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Jason, I wish I were there with you this year! That was my first SXSW and it was a complete whirlwind. Wish I'd had reference like this back then.

AMEN! who did you talk to at Twitter to discontinue auto follow? i filled out a customer service ticket and no one has gotten to it yet. getting killed with creepy spam auto DM's

Loic I'm with you 100%! Just last week my mom fell and broke her hip. She was in the hospital and a lot of folks were sending me public and direct messages wishing my mom well. To then see a "free marketing gift" DM amidst all of the kind thoughts was just a complete turn off. Twitter still has value, but it's fast becoming the realm of multi level marketing.

No one would've predicted the death of traditional TV when shows were cancelled in the past. How is this any different? At CraftyNation.com we're producing niche market VIDEOS that we hope will encourage viewers to join our community. As we distribute the videos beyond our social network, we hope viewers will be inspired to join our community.

No one ever asked if traditional television was dead when a show got cancelled. Show cancellations are a simple fact of the medium. Audiences are fickle, the stock market is depressing, and people are expecting more from web TV than the typical chroma key host(ess) or street interview format.

Loic, sadly we will still be in Rome Thursday night and will not be getting in to Paris until Friday night. Hope we can connect while we're in Paris!

Your blog is as smart and inspiring as it has always been Now it just looks REALLY nice too!

Robert, What a BLAST meeting you Rocky, Shel and EVERYONE else at SXSW. Thanks for the shout out! As you can imagine, I've been spending my evenings adding new Twitter friends. ;-)

I've found that audio is sort of the weak link on the N95, so we've both learned to work the camera mic pretty close. Noisy environments obviously make that tougher. To me, the game changer of the Qik platform is that it lets the audience participate via chat. That is beyond evolutionary.

Oh and that little spy camera that Ivan Pope was talking about is called a minox.

NBC News (my current employer) is sending me to SXSW!! i'm with Dave Conrey.. Ze is HAWT!! Our network had a HUGE presence at CES, but i think this will be vastly cooler and smarter.

I'm passing this link on to my boss(es). Ze has a unique flair for distilling the atrrophy of my industry into something easily consumed. Am I missing somthing or can we not embed this video?

Nick, this is teriffic! The Washington DC area is really turning into an exciting city of opportunity for emerging social web companies. Make sure you post this in the DC Media Nexus Facebook group! I'm really looking forward to following the dialogue here.

Chris

You'll bring so much knowledge, vision, and passion to any organization looking to inspire and engage their audiences and customers. You make people think, and then act in truly amazing ways.

I hope that your next endeavor allows us to remain close!

Best,

Jim Long

like you say, it's good that you laid it all out like this. i'm faced with similar choices and none of them are easy!

Good luck in whatever choice you make. Whatever it is you'll be GREAT at it!

You're so right about this particular tool NOT being for everyone. I takes time, energy and effort, but it can be immesely useful in creating conversation and directing attention. So now I know when to find some @scobleizer quality time...Milan's feeding time!!

"Though he won’t automatically add you to his list (so that you can tweet him), I get the feeling he would if you ask nice enough"

Huh??????? never saw and add request from you! Just added you now though. ;-)

"Jim does, however, post a little too much as he tries to keep the conversation on a very personal level."

duly noted LOL

"The problem with this it that you need to be able to contact them through some other means, as it’s not possible through the Twitter interface)"

of course it's possible via the Twitter interface. On my "About" page you'll find a link to my blog which has my email contact right on the front page.

Glad we connected on Twitter!

I think sometimes we need to resist the urge to have the last word in these discussions. If a comment leaves you angry, think before you type. Great, timely post!

you guys looking for an emmy award winning cameraman with years network experience? ;-)

I have no real interest in video games, but was very interested in this show. Very nice storytelling and use of the medium.

I think you're spot on here (again) Chris. Seems like kind of a no- brainer. I guess old habits die hard.

Just by way of observation here, I saw this video a few weeks ago, and aside from the expected young hipster skew of this company, there appears to be not a single person of color working there.

Again, just an observation, but I find it weird.

Firstly, thanks for the shout out!! I really admire what JETSET is doing with community. I think community is a HUGE part of this as well. All of the points you raise in this post are critical. I think the ability to evolve and grow in a shifting landscape is also vital.

Great thoughts!

chris, you've been telling people to up their game on the video side for some time now. I think Pod-Tech's problems are emblematic of this "anyone can do video" mindset that has driven a lot of emerging media.

True, anyone can do video. That is truly energizing and, in fact, revolutionary. But, just because anyone can to video, doesn't mean they deserve an audience. Here's my comment on Arrington's blog.

"Mike Arrington, at the spring VON conference, at your session with Robert Scoble, you said doing video was “hard”. You were half right. It’s hard when you do it RIGHT. By “right”, I mean having a working knowledge of the language of film.

I’ve got to echo the comments of Mike Butcher here. Video is nice “icing on the cake”, and when syndicated, can drive people to your site. I never really quite understood then need to SEE a 20 minute talking head. I think you can use video to tell business stories in a human compelling way. To do that though you need to have an understanding of the “grammar” or narrative style of visual storytelling.

If PodTech hopes to capitalize on producing their own content, they need to reach out to people who combine a traditional media skill set with a passion for emerging media. I’m just sayin’."

Firstly, thanks for linking to my post! Deb Schultz' tagline on her blog says it best. "Technology changes, humans don't" We want to connect, we want to have a voice and have impact. Some tools allow us to do that better than others. Somtimes it's useful to connect to groups with common interests, other times it's good to get out of the echo chambers.

A Twitter friend @BlondeByDesign asked me to find her a soldier she could "take care of" on trip i recently made to Afghanistan. I met Sgt. Danny Allman in Kandahar and asked him to write down his email. Simple... done. I passed on the info. to @BlondeByDesign and she's whipped up a huge campaign to send Sgt. Allman and his comrades "care packages" The outpouring has been tremendous.

THAT, to me, is a real, measurable demonstration of the value of social networking. And Jonathan, Kandahar, I assure you is about as real world as it gets my friend!

Kfir, all three of your ideas are very cool. The one that jumps out of me is this:



"Join forces with 3 other video Bloggers and do a multi-location online event, covering one common topic"



I like that Blog.tv allows you to do this. Then you have the synergy of the different locations and all of their communities' chat questions.



Live just for the sake of live is something that gets old. Live tv with purpose, centered around an event of immediacy, driven by networked communities is the real magic.

I'm not sure if it's a Twitter vs. Pownce proposition. Maybe, both can serve different roles. For me, Twitter is where I have made real human connections. Pownce is highly functional, I just haven't fallen in love with it yet.

Chris, I'm declaring independence from my role as simply "cameraman" for NBC News. And I've been shouting from the mountain top, to anyone who'll listen, REINVENT YOURSELF. Pioneers (like you) of new media, video blogging and other forms of online storytelling have proven that they can go out there and DO it - produce content, inspire and aggregate audience, and in some cases leverage the viewership for ad revenue.

Just being a skilled craftsperson in the media field is fast becoming a commodity. So I say to old media people - build that social media, community building skill set. To new media pioneers, ease up on the pitchfork and torch, scorched earth screeds that at times dominate the new media discourse. Take a few notes from old media dogs like me. ;-)

These type of collaborations will produce promising value propositions for content consumers and the marketers trying to reach them.

Derrick, a good visual storyteller can "paint" that regular cow purple. ;-)