Media Hacking

So NBC has a text tag on their site linking to a “coming soon” page for their social network.

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Just caught a presentation from Doug Kaye (IT Conversations, Conversations Network) at Podcast Hotel about a new program he has announced called PodCorps.org. They are looking to create a community of stringers to capture, organize and share video and audio conversations (town hall meetings, club meetings, small conferences, speeches, interviews, etc.). They are working with: [...]

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Tools of the trade enourmouse # of technologies cant participate in all communities – have to pick and choose can try out all the clones for free or low cost Not an endorsement of any tech – best tool for him or her – might not work – hosted versus local tools out there – [...]

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Deb Schultz and Anil Dash Philosophy of evangelism what is community evangelism Key concepts Human tools and tech tools technical know-how case studies WHat can you do with a Book? (AD) concept that informs a lot of what he sees personally talk to young people – what can they do with a book – read [...]

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Awesome video telling/showing what Web2.0 is all about created by Anthropology Professior Michael Wesch. The video uses Web2.0 sites and technologies (like XML and RSS) to tell a short story using/embedded in the technologies that make it up. Thanks to Somwhat Frank for the pointer.

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Found thanks to the incredible Techmeme and Fortune.com, an article about Second Life opening up its desktop application (not the server) to the Open Source community. As a sometime resident (I dont visit nearly enough – my first life is keeping me away) this is a killer event for the developer community and the user. [...]

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Thanks to work, I missed the entire first and only season of Firefly. Since then I have seen the motion picture and checked out some of the fan stuff (always love it when people who are passionate about a story keep it alive) – but I could never get into the whole ‘browncoat’ thing. It [...]

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First the Gang ends, now it seems like Weblogs Inc founder and Netscape Czar J Calacanis is leaving AOL. When he sold his company to AOL (one of my former clients) I was psyched – someone who really got it was joining the largest online community out there. Now it seems that with the exit [...]

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From Nicholas Reville’s post from Sept 14, where he writes an essay that started as an email to BlipTV about why they need RSS: http://www.getdemocracy.com/articles/future_of_video.php Nicholas Reville Putting viewers at the center means giving everyone who wants to watch video a homebase where they can access videos from any hosting service or website. For miscellaneous [...]

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