Ruminations on Web TV Shows
So there is a very good chance I’ll be in some web “TV” shows in the coming weeks and I thought this would be a good time to think about this in type and throw some questions out in to the ether of the web.
Though there is clear evidence that non-tech related shows can make it on the web (see: Wine Library TV and lots of others) I haven’t yet seen any evidence that anyone that is a non-techie is getting into said shows. I wonder what it would take to get my mother to watch a show on cooking, crafts or whatever on the web on a semi-regular basis. ( I asked your mother what she would like in a web show this mother this morning but her mouth was full, so she wasn’t much help. ) I found that my wife (still kinda weird to type) turned out to like Call For Help with Leo Laporte, but it was after me making her watch a few time that she grew to like it, which makes me wonder what it would take to get a bunch of non-techies to make a point to go on to a site and look for a new episode. …or does it matter? Clearly you can do quite well with just the power of techie page views (see: revision3.org) I’ve kind of been operating on the idea that if you get the geeks, their page views will buy you time to get the non-geeks. Maybe staying the course for the video side of things is the way to go as well.
Thoughts?
I’m Setting Up a Stream-Only Concert in my Office (Updated)
I’ve just spent the entire day setting up all the pieces for a live streamed concert by North Side Sweet Revenge and sponsored by iChannel.fm in Second Life and on UStream (for the regular people).
Update #0:
Concert over…but I’m going to have some pics and videos up within the next few days.
Damn I’m tired.
Update #1: Photos!
Update #2: Videos!
iChannel Streaming Concert: Phil isn’t a badass from Mike Flynn on Vimeo.
Our Elaborate Streaming Setup from Mike Flynn on Vimeo.
Overheard in the Office
Overheard in the Office is a great humor site. People report in the odd \ funny \ stupid things that they hear during the course of the day in the office. You get hourly gems like:
10AM Conference Call
In New England
Coworker #1: Is Florida’s time zone one or two hours behind us?
Coworker #2: I’m not sure. It’s pretty far south, so probably two.235 Promenade Street
Providence, Rhode Island
and
4PM Snack Break
In Midwest
Co-worker #1: Well do you want to eat these peeps or not?
Co-worker #2: Hell no… They are hella stale
Co-worker #1: Well. okay. I guess we’ll just have to set them on fire.50 Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio
I Know Where Dvorak Buys His Frames Online
Do you listen the This Week In Tech podcast? Of course you do. In this week’s episode there was a short discussion on what thing each of the pundits buys online. John C. Dvorak stated that he got a great deal on frames from some place he found online, but he couldn’t remember where. Well I know. He got them from the company I work for. I was digging around in the database yesterday morning when I heard him say that, so I ran a quick search, and there he was…
Dvorak got them from Frames By Mail.com, a site I just finished a complete redesign of. (Side Note: Of course we had server issues this morning when we were going to switch the whole site to my version so today was a rough day, thus not much in the way of riveting content. Sorry.)
I really try not to talk about work on there, but I just thought I would fill in the blanks…and promote some of my work. Isn’t it weird how everything just comes back to me like that?