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While at the Web Of Change conference in September of 2005 I spent a fair amount of time talking to Mike Gifford of Open Concept Consulting about CivicActions and our business model and how it can be a model for new open source web development consultancies. Upon our returns to the real world, Mike wrote me with some questions, at that point I brought Henri Poole, one of the founders of CivicActions into the discussion.
The NYT ran this article over the weekend about Rocketboom the pioneering daily video log which is now positioned to be a perfect video download to the new video ipod. As the article reports, with about 100k viewerd, rocketboom could be making big money selling adversing. The video is only a few minutes long and could be bookened with short ads. 100k viewers is up there with a bunch of the cable news programs. Why aren’t there more such video casts? I could see a network of such short spots that users could then assemble their own program from through taxonomic searching. Some of us at CivicActions mused about a system that could aggregate and classify public televisions and public access television programming from around the country. Users could then subscribe to certain terms, or specific feeds, the result would be a show assembled on the fly of segments the user wants to see.