Jeff Pulver interview at PodCamp Boston

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Jeff Pulver was in town for his Video on the Net confence and came to PodCamp Boston. I caught up with him after he gave a talk.

I'm going to Video on the Net this week and I'll pay close attention to everything that Jeff says.

We met up later on and I had a great conversation with him about a lot of things including keeping Yiddish Theatre alive in New York.

Pulver spoke about how advertisers would find targeted video content more valuable than general.

He also talked about Tagged and Super Tagged Content. Kind of like being able to click on his Hawaiian shirt if you wanted more information.

Video on the net provides for rich communications and opportunities for backchannel conversations with producers. Networks are carefully watching what is going on in the vlogging world are going to take a leap to collaboration and interactivity while some will stick to the mass market old ways of doing things.

Don't use TV or network words to describe this because the FCC might come in and start calling video on the web TV and try to regulate it. We don't want that.

Comments

[Michael Meiser]

Steve, been watching and listening to these. They're just to damn short!

Yes, there is such a thing as too damn short... and you've definitely defined it.

By the time it's over I'm like who the hell was that, and what was that about. I think the short format of at least a minute, better 3-5 minutes could work if you had a really well put together format, but this is just WAY to short to really be useful. You leave me wanting more information and really NO way to get it. You need the who, what, why, where... Who are they, what do they do, why that's important, what are they doing at podshow, and what's their important topic of the day. Or something... anything.

[Steve Garfield]

Hey Michael,
I understand that you want more.

Other people recorded longer interviews with attendees. There is going to be a TON of audio and video podcasts coming out of PodCamp Boston.

But I have to strongly disagree that my videos are too short.

You also say, "You need the who, what, why, where... Who are they, what do they do, why that's important, what are they doing at podshow, and what's their important topic of the day."

I actually do not need that. That sounds like rules of journalism. I don't need to follow them.

I could have. I do have the big camera that shoots longer than 3 minutes. I also have a tripod and microphone and could have done interviews all weekend with peole for 1/2 hour at a time, but I did not want to do that. I was not there as a reporter. I was there as an attendee and participant.

If I went there to do 1/2 hour interviews with everyone, I would have missed the fun of participating. So that's whay you did not see any in depth reporting from me. Others will fill your needs with complete recordings of sessions and in depth interviews with people, but it won't come from me.

What you are getting from me in an immediate moment showing. You get a flavor of what was happening at that moment uploaded to the blog so you could get a glimpse of what was going on.

Another thing, taken together, my moments and Beth Kantor's moments and CC chapman's moments and everybody else's moments will tell the story.

That is what citizen media is all about. It might not be as pretty as big media, but it's different, plus big media doesn't usually give you an open forum like this to post your comments on what they do, and you hardly ever see them write back in public like this.

And by the way, not all my video are short. Did you see the Rocketboom one. That was over three minutes.

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2006/09/rocketbooms_joa.html

It gave you a nice long behind the scenes of a Rocketboom interview.

The Uncle Seth one was a song of theirs showing how you can use an iSight camera to post video before the band even stopped playing:

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2006/09/uncle_seth_at_p.html

They were exteremly excited to see that so quick after they were done playing AND Jay from the band had me email it to his wife in Canada, so she got a glimpse of what was goign on. She emailed me back to thank me for giving her a quick look at all the excitement.

The Jeff Pulver interview was a moment. I just asked one question and got a quick answer. It is what it is, a moment showing. We only had 15 minutes between sessions and it took time to get from one room to another because they were pretty spread out.

And the Ze Frank video, Something From the Comments, was designed to be a short clip that we made for ze:

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2006/09/something_from_.html

Ze emailed me to say he liked it.

I've already gotten comments and emails from people saying how much they like these videos.

It's the Long Tail baby!

I am going to spent all day putting up more video. Watch the feed and I hope you'll see something you like and if you don't that's ok too.

I'm sure you'll be commenting...
Thanks,
--Steve