Lisa Padilla on Media and Culture

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techNOlogy

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:08:00 -0700

(Dee Luo)

This must be as old a debate as any words invented to use in a debate. Technology versus human culture. Many 3rd world tribes have several feelings against media. The Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania prefer not to have their pictures taken because they think it will take their spirit away. The Armish as don't like it either but this is more directly to do with technology. From About.com:

"The Amish are averse to any technology which they feel weakens the family structure. The conveniences that the rest of us take for granted such as electricity, television, automobiles, telephones and tractors are considered to be a temptation that could cause vanity, create inequality, or lead the Amish away from their close-knit community and, as such, are not encouraged or accepted in most orders. Most Amish cultivate their fields with horse-drawn machinery, live in houses without electricity, and get around in horse-drawn buggies. It is common for Amish communities to allow the use of telephones, but not in the home. Instead, several Amish families will share a telephone in a wooden shanty between farms. Electricity is sometimes used in certain situations, such as electric fences for cattle, flashing electric lights on buggies, and heating homes."

The indigenous people of Australian people don't like to have their pictures taken because once they die they want to return to the earth, but a picture holds a part of them in the waking life even though they have passed away.

Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist who works at Intel Research says, "mobile phone manufacturers have developed popular phones for Muslim users that support their religious practices by (1) reminding them when it is time to pray, (2) orienting them towards Mecca and (3) disabling incoming calls for 20 minutes. She gave many other examples from Africa and Asia that showed how new technology is being used in ways that fit into the existing cultures." She continues "I found the message reassuring. It's easy to get worked up into a state of anxiety about what our modern world is doing to our societies. Human cultures are apparently more resilient than we naively assume."
I have a teenage daughter who sends and receives nearly 20,000 text messages a month. When she's not with me, it's the primary -- and sometimes sole -- way we communicate.

What are your thoughts? How do you see technology affecting your culture?

Digital lifestyle snapshot survey

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:00:00 -0700

Read this if:

1. you are a blogger, or micro-blogger, you use social media like Facebook, you Tube, Twitter, Posterous, Wordpress, or other Web 2.0 companies with overly cute names,

2. you found yourself at a dead end or limit within your blogging or media distribution software service, or

3. you know your business goal but can't find a way to reach it using the tools you have now.

I would like your thoughts for an upcoming project that will adress as many of these issues as we can, empowering businesses of any size, from 1-person to hundred, take advantage of the real-time web, and give you a set of tools that make doing business easier, period.

A. What do you wish your blogging platform, or service, did for you today?

B. What's missing in terms or tools or features?

C. Is social media working for you? Are you using it? Is it included in your blog or on your web site?

D. What's the biggest challenge you face: marketing, community management, customer relationship management, employee relations?

Love to hear your thoughts! I have already heard some great ideas from readers, and would love yours. Please add them via comments or email me directly lisa at lisa dot io.

Fred Davis hosts gadget night twice this year

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:08:00 -0800

Find out more here.

Fred has been widely quoted in publications such as Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and the Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared on many radio and television programs, including NPR's "All Things Considered," "CBS Evening News," and "ABC News."

My company 24/7 on every device

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Earlier than projected, BNO News launched news wire service focused on "providing comprehensive breaking news coverage to news media companies around the world." Msnbc.com will be the first of the service's new clients.

This is a telling step in the direction of what are critical media and newspaper organizations transforming themselves into a new type of news reporting. This is one that will ultimately be more accurate and comprehensive, but that will bring it's own challenges, yet the information dissemination, democratic involvement and the anticipatory services that will begin to surface will unwrap a significant communications shift, and subsequently, a multitude of world and cultural views and interaction changes.

BNO and many others are helping build in this direction. You can follow them at @BreakingNews on Twitter and through their iPhone application (BNO Breaking News). The service puts together Twitter updates and headlines from other sources, "up-to-the-second".

“News consumers increasingly demand a variety of sources and viewpoints, even while they expect information to find them whenever and wherever they want it,” said Jennifer Sizemore, msnbc.com Editor-in-Chief. With msnbc.com recently becoming BNO News’ first client, the company is now in talks with other publishers. “BNO News...will also offer local content to local media outlets in the United States.”

On the top of every media company executive's Christmas list?

1) Ways to stave off member attrition (at at low expense)
2) Ways to incorporate efficient advertising models (that work in the new world of peer-based recommendations, reputation, curation, filtering and lest SuperTweets)
3) Ways to take advantage of Web 2.0, light-step technology (without the burden of dealing with companies or technology that becomes obsolete)
4) Tickets to SofTech's Gadget Night in Marin on December 2, 2009
5) A pink 16 Gigabyte iPod Nano, etched with their company's logo.

What web sites, service or companies do you think are making the most headway in the direction of high-integrity, comprehensive news?

Take a step back

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:22:00 -0700

So many people are talking about real-time search and its integrity. Check out this chart from hthe AdMob Mobile Metrics Report (January 2009). AdMob serves ads for more than 6,000 mobile web sites and 400 applications around the world.

Suggest a look at the larger picture. While personal brands have their place, the above graph shows some interesting data. What's that dip in Chinese traffic?

Bailout Braggadocio

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:34:00 -0700

Have you noticed that Bank of America has settled in, looking doe-eyed at us whilst spamming our home phones recently? And Chase brands itself "New to California but not new to banking."

What a relief, do you need a roadmap then? I moved my accounts to another large bank after having identity fraud wipe my accounts clean 3 times in 2008. Lew McCreary was up late pondering this post from the Harvard Business Blog, a post called Bailout Marketing -- the Wrong Way.

2:40 AM Friday May 8, 2009
by Lew McCreary

Tags:Branding, Financial crisis, Marketing

What sort of marketing message makes sense for the modern post-apocalyptic lending institution?

Probably not this: I received a slick, expensive, 20-page brochure in the mail the other day from Bank of America, promoting its home loans and other excellent attributes. It was thick, colorful, printed on heavy (unrecycled) paper, with only a single "impact" word on several of the pages; my favorite of these was "Confidence," a clear case of whistling past the graveyard. My wife (a marketer) grabbed the thing, sniffed at it, and said, "My tax dollars at work."

Per Neilsen Online last year, here represented the largest ad spend for financial services:

Businesses are blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:42:00 -0700

A report conducted by Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., and Eric Mattson CEO, Financial Insite indicates a steady rise in Fortune 500 company's use of blogging.

"Each year Fortune Magazine compiles a list of America’s largest corporations. The list includes publicly and privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The Fortune 500 is a definitive list of the country's largest (by revenue) and most influential companies...

This study examined the 2008 Fortune 500 list in an attempt to quantify the adoption of social media by identifying those with public-facing blogs."

Social media = microblogging, multimedia blogging, podcasting and videoblogging, and participation in social networks like Facebook. Above image from the Neilsen Media blog.

"As social media becomes more integral to the business function, we should see evidence of it in the use of blogs, podcasts, Twitter or other tools. Given that the Fortune 500 stand as a model for business success, it is interesting to examine their involvement in the social media arena.

Eighty-one (16%) of the primary corporations listed on the 2008 Fortune 500 have a public-facing corporate blog with a post in the past 12 months. These early adopters include three of the top five corporations (Wal-Mart, Chevron and General Motors). The two remaining in the top 5, Exxon/Mobil and Conoco Philips do not have public-facing blogs at this time.

This study systematically examines the entire 2008 Fortune 500 list. Based on available information to date, the result is a higher percentage of Fortune 500 bloggers than suspected."

The Fortune 500 get it, follow along small and individual businesses. Social media is an effective way to distribute awareness about your business, service of product. It's also a way to gather customers.

Tide's Loads of Hope Campaign

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:52:00 -0700

Love hate relationships

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:22:00 -0800

Rafe Needleman is one of my favorite reporters. I wonder instead of being hated, how he manages to stay relatively well-liked. The other ironic thing is that by writing about how much they are hated, those five people must like him even more. Ah, there's the real magic.

I interviewed Rafe a while back about his initiative at CNET called Webware. Some insiders at CNET tell me that it doesn't directly make money (sounded a little paranoid actually), but I would tell CNET that Webware is great for it's own brand awareness, plus it raises visibility for all those companies and software applications.

Google is hiring

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:51:00 -0800

Google is hiring and here's what the ad on their web site said.

"Passionate about these topics? You should work at Google.

• algorithms
• artificial intelligence
• compiler optimization
• computer architecture
• computer graphics
• data compression
• data mining
• file system design
• genetic algorithms
• information retrieval
• machine learning
• natural language processing
• operating systems
• profiling
• robotics
• text processing
• user interface design
• web information retrieval
• and more!"

Lisa Padilla on Talenthouse

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:17:00 -0800

I just discovered Talenthouse. Here is their blog. This is a place to showcase and collaborate on all kinds of media projects. Trying it out...what do you think?

Cinegrid 3rd Annual Workshop 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:07:00 -0800

From La Jolla, CA...Fred Davis spoke at the 3rd Annual Cinegrid Workshop and I captured some pictures from the event.

I spot obstacles

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:26:00 -0700

Sad indeed, I just read this email from Eyepot.com.

From: noreply@eyespotcorp.com
To: lisa@informationcolony.com
Sent: 09 Oct '08 19:58
Subject: To Our Users and Customers:

We deeply regret to inform you that Eyespot Corporation will no longer be able to continue serving you.

For our users at eyespot.com, we're no longer allowing you to upload new videos. You can retrieve your uploaded video and mixes by going to your mymedia gallery and clicking the download link below the video thumbnail.

For our business customers in the eyespot video network, your site will continue operate unaffected for a limited period of time. We encourage you to migrate your video solution to one of our competing providers in the video mixing (e.g. http://corp.kaltura.com/) and video publishing space (e.g. http://www.fliqz.com/)
immediately. We'll soon be providing you with the means of downloading your community videos from within your dashboard at [http://eyespot.com/partnerDashboard].

We have spent three years providing over a hundred thousand of you with a unique video experience. We believed that by putting creative tools and rights-cleared media into the hands of influencers and connectors, Eyespot would enable social media and participation culture like no other company.

After playing over two hundred million of your video creations, we have to stop. After assembling possibly the most potent team in digital media ever, we're now moving on.

Thank you all for being apart of our community over the past three years.

Jim Kaskade
President & CEO

So what happened ? Isn't it a startup dream to be Eyespot? Demo your technology at Under the Radar in July 2006, raise a few million a couple of months later, that worked out to about a million per year.

Check out the site while you still can, users come and build libraries of copyright free video/etc material and the mash it up. Video editing, mashups, cool, yes? And evidently they have a business account (which you should make a backup of right away if you have one.)

Jumpcut was acquired by Yahoo! and now I wonder how they're going to do. I still see obstacles for video. You can read and listen to a couple of good interviews from other video-related sites like Voxant and ExpoTV on Lisacast.com.

The beta generation

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:25:00 -0700

Dangerous tools and environments were just a couple of the risks when the oil industry first started. That torturous first scene in the movie There Will Be Blood shows Daniel Day Lewis, the oil seeking maverick, injured and stranded with broken bones after a fall into the well he dug. There is payoff this time and his pain is outweighed by his joy when the oil shoots up from the earth allowing him victory. Of course there are many wells that don't pay off but one must keep plodding through each as if it would. Some wells seem to have more promise than others.

In my world of drilling and discovery, crude technology is the black gold sought.

New media technology has become so exciting in the past 3 or 4 years, even though it's played down by those sorely recollecting the 'Bubble.' Yet, it's rampant. Most TV shows have web sites and if the producer don't build it, the fans will. My daughter's orthodontist has her own radio show. You can order groceries, drugs, shoes, a wedding dress and your funeral casket -- all online. You'd need a wiki to detail all the opportunities for GPS and the technologies that use it for gaming, safety, military security, and finding a Starbucks close by. Gosh, that's hard, isn't it? Hey money gets there first sometimes. But don't worry, it's crowded, and the best software and service will rise to the top.

For example, rating and ranking systems are getting better because there is more data contained in them. Even if a restaurant owner gave themselves positive ratings, eventually those who rate their experience at the restaurant outweigh any biased rating submissions. Since polling technology has been around for a while now, it's becoming widely useful.

Video broadcast services are still young.

I ran into the director of business development from Ustream.tv last month at TC50. Hey great I thought, we are working on a high profile project and I told him I wanted to use the service to do private recordings. He said I would be better off with another service and rattled off a couple I didn't investigate yet. I was surprised he didn't want to work more closely and that the marketing department didn't follow up about redistributing the content, which is already proven popular on other networks. Other services? Well OK Ustream, but the thing was, I had three interviews set up and not one of them worked out, whether bandwidth issue or something we were never able to determine. Thankfully I was simultaneously recording the audio using either BlogTalkRadio or a home studio. BlogTalkRadio saved me (for the second time!) this summer as a redundant recording device when other technology failed. It will be great when video technology matures just a bit and we've over this hurdle. Please drop me a note if you know of a good video service I might try.

Talking with a board member from Greenpeace or the frustrated, English materials science professor, who arranged to let me interview him in the evening, made me feel a bit like Mr. Lewis in the well, before the oil came. Less messy, but equally horrific. Yet we, the beta generation, will continue to test the software, as technology is so much more valuable a resource than oil in the end.

Heartbreak to hero

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:38:00 -0700

It can be said that Alan Levy is a good business man, a direct and effective negotiator. He retooled existing, large telephony infrastructure technology into a free, light-weight web service anyone with a phone can figure out. He makes money on both premium services and advertising, as well as backend US numbers procured by the phone company he also owns. But the service, again, is free. And long distance is included with virtually every phone service these days.

I said "hero", because we'll all see heartbreak at some point, but few of us create a mechanism by which anyone can communicate, build community, share, connect with friends, family, paranormal psychologists, authors who write about paranormal psychologists, actors who play them on TV and activists concerned for the pet portrayals played therein. Smart businesses will take the technology, like Dave Winer did and build cool sub-services. They can use these privately like recorded conference calls, or on the fly via cell-phone only from the ballpark or town hall meeting. Podcast on-the-go.

While I don't work for the company now, I still love them and I respect what Alan did, coming back and building this for the world. He didn't need the money. He needed to give back and he did that for thousands of people. Listen to the discussion with Alan.

Social (Un)bookmarking

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:08:00 -0800

Social media was made for me. I have always favored personal bonds among colleagues and more often than not found it to strengthen the work created together. I have accounts at over 30 social networking sites. I Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Flickr and Blip. I chat on over half a dozen instant messaging clients. I write 4 blogs and echo each of those in excerpt or comment on many other web sites. I have several feed readers and foster relationships with influencers I respect to keep up with anything I might have missed.

My attention touches a lot of things and I like it that way. Some people feel that there is no intellect in the village, especially if the village is filled with idiots, but I disagree. We can learn much from this knowledge, about the variety of individual beliefs and collective views and about problem solving. So I'm a big fan, you can tell. But I want to raise a problem with social networking yet unsolved.

What's missing is the ability to socially "(un)bookmark" a topic. Now there are some smart guys out there, please will one of you build this? Here's what I need.

This is Clipmarks. This morning I was supposed to interview Clipmarks' CEO, Eric Goldstein, on Lisacast, my BlogTalkRadio show. I twittered the show and posted it on Facebook. I emailed my friends who don't social network. Show time came.

But he didn't show up.

This happens even to the best of us from time to time with live broadcasting and I cancelled the show for rescheduling. But...this is my reputation. So I had to go pull all of those posts down, rewrite my main blog about Clipmarks and send emails to several people.

What I want is a smart tool that will find all of the posts or notifications I made 1) within a time frame, 2) about a topic, 3) on multiple sites (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.). And 4) if the post was in the form of an email, this tool would generate a second email with something I have submitted in a text field one time, like this:

"Hey, sorry my show was cancelled today today. I'm certain that the reason Mr. Goldstein didn't call into the show was because of a very bad case of food poisoning or he had some type of CEO emergency. Please stay tuned.

Yours truly,
Lisa"

A while back I narrated a video project with Dan Gillmor and JD Lasica about correcting errors that are made online. This is one scenario, making an outright mistake. Surely corporations and individual contributors alike would see value in a tool that would help them clean up online posts for which they would like to limit visibility.

I think a tool that accomodates this requests would help people embrace social media without as much fear. After all, the Web is ours. We do with it what we will and part of that should include "undoing."

The diminishing isolated populisms

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:58:00 -0700

This week on BlogTalkRadio I had the opportunity to interview John Battelle. You can read up on John or read his blog, Searchblog. He offered a good discussion on information availability, social networks and what he calls "conversational media".

Here's where you can listen to our talk.

John spoke on the show about how interconnected social groups were becoming. So, from a chapter called The Computer and the Counterculture in the book The Cult of Information by Theodore Roszak, I pulled this quote. I believe it describes a fundamental change in individual isolation which is very powerful as most of us imagine:

"Both the quantity and content of available information is set by centralized institutions -- the press, TV, radio, news services, think-tanks, government agencies, schools and universities -- which are controlled by the same interests which control the rest of the economy. By keeping information flowing from the top down, they keep us isolated from each other. ...Computer technology has thus far been used ...mainly by the government and those it represents to store and quickly retrieve vast amounts of information about huge numbers of people...It is this pattern that convinves us that control over the flow of information is so crucial."
Resource One Newsletter April 1974, Berkeley, CA

The beauty (and beast) of free speech

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:02:00 -0700

Robert Scoble, famed Microsoft blogger and current media executive of PodTech joins the recently launched Social Media Club talk show on Blogtalkradio, adding his name to the who's who of A-listers (and B, C, D, E etc.-listers) who seem drawn to Blogtalkradio.

Why? Because it extends and enriches the freedom of speech and audience connection elements of blogging, making it a live, interactive conversation.

Does this beautiful freedom come with some new challenges when letters to the editor become the editorial itself? What about credibility, fact-checking and authority. Who's authority? Exactly the topic of conversation on today's talk show:

Listen to: The Social Media Club Show, with guests from north to south and east to west, each of us with a firm opinion about the changing nature of editorial reach and credibility.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hostpage.aspx?show_id=50791

Twittergram tours

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:15:00 -0700

Very interesting implementation of Twittergram by Adam Green over at feedonomics. Twittergrams are short sound bytes you can point into the world of Twitter, "microbroadcasting" to your social network or community. The idea came from Dave Winer, whose band of vigilante developers continue to push media distribution as far as they can. BlogTalkRadio provides the call-in capability, which records the Twittergram or you can upload pre-recorded mp3s on the Twittergram site. The LAFD is also using BlogTalkRadio for some great civic services. You guys are on fire! ;)

Aloha Lisacast

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:01:00 -0700

Join me tomorrow at 10 am PST (or download the podcast later) for Evern Williams and Dr. Lynette Cruz, broadcasting with me live on Lisacast.com. Williams is the community media manager at Olelo television in Honolulu, HI and Dr. Cruz is a cultural anthropology professor and public access activist.

I have my own ties to this part of the world having lived for a time on Oahu. I first learned about co-located server infrastructures on the first ISP on the islands. The gentleman I worked for, an engineer, taught me about data storage, security and the business of moving information. This was the foundation for my subsequent interest in media management and publishing. and the changes we've seen for more than a decade surrounding our romance with all things digital. I also held other odd but interesting jobs and had the best meal of my life to date, right there in downtown Honolulu. The name of the restaurant is Chef Mavro, by the way.

Tris and Jim launch The Mediasphere Show

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:17:00 -0700

My boss Alan Levy of BlogTalkRadio and I had a great time talking with Jim Turner and Tris Hussey on their new talk show today, The Mediasphere Show.

Their site, http://www.blogonomics.net, discusses social media. Humble and inquisitive, these podcasters gone broadcast are a fine addition to the BlogTalkRadio network -- welcome!

You can hear the show in archive here.

Our discussion touched on BlogTalkRadio's role in the new media realm which was a good follow-up to the Future of Blogging panel I was on at NBC11 last week with PodTech and BlogHer. Some great questions came from the audience on community policies and supporting blogging within the enterprise. Speaking of new media, user-generated broadcasts and such...NBC11 just launched NBC11HomeTown.com, a local reader-contributed news site. Very cool. Big media steps its toe in the pool of democratized content. A lot more of this is coming as the tools to broadcast, podcast and videocast are made more available to everyday people.

As Jim mentioned on the show, you don't need to be technical to have your own broadcast these days.

-Lisa Padilla
"Prodcaster" of Lisacast, a BlogTalkRadio show

"Future of blogging" at the Social Media Club

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:28:00 -0700

If you're in the Bay Area and you haven't attended a Social Media Club event yet, this might be the one. I'll be on a panel with Elisa Camahort, Tony Bove and Jeremy Owyang discussing the future of blogging. If you missed it you can catch a slightly less than high-quality video Jeremiah took here.

Ever wonder how you can use a blog? Whether you're reading them, writing them, or aggregating them, blogs are a powerful communication channel that should be part of your media mix. This panel of 3-4 blog experts looks at blogs from a number of angles. We'll cover:

-> Mining the blogosphere for market intelligence
-> External enterprise blogs
-> Internal enterprise blogs
-> Aggregating blogs
-> The future of blogs

Date
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Time
6:00 pm PT - 8:00 pm PT

Location
NBC11/KNTV
2450 N. First Street
San Jose, 95131

Convergent business

noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Padilla) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:06:00 -0700

NYC

I went to New York this week for the first time. It is a big, beautiful city filled with constant examples of the blur between consumers and businesses. This morning I interviewed Rafe Needleman of CNET's Webware on Lisacast, my weekly BlogTalkRadio talk show. I asked his views about the convergence of consumer software applications to those used in the work place.

You can listen here.

You can also listen to Hilary Leewong's 15-minutes of Fame show, where she interviewed me about Lisacast.