Media

Click To Play It was great to catch up with my friend and former client Tony Perkins (co-founder of the Red Herring, which my firm represented in the go-go late nineties) in the hustle bustle of New York. Tony is usually found in the far quieter, bucolic climes of Woodside, California. He was in town […]

Click To Play Scott Heiferman says that the power of the web is not necessarily in podcasting, blogs, media or even publishing; the biggest impact of the web will be the opportunity to organize and mobilize online that the Internet provides.    Scott takes a long view: he says groups organizing online will be the […]

Click To Play I was invited to bring our camera up to the newsroom of the New York Times Digital to meet veteran Times man Len Apcar, editor in chief of the NYTimes.com. The Times is creating a lot of interesting video these days — including some which might be considered "off brand" — but […]

Click To Play I trekked to the very cool offices of Meetup in lower Manhattan to speak with co-founder and visionary CEO Scott Heiferman.  Scott and his team have built an extraordinary business using the tools of social networking to organize people into special interests groups which meet in person to pursue their passions. There […]

Click To Play Salon.com has been a pioneering online publisher for 10 years, which some might think makes it old enough to call it old media. I don’t think so, and its new vlog, Video Dog, is showing how established publishing companies can take advantage of community generated video. I caught up with Salon’s Kerry […]

Click To Play The age of individual “online brand” creation has arrived says Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, the networking, publishing and conference website. Interviewed in Times Square, Tony drew our attention to the fact that the days of big media consolidation are over: in the new media environment everyone is capable of creating their […]

Click To Play Visiting The New York Times website these days, we are finding lots of video prominently displayed.  Some look like network-produced TV segments, some simple commentary by staff reporters and others are unpolished, folksy pieces by emerging video stars including Seth Schiesel, David Carr and David Pogue.  Pogue’s home style approach to video […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with Larry Walsh, editor of VARBusiness, the influential tech trade publication.  We asked him if business people really have time to watch video. Moreover, is video an effective communications platform in the business-to-business world?   Larry gives us an emphatic yes.  In a previous post on Beet TV, Internet […]

Visionary publisher and Silicon Valley’s number one networker Tony Perkins was in Manhattan this week. Tony is always ahead of the next big thing: He founded Upside and Red Herring magazines, and the AlwaysOn Network, a fascinating publishing, networking and conference business. We caught up with him in TimesSquare yesterday. He’s been talking a lot […]

Click To Play We caught up with Shoba Purushothaman of The NewsMarket at the Arthur Page Society Conference last month. Shoba is a PR pro turned entrepreneur/video evangelist. Her company works with TV news professionals, providing broadcast-quality video over the Internet. Shoba took a break from the conference for senior corporate communication executives to talk […]

Click To Play While chatting with NYT.com Editor in Chief Len Apcar, we asked the man at the helm of one of the pioneering new media newspaper websites how journalists could make the transition from traditional media to the fast-pace, multi-dimensional world of new media. Len saysthat journalists must now be ‘mentally ambidextrous’ when it […]

Click To Play The Beet visited the newsroom of The New York Times Digital and had good chat with Len Apcar’s, editor in chief of The Times online. He says that the Gray Lady has embraced video as a way to add personality and dimension that can’t be capture in text or stills to stories. […]

Welcome to Beet.TV In April, The Economist coined it the "The Clip Culture" — the extraordinary explosion of online video and astounding numbers of community created video clips being uploaded to the Web.  Not only are "citizens" uploading video and sharing it through social networks, smart publishers are embracing video in creative ways to benefit […]

Click To Play The Beet was curious to know about the future of the Internet. A big part of its continued growth is how this whole global network will be administered. And that’s becoming quite a debate these days. So we went straight to the source and asked Esther Dyson. Esther Dyson has played a […]

Click To Play The Beet was wondering about the topsy-turvy world for advertisers — how they can make headway selling their stuff with all this decentralized media, social networking and all types of technology platforms like wireless.  Can they get the attention their clients want? We had chat with technology oracle Esther Dyson high atop […]

Click To Play Long an innovator in online publishing, Salon.com is becoming increasingly multimedia these days with its very new cool Video Dog vlog. We caught up with Salon’s Kerry “Top Dog” Lauerman, co-editor of the vlog, in his bustling office at the New York bureau. He tells The Beet that Salon’s posting of Stephen […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with Internet visionary Esther Dyson on the roof of her Manhattan office to talk about the exciting developments surrounding online video.  The balmy spring breeze didn’t warm Esther’s heart to the usefulness of online video for marketers trying to reach busy business people. Despite the buzz surrounding online […]

Click To Play Peter Hirshberg, Exec VP at Technorati, is back with The Beet to share that video blogging is becoming more and more sophisticated by the minute. Video bloggers are editing their content, incorporating cut-aways into their videos, and using vlogs as a platform for shorts and humorous video creation. But video blogs won’t […]

Click To Play Here’s more from the Beet’s chat with Jason Pontin in his Cambridge office, overlooking the Charles River and the Boston skyline beyond.  Jason was the longtime editor of Red Herring magazine before coming to Tech Review, and he has chronicled the rise of the Internet and the growth of community created content. […]

Click To Play The Beet caught up with the famed Xerox researcher, John Seely Brown at the Arthur Page Society Conference in New York City.  John was on hand at the annual spring conference of the prestigious society for senior public relations directors and corporate communications professionals to talk about how the wealth of external […]