Everyone's favorite photo-sharing website, Flickr, just launched a new service: Video. In other words, they are fighting back against YouTube and hoping to corner their part of that market. And it makes sense too, for those of us who are already active on Flickr, and might be inclined to upload video from time to time.

Last summer I spent a week at Robert Scoble's ranch in Montana. His mother had recently passed away and he inherited this incredible cabin out in the middle of no where. In typical Scobleizer fashion, he invited the world to join him as he packed up her things and chilled out in the mountains, promising an occasional visit to Yellowstone and a lot of ruby-on-rails-versus-python geek chic chats by the campfire.

It's so easy to make mistakes as a media company. So many of them are run by ludites who have a real passion for quality content...and, sadly, that's simply not enough today.

Succeeding in tomorrow's media world is as much about creating quality content that appeals to your constituency as it is about having a really forward-thinking distribution strategy.

I dedicate this post to those who are depressed, impatient, disappointed or frustrated about the lack of mass-market adoption and real business models of podcasts, videoblogs, internet video and everything else in Web 2.0 that's been prematurely hyped, but which still is an undeniable media industry trend.

For those who regularly read blogs, view videoblogs or tune into weekly podcasts, this newscaster's awkward discovery of the web is pretty funny:

Chris Anderson (of The Long Tail fame, not the TED conferences) writes this week

Much Like TIVO changed TV-watching and Netflix changed movie-going, new content-publishing platforms --like podcasting and videoblogging-- are also changing the ways live events are being experienced. captured and made available for consumption/viewing.

-convenient: anytime, anyplace, no waiting in lines
-efficient: surf through and find exactly what you want (filter out what you don't want)
-less expensive: no travel, no accomodations, no time away from work

We were hired by the SFF festival this year to produce all their panels as podcasts, which they're doing for the first time.

By way of introduction, I thought I'd start with a brief (by 'brief' I mean crazy-long) post about me—who I am and why I'm a new contributor to the Zoom In Online blog.

Our Industry Spotlight this week features our original inside look at how Nailgun built their company reel, showcasing their stunning motion graphics.

The podcast features pioneering videoblogger Ryanne Hodson, who gives a cogent and entertaining look at the world of video on the web.

Our InDesign tutorial series continues with part 2--Custom Strokes.

Via Movie City Indie, Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry wants you to videoblog your dreams and post them to a special site on iMeem promoting his upcoming film The Science of Sleep.

Filed under "who has this kind of time"?
Also filed under "and thank goodness they do."