Sometime in mid-June, Gary Vaynerchuk of Winelibrary TV will announce a contest to spoof his show. Apparently the prize for which will be sick (his words, not mine). You may ask, if he going to annouce the competition, how do I know about it? Well, he pseudo announced it today (05/28/08) on his show. It was real quick, you have to keep an ear for it.
I know several of you out there, specifically those Lexy and I spend many of our weekends with, would find this kind of project fun. So, if you guys want to help write, shoot, whatever this, give me a shout and we will get this done and produce the BEST WL.TV spoof on the net, ever.
Gary Vaynerchuk has just kicked me in the pants of my brain. Does that make any sense? Nah, but the visualization works, right? Well, watch this video and we shall discuss.
Ok, so what did you think? Not bad, eh? It is a great philosophy if not a little… self-sacrificing? I don’t know. Maybe because I have been so me-centric that I see all of the ways that people could take advantage of you using the 80/20 Rule. Then again, if you do that with most everyone you have a relationship with, it would probably balance itself out. Some would give you back that 20 (maybe less), but others would give back upwards of 80 right back to you. Then you have about an overall 50/50 return on your relationships. Makes sense to my fancy brain.
As I watch/listen to more and more podcasts, my creative side starts yelling at me to do something. Creating and distributing a podcast would be a great experience and I think a fantastic opportunity to really reveal my view on a lot of issues. I’m not talking political-type stuff, but how I feel about video game companies, tech companies, whatever, and their moves into the market. The problem is that my interests lie in so many different areas that condensing them all into one show would be difficult. Then that begs the idea. Should I create a network like TWiT or Revision3? Have many shows that are each about their own little thing? Then if I decide to go ahead and produce a podcast, where do I get the money for bandwidth and production? Though, I could definitely host it on sites like YouTube, Viddler, or Revver until the show gets popular enough (ha) that advertising can pay for the bandwidth for a site.
Then again. Why don’t I just do it? Of course, I need to evaluate why I would be doing this. Am I doing it for me? Just to see if I can? Shouldn’t I be producing a show more for those people who would be watching it than for myself? In that case, what could I give to the internet community? Of course, I would be giving myself to them, but there needs to be more than that. There needs to be something about the show that provides the viewers or listeners with something they either can’t or wouldn’t want to get any where else. Gary is right, the fact that there are people that visit your blog out of the billions of awesome minds, ideas, and content on the web is pretty dope.
If I decide to go into the podcast producing arena, I will need partners. Some of you have already expressed interest in this, but I am getting closer and closer to an actual want and desire to get this project started. Who wants to be on this train?
Today marked the release of the new 16Gb Apple iPhone and the 32Gb Apple iPod Touch. Let me tell you something. People don’t really want more storage space on their iPhones. Yeah, maybe it is a concern about that measly 8Gb, but the real concerns transcend storage space. The one and single reason I have not purchased myself an iPhone is very simple: N0 3G access. A company as supposedly consumer-minded as Apple (though I would disagree) should know what it’s consumers want and that is NOT an iPhone that uses EDGE and has 16Gb. They want an iPhone that uses 3G and has 16Gb. There are a few other complaints I’ve heard about the iPhone, to see the one’s I agree with, go and watch this episode of Tekzilla. Patrick Norton does a fairly excellent job of listing the top five things wrong with the iPhone. It’s at the beginning of the episode, so it shouldn’t be too painful if you don’t really like that kind of show.
In fact, I’ll do you a solid. I will embed the episode and you can watch for yourself right here without having to leave my site. If you just can’t stand the combination of Patrick Norton and guest-host Kevin Rose, just watch to timecode 1:05 (I guess technically when using the word ‘timecode’ I should have used 00:01:05;00) when Patrick starts talking about his beef with the iPhone. It’s pretty short, sweet, and to the point.
