Archive for February 2006
Stanislas Gallavardin
Monday, February 27, 2006
David Sifry 2
Friday, February 24, 2006
Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, the major search engine tracking blogs and the blogosphere at large, paints in this second video clip (first clip), his view of blogs in the emerging new media landscape.
Frieda Brioschi
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Frieda Brioschi is founder and President of Wikipedia Italia, the Italian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation popular and useful grassroots online encyclopedia created and maintained by volunteer web users. She has a degree in Computer Science and when not contributing as an unpaid volunteer to Wikipedia works as a professional IT consultant
In this video clip Frieda explains (in Italian) what blogs are, what are the key advantages they offer and whether she feels they are going to be competitive in the future with mainstream media.
While Frieda answers in Italian, a full text transcript translated in English follows right here:
Read more...Paul Gerhardt
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Paul Gerhardt is the Director for the BBC Creative Archive one of the most innovative media communication projects to take place in recent times.
The BBC Creative Archive, launched in 2004 and allows people to download clips of BBC factual programmes from bbc.co.uk for non-commercial use, keep them on their computers, and also edit, remix and share them, making the BBC's video content archive more accessible to its stakeholders.
I have had the pleasure to invite out for lunch Paul Gerhardt during his recent stop-over in Rome for the OECD international conference. During our fast walk to the restaurant, under the light roman rain, I learned quite a bit about the BBC Creative Archive and its overall strategy for giving back value to quality television content, which after having been aired, gets little or no opportunity to be re-seen, edited and re-used for personal uses or educational applications.
In this clip Paul Gerhardt provides his own answers to the key question of what blogs really are and what teir roles are within our media ecosystem.
Jenny Toomey
Monday, February 20, 2006
Jenny Toomey is the Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. I have had the pleasure of meeting Jenny two weeks ago during the Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access conference that took place here in Rome with the presence of many prestigious international guests.
Jenny connects the dots between blogs and the music industry and brings some valuable insight on how blogs and independent music artists can leverage these new communication tools for their own benefit.
Jonathan Taplin
Friday, February 17, 2006
Jonathan Taplin, Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.
Read more...David Sifry
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Dave Sifry is the CEO of Technorati, the major search engine for blog-based content.
I have had the pleasure of spending a whole day with Dave, driving with my motorino around the secret beauty spots of Rome while chatting and discussing about all of our passions. Dave Sifry, greatly enjoys taking photographs and so I drove him to some unique places where few tourists can arrive with their own legs.
Here, just in front of the Colosseum, I captured Dave's thoughts about blogs and about their relevance in today's media panorama.
His thoughts and vision are a must-listen to, as from his Technorati dash board he really he is on of the few having the true pulse of state of the blogosphere.
Read more...Eugenio La Teana
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
This is an interview I have recorded in Turin, last november, during the Top-IX-organized Web and Media conference. Eugenio La Teana is the director of Research and Development for RTL 102.5 one of the major and most followed Italian private radio stations.
Here below is the full text transcript translated in English.
Read more...Nancy White: Blogs palette
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Best of 2005 - Those who don't know 2
Monday, February 13, 2006
Here is one more mini-collection of footage we didn't think was very useful until we realized that by mixing all together, even those who don't know what blogs are, become an interesting and humorous scene to look at.
Read more...Robert Scoble 2
Friday, February 10, 2006
Second clip from Robert Scoble, Microsoft evangelist and full-time blogger. Robert's take on blogs his one of the best in terms of describing most succintly and comprehensively what a blog, as a tool, really is.
Watch Robert's previous clip for TheWeblogProject.
Find out more about Robert Scoble.
Read more...Loic Le Meur 4
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Loic Le Meur, chief marketing executive for SixApart Europe, the company who makes Movable Type, Typepad and Live Journal, by far some of the most popular blogging tools out there, explains why blogs are great tools for small and large community building
If you have missed his other three clips here they are for you:
Loic Le Meur - What is a blog? clip 1
Loic Le Meur - What is a blog? clip 2
Loic Le Meur - What is a blog? clip 3
A full text transcript of today's clip follows.
Read more...Russel Plunkett
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Francesco
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Francesco, who responds in Italian (see English text transcript here below), is, actually, a Roman citizen, who is highly skeptical of blogs. He sees them as a fad for the younger generations, and warns against trusting blogs content as a reliable or alternative news source... if newspapers can't be trusted... he says... imagine blogs!
Here below is the full text transcript translated in English.
Best of 2005 - Those who don't know
Monday, February 6, 2006
This video clip is a small montage of many of those interviewed who actually did not know what a blog is.
Enjoy.
Read more...Leonardo Chiariglione
Friday, February 3, 2006
Leonardo Chiariglione, by many considered the father of .mp3, is an Italian scientist who has spent his professional life trying to transform Digital Media from being a potentially useful resource to becoming a set of actual benefits to society and business through such initiatives as HDTV Workshop, MPEG, Image Communication, 64 kbit/s Workshop, DAVIC, FIPA, OPIMA and SDMI. Riding the Media Bits recounts Mr. Chiariglione experience built over more than 30 years in the field. Check out his Digital Media Project (DMP) which is his current international effort.
I have had the pleasure to meet Mr. Chiariglione at the recent Top-IX conference on broadband media, and was happy to find him available and open to answer my set rapid-fire questions on what blogs are. Here is what he had to say:
Read more...Riccardo Zanirato
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Riccardo Zanirato, is a young Italian financial businessman, caught on TheWeblogProject video camera. While the clip is all in Italian, it is hilarious to see our yuppie friend call up on his mobile phone a far away friend to get a "good" answer for the question "what is a blog?".
Here below is the full text transcript translated in English.
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