Category: Stories Worth Watching

  • We’ve been fans of live webcast platform Livestream since we used their professional service for our TEDx Seattle event a year and a half ago.  Right now, I’m watching the OccupyNYC stream in amazement as the police raid Liberty Park.  It looks like a real newscast, complete with news ticker at the bottom of the…

  • Our new Four Peaks show which “collides” the expertise and experiences of two thought leaders debuts this coming week on UWTV.  I’m sure they’ll post the full show to our microsite as soon as it airs on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Pacific.  We recorded the show last Thursday.  It was challenging, primarily because my goal…

  • Despite my position as the head of a graduate program in digital media, I’ve always held on to a plethora of print (a.k.a. “dead tree) newspaper and magazine subscriptions.  They’re usually much cheaper than their digital counterparts, and I liked the often serendipitous browsing experience — not to mention the disconnected zen of knowledge absorption.…

  • Terrific insights on Media Space TV from transmedia storytelling (a.k.a. “multiplatform storytelling”) guru Brent Friedman, the importance of gaming, and how the Pacific Northwest has the right technological infrastructure to support this form of narrative. Also watch the Four Peaks salon that followed on net neutrality here.