Richard Budman

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  • Richard Budman  I think Flickr (read: Yahoo) is gettin' in the video game because it's still a game in infancy with potential billions on the table and lots left technology-wise to still potentially offer the audience (quality, mobile etc. etc.) Sure, YouTube is the big daddy now... and how's it's name has seeped into pop culture - will probably keep it that way for a long while (it certainly ain't the technology or quality that's keeping it there) But if there is one thing the net has shown us -- it's big entrenched daddies can still fall fast. So just maybe Yahoo is taking another shot at video, and I feel quite smartly through it's already established community of content creators - Flickr - because maybe there still is a vast video industry out there to still capture share of (?)
  • • 2 months ago
    •   One question on Flickr Video: Why?
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   Word of Mouth Mike  Sharing is about community and as h8ter says why shouldn't Flickr leverage it's huge community of people who clearly have an eye for the visual.
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  • Richard Budman  Mathew, If the paper's are whining that no one reads the paper version anymore, I can tell you why - $1.25 - I'm a guy that still enjoys sitting down with the "paper version" and a cup of joe (usually as a break away from the computer screen). But why do I remember paying 75 cents for my beloved Globe a litle over two years ago(?).. and recently being asked by my friendly corner grocery clerk for $1.25 for a weekday edition (I actually decided not to buy it) "Too much". I'll read it online I thought. If that's the strategy to keep the paper edition alive.. it probably is in real trouble.
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Newspapers dying — news thriving
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  We're just trying to squeeze a little more out of the dwindling number of paper readers, Richard :-)
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  • Richard Budman  Whether this behind-the-scenes Couric stuff is "ditzy" or "human" - it surely is fascinating and does add another layer to the polished program we end up seeing on CBS. I wonder if the bigger questions aren't... How is Shearer exactly getting this "leaked" footage? and maybe CBS might actually want this video getting out there so were talkin' about it? I find it more than a little coincidental this clip follows up on another "found" Couric clip of a few months ago when Katie was ripping on Dan Rather. (http://edeoplay.com/blog/?p=46) whatever the reason.. she's still the sexiest anchor of them all.. so the more video that's out there.. the better.
  • • 4 months ago
    •   Couric behind the scenes: good or bad?
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  Yeah, it occurred to me that maybe CBS was "accidentally" releasing this stuff for the express purpose of trying to get people to warm up to Katie.
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  • Richard Budman  Yes Mathew, it probably does say something that news of the Bhutto assassination first broke to you on twitter (I would have figured your all wired up to the Globe's newsroom... wouldn't they get a fast breaking story like this first?) But respectively, I think I am more enlightened when the news breaking on these new media sources like twitter and your blog are the stories that CNN or CBC isn't also breaking into 5 minutes later and covering for the rest of the day like the Bhutto story. The stuff we ordinarily wouldn't be hearing about from "old" media.
  • • 4 months ago
    •   Bhutto and the lure of easy solutions
    •   Mathew's comments
  •   mathewi  I agree, Richard -- and the only reason I didn't pick it up earlier from the Globe's newswires is that I wasn't in the newsroom :-) Technically, I'm still on vacation.
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