound effect on the evolution of the Internet as a past chairman of ICANN, the organization that […]

Earlier today, U.S. Senator Barack Obama announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a run for the White House with a three-minute video clip that can be shared by embed or e-mail.  (Here it is, above.) He might be exploring, but he’s put in place an innovative online video strategy with Brightcove, the fast-growing […]

  Mainstream media has no choice but to reinvent itself.  The New York Times is undertaking some very un-Times-like enterprises with spunky videoblogs by the likes of David Pogue and media critic David Carr.  The Washington Post is doing some innovative work with online video as is ZDNet. Carr is the author of the Carpetbagger, […]

The New York Times has been publishing an increasing number of video clips in the past year. The videos have included reporter commentary, TV news-style highly-edited pieces and spunky videoblog pieces by tech columnist David Pogue, media critic David Carr and others. We understand that the Times has been successful in selling high-priced video advertising […]

Here’s an exclusive interview from by Robert Scoble with his old boss Bill Gates.  The interview was taped yesterday in Las Vegas at CES.  As you may know, Robert has been publishing the Scoble Show on Podtech.  Recently, he has begun to add a Flash player, which is a great addition to the show. I […]

It is inevitable that the quality of Internet video is going to improve dramatically in the months ahead.  It’s also clear that more quality Net video will be viewable on television screens — including those that display in HDTV. Better video file compression software, better video players, faster connectivity and other factors will play a […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Internet video is moving to the big screen TV set. It’s going to happen in a big way this year. Certainly there is a great deal of anticipation of what Apple is about to do with its iTV. And, Tivo has been moving in this direction. […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Here’s my second interview with Anil Dash, evangelist for Six Apart, the biggest blog software company. Anil explains something basic and essential: successful blogging brings high search recognition on Google, referred to by some as "Google Juice." Having content that can be found by Google is […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Jon Fine, the highly influential media and advertising columnist for BusinessWeek dropped by the Beet.TV studios earlier this week to share his thoughts on the vast changes in the economics of content development. Jon is a rock musician.  He reflects on the change of costs for […]

Click To Play There is so much video out there but it’s hard find which is useful. Companies from the large video sharing sites to new search start-ups are making video easier to find. It’s a critical area for development for our industry. Veotag has developed a technology to index videos, meaning a tool to […]

Click To Play Earlier this month, I sat down with Anil Dash, the chief evangelist for Six Apart, the world’s biggest blog software company.  They develop and run TypePad (Beet’s platform), Movable Type, Vox and LiveJournal. Anil is one of the top thought leaders in the field.  He explains the simplicity and value of posting […]

In my vlogging, I like to introduce my visitors to industry leaders by providing the passions and vision of the interviewee.  It’s not easy to make good business video, but I believe that business people are "talkers" — leaders and sales persons.  They know how to emote and this can be caught on camera.  Business […]

Here’s our second installment of my interview with Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson in his office in San Francisco. Chris’s "Long Tail" is the number one business book of the year on Amazon. Chris frames the imperative of individuals blogging and vlogging and says it’s not necessarily about money at this stage, but much […]

Click To Play How cool is this? A new marketing site for Haagen-Dazs ice cream has a promotion going on, inviting  ice cream lovers with video cams to upload their own ice cream recipes to the page. The New York Times regional paper in South Carolina, the Spartanburg Herald Journal, is asking readers to upload […]

Click To Play Jane Goldman is a pioneering editor whom many of us remember from the Industry Standard where she was Editor, working for Jonathan Weber and John Battelle. Two years ago, Jane launched Chow magazine — an edgy, new kind of food magazine.  Here’s a story about the launch from Newsweek. After the publication’s […]

Click To Play Stumbleupon is a powerful community tool to organize preferences of Web sites around personal and group interests.  (I am pleased to say that a lot of folks stumbleupon Beet.TV, which I know from reviewing my traffic logs — and that’s great!) It’s been growing and now there are some 1.6 million registered […]

We are huge fans of Rocketboom, the pioneering video blog that has continued to be innovative after more than 500 shows.  We think Joanne Colan is a witty and charming host.  Yesterday, we visited the studio to watch the taping of today’s show. We had some fun watching Joanne’s give and take with producer Ian […]

Click To Play According Martin Green, head of CNET’s WebShots site, about 20 percent of users of digital cameras are aware or have used the video function on their digital cameras. He says more and more are figuring this out and sees it as a big trend. CNET’s Webshots has responded by incorporating video upload […]

Click To Play You might have noticed the cool banner ads on the site for Blinkx and The NewsMarket. They went up today. These are our first sponsorships. Beet.TV has been gaining a lot of currency lately and it’s very exciting. We’re publishing daily and have built an archive of over 200 posts. The vlog […]