13 posts and columns on Beet.TV

Day 3: Zynga Holds Tech Reporters Hostage in Endless IPO Watch

in News on July 1, 2011 at 8:01 am PT

No, really, today Zynga will file for an IPO. Okay, tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow. Good lord, the S-1 filing for the online gaming phenom is going to drop in the middle of the Fourth of July BBQ, isn’t it?
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MSNBC Readies a Cautious Move Onto the iPad

in Media on June 23, 2010 at 12:40 pm PT

MSNBC is preparing its own entry into the iPad app derby. But the cable network is moving cautiously into the race: Its upcoming free app will feature programming from just one of its shows. Maddow? Olbermann? The network won’t say.

Viral Video: Silicon Valley May Now Officially Blame Larry Kramer for BoomTown

in News on May 11, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Larry Kramer, the online journalism pioneer and persistent gadfly, finally took credit where credit is certainly due, in a story he tells of giving me my big break way back in the dark ages. In a video interview with Beet.TV recently, Kramer claims I “scared” him into giving me a stringer job at the Washington Post in the early 1980s. That does sound like me.

BoomTown "Terrorizes" Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable (Video of This and More, of Course)

in News on March 1, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Here’s a whole lot of video on a panel on the future of online video that BoomTown moderated last week in San Francisco. It was organized by Andy Plesser, the kingpin of Beet.TV, the online video news site. Plesser moderated the second half of the two-hour (!!!) session, and I did the first hour. One tweet of the event noted: “The Beet.TV just started and @karaswisher is already terrorizing the panelists.” I beg to differ!

CNN: We Don’t Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What’s Going on in Iran–We’ve Got iReport

in Media on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

The “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s cable news channel wants us to know that it isn’t dependent on either the micromessaging service or Google’s video site to report on what’s happening in Iran–it has iReport.
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Happy Holidays From YouTube, NBC and MediaMemo

in Media on December 24, 2008 at 10:48 am PT

Yet more evidence that the line dividing the so-called “mainstream media” and the blog world is blurring beyond recognition: Here’s NBC’s “Today” show aping one of the blogdom’s tried-and-true conventions–running a popular YouTube clip, then talking about it. Hard to blame them: That lion is pretty cool.

And We Couldn't Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck …

in News on November 5, 2008 at 1:52 pm PT

Tuesday’s presidential election was a historic one for more than just the obvious reasons. Monomaniacal interest in its outcome drove Internet usage to a new record. According to Akamai Technologies, which operates a content delivery network that includes the likes of CNN, NBC, and the BBC, traffic to its member news sites reached 8.57 million visitors-per-minute at 11 p.m. EST, right around the time Barack Obama delivered his victory speech.

And We Couldn’t Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck …

in News on November 5, 2008 at 1:52 pm PT

Tuesday’s presidential election was a historic one for more than just the obvious reasons. Monomaniacal interest in its outcome drove Internet usage to a new record. According to Akamai Technologies, which operates a content delivery network that includes the likes of CNN, NBC, and the BBC, traffic to its member news sites reached 8.57 million visitors-per-minute at 11 p.m. EST, right around the time Barack Obama delivered his victory speech.

Kara Visits Beet.TV's Andy Plesser!

in News on August 18, 2008 at 12:54 am PT

When I was in Manhattan recently, I made a lovely visit to the world HQ of Andy Plesser’s Beet.TV, where we discussed where online video is going. This is a big topic for BoomTown this year because the Web is clearly becoming a video-heavy medium. And the ever-affable Plesser does a solid job covering it. This past week, for example, he looked into everything from the Web sites of the Presidential candidates to Reuters’s video reporting of the escalating fighting in the South Ossetian town of Megvrekisi to a Canadian-video sharing site.

U.S. Should Stop Calling Slow DSL “Broadband”

in Mossblog on April 3, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

I recently spoke at a conference on Web video held at the Finnish embassy in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by Beet.TV. In this excerpt, I spoke about several obstacles to the Web’s emergence as a replacement for standard TV, including the very slow bandwidth that is marketed as “broadband” in the United States.

Jeff Jarvis on Online Video–And a Shout-Out to BoomTown Video

in News, February 11, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Me on Murdoch Bid–In Living Color in Hollywood

in News, May 15, 2007 at 1:35 pm PT