Dembot: TubeMogul

Andrew Baron of Rocketboom on TubeMogul. In Brief, it is a service that uploads one file to multiple video sites (YouTube, Brightcove, Blip, Dailymotion, Revver, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace and Yahoo) within minutes. Nice.

Dembot: TubeMogul

Google Docs in Plain English

Part of "leveraging new-media for a rapid transition to sustainability" is the ability to "work smarter, not harder." This means cutting repetitive work. As we have been bringing our vision for EQ from the vision to the manifest, we have been collaborating on many documents. I'll save the details of our experience, as I think it is well represented in the following video. Now, as you get close to formatting the final product, the robust nature of local programs (like Keynote or Excel) are indespensible, but in the collaborative information gathering, synthesis, and wordsmithing phase, a collaborative document protocol like the one sketched in this video could be a more efficient and effective way of working together asynchronously (i.e. not at the same time).



YouTube - Google Docs in Plain English

NYTimes kills its paywall: "Google visitors make more dough than subscribers" - Boing Boing

"What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYTimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.

"What wasn't anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others," Ms. Schiller said."

NYTimes kills its paywall: "Google visitors make more dough than subscribers" - Boing Boing

Dembot: JoCo Live

Andrew Baron post about a new live-streaming show with chat functionality, ala The Mobius Live! on EQ.TV

Dembot: JoCo Live

Seth's Blog: NBC and missing the point about power

Over at Seth Godin's blog, another typically pithy post, this one about the NBC/Apple iTunes fall-out. (Another of my favorites is Nonimpactman Makes an Impact, aka "Zero (as in footprint) is the New Black".)

"For fifty years, NBC's major asset was that there were only three TV networks. That meant that all other things being equal, there was a 33% chance you'd tune in. They had a partial lock on attention. TV Guide was important, but it didn't have enough power to make or break a network.

Welcome to the new age, guys....

This is the major scramble of this generation... who gets permission to talk to the consumer, to represent the consumer, to determine what's hot and what's not. If all three of these players gain power, my guess is that content providers will provide content to all three. On the middleman's terms. If you're not listed, you're invisible."

Seth's Blog: NBC and missing the point about power


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Focus the Nation

I just blogged over @ http://thefutureshistory.blogspot.com about Focus The Nation. I'll save the commentary I included there (check it out if you like), but I did want to note FTN here @ the EQBlog for obvious reasons: leveraging the web for sustainability. Get involved!

Focus the Nation:

"Focus the Nation will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of national symposia held simultaneously at over a thousand campuses, places of worship, businesses, and other venues across the country. On that day, each Focus the Nation team will invite local, state and federal political leaders and candidates for office to come to campus and participate in a non-partisan, round-table discussion of global warming solutions. US Senators and members of congress, state representatives, mayors and city councilors, all will be receiving dozens of invitations to speak about global warming, from over a thousand institutions nation-wide. Every campus will also vote on their top five national priorities for global warming action, producing a campus-endorsed policy agenda for the 2008 elections. (click here for audio/video about Focus the Nation)"