create/consume/delete
Posted on October 16, 2008
After several years of radio silence, I launched a new audio show called create/consume/delete. The podcast is a discussion with my co-host, Rob Blatt, about making all media - old and new - more accessible for creators, consumers, and deleters. Our goal is to talk about all things media, including blogs, books, movies, cameras, audio gear, production, and much more. We’ll have special guests who are experts and professionals in their fields to talk about current topics affecting media making.
When we were developing the show, we realized that we’d be talking to and teaching three distinct groups of people:
Creators - Those who make content and put it out for the world to enjoy, learn from, and pass on.
Consumers - Those people who take content in via television, movies, books, magazines, etc., in the traditional “time based” method of content consumption.
Deleters - The newest group consists of people who take mostly web based media by downloading and/or “time shifting” the content.
It’s an exciting show that I hope will appeal to people of all expertise levels who are interested in media creation and consumption.
You can check out the website at www.createconsumedelete.com or subscribe to the show on iTunes. We also broadcast live via Ustream when we record a show at: www.createconsumedelete.com/ccd-live. And of course, you can follow Rob and myself on Twitter at twitter.com/robblatt and twitter.com/chriscavs.
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Film at 11….
Posted on October 6, 2008
Honestly, though I do dislike television news, I’m looking forward to this job. It’s freelance, for one, so it affords me flexibility in my scheduling, which is important to me. More important, however, is the opportunity to shoot on a regular basis in a fast paced environment and edit on a deadline. These are skills I think every shooter and every editor should have in their toolkit. The ability to think on your feet and make informed decisions quickly is a skill not many people have, and in our business, it could mean the life or death of a project. I’ll be training to run the microwave/satellite trucks as well, which I’m really looking forward to.
What this means to me is having the opportunity to see journalism from both sides of the wall. I like the idea of citizen journalism - even with the recent hoax scandal - and I want to be able to compare it to traditional news media. Granted, this is only a local news station, but I think it presents a unique opportunity to both be an outsider in an insider’s world as well as gain some experience and practice.
Make sure you check out my audio show with Rob Blatt, called create/consume/delete. This week we’ll be talking with Dan Patterson of ABC News about citizen journalism, it’s origins, it’s effects, and it’s future.
In the end, of course, I’m really in this for the press badge. 
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New Media Demographics
Posted on September 30, 2008
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself often as I attend an increasing number of social media events. More often than not, these events are populated by people older than I, professionals who have jobs, homes, and children. My demographic - 18 to 34 year olds - is surprisingly absent. I’ve been fortunate to find several people who are in my age group and very active in social media, but there are few below the age of 24. I’m fairly certain I know only 2 current college students, and both of them are seniors on the way to graduating.
As I was browsing my Twitter page a few days ago, I was blown away when one of my friends posted this exchange with a college student (I’m paraphrasing):
-Twitterfriend: “Why aren’t you using Twitter?”
-Collegekid: “Twitter is for old people.”
Now this is an interesting perspective, one that I hadn’t thought about before. College students are undoubtedly on the forefront of just about every major technological advance as it happens. They’re usually the first to embrace new technology and use it toward their own ends. So why does the 18-34 demo believe that new media “is for old people”? Why haven’t they embraced it?
When Facebook opened to the general public after having been open only to people with .edu email addresses, students protested. They were upset that this one place they could congregate without the prying eyes of their parents was now open to anyone. This attitude is understandable. They’re on their own for the first time in their lives, and they want some freedom to do the things college kids do without the overseeing eye of their parents (or “old people” who may represent their parents). Perhaps this is part of the reason for the lack of acceptance on the part of college aged people. Unfortunately, this theory doesn’t explain the lack of participation from twentysomethings.
We social media denizens are certainly living in an echo chamber. Mainstreamers don’t know what social media is - aside from the occasional myspace page - or why they should be interested. They do understand that the majority of people involved would be considered “geeks,” and that can be a turn-off. Or perhaps it’s simply because this demo consists of people just beginning their careers and adult lives. It can be seen as a distraction, especially if the person’s career path has little to do with media.
So the question is, how do we spread the word and open up the echo chamber? How do we get a younger, more mainstream demographic into social media? Is this important?
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