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Re: Brainstorming

Ethanol — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:51:34 -0000

*wonders how cold it\'s going to get today*

Re: Brainstorming

range — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:02:00 -0000

Good ideas.

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Dorrian — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:25:53 -0000

My idea for you and John is the "Podtech Hot Seat", a short (video?) interview espn style. I am a fan of keeping whatever you do short, but issued every day (produce a week at one time). The idea of listening to people walk the Dish doesn't sound so great to me.

Re: Brainstorming

PodSlug (Erik Herz) — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:55:24 -0000

Wow ... supporting all of those video formats seems like an unreasonable burden. I do see content owners dealing with the "codec silos" problem (http://podslug.com/blog/?p=32) by encoding their content into each silos' format. I think that this limits market growth for online video in general, however, as it raises the bar of cost and complexity.

This is an opportunity for you to lead the way to bring more interoperability for online video by pushing one format that will reach your primary audience and by building consensus around a single video standard.

The success of audio podcasting is partially explained by its use of open and standard technologies (http, rss, mp3) ... video podcasting does not share these open and interoperable attributes.

This can change if the content owners vote with their feet and rally around interoperable standards.

I am interested in the feedback of others on this issue ... please comment here: http://podslug.com/blog/?p=33

Re: Brainstorming

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:37:40 -0000

Boy, do you sooo need to hire me...

“Don’t Tell Anyone Until Tuesday.” - wheee, Insider Baseball games, and Friends of Scoble. I can just see Time Warner making a bid. FOS Bar Camp Geek Podcast.

“The Dish” - Circular serious. Circle that circled circle. TWIT and IT Conversations redux. My toes are tickling.

“A Week Later” - Discussions about now old news, no one cares much for analysis shows, breaking news is all the rage. Analysis is a paid profession. Tech Week in Review, as just as deathly boring as Washington Week in Review.

But they are ALL the same...just name it the Weekly Tuesday Dish and you will grep all.

“Outside the Valley” - The name itself is wholesale CONDESCENDING -- like 'Outside the Beltway'. We will cover the REST of the country, all those moronic uninteresting peons that somehow have made a choice not to live here, and not be part of the action, like the entire state of Montana.

It's just geek rot, geeked up all over again.

Re: Brainstorming

Chuck — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:38:19 -0000

One more vote for "Outside the Valley" with "A Week Later" coming in at a close second.

My participation in the PodCast world has been limited at best. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can teach me about this industry and how best I can use it to simply make my life better.

Re: Brainstorming

Robert Scoble — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:23:23 -0000

PodSlug: The main distribution mechanisms are:

1) Web. Flash for that.
2) Windows. WMV for that.
3) iPod. MPG4 for that.
4) Mac. MPG4 for that.
5) Playstation Portable. MPG4 for that.
6) Cell phone users. WMV for Windows, MPG4 for others.

The real answer is you gotta do all the formats. That's what http://www.on10.net does.

Re: Brainstorming

PodSlug — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:13:52 -0000

Podtech uses MP3 audio which makes it very easy to have a clean Flash-based playback interface for the mp3 audio that is also used for the iTunes podcasts.

Do you plan to use Flash or Quicktime for video on the webpage? Or another?

I am eager to see what video codec choices you make and what platforms you are targeting with these.

Maybe we should vote here ... What formats/codecs should Podtech video be distributed with? Why?

Re: Brainstorming

Eddie Dickey — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:06:55 -0000

Hi Robert,
I vote for 'Outside The Valley' as well. It may be interesting to see how people are using new technology - outside the valley.

Re: Brainstorming

Dorai Thodla — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:18:02 -0000

Hi Robert,
How about an "Innovation Log". Focus on little innovations that make a difference. We all hear about "AJAX" and mashups. But I find simple ideas in every product.

Take "wikiness", for example. It just does not belong to a wiki alone. "The Ten Faces of Innovation" by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman has many of these innovations in various areas.

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S. Kroeker — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:07:54 -0000

"Computer history". Geeks tend to be focused on the here and future but the past is also rich. What if http://ftp.digital.com/pub/...
had been recorded and made available as a set of PodCasts? How much of the current DB environment can be traced from this focus? Or the story of WinFS, early browsers, transition from cmd line to GUI with the role of Lisa and the IBM-Microsoft partnership (where IBM got OS2 and MS did Windows NT 1.0)

Re: Brainstorming

S. Kroeker — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:53:22 -0000

"Ideas that failed". On one hand good ideas that havn't made it. Perhaps a bad implementation or marketing or the idea was only a pertial soultion. Or a bad idea that was over sold. The goal is to spark interest in something that could be but isn't.

Re: Brainstorming

Dave Chase — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:23:55 -0000

Outside the Valley struck a chord with me too but it also triggered an idea assuming your new company would like to appeal beyond the tech crowd. There could be a angle of what the Internet has enabled lifestyle-wise. When I first learned of the web in the early-mid 90's, the first thought was that I'd found the enabler to let me choose first where I wanted to live and then find a way to make a living from there. Though most of my life was spent in Silicon Valley and Seattle which were areas I enjoyed, the places I loved were in the mountains. The publisher of Forbes wrote a book (Life 2.0) on this phenomena. You see places like Bozeman creating highly successful companies as well as individuals working from a variety of places. These aren't people just in tech either. The time I used to spend in my car is now spent with my family, recreating, etc. One ironic facet of the tech industry is how we tout the benefits of compressing time/distances on the one hand yet on the other hand say you have to live in a tech hub to be a part of the action. Shouldn't blogs, IM, podcasts, etc. negate that need to some degree? It does for me.

Re: Brainstorming

Chris — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:41:34 -0000

"Outside the Valley" sounds great to me. You could easily have a show or two dedicated to the companies of Technology Triangle (the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge) in southern Ontario. Hey, I work for one of said companies [shameless plug] :) But please, don't make it all about Research In Motion ;)

Re: Brainstorming

Justin Hayward — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:57:48 -0000

I always wanted to do a programme called 'Round the Ashtray', as, before the Internet, this was where the social, word of mouth activity, including breaking news and hot gossip, was spread and, even though it was a dirty habit, people who didn't smoke always felt that the people who knew everything found out around the ashtray.

Obviously, now we live in a regulated environment, the Internet becomes the ashtray for those people still wanting to be in the know - especially in a working environment where surfing the web and reading blogs is still seen as a dirty habit!

Re: Brainstorming

Vasanth — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:25:34 -0000

+1 for “A Week Later.”

Many times I wanted to know what happened to these products after the hype dies down. I even considered opening a blog like that...

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james — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:30:44 -0000

You know what I like about rocketboom? It was a success by accident. They didn't over-think the show structure, they just got on there and pretended to report goofy shit. I think you've forgotten what having a vblog is all about. Being yourself, making mistakes, being spontaneous and having a structure without structure. Please don't waste peoples download time with predictability and gibberish. Shake shit up and be yourself about it. No need to reinvent the wheel with what people want to see. Good luck

Re: Brainstorming

Robert Scoble — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:31:11 -0000

Shel, I like that idea.

Outside the Valley has tapped a nerve! I'll work more on that.

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Paul B — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:38:50 -0000

I really like the "Outside the Valley" idea. For me, someone who lives in Australia, I feel somewhat removed from the whole Web 2.0 scene. It'd be great seeing some emerging companies from across Europe, Asia and Australia as well!

Re: Brainstorming

shel israel — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:32:17 -0000

I think you and I should interview one interesting person each week. We'd call the program Naked Conversations. What do you think?

Re: Brainstorming

Tom F — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:26:39 -0000

Robert,

Idea: a show called "Cover Your Assets." A podcast helping people protect themeselves from identity theft, fraud & scams. It won't be about scaring people (that's no fun). We could make it useful and maybe a little fun. A combination of useful tips, some topical news, and an interview with someone interesting in the space.

Do you think PodTech.net would want to produce it (is that what you folks do)? I know you could get loads of sponsors (i.e., security software/hardware companies).

If you're interested, my blog has all my contact info (I'm fully scobleized).

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Brainstorming

Paul Gladen — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:49:13 -0000

How about "Geek Eye for the Biz Guy" where Robert Scoble helps tech-wary business owners figure out how to make use of emerging technologies?

Some of the tech-businesses launching right now seem like solutions looking for a problem - so it would be good for you to go hunt down some business problems and then show how these technologies can help.

Re: Brainstorming

Adrian McEwen — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:41:08 -0000

I think "Outside the Valley" is the best idea - it'll stop you from falling back on an easy these-guys-are-just-round-the-corner approach. But I'm biased, I'm outside the Valley so would be able to star in it ;-)

Re: Brainstorming

Jack Krupansky — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:13:54 -0000

I just realized that I don't specifically know what people mean when they refer to Silicon Valley or "The Valley". Sure, I know the purist definition as exemplified by the authoritative Wikipedia, but that doesn't tell me what you mean by inside or outside "The Valley".

Would you consider "The Bay Area" as synonymous with your intention for the scope of "The Valley"? Specifically, would downtown San Francisco, Sausalito, Santa Cruz, or even Half Moon Bay be inside or outside "Silicon Valley"? And how about Sacramento?

One could consider "Silicon Valley" as anywhere within an "easy" commute of San Jose/Santa Clara/Mountain View/Stanford. What about Marin County or Santa Rosa?

Or, is "Outside Northern California" roughly synonymous with your intended meaning for "Outside the Valley"?

Any of this delineations can work, but the question is what your intention is.

-- Jack Krupansky

Re: Brainstorming

Chris Brogan... — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:50:26 -0000

Being that you've written a book with "conversations" in the title, you might be just assuming, but let's not. Conversations are truly the fruit of great podcasts. The reason Diggnation is so infectuous is that you (the listener/viewer) feel like the "third guy on the couch." That's POWERFUL.

At Podcast Academy 2, Tony Kahn of public radio fame and producer of WGBH Morning Stories showed how developing good, intimate-feeling conversations was an evergreen model for building audience.

When it's all said and done, we're just cavemen at the fire.

--Chris (come to Podcamp.org) Brogan...