Introducing ScobleShow

September 26, 2006 By

It’s 1 a.m. and the engineering team, me, and Valerie, are still working at the office. But the show is slowly coming up. The URL is at http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/ 

Stuff is still broken, and probably will be for a little while longer.

But, enough is up that I should probably write an introduce you to what I’ve done and where I’m gonna go.

So, what’s the ScobleShow?

It’s a videoblog. This week it’ll be updated only once (today). Starting in about another week it’ll see a new post or two every day (five to 10 posts a week).

I hate rules. So I won’t stick with any here.

On this week’s show I have:

1) An interview with a CEO. Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz.
2) A demo of a new product. JotSpot, which is an Enterprise Wiki service that you might like.
3) A creative segment called “Photowalking” where we follow around Thomas Hawk as he makes images. This is actually the first of four segments (the others will be up probably tomorrow — this was more than an hour alone, so had to break it up a bit).
4) An audio interview with a geek. Tim Bray, co-creator of XML.
5) A language war in my mom’s house at Off-the-Grid. Something fun to spark a conversation.
6) Mad mojitos at the Ritz. A conversation with two CEOs on the back deck of the Ritz in Half Moon Bay.
7) A tour of Printing for Less. This should be in Business Week. 8) SAP’s executive star Shai Agassi talking about business.

Anyway, the page isn’t the prettiest. I haven’t done cool audio leadins or funky music or gotten someone to do 3D wooshy video elements.

If you only had a little bit of time to check it out, I’d probably do the Photowalking segment. That was a lot of fun. I’m looking for more photographers to follow along, so if this inspires you and you’re a good photographer and you’d like to share your creative time, please send me email (robertscoble@hotmail.com).

If you’re an entrepreneur you’ll be inspired by the Printing for Less tour. That’s quite a remarkable business. Remember, Andrew Field, its CEO, is building that business out in the middle of nowhere. Notice how well he treats his employees (TRIPLE SCREENS!!! Show THAT to your boss).

Each of these is enjoyable, though. Even the demo, which comes across as a commercial (none of this content was paid for, by the way) taught me a lot. I’m looking for other companies to do that with.

What’s next? Well, this is really an alpha. I see a ton of stuff we need to do with the Web site. It’s not Channel 9 yet. I want to step up the quality of the interviews too, but that’ll be pretty hard cause these are all pretty good subjects.

That’s where you come in. This is in your hands now. Would love to know what you think, even if you think it sucks, and where/who/what you want me to film next.

UPDATE: If you could go and Digg it, I’d really appreciate it.

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  • http://radaronpaws.wordpress.com/ radaronpaws

    Robert, congrats on the show being up now, btw. I enjoyed the two I watched (Thomas Hawk and language wars). I don’t remember there being any info in the language wars about who those dudes were though – some background info would be nice.

  • http://thomashawk.com/ Thomas Hawk

    Thanks Robert. I thought the Photo Walking episode came out really well. Looking forward to the next episodes in this series and doing more of these. It really was a lot of fun. I threw another photo of our walk up on Flickr today http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/253375694/ and have a complete set of the walk available in a SmartSet up on Zooomr here:

    http://beta.zooomr.com/smartsets/thomashawk/1913 All the shots are avaiable in high res if anyone wants to download any of them.

    Hope to add more shots to the Zooomr set in the next few days.

  • http://thomashawk.com Thomas Hawk

    Thanks Robert. I thought the Photo Walking episode came out really well. Looking forward to the next episodes in this series and doing more of these. It really was a lot of fun. I threw another photo of our walk up on Flickr today http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/253375694/ and have a complete set of the walk available in a SmartSet up on Zooomr here:

    http://beta.zooomr.com/smartsets/thomashawk/1913 All the shots are avaiable in high res if anyone wants to download any of them.

    Hope to add more shots to the Zooomr set in the next few days.

  • Nichole Khan

    At first glance, this looks really cool! I can’t wait to test it out more…and will provide my thoughts soon. Great work team!!

  • Nichole Khan

    At first glance, this looks really cool! I can’t wait to test it out more…and will provide my thoughts soon. Great work team!!

  • Albert

    I really like the photowalking, interesting stuff. A pity I have to convert to Divx to watch it, takes a little time. Guess I have to blame myself for hating kwiktime so much…

  • Albert

    I really like the photowalking, interesting stuff. A pity I have to convert to Divx to watch it, takes a little time. Guess I have to blame myself for hating kwiktime so much…

  • http://drallas.wordpress.com/ drallas

    He robert

    I’m glad your “back” i’m looking forward to many more enjoyable inside interviews…. You’re questions are often the ones i would like to ask myself.

    Could you do an item about how IT and technology are becomming more and more usefull for sporters (not only pro’s)

    http://www.adidas-polar.com/

    And please try to sneak inside Microsoft once and a while for the scobleshow as well.

  • http://drallas.wordpress.com/ drallas

    He robert

    I’m glad your “back” i’m looking forward to many more enjoyable inside interviews…. You’re questions are often the ones i would like to ask myself.

    Could you do an item about how IT and technology are becomming more and more usefull for sporters (not only pro’s)

    http://www.adidas-polar.com/

    And please try to sneak inside Microsoft once and a while for the scobleshow as well.

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  • Russ Henry

    To bad the Channel 9 server is having run time errors.
    Just e-mailed a few DOD app guys to check it out.

  • Russ Henry

    To bad the Channel 9 server is having run time errors.
    Just e-mailed a few DOD app guys to check it out.

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  • TAG

    Robert,
    You are poor man submitting own stories to Digg.

    You used to talk about influencers (http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/google-sticks-its-toe-into-enterprise-waters/ ) and how it’s good that geeks real your blog – not simply a dumb mass of newspaper subscribers.

    If your new show was interesting – then somebody for sure will submit it to Digg. Unfortunately looks like you don’t believe in it’s quality.

  • TAG

    Robert,
    You are poor man submitting own stories to Digg.

    You used to talk about influencers (http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/google-sticks-its-toe-into-enterprise-waters/ ) and how it’s good that geeks real your blog – not simply a dumb mass of newspaper subscribers.

    If your new show was interesting – then somebody for sure will submit it to Digg. Unfortunately looks like you don’t believe in it’s quality.

  • http://blogs.opml.org/GLuft3/ George Luft

    Robert, I wish you well with your new show. The bleary-eyed meta video was a great way to kick it off with a personal touch.

    Is there any way you can distribute these files with BitTorrent? These things are friggin’ huge!

    I’m surprised more (any??) torrent-aware podcast clients don’t exist. You should be able to host an RSS feed of torrent files, and even run your own tracker–all for a lot less bandwidth than you’d burn serving up all these files yourself. And ultimately, everyone would get quicker downloads.

  • http://blogs.opml.org/GLuft3/ George Luft

    Robert, I wish you well with your new show. The bleary-eyed meta video was a great way to kick it off with a personal touch.

    Is there any way you can distribute these files with BitTorrent? These things are friggin’ huge!

    I’m surprised more (any??) torrent-aware podcast clients don’t exist. You should be able to host an RSS feed of torrent files, and even run your own tracker–all for a lot less bandwidth than you’d burn serving up all these files yourself. And ultimately, everyone would get quicker downloads.

  • http://blog.grantlairdjr.com/ Grant W Laird Jr.

    Please do not forget transcript or subtitle for all those video and/or podcast!!

    gwlj

  • http://blog.grantlairdjr.com Grant W Laird Jr.

    Please do not forget transcript or subtitle for all those video and/or podcast!!

    gwlj

  • http://devjunky.wordpress.com/ devjunky

    Robert, great videos. I really enjoyed photowalking and the printing for less tour. Keep them coming!

  • http://devjunky.wordpress.com/ devjunky

    Robert, great videos. I really enjoyed photowalking and the printing for less tour. Keep them coming!

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  • http://www.tubetorial.com/ Brian

    Liked the demo Robert! I still think you should be screencasting parts of it, but we can continue that debate. :)

  • http://www.tubetorial.com Brian

    Liked the demo Robert! I still think you should be screencasting parts of it, but we can continue that debate. :)

  • http://will.hughesfamily.net.au/ Will

    Hi Robert,

    Any chance you could add a few additional formats to the list, please?

    Preferably Flash Video embedded on the site so I can watch during my lunch break at work.

    I also can’t play Quicktime on my PDA (another place I listen to/watch video/audio casts for my commute).

    I’d give some feedback on what the show was like.. but err, well… I can’t watch it (for the above reasons).

    Cheers

  • http://will.hughesfamily.net.au/ Will

    Hi Robert,

    Any chance you could add a few additional formats to the list, please?

    Preferably Flash Video embedded on the site so I can watch during my lunch break at work.

    I also can’t play Quicktime on my PDA (another place I listen to/watch video/audio casts for my commute).

    I’d give some feedback on what the show was like.. but err, well… I can’t watch it (for the above reasons).

    Cheers

  • http://stresslimitdesign.com/ Shaula Evans

    Congratulations on the launch. Quite the explosion of content to get started with, too — nice choice.

    I hope there’s been much rejoicing and active celebrating around your office this afternoon. :)

  • http://stresslimitdesign.com Shaula Evans

    Congratulations on the launch. Quite the explosion of content to get started with, too — nice choice.

    I hope there’s been much rejoicing and active celebrating around your office this afternoon. :)

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  • http://www.feltuptv.com/ Eric Skiff

    I’ve got democracy dumping videos to our MythTV setup in the livingroom (think open-source iTV :) ) and my wife and I watched two episodes from the couch tonight.

    A few thoughts:

    1) I’d really love to hear you better. You’ve invested in great cameras, please consider investing in some sort of audio upgrade as well (be it wireless lapel mics, or even just a simple external mic you can set on the table between you and your interviewee)

    2) This is going to be amazing!

    Seriously, that was just about the only criticism I had. We watched the interview with the Sun CEO (very interesting to hear his take on open source Java and why Sun matters) and the JotSpot demo, which certainly caught my interest.

    I’m a geek, so keeping me interested in these topics isn’t hard. The beauty is that Sara said “that looks very cool” after watching the jotspot piece, which means she was engaged and interested!

    Great work and good luck! I think great things are ahead.

  • http://www.feltuptv.com Eric Skiff

    I’ve got democracy dumping videos to our MythTV setup in the livingroom (think open-source iTV :) ) and my wife and I watched two episodes from the couch tonight.

    A few thoughts:

    1) I’d really love to hear you better. You’ve invested in great cameras, please consider investing in some sort of audio upgrade as well (be it wireless lapel mics, or even just a simple external mic you can set on the table between you and your interviewee)

    2) This is going to be amazing!

    Seriously, that was just about the only criticism I had. We watched the interview with the Sun CEO (very interesting to hear his take on open source Java and why Sun matters) and the JotSpot demo, which certainly caught my interest.

    I’m a geek, so keeping me interested in these topics isn’t hard. The beauty is that Sara said “that looks very cool” after watching the jotspot piece, which means she was engaged and interested!

    Great work and good luck! I think great things are ahead.

  • http://selfdeprecatingjournalism.blogspot.com/ Brook

    Loving the content, but I can’t hear everything. You have a volume issue. Fill the interview environment with 100 microphones, take all the audio files and convert them all to mono. There will be an echo, but I don’t care because at least I will be able to hear what is being said.

  • http://selfdeprecatingjournalism.blogspot.com Brook

    Loving the content, but I can’t hear everything. You have a volume issue. Fill the interview environment with 100 microphones, take all the audio files and convert them all to mono. There will be an echo, but I don’t care because at least I will be able to hear what is being said.

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  • http://www.p0mi.com/ Dan

    Five seconds into the Schwartz interview and you’re already doing the nervous laughter thing…

  • http://www.p0mi.com Dan

    Five seconds into the Schwartz interview and you’re already doing the nervous laughter thing…

  • http://alfredo.octavio.net/ Alfredo Octavio

    Great videos, Robert! And thanks for putting them in a logical format. This is the first time I can see your videos without jumping through hoops and I appreciate it. Already subscribed. Keep it up!

  • http://alfredo.octavio.net/ Alfredo Octavio

    Great videos, Robert! And thanks for putting them in a logical format. This is the first time I can see your videos without jumping through hoops and I appreciate it. Already subscribed. Keep it up!

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Dan: I laugh a lot even when the camera isn’t on. If you got to know me you’d know that.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Dan: I laugh a lot even when the camera isn’t on. If you got to know me you’d know that.

  • http://www.mychurch.org/ Joe

    Congrats on the launch. Carol is looking forward to demoing :) Come on over anytime!

  • http://www.mychurch.org Joe

    Congrats on the launch. Carol is looking forward to demoing :) Come on over anytime!

  • Diego

    “Diego: the language war is up now.”

    Cool! Thanks Robert! :)

  • Diego

    “Diego: the language war is up now.”

    Cool! Thanks Robert! :)

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