I’m hosting a panel at SXSW Interactive this year.
It’s on Saturday March 14th at 5pm. If you’re going, come join us. We’ll be talking about comedy on the web and TV and hopefully that will lead into a larger discussion about where we’re headed in a broader sense for filmed entertainment.
I’ve put together a great group of friends which I chose with the intention of having a group both insightful and entertaining. Per the SXSW site, here’s the description:
Ricky Van Veen (CollegeHumor.com) leads a panel that discusses the differences between television content and web content, and considers some creative and technological approaches that might bridge that gap in the near future.
Panelists:
Meredith Scardino Writer, The Colbert Report
Keith Richman CEO, Break Media
Avner Ronen CEO, BOXEE
B.J. Novak, The Office
streeter:
I got Amir back for the Yankee Prankee. Video coming soon.
A year and a half later, Streeter gets his revenge. Get excited.
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Nothing gets a party started like browsing magazines for assholes.
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“No Deputy Sam Samaroo. You’re under arrest for having the AWESOMEST NAME EVER.”
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Charlie Rose interviews Marc Andreessen.
What a seriously smart guy. Though I must say I disagree that the NYTimes should immediately shut down its print edition. I think it’s possible for a company to innovate while simultaneously harvesting the money to do so from a non-growing cash business.
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A meeting with the super smart Avner Ronen of Boxee yesterday, combined with reading coverage of the Pirate Bay trial and the 30 Rock “McFlurrygate” has got me thinking on overdrive about the future of video content.
In a conversation last night with my buddy Aaron, we came up with a simple rule called “Pick One.” While certainly not groundbreaking, it’s an easy way to think about the future of entertainment.
I’ve seen a lot of folks living inside the insular tech world develop the attitude that they deserve their content free of:
- cost
- time/focus consuming advertising
- product placement
This led to the “pick one” theory. For a sustainable content production model, the consumer has to pick one of those. I hate to play the old media asshole here, but an episode of Lost isn’t going to get made with none of the above.
ER Promo: A new CH vid (and an instant all-time favorite). Digg.
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