That’s awesome, Shey. Open offer: anyone named shey, I’m happy to give a @shey.net email address to (as long as it’s not taken).
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shey.net's been around since 1998, making it one of the longest-running blogs on the web, which isn't really saying much.*
I'm Tim. I design and produce things. Most recently, I co-founded a company called Next New Networks, and we also have a company blog.
You can e-mail me via my first name @ this url, twitter at me, or connect on Facebook.
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* I'm working on getting the '98-'03 archives back up, and '04-'07 is here.
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March 16, 2010
It was pretty random that I found you searching for my name ^.^
March 15, 2010
Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly (NY Times)
David Carr talks about the new way we’re watching TV thanks to social media. Not coincidentally, Carr, with a camera crew in tow, attended Twitter’s SXSW party last night, where he spent quite a while speaking with Robin Sloan and Chloe Sladden, two of the key people working to make Twitter a great medium for interactive TV.
Chloe and I also got to talk for a while, and spoke about how difficult it was to create the feedback loop that great interactive TV needs before social media was ubiquitous. I worked with networks like FOX, ABC, HBO, and NBC for several years on many of their key broadcasts (The Super Bowl, The World Series, The Olympics, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, The View) and we tried everything — set top boxes, mobile phones, SMS — with varying degrees of success, but Twitter and Facebook have made audience response easy and immediate.
While it’s been a huge tool for building the audiences of next generation internet TV companies like Next New Networks (over 40 million views last month, from over 20 million uniques) and Revision3, it’s also something that’s making broadcast and cable TV a lot more interesting and interactive as well. This is a terrifically exciting time to be a producer — anyone who doesn’t see massive opportunity here needs to start a YouTube channel, a Facebook Page and a Twitter feed and give me a call.
Reblogged from Next New Networks Reblog (permalink) #tv #interactiveTV #twitter #social media
Currently all over the Tumblr radar: this photo, taken by college student Alex Innes at an orphanage in Malawi. (via hellaposer)
See more of Alex’s and his Eckerd College classmates’ photography from abroad in this great Flickr set. (Thanks Casey for the link!)
Reblogged from hellaposer (permalink)“Humans like choices, but don’t like to make them.”
— Richard Titus, a good buddy of mine, with a brilliant observation.
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via next new networks: NNN’s Michelle DeForest at SXSW 2010 (photo by George Ruiz)
Reblogged from Next New Networks Reblog (permalink)March 13, 2010
Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen of Boxee square off at SXSW: The Battle for the Future of Television.
I’d love to hear your feedback on my latest article from SXSW for IFC.com.
Nice piece by Anthony — my thanks to him for including me.
Reblogged from Soup (permalink)“I’m using 2 services to share my location with the world and every five seconds I receive a text or DM: ‘where are you?’”
— Micki Krimmel has the defining quote so far of this year’s SXSW.
(permalink) #sxsw #foursquare #Social media #people
The first 2:42 of Sesame Street, via merlin:
This Way to Sesame Street (Excerpt; November, 1969)
Lot to love in the first few minutes of the first Sesame Street. Not least Gordon1’s outstanding facial hair. Also, just can’t believe Bob’s been on this show for 40 years. (He was my favorite of the grownups from the beginning)
As an intro from the oddly placid Bert and Ernie suggests, this particular clip is from a preview/teaser of the show:
Sesame Street (Beginnings)
Two days before the premiere of Sesame Street, a thirty-minute preview entitled This Way to Sesame Street was shown on NBC. The show was financed by a $50,000 grant from Xerox. Written by Stone and produced by CTW publicist Bob Hatch, it was taped the day before it aired. Newsday called the preview “a unique display of cooperation between commercial and noncommercial broadcasters”. Sesame Street premiered on PBS on November 10, 1969.
I was about two weeks shy of turning 3, and I was definitely a fan. Big Bird’s initial microcephaly notwithstanding.
Full sequence and screengrabs from This Way to Sesame Street on Muppet Wiki.
Related: the first ten minutes of MTV.
Reblogged from kung fu grippe (permalink) #tv #history #muppets #sesame streetMarch 12, 2010
The Rise of Antisocial Media
In our age of oversharing on the Internet, it was only a matter of time before people started looking to the same kinds of tools they use to connect with each other people to try to find ways to disconnect when those same people get to be a little… much. I couldn’t help noticing two of those tools get a little attention yesterday, just in time for SXSW:
Avoidr hilariously uses the Foursquare API to secretly designate some of your Foursquare friends as people to avoid, and warns you of there whereabouts so you can stay away. I don’t have a lot of use for something like that in my life — I’m only Foursquare friends with people I’d be really happy to have join me, like Kenyatta — but I could see people younger than me, who might be connected to friends and roommates they secretly can’t stand, exes, etc., finding this kind of useful. And the site crashed yesterday from too much traffic, so I think they hit a nerve.
Meanwhile, if there’s someone you follow on Twitter that you normally love, but they’re in the middle of something they can’t shut up about (SXSW, Olympic figure skating, The World Series, a really awesome vacation, etc.), Mutetweets gives you a temporary mute button, allowing you to unfollow them for a set period of time, then automatically add them back when the period’s over. I’ve long thought this should be a core Twitter feature, and that you should be able to mute a person without them even knowing, but until then, here’s the next best thing.
Looks like the beginning of a trend to me. What other apps are you all seeing out there that might qualify as antisocial media? (Answer over at the nextnewblog.)
Reblogged from Next New Networks Reblog (permalink) #sxsw #twitter #foursquare #social media #internet
At UCB LA tomorrow: 140 perfomers, each doing a signature tweet live onstage to benefit Haiti, hosted by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer. Diablo Cody just confirmed she’ll be one of them, and STILLERSTRONG’s Ben Stiller and Sarah Silverman show up in the promo video. Advance tickets are sold out, but there’ll be a live video streamdownloadable video for sale on iTunes or Amazon.
via EPIX.
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