tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107842082008-12-16T12:01:44.047-08:00New media & online communication insights, Web 2.0, podcasting, Mac & Apple stuff, and small business internet marketing and search engine advertising. <p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=287408"><b>Subscribe to the Media Mall Blog by Email</b></a>Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-2293240434616604032008-11-16T19:29:00.000-08:002008-11-16T21:46:26.974-08:00

I am happy to write and release a new issue of my ComBridges enewsletter last week. It included some of my excitement about Twitter as well as other insights. Please click here to check out the last edition of the ComBridges "It's a Wonderful Web" enewsletter. In the meantime, what I've come to call "Twittermania" has continued to heat up. In addition to the resources listed in the enewsletter

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Yes, it's apparent that Barak Obama is not only the most impressive leader and community organizer that we've ever had has president, he will also be the most transparent. This is the first presidency that is "digitally native." The evidence of this is already on the web in the form of a slide show of back stage images from election night that was made freely available, almost immediately, with

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You have to love a story about a 24-year old who made a monumental difference by helping Barak Obama to become president-elect of the United States. In other words, this young dude helped change the world. His name is Chris Hughes and he was one of the three co-founders of Facebook, the runaway social networking phenom to which I am addicted. And I am 61. Mr. Hughes left Facebook last

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I know this is not a political blog, but I'm pretty blown away by the inspirational energy and phenomenal creativity of the music videos, original songs and down right brilliantly edited videos that have appeared on behalf of Barak Obama. It's a grassroots energy that lifts my soul and gives me, yes, hope. I was asked to put together some of my favorite videos for some friends, so I thought I'd

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Errol Morris is arguably one of the most important documentary film makers of our time. More than just an Academy Award winner (for "The Fog of War"), he has an amazing talent for listening to people and letting them tell their own stories in ways that inform and even illuminate reality. Now, he has written for the NYTimes blog site an extremely insightful perspective, including an impressive

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Howard Rheingold was a thought-leader before the term entered the vernacular. For example, he wrote the original book on virtual community. Now, Howard is helping people to understand what he's calling the "video vernacular" by walking his talk ie by posting a video on his vlog (video blog). Just like us videographers used to talk about the "language of film making," Howard is correct that the

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-53139027388207606562008-10-02T22:05:00.001-07:002008-10-02T22:12:20.223-07:00

Once again (OK, I'm biased), Barak Obama has proven himself as a visionary leader who gets it. (OK, that was a bit over the top.) Bringing 21st century technology to the virtual campaign trail, the Obama campaign has launched it's own iPhone application; and, it does more than you might think. For example, it supports you to call contacts in your address book who live is swing states (but without

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-62410769118276585842008-10-01T10:00:00.000-07:002008-10-01T10:13:33.035-07:00

Social media platforms are all the buzz, but I think this is a milestone worth noting: Slide today announced a deal to use Facebook to distribute videos from "major media" companies (including CBS, NBC and many more...). The geeky young face you see to the right is not only the founder/CEO of Slide, but a co-founder of PayPal. Sure, Amazon and NetFlix (just to name two) are now distributing

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Last week, a friend on Facebook (or actually an acquaintance... someone who I've never met in person, but within whom I've done a little work via phone and email) offered a link (via Facebook) to a live video stream of a techie industry party on a rooftop over-looking Washington, DC. The amazing thing was that when I clicked the link, it actually worked. Instantly, I was face-to-face, in a

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In a move that would make Chris Anderson proud -- and in a move that is, to my knowledge, completely unprecedented for a "major motion picture" -- Michael Moore and Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films have announced that Moore's new flick, "Slacker Uprising" will be made available via the web for free download on Sept. 23rd. If you're interested, this link will hook you up to the viral marketing

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In this world of video on demand and video shooters everywhere sharing their news, it is no less shocking to have the highly-respected American journalist, syndicated columnist and author Amy Goodman arrested while doing her job, right here in the USA, at a demonstration outside the Republican National Convention. (Full disclosure: I was, many years ago, a producer for Pacifica Radio, the

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-22231743644038687822008-08-20T09:29:00.000-07:002008-08-20T09:46:18.639-07:00

The world of Internet videos keeps getting richer. Yes, there's more interesting stuff than what's on YouTube (not that's YouTube is bad, there are just more channels on the "Internet TV system" than most people know). For example, this Beet.TV interview with Ziv Navoth, VP Marketing & Business Development at Bebo (which is one of the slickest, high quality internet video sites) offers one of the

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-84769442822573610122008-08-15T10:31:00.000-07:002008-08-15T10:48:34.078-07:00

I mentioned below the "In Plain English" Twitter video which actually explains Twitter to the uninitiated or un-techie amongst us. But, on the other hand, if you want to laugh a little, and sorta, kinda experience the frenetic experience of what I believe Twitter to be (and why I'm not a participant... go on, comment below about why I'm missing out!), then OMG! I'm sure you'll enjoy the Twitter

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I'm forced, due to time constraints, to wait for the lines to die down at my local Apple Store to get my first smartphone. Yes, me, your virtually favorite techno-dweeb has never owned a smartphone. That's right, no Treo, no Crackberry... But, just in case your confidence in my geeky authority is waning; and to underscore the sincere message that the iPhone is now the ultimate--at least for now--

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-9912169181658096482008-07-10T10:17:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:43:19.583-07:00

Frank Capra used to say (regarding the requisite creative direction to make a movie), "One man, one movie." In today's world of viral video distribution, one man (or one woman) can make a super-hit all by themselves... or in this case with the support of one partner and a chewing gum company for a sponsor (no kidding). The story is well-written in this NYTimes coverage, "A Private Dance? Four

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-67445108655055022292008-06-09T16:54:00.000-07:002008-06-09T17:02:53.548-07:00

I'll leave the commentaries on Apple's dramatic announcement of the iPhone 3G to others. I'll only say that after holding out on buying an iPhone, I'm glad I did. Because now I'm ready! Half the price for double the speed (and all those new applications!) I'm going to get an iPhone 3G as close to July 11th as possible. That's as strong an endorsement as I can make. And, I think the iPhone is

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Hey, I've got a birthday coming up. :) But seriously folks, as much as I enjoy the flexibility of my Flip Ultra, this looks like the professional's on the run camcorder. I still dream of finding the time to do a kind of video blog and this is the kind of tool (and toy) that could help me make it happen. Click here for the TechCruch review of the Sanyo Xacti with 1080i HD and 300 frames per second

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I'm going to claim this might be the best resource for explaining Web 2.0 communication platforms to newbies ever! See my post below about CommonCraft, and if you're someone who would like a better understanding of stuff like blogs, RSS, social networking, podcasting, Twitter and more, there are easy to understand and remarkably clear and enjoyable CommonCraft videos about each of these subjects

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OK. I'm someone who has been doing his best to "span the Grand Canyon Gap between people and technology" for quite a number of years, so when I say this is impressive, I at least have some vague idea of what I'm talking about... ;) I was trying to explain Twitter to my associate and went to Twitter.com and clicked "Watch a Video" Ta-da! A simple, cleverly animated, and impressively clear (and

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-43337428253955785242008-05-19T09:39:00.000-07:002008-05-19T10:19:07.307-07:00

I fooled around with the social video site Seesmic--you might think of it as a video chat portal--some time ago, and I found it boring. But now that the likes of Steven Spielberg, Karen Allen and Harrison Ford are posting video clips there too, maybe I should take another look? And here's a thread you can view (without signing on to Seesmic) from a UK Guardian Journalist who dialogged via video

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-29843668546577025952008-04-29T10:42:00.000-07:002008-04-29T11:31:32.976-07:00

One issue we've been dealing with that I think many people struggle with is how to get better quality video on YouTube. Here's the most useful insights I've seen to date on this subject: >> Read: "Hi-Res YouTube Hacks" Some of you know that I'm impressed with the amazingly simple, little video camera called The Flip. Here's why another thoughtful person thinks The Flip is important and perhaps

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I had the illuminating pleasure of spending a few hours today attending the keynotes and browsing the innovations on the floor at the O'Reilly/TechWeb conference, Web 2.0 Expo SF. These have become quite vibrant affairs with NY, European & (I think) Japanese iterations now on the annual conference schedule. (Keynote photo of John Battelle on stage with Marc Andreessen at Web 2.0 Summit SF 2008

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As I explain in my ebook on internet marketing, there's nothing more important in the optimization of a website than relevance. There's also probably no more important goal that "stickiness" or the ability to get a website visitor to stick around for more than a nano second. There's also probably no greater authority on this subject than Bryan Eisenberg, author of "Waiting for Your Cat to Bark:

Jon Lelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03378101470174709003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10784208.post-24446893005501840852008-03-24T09:54:00.000-07:002008-03-28T20:26:32.327-07:00

In geek speak, it's called "computing in the cloud" To most people it's more clearly understood as using the web browser to deliver experiences and functionalities comparable to desktop applications is expanding by leaps and bounds. The following guest post on TechCrunch by Matthew Gertner explains what's going on in this space with refreshing clarity, and also includes a geek-friendly tip about

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A couple of quick blog bites (vs sound bites) from the NYTimes website which indicate continually brighter days ahead for what I affectionately call The Video Web: First of all, my fave tech writer David Pogue not only reviewed my Christmas present (see posts and demo video below), The Flip Ultra, but his latest "State of the Art" column, "Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot" pretty much nails it

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