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New York Times Blog Not An Online Video Milestone

June 28, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Came across a small piece on the CBS news site that made me laugh. It was essentially touting the fact that New York Times TV Critic Virginia Heffernan now has a blog dedicated to web video.

That’s not what made me laugh: I’ve read Heffernan’s writing ever since her Salon days, and it’s great that she’s leaping into this frontier. I’ll even betcha that it was something she asked for rather than was assigned.

What made me laugh was this bit of old-media-on-old media-puffery, courtesy of the CBS News website:

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Filed Under: Publishing, Television Tagged With: CBS, new-york-times, NYT, online-video, Virginia-Heffernan

YouTube: Rattle and Hum

March 1, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Lots of recent sabre-rattling directed at YouTube, who have come out of nowhere to be the one of the most-trafficked video web sites. In the past couple of weeks, they’ve been hit with a pair of high-profile “get that thing off of your site” letters from uptight copyright holders, making people wonder if they can avoid being tagged the “Video Napster.”

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Filed Under: Movies, Services, Television, YouTube Tagged With: CBS, lazy-sunday, napster, NBC, online-video, YouTube

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