Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...
Saturday, July 5, 2008
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Friday evening, my fellow Mashable writer Steven Hodson sat in on a sort of round-table podcast with Profy writer Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, Inquisitr's (and occasional Mashable contributor) Duncan Riley, and Cyndy's husband (sorry, didn't catch his name!). It's apparently destined to become a weekly thing, and another instance of members of the alleged "rat pack" spidering out into all parts of the blogosphere.
I like to think this trend all began with the 'rat pack' podcast "Elite Tech News," the weekly foray into tech as decided by the L33t Reddit Filter. The podcast is unofficially part of the Mashable family of podcasts (but in no way owned by Mashable, and is not a Mashable property - in fact, we really don't even think of it as a property). The management never explicitly sanctioned it, but somehow I got away with throwing it online into the site's mix (I think I asked someone at some point, but no one can remember who okayed it - not even me).
The idea for a podcast grew organically as the group came together, but as one of the people who suggested it (you knew it had to be me, right?), I can say that I was inspired by Leo Laporte's TWiT, and to a certain extent the Gillmor Gang.
I like that we're collectively into podcasting again. I can't speak to everyone else's download numbers, but download trends to L33t Tech have been both interesting, unique, and flattering. We've got a huge number of downloaders that grows in a steady pattern. What's most interesting about it is that they all showed up instantly - the minute the feed was created, we had this mountain of downloads. We haven't had many spikes, and no dramatic drops, since inception.
The numbers tell me that we're looking at an insidery group of folks interested in the thoughts of those in the various places where news often breaks. I'm sure that all the other folks running these round-tables are seeing (or will see) similar numbers.
What is of most joy to me is that the core of the movers and shakers in the blogosphere are getting back into the spirit of podcasting (after an extended period of bashing it for having no future). Its usefulness and business potential is being rediscovered.
I have some more thoughts on that, and I'll probably get into them at some point in a video post, but at the moment, sleep is overtaking me. So you'll have to wait with baited breath for that.
/rizzn
PS: Sunday night is L33t Tech Night. Don't forget to tune in. Look for the link in your Twitter feed.
Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...