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Thanks for the love, Chris! Btw, I'm trying out Tweetdeck based on your newsletter email this morning. ;) I love the group feature.

I often wonder whether many of the video shows out there even need video. In my view, many successful shows are really just audio podcasts that happen to have a camera rolling. This is not unlike the way some traditional radio programs roll a camera and broadcast on TV (e.g. Mike and Mike on ESPN).

I think we'll see online video go to the next level when more shows demonstrate a real understanding of the visual medium.

Great advice. Patience is second only to talent. Everything else can be acquired.

You so kick ass. Shows of the quality of The Guild help take this whole online video thing to the next level. Great interview, and a great person!

you suck at sucking.

;)

Pretty remarkable that you've been able to amass that much relevant, smart information in this blog in the past 12-24 months. I think we're all lucky to have a guy like you in this community.

LOL. here's to simpler times. :)

the site looks great, the video quality is awesome. bravo for launching with all the right tools in place. looking forward to seeing more!

The more we spend time in this whole sphere, and the more we interact with the people who have the money, the more it's clear that no one has a clear path to making money (and I mean money on the scale of millions of dollars) unless you team up with entrenched media. And even then, good luck trying to convince them of the value of truly interactive media. They are mostly looking for things that look like TV, and then if you have that, they want to own everything

The smart new media companies and VC's are not going to dole out millions to just anything anymore. Everyone is tightening their belts.

I think it goes back to the core concepts of creating any small business. Identify your audience; create reliable, quality content; be active in business social circles (conferences, etc); repeat as necessary.

And don't be afraid to change what you're doing. EPIC-FU was JETSET for over a year. We changed the name and the branding approach, and our views more than doubled since then.

The people we know who approach this stuff with calculated fearlessness (sounds weird, I know), are the ones making it happen. The people who hesitate for even just a moment seem to stagnate forever.

And btw, thanks for including us on your list, Chris! We pretty much hold our breath day to day looking for the best opportunities to grow our show and our tiny little production company. But the opportunities are definitely out there!

cool, thx! tee-hee ;)

thanks, man!

Robert: thanks, we really appreciate the support and encouragement. People in their 30's to well into their 50's watch and post comments on our shows, which tells us we're making content that's intelligent enough for a broad audience. Our reinvention was the result of having the luxury of being able to make mistakes. That's what's missing from the traditional model these days, imo.

We'll be looking forward to seeing what you announce in a couple of weeks.

Zadi and I always looked at our show as a combination of passion and definition. The passion was creating something fun and interesting to us. The definition implied identifying an audience that was underserved. In our opinion, 16-24's are underserved online by all the pranks, accidents, and clips from television shows out there. These people are intelligent, philosophical, and insightful. All you have to do to realize that is see the kinds of discussions they start on our community site at MIX.

So for example you approached the Scoble Show by saying that I'm going to document and interview all the players who are defining the Web 2.0 business movement, however that period of time may one day wind up being historically defined. Seemed like a lot of people were interested in that. :)

There are so many talented people who are working very hard, but still need to figure out what their show is really about. That's what this past year has been for us with EPIC-FU -- figuring out a way to talk about the show, and figuring out how each piece of content we cover advances us further toward that definition.

Once you have that going, you have to be ready to sustain it for a long enough time to let people find out about it. Around March of 2007 we were getting about 200,000 plays each month. Now we're in the millions, so figuring out that focus and identifying the best places to find the right audience were everything for us.

We are now in our 18th month of the show's existence, by the way. So it took a long time to get to this point. Now we have to work to sustain the audience, keep the show fresh, and really break through to that next level. It's all a grand experiment.

You guys should be proud of what you pulled off. Great party, great event, great people. A big success. :)

Belated congrats, Chris! Sounds like a good setup for you. One thing I know you'll bring is breaking that bubble that seems to surround us in the online media world. I really like how you always find ways to introduce me to new people and new ideas through your blog, because the echo chamber has become deafening lately. I expect that you will be able to bring all of this to CrossTechMedia, lucky for them!

ugh, how disgusting and sad and enraging. thank you for taking this video and putting it up so we can all get a firsthand account of what's going on with even the most lightly affected beaches in the bay area.

Change is always good. Like everything you do, I'm sure you took as much out of your experience with Pulver Media as anyone could. I'm sure Jeff will have a hard time filling your role.

I look forward to your energy and drive informing me of all new ideas and trends wherever you might dock your ship next.

I am not into burger paste, therefore I am not into White Castle.

How anyone can like the burgers there is beyond me.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have a White Castle vomiting, diarrhea, or other grossout story.

can we have an mp3 of this song??

Heh. As someone with a lot of experience with gray hair, I can tell you that contrary to popular belief, hair goes gray from the tip to the root.

So yup, that one follicle is fading out. Just outta gas. Happens to the best of us.

Thanks very much for the shoutout, David! Muchly appreciated!

Thanks for the kind words -- we're definitely watching what the big players do, and we've also spent some time researching the emergence of cable television in the 80's to look for similar patterns and opportunities. History tends to repeat...

Great blog post, as always...

Wow, what a comprehensive post! Thanks for the shout out, btw! Good choice making sure not to miss Sprinkles, although the lines there are sometimes 30-45 minutes long...

Follow-up to my own comment above -- we do this by keeping our work short and to the point, and always having some kind of call to action integrated into the video.

Always always always always leave them wanting more.