Weekend round-up

"In various corners of the Web, people are producing real, episodic TV shows, including news, drama and comedy -- sometimes with real actors and professional production values. Some of these longer-form, episodic shows are called video blogs, or vlogs, but others simply call themselves shows. Instead of lasting just a few minutes, they can run up to half an hour. These programs have more in common with regular broadcast and cable shows than with those emailed clips.

One of these days, a real hit show will emerge on the Web."

That's from Walter S.Mossberg in the WSJ. The whole article here.

Another authority well known for telling it as he sees it is Michael Rosenblum, often seen as the scourge of the conventional television newsroom. He is now blogging. I have added him to my 'must read' blogroll on the left and the link is here. His blogs subtitle is The Video Revolution Starts Here.

NewTeeVee seems to be smoking the same stuff here. They highlight

Five Technologies Changing Video

1. The reality of IPTV

2. Frickin' supercomputers

3. The death of analogue

4. Video search and programming

5. Touch me, feel me TV

Finally for the week BeetTV has a follow-up to the first story about Ford - the model agency - re-inventing itself as a media company.

And, lest we forget, this...