Author Archive | Ken McCarthy

Called it…did it – in real time

A few days ago, I accepted what sounded like a totally insane challenge.

A friend asked if I could help promote a video I made for her group on YouTube.

“What category?” I asked.

“News and politics,” she said.

“Let …

We hit a million plus viewers again in the month of August, but that’s not what I’m really excited about.

A friend and I made this video from scratch – from concept, to script, to production, to being seen by …

After two years of very part-time experimentation, I’ve come up with a formula that this past month (July 2008) generated over 1,000,000 video views.

Better yet, traffic for the test site is growing at 10% per month – and it’s …

I had friends who played in virtual worlds in the late 1970s (they needed mainframe access back then.)

I didn’t get it then – and I don’t get it now – but whether I get it or not doesn’t matter.…

A bit long-winded (he’s an academic) but when he finally makes his point at the end, it’s a pretty good one.

Actually, John Walker, co-founder founder of AutoCAD, made this same point brilliantly way back in the early nineties. The …

There’s so much going on in Internet video, just tracking it could be a full time job.

Unfortunately, I already have a full time “job” (actually a couple of them): running a business; organizing and hosting the annual System Seminar; …