All of this talk about YouTube and its problems with illegal content made me wonder what creative folks could do with content provided legally by networks.

So, this is not exactly artestry, but it is a series of clips (none more than 10 seconds), some Garage Band samples and some special effects. DCMA take down? No way!

What’s there to say about CES—it’s exhausting, exhilarating, a pain in the ass and there’s a lot of waiting in lines. My feet hurt, but I saw the immediate future of the media-technology world. It’s a world going in opposite directions. We are looking to connect everything together and we’re looking as having the freedom to roam. We want portability but we want to have all our gadgets and gizmos connected to alow us to play anything, anytime, where.

This “clip” is long, but has lots of cool stuff inside. Enjoy.

More news from the world of consumer video.

In this installment, Allen and Mike discuss commerce and community, two essential forces driving the evolution of podcasting. 

We address these issues through the lens of Podshow, the well-funded venture headed by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom. 

Mike is somewhat circumspect during this discussion as some parts of the Podshow story are still under wraps. 

Maybe I am prejudiced as a former newspaper reporter, columnist and digital media exec, but I say you can never count the print guys out. Yeah, yeah.. I know I am cheerleading, but take a look at the new TV-video effort from The Virginian-Pilot (a Landmark Communications company). It’s cool and light years ahead of others in their sector. Keep in mind, though, Landmark was way ahead of the pack back in the early ‘90s in the world of newspaper voice and then Internet services. From an innovation standpoint, this effort then is no big surprise.

Word's out -- I mean even the WSJ had a story today -- that the latest version of iTunes, 5.0, is letting consumers post video podcasts that, in most cases, can be viewed from the little window in which iTunes typically displays the cover art of the CD/album containing whatever song is currently playing in iTunes. Modesty might prevent Allen from saying so, but I'm happy to point out that Allen and some other podcasters discovered  iTunes "secret videopodcast" capabilities in the previous version, 4.9, about a month ago. 

One can subscribe but you cannot view all the videocasts in the window within iTunes where album art or music videos display. This probably has something to do with the way the videopodcaster is creating their XML feeds. For those that don't launch within iTunes, for one can view them in Quicktime by calling them up from the iTunes folder. (I had to do this to view the videopodcast cited in the WSJ story.)

Given the frenzied rush by the media industry and technology companies to find some advantage in the burgeoning ecology of consumer-generated content, this move is another interesting play by Apple. Can Apple do for videopodcasts what they did for podcasts? How will they handle the inevitable posting of some copyrighted content?

Stay tuned...

 

 

 

I have mentioned before that my wife is a big fan of Ronn Owens on KGO (810 AM, San Francisco) . Today, one of his guests is an expert on teenaged behavior (yes, an oxymoron). She cannot listen live on her PC, so I am capturing it (don’t ask how) and will save it as an MP3 for her to listen to later.

 

Note to all radio stations: PLEASE OFFER PODCASTS. If Mike and I can do it, you can too! Your advertisers will like the extended shelf life of their ads.

As I mentioned in my Super Bowl ad review, the Go Daddy ad featured Nikki Capelli. I thought it was the same name as a character in the movie, 'My Blue Heaven." I was right. Wonder if it was intentional? Click below.