Join me in a probing live online discussion with Casey and Rudy where you will be able pose your questions via text chat and our open phones segment. Find out how their journey is going as they explore new creative worlds and go where no video podcast has gone before.

When: Thursday, Nov 30, 10PM Eastern (7PM Pacific)
Where: The Reinventing Television online studio
What: A live interactive web video talk show with Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan of Galacticast, host Jonny Goldstein, and most important, you.

What: A live, interactive, web video talk show hosted by Jonny Goldstein.

This week’s headliner is TV and film star, Daniel McVicar, who is a regular in the The Bold and the Beautiful and has starred in projects with legends Ben Gazzara and Gina Lollabrigida. His most recent project is The Late Nite Mash, which features “Comedy, stars, music & you” and appears as a videoblog on the web. What is the lure of the internet for a TV and big screen star like McVicar? Find out this Thursday!

We’ll open with producers Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf of Smashface Productions, a new-media powerhouse which creates delicious fare like JetSet Show and RSS News.

Where to watch: Right here in the Reinventing Television Studio.

Where: Right here in the Reinventing Television Studio

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More about our guests:

Ryanne Hodson Co-author of Secrets of Videoblogging, vlogs at ryanedit.com, co-founder of NODE 101, and co-producer of Ryan is Hungry.

Michael Verdi Co-author of Secrets of Videoblogging, vlogs at michaelverdi.com, co-founder of NODE101, edits for Alive in Baghdad.

Jay Dedman Co-Author of Extreme Tech: Videoblogging, vlogs at MomentShowing, co-founder of the Yahoo Videoblogging Group,co-founder of NODE101, co-producer of Ryan is Hungry.

It looks like Erik Nelson and friends are starting it all up again. Join the fun and spread the word about the vlogosphere’s greatest delicacy: Carp Caviar.

This week’s guest, Marc Lesser, is on the front lines of reinventing television with his independent videoblog, The Joke Project. What’s is it like to produce a daily online video documentary about what is perhaps the oldest storytelling form, the joke? The Joke Project is starting to get approached by various media outlets to license its gut busting content. What are the possibilities and pitfalls in trying to get a funny video project to provide its creators with a serious revenue stream? This is your chance to find out answers to these questions, and many more as you help me pick the brain of this up and coming media mogul. As usual, you the audience will be able to text chat questions and participate in our open phones segment.

In addition to his work on The Joke Project, Mark is a producer-editor at NBC Digital Studios. Hope to see you at this bellylaugh-o-ricious installment of Reinventing Television.

When: Thurs, Nov 2, 10PM Eastern

Where: Right here in the Reinventing Television Virtual Studio

(Photo Credit: Alive in Baghdad)

I am thrilled to have Brian Conley and Omar Abdullah of the groundbreaking videoblog, Alive in Baghdad booked as guests on Reinventing Television tonight, Thursday, October 26 at 7PM Pacific (10PM Eastern).

Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, ‘Live From’ news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.

Omar will be with us by phone, assuming he can get through from Baghdad, which is, as you can imagine, a bit iffy. I am keeping my fingers crossed. Either way, Brian will be with us, so we’ll have plenty to talk about.

As a special bonus, we’ll have a appearance from Irina Slutsky (of Geek Entertainment TV and Podtech) who will give us an upddate on the Vloggies.

As always, you will be able to ask our guests questions and make your voice heard through text chat and the open phone segment. You do not want to miss this episode.

When: 7PM Pacific (10PM Eastern), Thursday, October 26.

How it works: Log in to the video conference Right here

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When: 10PM Eastern, Thurs, Oct 12
What: An interactive live web video talk show
How: Log in here to enter the virtual studio. You will need a broadband connection for the video and a phone for audio. During the show you can text chat questions and comments, and there will be an open phones segment where everyone, including you, will be able to join the live discussion. Come join the frenzy!

Maria Gomez is the latest candidate for Have Money Will Vlog, an innovative project to fund innovative vlog projects. Maria is in the midst of producing a documuntary on migrants to the USA, future and past, from her native Columbia, and the pressures that have driven over 10 percent of Columbia’s citizens to migrate from that country. Maria has already intereviewed many Colombian immigrants in New York City, and now she wants to take a 4 month trip back to Colombia to gather stories of those still waiting to
migrate north.This is just the kind of innovative media that deserves our support. If you want to help Maria reach her goal of telling these migration stories, go to Have Money Will Vlog and help her fund this project.

(Note. I just swapped out the video I had up earlier due to its attrocious audio quality. This one’s basically the same, but with better audio).

Katie Couric just instituted a segment on the CBS news called "Free Speech." It is a good idea but doesn’t go nearly far enough. Basically, she gets big-name people to sound off about something they feel strongly about. She should involve us regular folks in the conversation by creating a website where we can upload our own video opinions, we can vote and comment on each others’ opinions, and CBS can use selected opinions from the website in their free speech segment. If you want Katie to open up the conversation, upload a video expressing your opinion about any issue, and tag it “sayittokatie”. And check out sayittokatie.com for more info. Special shout out to Jeff Jarvis? for the idea, and Steve Garfield for spreading the word.

To take the survey visit here.

You can also view her dissertation blog at videoblogdissertation.blogspot.com
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Katie Couric has a video blog.

It plays on a Mac! There are some buffering issues, but that’s expected.

Katie Couric’s Notebook looks like TV on the web. She seems to be reading a teleprompter…

It feels fake and genuine at the same time.

Weird. Like TV I guess.

Her First Look segment is a lot better, Fun!

Say what you will about Jason Calacanis and the new Netscape, but he is one of the few people looking to actually pay people for work they love and I think that is wicked cool. (Personally, I think he is one step ahead of the internet and is not just talking about it either like most of us …but actually doing it.)

Basically, Netscape is looking for a full time New York based vlogger. Traveling, writing and developing online video and audio content for Netscape (both podcasts and video podcasts) is the basic job description. Specifics are as follows:

The Netscape anchor added a bit more If you think you fit the bill, send me an email (ck at newnetscape dot com) with subject line “Netscape Anchor / Preditor“, a cover letter, resume, and a link to both an online writing sample (your blog will do) and some online sample of your video work. Remember: we’re looking for a “one person band,” jack-of-all-trades who can do all this work without the benefit of a full film crew and staff.

Sounds like a heaven sent opportunity for the right vlogger. I’d run to this job in a New York minute, but alas…I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

More details here: Wicked cool vlogging at Netscape

U.S. District Judge William Alsup found Josh Wolf in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena that the grand jury issued in February for tapes Wolf made of the July 2005 demonstration in the Mission District. Wolf posted some of the videos on his Web site — thisrevolution.blogspot.com/2006/07/1-year-ago.html — and sold that footage to local television stations. Federal prosecutors demanded the rest of the tapes, saying they might contain evidence of attempted arson. Link to article

Ryan Hodson shot a ten minute video of a press conference held by Wolf immediately before today’s hearing (Correction, this was shot on July 24). Hodson had this to say about the importance of this case:

For us, it’s important to support journalists or anyone with a camera being harassed by the government to turn over recordings of public events that each of us has every right to record. We don’t want the government, local or federal, to make it a habit of asking for anything we happen to record. Then we each might question: “Do I want to record this and be harassed later on?” This is especially true during controversial political events.

California has a shield law which gives journalists the right to refuse to give unpublished work to prosecutors, but there is no federal shield law. The prosecutors claim a police car was burned at the protest, and since the San Francisco Police Department receives federal funds, they argue that burning the car is a federal offence.

Wolf will be imprisoned for at least 10 days, until his appeal of the contempt order is heard. If he loses the appeal he could be jailed until this coming July.

On a personal note, I met Josh in June at Vloggercon 2006 in San Francisco. We talked about his legal travails, and he came across as sincere and principled. I feel like the federal government is reaching too far in this case. I’m going to contribute money to his legal defense fund, and if upon examining his case you support him, I urge you to do the same.

It’s the one-year anniversary of the conception of Road Node 101 and Jan Mclaughlin of The Faux Press is off again on another vlog filled adventure. Click the picture to find out all about it.

Jan’s driving the mid-west this August. She’s planning to stop in Pittsburgh, Toledo, Chicago, Miniappolis, Fargo, Montana, Vloggercue, the Ozarks and then back to North Jersey.

Please contribute a tank of gas to Jan’s trip. She has a Paypal contribution button on her site. As Jan would say, press it because you can. If you’re on the route, meetup with Jan for a Meet The Vloggers. She could probably use a place to crash too.