Global Neighbourhoods

Chris Baskind Launches EcoTechDaily Site with Lutz Review

Chris Baskind, a Twitter pal has launched EcoTech Daily, a new Green site that has a lot of great content. His very first blog post reviews the environmental portion of my recent 17-minute interview with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.

Lutz had told a group of journalists that, in his opinion, global warming may be "a crock... ." When I asked him about it, the driving force of GM's planned Chevy Volt told me that he regretted how he had phrased his comments. But emphasized that his central point was that even if global warming proves to be untrue, auto makers need to end dependence on fossile fuel and oil producing countries.

The entire EcoTech site seems quality to me. Chris seems intent on reporting useful and interesting information rather than preaching or shouting. Good luck, Chris.

Meet 'Hoot.' All others are just puppets.

Darren Rowse Announces PayPerTweet

I would have thought better of Darren Rowse. he has done some good things over the years. His newest way of making large piles of chump change, in my opinion, is not among them. One day after I warned about chnges a brewing in Twitter, Darren has announced PayPerTweet.

Darren posts some highly hyperbolic numbers that stretch his credibility the way strained credibility stretched Pinochio's nose. He claims there are 10s of millions of people using Twitter daily. No one, absolutely no one has produced any data to support numbers like that. He talks of Tweeters having 10s of thousands of followers. Perhaps a handful have over 10,000m followers. But according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, the average Tweeter posts three times a week and has about 10 followers.

Darren has not asked me what I think of this new endeavor, but I'll tell him right here, what I told Ted Murphy when he urged me to review his PayPerPost. I wrote "I hope you crash and burn."

Same at you, Darren.

Gruber finds JoyEngine in Boulder, CO

Frank Gruber was walking down the streets of Boulder when he stumbled upon JoyEngine, a neat shop selling original arts & crafts. He pointed his camera at the door, walked in, and had one of the owners give us a quick five minute tour.

The camera was handheld, and the sound of average quality.

It happens that I have a friend who just moved to Boulder, CO and she already knew the shop. When paula & I visit her, we will visit JoyEngine, thanks to Frank, but that alone would not be enough for me to post this.

This is the citizen journalism we are heading to. People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to some of us some of the time.

Frank, this is a great example of what is going to happen with increasing frequency and I thank you for it.

GlobalNeighbourhoods.TV is live! It's about time.

[NOTE-For some reason the embeds used in this post are not working properly for several people. I have a hunch there is user error on my part involved in the problem. Please just go to GlobalNeighbourhoods.tv and they should be fine. I am sorry for all the false starts and near starts today. I can't wait until we hit the point where we look back at it and smile.]

This is what I've been waiting to announce all day. GlobalNeighbourhoods.tv  is the newest channel on FastCompany.tv. It is live and in color and all the parts are working. You can subscribe, embed code, leave comments or whatever you wish.

Like so many startups, it has been a difficult delivery. My FastCompany production team has been in a long and occasionally painful labor, but they have delivered quadruplets. I hope you like our 1st four babies, which you can see below. We will bring a whole batch of new clips to you as quickly as we can.

Inside Intel, candid talks with CEO Paul Ottelini and Intel social media champion Ken Kaplan. They share how social media is changing things inside Intel and how Intel's technology will shape the evolution of social media.

Jeremiah Owyang talks Online Communities. The senior analyst for prestigious Forrester Research talks about his recent report on online communities and about the enterprise struggle to adapt to them. He also offers some useful tips to vendors wanting to pitch Forrester.

Peter Reiser, communities CTO for Sun Microsystems worldwide talks about the benefits and challenges of building communities behind the firewall.He hows some new and cool ways of measuring the relevance of conversations and shows how community collaboration makes search more efficient.

Hugh MacLeod explains how social objects inspire social gestures and why social objects are mire efficient and powerful than message hurling via traditional marketing approaches.

I'm new at this and have a good deal to learn. Scoble and Rocky are being generous with help, but I need more. Please let me know what I'm doing that works and doesn't work.

GlobalNeighbourhoods.tv is live at FastCompany--sort of

The first four episodes of GlobalNeighbourhoods.tv can now be previewed at this link.   If you go to the lower right-hand corner, you will see the episode there. IN a few hours I will have my own page, you will be able to subscribe to my channel, and there will be embedding capabilities.

I would have waited those few hours to launch this right, but Loren at 1938 discovered it and announced it was live, proclaiming it to be the worst video he has ever seen. Obviously, Loren doesn't watch his own stuff. I have seen Loren's stuff and I don't blame him.

There are four episodes up. Intel, which is the flagship piece. At some point.most GNTV's will look like that one; Hugh MacLeod talking about social objects; Sun's Peter Reiser talking about communities behind the firewall and Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang, talking about online communities in general. I hope you like them.

I'd love to hear what you think and I hold just about anyone's opinion higher than I do Loren's.

I go live on FastCompany.TV Wednesday

I go live at FastCompany.tv this Wednesday, March 19. There will be at least three clips on opening day:

• Inside Intel, featuring interviews with CEO Paul Ottelini and social media enthusiast Ken Kaplan. This is our flagship clip and it shows you the level of production we plan to have in every clip once we get going.
• Hugh Macleod . I interview the GapingVoid guru on social objects, why they are something completely different than brands.Hugh explains how social object can make companies wildly successful at low cost and high return on fun.
• Jeremiah Owyang has been called the new guru of corporate online communities and this interview gives you a glimpse as to why the title may be suitable. Jeremiah explains why companies need them. He also gives tips to vendors on how to and how not to pitch Forrester Research.

We will probably add one or two additionals clips to be announced on Wednesday as well. My very talented producer Michael Shick is peddling as fast as he can.

I know. This is the second delay of launch. But it's only a couple more days and it gives a an authentic start veneer. Besides there's going to be a new and improved video player, Scoble tells me.

Please come on Wednesday and tell me what you think. But be kind, I'm very juiced and more than a little nervous about this one.

Dell asks Shel How to Green the World

[NOTE: I kvetched in the original post below that Dell had not enabled me to catch embed code which allows me to show it's video interview with me. This was apparently user error on my part.

I have been having a ball running all over the place with a camera speaking to people about how social media is impacting business & culture for the past few weeks. But, like anyone in a start up situation, I've learned there are more moving parts than I had anticipated. One of them is learning how to be both an interviewer (where I am very experienced) and a videographer, where I am learning as I go along.

I'm delaying the start of of my GlobalNeighbourhoods TV program for one to two weeks. ScobleTV will start tomorrow night as planned. He has a new look and feel and has a bunch of stuff that he will be putting up for his launch. Go watch him at FastCompany.com. I will be debuting with my Intel magazine piece, featuring my interview with CEO Paul Otellini as soon as I can.

The first time I met Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, which runs FastCompany and Inc. magazines, he was quick to whip open a laptop and show me a closed beta version of it's new site that went into public beta this morning. He was quick to point out bugs that needed to be fixed and he dwelled upon the social networking aspects of the site like any startup team member.

Ed's Demo revealed to me a good deal about who he is and what they are trying to build at FastCompany and it immediately convinced me that I would be crazy to pass up a chance to join the team that Scoble had joined a day or two before.

The new site seems to me to be a clean and easy to navigate even though there's a whole lot there. What I think is most significant is that it is the most interactive of sites from a major media company. I can't wait for the online video component to go live on March 3, so that I can be a part of this.

Mranwhile, go over and take a look. Tell me or tell them what you think. Tell them how they can make it better. The more advice we get from your kind of crowd, the better FastCompany will become.

Postponing the start of GNTV

I have been having a ball running all over the place with a camera speaking to people about how social media is impacting business & culture for the past few weeks. But, like anyone in a start up situation, I've learned there are more moving parts than I had anticipated. One of them is learning how to be both an interviewer (where I am very experienced) and a videographer, where I am learning as I go along.

I'm delaying the start of of my GlobalNeighbourhoods TV program for one to two weeks. ScobleTV will start tomorrow night as planned. He has a new look and feel and has a bunch of stuff that he will be putting up for his launch. Go watch him at FastCompany.com. I will be debuting with my Intel magazine piece, featuring my interview with CEO Paul Otellini as soon as I can.

The new FastCompany.com: most social of media company sites

The first time I met Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, which runs FastCompany and Inc. magazines, he was quick to whip open a laptop and show me a closed beta version of it's new site that went into public beta this morning. He was quick to point out bugs that needed to be fixed and he dwelled upon the social networking aspects of the site like any startup team member.

Ed's Demo revealed to me a good deal about who he is and what they are trying to build at FastCompany and it immediately convinced me that I would be crazy to pass up a chance to join the team that Scoble had joined a day or two before.

The new site seems to me to be a clean and easy to navigate even though there's a whole lot there. What I think is most significant is that it is the most interactive of sites from a major media company. I can't wait for the online video component to go live on March 3, so that I can be a part of this.

Mranwhile, go over and take a look. Tell me or tell them what you think. Tell them how they can make it better. The more advice we get from your kind of crowd, the better FastCompany will become.