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Some people might call it destiny or pre-destiny or karma... but I call it syncronicity... or is it the singularity. :) The point is there's a certain sort of inevitability... like a chain reaction when a liquid meats critical mass. When youg get a whole munch of molecules moving really fast and they're REALLY well connecteded things just start to happen. Some people jokingly say great people thing alike It doesn't really matter who was the first to think of it just so long as it happens. For example the aha moment for mee in this space was when I left comments regarding an idea I had for a piece of software that aggregated video via RSS on Chuck Olsen's blog. I'd been discussing it with my closed circle of friends for months before I left that comment. Two weeks later Fireant came out and it was exactly what I'd described. Certainly some other key members of fireant were also participating in that discussion, but was fireant the result of my comment outlining how the software would work? Absolutely not, would be silly to think it. It takes more than two weeks to develop a piece of software most obviously... they'd already been working on it. Come to find out Josh Kinberg had been working on a protype he called vipodder for as many as six months prior. About that same time Kenyatta created an HTMl mockup that would inspire Peter Van DIjck to create mefeedia. It's simply a sort of synchronicity. In cyberspace we wear our ideas on our sleave... our IDEAS not our faces are our face in cyberspace. Nooone knows this better then bloggers. Threfore it is inevitable in this primordial stew of ideas that like ideas... or people with like ideas like molecules will bump into oneanother. In other words it matters not wether LisaNova found her way to MadTV do to your offhand comment ... heh, maybe it caused them to take a second look at her... or wether it had no effect whatsoever and your brilliant sub-conscious powers of perception percieved some connection between what LisaNova was doing on Youtube and what MadTV does. Indeed there is some cross-polenation there right? Some parrellel asthetic or theme. Anyway, it's always, always, always a beautifull thing. I will always think of it as inevitability myself. If something was meant to happen it will happen in this space. The grownd is too fertile for ideas not to grow into tangible realities, the people and ideas to well connected... the molecules moving to fast bouncing of one another like pinballs until they finally start sticking to oneanother ... and don't get me started on the amount of mixed metaphors... one of them has to make sense. :) I truely believe what it all comes down to is a critical mass of what's called social capital. Social capital the foundation of the social economy. It is trust, visibility, connectivity, mobility, shared history and so many other things. If you look at the old chart Maslow's Hierarchy of needs social capital comes right after the basic necessities. Food, Shelter, Water, Cothing... security... then comes the social needs... it is only on top of these social needs that the everyday economics we call the free market system can function. It's can be as simple as a friend asking you heh, I need to get the oil changed on my car you know anyone?... that they know you and you might now a mechanic... and that you're connected enough via IM or phone... or mobile enough to ask the question in person... the whole 6 degrees of seperation thing... the connectivity... means that you can likely refer them to a good mechanic and they know you well enough they can trust that this mechanic is a good one. This is pretty much exactly the sort of thing with you Harold and LisaNova. It's not unfathomable that a person would get multiple referrals to the same company, or mechanic or whatever. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/19/07, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Not even 1% B) I would have IF I HAD ONE! :D Since posting this info. to this group, I've since discovered that LisaNova (real name Lisa Donovan) previously auditioned for MadTV, but was rejected until recently. Still don't know if my reminder had any influence at all on her hiring, but you know what they say about the butterfly's movements...you know, the Butterfly Effect? Maybe my little wingflapping was just the extra nudge the cast of MadTV needed to hear in order to make a decision... Seriously, I'm not in the belief that my part in this truly made any difference. Still, you never know who's discussing you, and who they're discussing you with... Harold On 2/17/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on
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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser I've been meaning to bug Andy Carvin about this as he's working with NPR on their new media strategy... or as I like to put it... on finding new ways to interact with the people formerly known as the audience. Hopefully Andy's listening now. You rang? :-) Here's a little example... My friend got be hooked on Cartalk which is always on on Saturday and Sunday mornings on NPR... I don't know why... it doesn't matter why... and I haven't owned a car for over 10 years... the point is Cartalk hs a very NICHE market... it's to guys with thick boston accents talking about car problem solving for an hour a week. That's one hour a week, and you have to catch it on a radio at 10am on Saturday or Sunday. It occurs to me... weekly ritual aside... that not only would I MUCH rather enjoy CarTalk via podcast ANYTIME I liked but that they would have an inifinitely greater opportunity to reach this tiny niche market segment of listeners if they made themselves accessible via podcast on the web. Not only would their listners be able to listen to them anytime and anywhere... but they'd be more accessible... more available to a whole world audience... like say an American Expat in Tokyo... or China, Africa or anywhere in the world. They could reach this tiny sliver of audience anywhere that audience is around the globe. Of all the possible things I'm thinking of doing at NPR, that particular request might just be the hardest to pull off. Not because it's technically difficult - it isn't - but because of a larger resistance within the entire public radio system to podcast full programs. Why? Because that would undermine the individual radio stations that rely on shows like Car Talk to create an audience for themselves. And NPR is a membership org of stations, with stations represented on our board. So you can say Long Tail til your pass out from exhaustion, but it's not going to change these cultural and political challenges within pubradio overnight. This was a major topic at the social media gathering I hosted this week, because many of them, being outside the pubradio system, see podcasting all of our intact shows as a no-brainer, whereas within public radio it's generally a taboo. Thing are slowly changing - take Fresh Air, for example, which now has its own podcast. But these things take a lot of negotiating, particularly when a show like CarTalk isn't produced by NPR - we merely distribute it. So as I help roll out social media projects in the coming months, I wouldn't hold your breath for a Car Talk podcast. Community features on our website? I certainly hope so. But the podcast battle is one that's above my pay grade -andy
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Has it occured to anyone else that this seems like just another attempt by the LisaNova machine to get more exposure by using the big profile bloggers in this group? I am not a conspiracy person at all but why are we talking about this YouTuber? Like most people who have seen her, i went to her page just to see what all the hype was about and there is NOTHING there! I just find it odd that all of a sudden there is a bunch of posts about her here? There are people on the net doing real work and I can tell that LisaNova is another pre-made wet dream for freaky old men and addolecent boys and nothing more. I'll take Ask A Ninja anytine over this boring tripe! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people might call it destiny or pre-destiny or karma... but I call it syncronicity... or is it the singularity. :) The point is there's a certain sort of inevitability... like a chain reaction when a liquid meats critical mass. When youg get a whole munch of molecules moving really fast and they're REALLY well connecteded things just start to happen. Some people jokingly say great people thing alike It doesn't really matter who was the first to think of it just so long as it happens. For example the aha moment for mee in this space was when I left comments regarding an idea I had for a piece of software that aggregated video via RSS on Chuck Olsen's blog. I'd been discussing it with my closed circle of friends for months before I left that comment. Two weeks later Fireant came out and it was exactly what I'd described. Certainly some other key members of fireant were also participating in that discussion, but was fireant the result of my comment outlining how the software would work? Absolutely not, would be silly to think it. It takes more than two weeks to develop a piece of software most obviously... they'd already been working on it. Come to find out Josh Kinberg had been working on a protype he called vipodder for as many as six months prior. About that same time Kenyatta created an HTMl mockup that would inspire Peter Van DIjck to create mefeedia. It's simply a sort of synchronicity. In cyberspace we wear our ideas on our sleave... our IDEAS not our faces are our face in cyberspace. Nooone knows this better then bloggers. Threfore it is inevitable in this primordial stew of ideas that like ideas... or people with like ideas like molecules will bump into oneanother. In other words it matters not wether LisaNova found her way to MadTV do to your offhand comment ... heh, maybe it caused them to take a second look at her... or wether it had no effect whatsoever and your brilliant sub-conscious powers of perception percieved some connection between what LisaNova was doing on Youtube and what MadTV does. Indeed there is some cross-polenation there right? Some parrellel asthetic or theme. Anyway, it's always, always, always a beautifull thing. I will always think of it as inevitability myself. If something was meant to happen it will happen in this space. The grownd is too fertile for ideas not to grow into tangible realities, the people and ideas to well connected... the molecules moving to fast bouncing of one another like pinballs until they finally start sticking to oneanother ... and don't get me started on the amount of mixed metaphors... one of them has to make sense. :) I truely believe what it all comes down to is a critical mass of what's called social capital. Social capital the foundation of the social economy. It is trust, visibility, connectivity, mobility, shared history and so many other things. If you look at the old chart Maslow's Hierarchy of needs social capital comes right after the basic necessities. Food, Shelter, Water, Cothing... security... then comes the social needs... it is only on top of these social needs that the everyday economics we call the free market system can function. It's can be as simple as a friend asking you heh, I need to get the oil changed on my car you know anyone?... that they know you and you might now a mechanic... and that you're connected enough via IM or phone... or mobile enough to ask the question in person... the whole 6 degrees of seperation thing... the connectivity... means that you can likely refer them to a good mechanic and they know you well enough they can trust that this mechanic is a good one. This is pretty much exactly the sort of thing with you Harold and LisaNova. It's not unfathomable that a person would get multiple referrals to the same company, or mechanic or whatever. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/19/07, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Not even 1% B) I would have IF I HAD ONE! :D Since posting this info. to this group, I've since discovered that LisaNova (real name Lisa Donovan) previously auditioned for MadTV, but was
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I don't know if there is some conspiracy afoot, but personally, I've only heard of her in articles. I've never seen her stuff. I have always believed that there is a nationwide conspiracy to Bring Love Back To The Children, though, which I believe started with Jim Henson and almost died with Soupy Sales. Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 2/19/07, Darren Winkler Darren Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has it occured to anyone else that this seems like just another attempt by the LisaNova machine to get more exposure by using the big profile bloggers in this group? I am not a conspiracy person at all but why are we talking about this YouTuber? Like most people who have seen her, i went to her page just to see what all the hype was about and there is NOTHING there! I just find it odd that all of a sudden there is a bunch of posts about her here? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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LisaNova tried out for MadTV some time ago and didn't get the nod. She has a bunch of subscribers on her YouTube channel, went back to MadTV and they hired her.Congrats to her, but other than that, this isn't a huge story. Not to sound like a hater, but this might be a bigger story if it was say...SNL who hired someone from YouTube (which may happen, you never know). Bottom line is talent is talent. A little bit of cross-over news for MadTV (in the YT world) doesn't hurt either. _drew www.scriggity.com www.bestdamntech.com www.pluggd.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if there is some conspiracy afoot, but personally, I've only heard of her in articles. I've never seen her stuff. I have always believed that there is a nationwide conspiracy to Bring Love Back To The Children, though, which I believe started with Jim Henson and almost died with Soupy Sales. Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com On 2/19/07, Darren Winkler Darren Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has it occured to anyone else that this seems like just another attempt by the LisaNova machine to get more exposure by using the big profile bloggers in this group? I am not a conspiracy person at all but why are we talking about this YouTuber? Like most people who have seen her, i went to her page just to see what all the hype was about and there is NOTHING there! I just find it odd that all of a sudden there is a bunch of posts about her here? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Here's the video... she neglected to mention you by name. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWIY_C7XUw --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson harold.johnson@ wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast on Mad TV. Coincidence? Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Very cool. Is anyone keeping track of vloggers and podcasters crossing over to broadcast radio or TV? I'm going to start a before they were famous or cross-overs guide on mefeedia. So far I just have Brookers, and LisaNova but I'm trying to think of any others. Dawn and Drew? Madge Winestien? I'd like to put Ask A Ninja on that list one day. Aha, the Lonely Island Guys who are now on Saturday Night Live. Anyone else? Oh, and Amanda Cogdon What about reverse-crossover? Maybe we can come up with a list of mainstream personalities that have now crossed over into podcasting. I know NPR has a bunch. The most recent one that comes to mind are the Cartalk guys, and there's the Jim Lehrer podcast, but I need something more substantial then just NPR personalities much as i love them Oh! Heh! The digg guys! I forgot about them. Leo Laporte too... Maybe Adam Curry. He's a true hybrid. A lot of people from G4/TechTV jumped ship and landed in this new media world. Timing as they say is everything. I guess the question is... Who are your favorite videoblogging celebrities? -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/18/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the video... she neglected to mention you by name. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWIY_C7XUw --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson harold.johnson@ wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast on Mad TV. Coincidence? Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
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Im not keeping track deliberately but off the top of my head: KarmaBanque got a deal with Al Jazeera English to make some videos for broadcast on TV. Clive James who is an Australian famous in Britain for many years in the mainstream media, now does stuff online, though I dont know if his videos would meet the definition of videoblogging. Years ago a famous UK TV presenter called Keith Chegwin, fairly down on his luck, broadcast himself live via streaming net video for many hours every day. I believe he was infamously naked once. A famous UK soap star had to leave the program after it was revealed that he had been exposing himself on a web cam he had in his dressing room, maybe that doesnt count :D Here in the UK im finding it pretty hard to tell if there are really many web celebrities here. If I go to the uk itunes podcast directory then its dominated by BBC other mainstream media people. Im probably forgetting some really obvious example but no UK web celeb is springing to mind right now. In the UK the web has been used to launch some very sucessful (so far) musical careers, but I cant think what 'personalities' its brought into our mainstream yet. Fameseekers here are currently stil more likely to try their luck in Big Brother auditions! Our famous homegrown youtuber is that great really old bloke, he has got some media attention but didnt even allow interviews until recently, he was the only person who'd ever filmed himself, so he isnt a crossover so far. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool. Is anyone keeping track of vloggers and podcasters crossing over to broadcast radio or TV? I'm going to start a before they were famous or cross-overs guide on mefeedia. So far I just have Brookers, and LisaNova but I'm trying to think of any others. Dawn and Drew? Madge Winestien? I'd like to put Ask A Ninja on that list one day. Aha, the Lonely Island Guys who are now on Saturday Night Live. Anyone else? Oh, and Amanda Cogdon What about reverse-crossover? Maybe we can come up with a list of mainstream personalities that have now crossed over into podcasting. I know NPR has a bunch. The most recent one that comes to mind are the Cartalk guys, and there's the Jim Lehrer podcast, but I need something more substantial then just NPR personalities much as i love them Oh! Heh! The digg guys! I forgot about them. Leo Laporte too... Maybe Adam Curry. He's a true hybrid. A lot of people from G4/TechTV jumped ship and landed in this new media world. Timing as they say is everything. I guess the question is... Who are your favorite videoblogging celebrities? -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/18/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the video... she neglected to mention you by name. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWIY_C7XUw --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson harold.johnson@ wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast on Mad TV. Coincidence? Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
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And, at least from an international point of view, Im perhaps more interested in those who 'make it' and dont cross-over. If Ask a Ninja signed some TV deal, what good is that to me in the UK? That means at best I can watch their stuff months later if its picked up by a uk tv network? Wheras Ask A Ninja got that nice lucrative advertising deal didnt they, and as far as I know this means I can still watch them wherever I am (even if i hate ads, at least I have the option). Its funny how rarely I see the international dimensions of net video being discussed in the mainstream especially business press. They throw all these huge numbers around concerning ad revenue, but I dont see all that much talk about the implications of having global audiences as well as relatively localised ones. Sometimes I wonder why the large companies that have global products brands, dont see more in these opportunities, although of course I could be overstating things as I dont know what %age of a typical popular USA vlogs audience is in the USA. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im not keeping track deliberately but off the top of my head: KarmaBanque got a deal with Al Jazeera English to make some videos for broadcast on TV. Clive James who is an Australian famous in Britain for many years in the mainstream media, now does stuff online, though I dont know if his videos would meet the definition of videoblogging. Years ago a famous UK TV presenter called Keith Chegwin, fairly down on his luck, broadcast himself live via streaming net video for many hours every day. I believe he was infamously naked once. A famous UK soap star had to leave the program after it was revealed that he had been exposing himself on a web cam he had in his dressing room, maybe that doesnt count :D Here in the UK im finding it pretty hard to tell if there are really many web celebrities here. If I go to the uk itunes podcast directory then its dominated by BBC other mainstream media people. Im probably forgetting some really obvious example but no UK web celeb is springing to mind right now. In the UK the web has been used to launch some very sucessful (so far) musical careers, but I cant think what 'personalities' its brought into our mainstream yet. Fameseekers here are currently stil more likely to try their luck in Big Brother auditions! Our famous homegrown youtuber is that great really old bloke, he has got some media attention but didnt even allow interviews until recently, he was the only person who'd ever filmed himself, so he isnt a crossover so far. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: Very cool. Is anyone keeping track of vloggers and podcasters crossing over to broadcast radio or TV? I'm going to start a before they were famous or cross-overs guide on mefeedia. So far I just have Brookers, and LisaNova but I'm trying to think of any others. Dawn and Drew? Madge Winestien? I'd like to put Ask A Ninja on that list one day. Aha, the Lonely Island Guys who are now on Saturday Night Live. Anyone else? Oh, and Amanda Cogdon What about reverse-crossover? Maybe we can come up with a list of mainstream personalities that have now crossed over into podcasting. I know NPR has a bunch. The most recent one that comes to mind are the Cartalk guys, and there's the Jim Lehrer podcast, but I need something more substantial then just NPR personalities much as i love them Oh! Heh! The digg guys! I forgot about them. Leo Laporte too... Maybe Adam Curry. He's a true hybrid. A lot of people from G4/TechTV jumped ship and landed in this new media world. Timing as they say is everything. I guess the question is... Who are your favorite videoblogging celebrities? -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog On 2/18/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Here's the video... she neglected to mention you by name. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWIY_C7XUw --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson harold.johnson@ wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast
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Yeah it's a good point. But also consider that the advertising deals Ask A Ninja has dealt with to this point have all paid us only for US views. They don't really care about the numbers internationally. I'm sure some clever tech person will develop a system that will dynamically insert the right video ad based on guessed locale of the audience member, but we're a little ways a way from that. The Lisa Nova thing is a nice landmark in terms of how to break through and get a role in Hollywood. Lisa is the first person to not have any real acting credits and then get hired to do a big league Hollywood gig. (The Lonely Island guys gradually grew and then SNL got them). It's Hollywood's version of being bought by Google. And I'm sure it will happen more and more. Ask A Ninja is a little too big to be bought now, not saying that it will never happen, but the money Hollywood has offered is no where near what we can make on Advertising/Merch. -K --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, at least from an international point of view, Im perhaps more interested in those who 'make it' and dont cross-over. If Ask a Ninja signed some TV deal, what good is that to me in the UK? That means at best I can watch their stuff months later if its picked up by a uk tv network? Wheras Ask A Ninja got that nice lucrative advertising deal didnt they, and as far as I know this means I can still watch them wherever I am (even if i hate ads, at least I have the option). Its funny how rarely I see the international dimensions of net video being discussed in the mainstream especially business press. They throw all these huge numbers around concerning ad revenue, but I dont see all that much talk about the implications of having global audiences as well as relatively localised ones. Sometimes I wonder why the large companies that have global products brands, dont see more in these opportunities, although of course I could be overstating things as I dont know what %age of a typical popular USA vlogs audience is in the USA. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Im not keeping track deliberately but off the top of my head: KarmaBanque got a deal with Al Jazeera English to make some videos for broadcast on TV. Clive James who is an Australian famous in Britain for many years in the mainstream media, now does stuff online, though I dont know if his videos would meet the definition of videoblogging. Years ago a famous UK TV presenter called Keith Chegwin, fairly down on his luck, broadcast himself live via streaming net video for many hours every day. I believe he was infamously naked once. A famous UK soap star had to leave the program after it was revealed that he had been exposing himself on a web cam he had in his dressing room, maybe that doesnt count :D Here in the UK im finding it pretty hard to tell if there are really many web celebrities here. If I go to the uk itunes podcast directory then its dominated by BBC other mainstream media people. Im probably forgetting some really obvious example but no UK web celeb is springing to mind right now. In the UK the web has been used to launch some very sucessful (so far) musical careers, but I cant think what 'personalities' its brought into our mainstream yet. Fameseekers here are currently stil more likely to try their luck in Big Brother auditions! Our famous homegrown youtuber is that great really old bloke, he has got some media attention but didnt even allow interviews until recently, he was the only person who'd ever filmed himself, so he isnt a crossover so far. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: Very cool. Is anyone keeping track of vloggers and podcasters crossing over to broadcast radio or TV? I'm going to start a before they were famous or cross-overs guide on mefeedia. So far I just have Brookers, and LisaNova but I'm trying to think of any others. Dawn and Drew? Madge Winestien? I'd like to put Ask A Ninja on that list one day. Aha, the Lonely Island Guys who are now on Saturday Night Live. Anyone else? Oh, and Amanda Cogdon What about reverse-crossover? Maybe we can come up with a list of mainstream personalities that have now crossed over into podcasting. I know NPR has a bunch. The most recent one that comes to mind are the Cartalk guys, and there's the Jim Lehrer podcast, but I need something more substantial then just NPR personalities much as i love them Oh! Heh! The digg guys! I forgot about them. Leo Laporte too... Maybe Adam Curry. He's a true hybrid. A lot of people from G4/TechTV jumped ship and landed in this new media world. Timing as they say is everything. I guess the question
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A) Not even 1% B) I would have IF I HAD ONE! :D Since posting this info. to this group, I've since discovered that LisaNova (real name Lisa Donovan) previously auditioned for MadTV, but was rejected until recently. Still don't know if my reminder had any influence at all on her hiring, but you know what they say about the butterfly's movements...you know, the Butterfly Effect? Maybe my little wingflapping was just the extra nudge the cast of MadTV needed to hear in order to make a decision... Seriously, I'm not in the belief that my part in this truly made any difference. Still, you never know who's discussing you, and who they're discussing you with... Harold On 2/17/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast on Mad TV. Coincidence? Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: LisaNova now on Mad TV
A) Did you get your 10%? :D B) Next time mention YOUR OWN SHOW! :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So listen to this, guys -- I've just got to share this 'cause I just found this out and I'm still kind of spinning on it. I know someone (well, just barely) who has a boyfriend who's a regular on Mad TV. So about two weeks ago I'm talking to her about YouTube, and I mention this LisaNova, a self-described vlogger who's got a huge following in that community. This acquaintance asks me what's so special about LisaNova? and I describe her talent, the community that's pulling for her, etc. Today I find that LisaNova has now been cast on Mad TV. Coincidence? Harold [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
