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Monday, August 18, 2008

Kara Visits Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser!

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.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

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

In this interview with Andy Plesser of Beet.TV, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine talks about the changes in the production of online video.
At the end, he points to BoomTown’s annoying (and artistic!) work with our little Flip camera as an example of the trend toward the quick and, well, dirty.
Here’s the video:

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Me on Murdoch Bid–In Living Color in Hollywood

In the interests of full disclosure, since I have done a post here and here on the issues surrounding the digital aspects of the $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch for Dow Jones, the owner of The Wall Street Journal and also this site, here is an interview I did a couple of weeks ago [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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