“We started The Daily Reel to showcase the best in online video. TDR’s mission is to sift through the nipple-slipping lip-synchers, find the good stuff, and show you what yo
(Via Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins:
Steve Schultze, xPRXr (former PRX project director) now at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, has a good guest post on Henry Jenkin’s blog on “Broadband and the Public Interest“:
Since the Radio Act of 1927, our communications regulation has included language invoking the “public interest, convenience, and necessity.” The “public interest” is a notoriously but necessarily slippery phrase. Over time, the implementation of the concept has eroded into little more than lame public service announcements and FCC indecency fines. The groundswell of support for net neutrality represents a remarkably successful invocation of the public interest in policy debate. It is particularly interesting because it draws its power from a broad-based grassroots coalition that has successfully stood up to heavily backed lobbyists and astroturf campaigns from the major telecommunications companies.
Click to read the full piece on Jenkin’s blog.
As broadcasters struggle to rationalize the atomized digital distribution of their programming CBS says YouTube is also driving people to tune into their shows:
(Via TechCrunch.)
CBS Is Pretty Damned Excited About YouTube:
Just a little over a month after a partnership was announced that puts CBS content on YouTube legally, CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith is beside himself with praise for their new partner. In a press release today, YouTube says that CBS content has been viewed 29.2 million times since October 18, which is an average of 857,000 views per day. Here’s an example of a clip.
Smith says:
‘Above all the other good news, what’s most exciting here is the extent to which CBS is learning about its audience as never before,’ said Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. ‘YouTube users are clearly being entertained by the CBS programming they’re watching as evidenced by the sheer number of video views. Professional content seeds YouTube and allows an open dialogue between established media players and a new set of viewers. We believe this inflection point is the precursor to many exciting developments as we continue to build bridges rather than construct walls.’
The two companies are also linking the YouTube deal to an increase in television rating for many CBS shows as well:
Ratings for the network’s late night programs, in particular, have shown notable increases. CBS’s ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ has added 200,000 (+5%) new viewers while ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’ is up 100,000 viewers (+7%) since the YouTube postings started. Although the success of these shows on YouTube is not the sole cause of the rise in television ratings, both companies believe that YouTube has brought a significant new audience of viewers to each broadcast.
The stats are good (about 1% of total YouTube video views), and if CBS really feels that there is a connection between the deal and television ratings, then it is certainly bodes well for YouTube. Maybe we’ll see the Daily Show back up on YouTube sometime soon.
This is just kinda cool. I had to try it out on a video experiments page, which also now includes the beta NBBC player.
(Via Lost Remote.)
Blinkx unleashes the video wall:
A new feature on the video search site Blinkx allows bloggers to embed a nifty video wall of clips from a selected search term. The display is fed by RSS, so it updates automatically as new search results come in.
My video wall is based on the tag “public”.
Via tech.meme (a guilty daily habit):
The shady one-man corporation that’s destroying hip-hop. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Interesting piece about Bridgeport - an overzealous litigious copyright holder that chases down unsanctioned samples. I was at the Future of Music conference referenced in the piece where Rick Karr interviewed George Clinton about sampling and got to shake the great man’s hand.
There are less ugly ways of making money from copyrights. Last night I met several folks from the Copyright Clearance Center at the PaidContent mixer in Boston and evidently CCC (not to be confused with CC) has record revenue ($137.5M in 2005 from the annual report PDF) from helping over 10,000 publishers license their texts all over the place.
And what about all that text content flying around in RSS feeds and blog posts? CCC’s not handling that yet, but some new folks like Lisensa are trying to create a paid economy for open syndication.
(via Blue Mass. Group)
DEVAL L. PATRICK VICTORY REMARKS
(As prepared for delivery)
Hynes Auditorium
Boston, Massachusetts
November 7, 2006
Today, November 7, 2006, the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take back their government.
This was not a victory just for me. This was not a victory just for Democrats. This was a victory for hope.
And we won it the old-fashioned way – we earned it. Nearly two years ago, we started on this journey. By coming to you, where you live and work, by listening to you, by showing that we could disagree with each other without being disagreeable, by asking you to put your cynicism down, by refusing to build myself up by tearing anybody else down, by challenging you to see your stake in your neighbor’s dreams and struggles as well as your own, we built what history will record is the broadest and best-organized grassroots organization this Commonwealth has ever seen.
Look around, especially those of you who have never done this. Every kind of person is here. You come from every corner of the Commonwealth. You come from great wealth and no wealth. You walk and you use wheelchairs. You are Democrats and Independents and Republicans. You are liberal and moderate and conservative.
You see in common how broken our civic life and how fractured our communities have become. You see in common that the poor are in terrible shape and the middle class are one month away from being poor. You know that government by gimmick and sound bite isn’t working. You know we deserve better and we are better than that. And for a chance at a better and more hopeful future, you built bridges some of you never thought you could, across all kinds of differences — and then you crossed them.
You are business executives looking for a better margin and artists looking to be valued. You are college kids in search of a career and high school drop-outs looking for a way forward. You are young mothers trying to balance work and child care and grandmothers trying to hold on to the family home. You are farmers and fishing families wondering whether there is a future in livelihoods that built this Commonwealth and union members wondering why there is so little work when there is so much to do. And the magic is that you have come together not just for your own hopes and aspirations, but for each others’.
