Having a Googler speak at your conference is always a good thing. Having one that can map the stars and act with animals is Circus-with-the-Stars-style-rad. We were lucky enough to pick user experience designer Jon Wiley's brain recently and discuss his colorful work history, as well as Google's secret to success. Spoiler alert: Less is more, if more seems less. Keep reading if you're confused.
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Jim Louderback, Mediabistro Circus speaker and CEO of the awesome Internet Broadcast Network Revision 3, is a man after our own geeky hearts. Revision 3 features original online programming that celebrates the user-generated aristocracies surrounding stuff like Digg , comic books, the rocky road of internet celebrity, and pretty much everything else that causes geeky convulsions.
Revision 3 has made some big news the past couple of days. They just released their own branded video player with Miro, enabling delivery of Revision 3 shows to the desktop. And yesterday they signed a syndication deal with blip.tv, which will spread the Revision 3 goodness around the web faster than an Indiana Jones spoiler.
Mr. Louderback was kind enough to answer some questions about his business and how it fits into the future of broadcasting, as well what he enjoys watching on his four giant televisions.
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In 2005, Along with Lisa Stone and Jory DesJardins, Elisa Camahort Page founded BlogHer to create opportunities for women bloggers and provide content for women that is sorely lacking in other areas of media (yes, network television, I am talking to you). With more than 13,000 different blogs up and running, and the 3rd annual BlogHer conference around the corner, the female-driven site is less a sorority than it is a cultural phenomena. Elisa, who will be speaking at Mediabistro Circus, recently answered a few questions for us about, you guessed it - blogging.
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Some of us just got back from the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, TX. We got to do a little party-hopping with Jim Daly, who is a pal of our conference producer Kirsten, and a speaker at Mediabistro Circus. On top of that, he's got an awesome job at Edutopia working for the man who gave us Howard the Duck Star Wars. If that wasn't enough, he's a die hard Red Sox fan. We totally love that, and by "we" I mean the Massachusetts-raised author of this blog post.
We recently had a chance to talk to Jim about the world of digital publishing, and some other very important items revolving around galaxies far, far away, and championship baseball.
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Tech messiah and Mediabistro Circus speaker Robert Scoble can be a hard man to track down; He's only on about nineteen of the twenty blogs we read each day. However that didn't stop us from tracking him down (we sent him an email) for answers to questions that are as probing as our fifteen minutes of brainstorming allowed.
Do you have a tech hero?
Steve Wozniak. Co-founder of Apple. He was the last person to design a popular consumer-oriented computer completely himself.
What's your most treasured gadget?
My Macintosh. But having a good laptop is almost to be taken for granted nowadays. My Nokia N95 lets me do live video, so that's something that's become very special in my life.
Favorite blog (besides yours)?
TechCrunch. Of course, is that really a blog anymore since there's more than one person writing it?
Fast Company recently launched a snazzy, very community-oriented re-design using open source and Drupal. Did you have any involvement in that?
Nope, although it was one of the reasons I went to Fast Company instead of another media organization.
Should all online video be free, no questions asked?
I'd never tell other people how to run their businesses, but my video will always be free.
Will Scobleizer and Scobleshow continue to exist when Fast Company TV launches?
ScobleShow belongs to PodTech, so only existing videos will remain there. I will be updating Scobleizer.com, though, and doing a variety of other things like posting photos to Flickr.
Star Wars or Star Trek?
Star Wars. That movie was revolutionary when it came out (I saw it something like three times the first two weeks).
Are you a supporter of topless blogging?
Heheh, there are pictures on the Internet that proves that I am! :-)
UPDATE: FastCompany.TV launched on Monday.
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