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I would like to see some follow up on the WebMD story which I don't think has been covered enough by the media since the New New Thing book. WebMD seems to be prospering nowadays and is having quite an influence on the healthcare world. Their open access journal, MedGenMed with it's Video Editorials might interest you.
The list of candidates you have is loaded on the exec side of things. In some ways, the Channel 9 interviews were an in-depth Demo geek out.
I wonder what your audience will like better - execs vs geeks in the raw.
-Pablo
I think it started off fine and will get better. Sure, right now it mainly appeals to geeks, but so what? Non-geeks can go to break.com or whatever other lame entertainment they turn to.
I loved it. I'm sure the audience will build as you get more and more of your business contacts before the camera.
You're skills as the interviewer will only get better by doing the work. That's a given.
The video image was pristine and great... fixing that umbrella handle mid-show was great... it WAS bugging me.
More shows soon. Please do Winer and Arrington... they both love to give you a hard time but they'll really open up for you. It would be great video. Ask Winer about growing up... There's some great stories in his youth.
Dave? Who's he? Heheh. Hi Dave. Yes, I definitely will have him on.
Segments seem to work better when you are behind the camera rather than in front - leave it to you to guess why, oh all right they're less static and the people you are interviewing fill the frame more often; we know what you look like!. Widescreen is a big plus and I wonder if you're using H264 encoding as this might improve download times at the same subjective video quality. On segment times I'd prefer a max of about 15 minutes even if that means breaking up an interview into 2 parts - the shorter videos seemed to work better than the longer ones.
Good start - backers must be pleased.
What I would like to see? My obvious choices are Caterina Fake/Stewart Butterfield, Mena and Ben Trott, Tara Hunt, Jason Calcanis, Matt Mullenweg, Dave Winer & Jeff Jarvis. (Listed in no particular order)
How about some web designers like Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag? Blogher founders Elisa Camahort, Jory des Jardins and Lisa Stone? Community diva Nancy White and the wonderful Danah Boyd? The guy who started Zoomr (sorry, his name escapes me...)?
Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer, face to face. :)
DnW
Those are off the top of my head. There are more, I'm sure. How
5. Cheapest and quickest way to separate video and audio on PC is using Adobe Premiere Element roughly $100. You don't have to buy the Adobe Premiere Pro $850 to do this part.
6. You can use Adobe Premiere EL to convert Quicktime to WMF with a simple click. It even gives you options of saving videos in different quality and viewing screen size like Wireless Pocket PC, Mobile Phone, Smartphone.
8. There are softwares to clean the audio portion of video. I am not sure which one is best in market yet. Using one mic on video camera will get you a lot of background noises because your guest may be sitting too far from you with background noise and may be your guest speak too soft. You need 2nd wireless lapel mic to clip on guest's jacket or shirt and hide the mic. Use Adobe Premiere EL Audio Effect to switch the channel to get the better audio to go with video.
If you run into any technical issues, drop me a line.
I'll talk to Adobe to brainstorm a video production event. It seems like it is a demanding area. Any folks have video technical problems and issues you want to resolve, drop a line to thewebsig@gmail.com and tell us what you want to solve. We'll pass the list to our expert speakers.
For those who want to crack at the Wiki event, go to www.thewebsig.com. 10/25/05 Wed 6:30pm. Halloween theme - "THE MATRIX". No gun - sun glasses welcome.
Then start from that new list and add some more unknowns (of course the textbook snark people will be all, waaah who is this person and why should I care?'
I see what you meen about the site a very 1995 vibe ;-)
Wouldn't a forum be more appropriate for that? Wikis are not generally a place for discussion.
I spoke to them before about it when I interviewed Alex Laats (CEO). They take our content and convert it to indexed text for searching. In return for our content they should email us the transcripts of our shows.
Who to interview? How about Doug Englebart? He's some great stories to tell.
Andrew pointed out something profound (and simple): He wants customers to contact PFL. He isn't about pushing everything to web automation. Their phone number is right on the front page.
And, I like that they work with any file and take pride in getting it to work -- no matter what.
I think this vid is great because you found someone passionate about his business, and I doubt another producer would ever consider venturing outside the tech meccas.
Perhaps a sprinkling of these diamonds in the rough would give your channel the balance your competition will surely lack.
FMEA Failure Mode Effects Analysis."
Knowledge is what we learn from books, videos, etc.
Experience is knowledge about what we did wrong and right.
If you invite Murphy to the party, you will never be sorry.
Just ask the engineer that put the failure mode in the FMEA about launch temperature relative to o-ring failure if it is an important part of design and launch considerations.
Wow, how about an interview with Steve and Bill about what went wrong? Talk about cajones.
How about Paris Hilton in her Oktoberfest outfit talking about what she likes in geeks. Paris, we want your opinion on technology. Talk about marketing. Who thought that failed video would launch a career. Did anyone outside the circle know Paris before her naked conversations video? She might even get a kick out of doing an interview for someone with a book titled “Naked Conversations”. Somebody get Paris’ agent on the line. Paris Hilton talks with author of “Naked Conversations”. Count the number of hits. Why is the server smoking? LOL
Consideration of failure modes prevents crashes and catastrophic failure.
IMHO.
Offer MPEG format. Everyone can use that. Those proprietary formats you're listing will lock out lots of people.
The people actually doing the work... like that CH9 Robotics video. You interviewed the geeks doing the work, not the head of the Robotics Lab.
Maybe even some "common joe" folks. Give them a boost up in the world. Many times the "common" folk have some great ideas, but nobody to listen to them.
Just to determine what was his thinking process to develop the new ad platform would be worth the price of admission.
Nice work yesterday. Welcome to the club. I appreciate your list here; it's a nice self-improvement project. (I shot you an email about some aspects of this we should chat about working together on - I'm in SF week after next.)
At any rate, my pick would be Craig Newmark, hands down. All these guys are interesting, of course, but people like Chris A., Tim O. and Jason C. are out there already - and their opinions and ideas are very well known.
I know Craig was on 60 minutes a while ago, but his accomplishments are rarely reported on in any deep or meaningful manner --and I know I for one would love to hear his story first hand. Same goes for Vint Cerf, Kevin Wen, Christopher Sacca. They may not have the same celeb-draw, but their perspectives will inevitably shed light on the subject matter, and your content will be clearly differentiated from Business Week. That's your edge in the emerging vlog market: quality content.
Here's why: The value that independent videoblogs bring is in unearthing what the major media outlets are *not* covering, by featuring the authentic insider who may not be asked to speak publicly everyday, but who holds the real knowledge --the keys to success-- in one arena or another.
What was it that Walter Benjamin said about the real history being viewed by the unsuspecting witness in the corner - but recorded (often fictionally) by the victors? Lived experience, brought to life, from the hands-on experts who are leading the charge. That's who I hope is featured on the Scoble Show. Your brand has been built on transparency, integrity and authenticity. Follow that instinct.
Alexander Limi (Plone author -- currently at Google I think) -- http://plone.org/author/limi
Jim Fulton (Zope pioneer -- http://www.zope.com/about_us/management/james_f...)
Paul Allen (Microsoft founder and billionaire)
If you are doing stuff outside of computer technology:
Somebody from Sony, Canon, Nikon on digital cameras
Somebody from F1,Champ Car, Nascar on technology in racing
ie. William Martin-Gill and Richard Anderson; O’Reilly and Jonathan Carson.
Do not interview high-profile people to get more credibility for your show (and promote it based on their names), please interview regular folks to share part of your credibility with them.
It looks like your goals now shifted - you started to struggle for visitors traffic instead of content quality (nope - it don't mean flawed microphone - I mean that the heck this microphone record). Probably this is based on PodTech ads bussiness model and fact that you no longer recieve paycheck regardless on how many visitors Channel9 has.
You have provided a very long list of people you are willing to inteview - but what you gonna ask them ? Looks like you have picked them based on existance of blog. This mean your videos will simply duplicate content that they are able to put in plain-text in their RSS feed. Or you gonna simply promote how good and hot blogging is - to keep you away from thinking of UserLand bussiness failure and promote your blogging book.
I like Version 1.0 of the Scoble Show! I like the format as it is similar to C9 – just keep improving everything!
Although it is your show and you can do with it as you want, I'd like to see the following - just my humble opinions:
1) A Scoble Show wikki would work great. You could tell readers of your upcoming interview schedule and they could post questions that they'd like you to ask. You could then post back transcripts and answers to the wikki. This would build a lot of history and content for future viewers who come to the Scoble Show. Actually, incorporate the wikki format somehow into your main site.
2) Make available the video link to bloggers who can insert your video into their blog as we can do UTube and GVideo today. Insert yourself in the front and end of the video so the video is identified as your work. This is so bloggers can insert your great work directly into their blogs and comment about them to their readers.
Obviously in respects to this item I haven't done a great deal of thinking at length. I guess I'm thinking out loud.
3) Have you thought of actually uploading your content to Google Video or UTube? I know this is counter-intuitive to building a community around your web site, but there is something to be said for another avenue of distribution. Maybe, you place commercials on those videos and make money off them when those videos are distributed by that channel.
Kudos - your feed works perfectly through the Democracy Player!
Keep up the good work!
Herschel
I'd like for you to interview the current PBS columnist Robert X. Cringely. I'd like to know more about him, but I bet a dinner that he will not do the interview. He seems to be to smug from his writings.
Herschel
http://research.eyebeam.org/people/james-powderly
http://research.eyebeam.org/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=17#video
Or like Mikey Sklar, one of coolest geeks I know
http://www.hackaday.com/2006/08/24/mikey-sklar-...
How about the Zeeeeeeeee ?
In reality, Robert, the ScobleShow was a fantastic debut. I loved the photowalk with Thomas Hawk and I hope you do more of these, and I hope you can get them to expound more on the techniques they use both for shooting and for processing RAW files. As a budding photographer myself, I love seeing how the semi-pros do it, because I can learn from them, and I definitely learned something from the walkaround with Thomas.
One thing I would recommend (as I've got a degree in studio arts and sound technology) is to get a good compressor to run your microphones through, whether on video or in podcast format. It'll make all the difference in the world.
if Scoble *does* get those at the top to wander off script it would be extremely cool to watch, though!
for me seeing the sun CEO in such a casual setting and hearing him talk about the *why* of SUN was very interesting. the first hard question to mr schwartz hit the nail on the head.
if Scoble gets to ask the non-marketing questions.. the *why* questions and recieves answers that are not in the marketing lingo i can read on any corporate site.. then interviews with those high up the org chart are worth a lot.
Greetings from a fellow niner! Good show, Scoble!
Mechanical Turk
http://www.wetpaint.com
I just needed to get more microphones. A boom or shotgun mic will help in some situations.
Anyway, I don't recall ever saying the show "sucked," and it doesn't...it just isn't all that different than the usual from videobloggers all over the place. Given your standing in the blogging community, Robert, and presumably the resources you have at hand, I expected something a LITTLE slicker, in terms of edits and composition and the like.
Having said all that, I did watch the show, and I do like the interviews, and your guests are certainly people I'd like to hear from.
And I don't think I was all that mean...I just thought there was a lot of hype leading up to the launch of the show, given the end product.
But Revision3 is WAY more guilty of churning the hype machine....what with all the breathless "OMG TEH BR0KEN!!!!11!!!" posts over on Digg, when at the end of the day it's just a website delivering video content via RSS, like so many others.
I'm all for video over the net, and I'd be perfectly happy tossing my TV off the balcony and having my choice of independently created media at hand, delivered how and when I want it. Hell, I'm hoping one day to produce some myself. And the nature of video over the net ISN'T to be super fast cuts and meaningless sound bites like Entertainment Tonight....but given the proliferation of tools even at the most basic consumer level, it can be more than just static shots of some guy talking.
Now, I'm hardly any less guilty of taking the easy road and keeping it super simple...I have a little podcast I do with a friend about Dr. Who that we record in Gizmo, edit (quickly) in Garageband and throw out to the world every week. But then, I'm not working for PodTech, I'm just some dork putting together a hobby-bull session podcast when I have the time.
So don't take my comments as hellfire and vitriol, Robert, because they weren't meant to be. I'm glad you're expanding into video, and I will keep checking the show out. I was just a little underwhelmed by this first effort.
I hope to be in the valley in the next 6 weeks. I'll give you a shout on getting together.
Maybe you should interview Anousheh Ansari once she gets back to earth about her experience of blogging (and video-blogging) from space:
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/09/28/the-wave...
Chris
Our plan is to record our Web SIG meetings and show videos on our wetpaint wiki. Wiki mashup with video blog ability? What about vwiki?
If I get lucky to find free time, I'll create a trailer video on our wiki to demonstrate the video capability of a wiki :)
Any question about wiki?
Response to Comment by Randy Stewart — September 28, 2006 @ 11:42 am
"#3. As far as wiki’s go, WetPaint is the easiest by far and I think that you have mentioned them before. The only problem I see is that you can’t get a hosted domain, but their mix of both wiki and comments could be exactly what you are looking for.
http://www.wetpaint.com"
Ramana Rao, CTO Inxight, http://www.ramanarao.com/blog/
Philippe Kahn, CEO Full Power Technologies, http://www.fullpower.com
Paul Adriani, Nanosolar
Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
Dr. Cliff Nass, Stanford University
Dr. Mark Musen, Stanford University
Dr. Marc Davis, Yahoo! Research, UC Berkeley
Dr. Eric Brewer, Intel Research, UC Berkeley
Dr. Brad Delong, UC Berkeley, http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/
Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, Moveon.org
Jeff Skoll, Skoll Foundation
Pierre Omidya, Omidya Network, http://www.omidyar.net/home/
Paul Rice, TranFair USA
Audrey Rust, CEO Peninsula Open Space Trust
John Sexton, Photographer
Stephen Johnson, Photographer
David Hibbard, Photographer
Anyone presenting at the PARC Forum or BayCHI Monthly Meetings
ze frank
J Allard
Nathan Myhrvold (in his living room)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
http://www.ucla.edu/about/faculty/tao.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningengli...
Ze Frank
Danny Sullivan
Jason Calacanis
Some educational tech interviews would be nice. Sure Alan November, Tom Hoffman, Will Richardson etc. have been heard from everywhere in ed tech. How about some end users. You know... teachers who are trying to use this stuff or professional developers trying to teach them to use it.
Whomever it is, don;t forget the end users. They are the most important part of the equation.
Gene
--Ben
Hugh McLeod
Joblo of Joblo.com
Seth Godin
Tom Peters
Guy Kawasaki
Ask a Ninja
Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht
and...
hmm...
ME!
Why? Because I've just created a game where you get to play with my life over at http://www.andrehedetoft.com in the quest of turning me into the obvious geek movie director!
I live in Sweden though but we can totally do the interview over the internet and I'll point my Sony HD camera at me and edit up something nice?
What do you say Scoble?
André Hedetoft