Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno, yet another take

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:34:36 +0000

With all the silliness going on over the Leno/Conan games, why not include one more silly post. Before I get too far, let me clear: I know there was an earthquake in Haiti and, for that matter, actual issues all over the planet. But, this is fun time, which means, my two cents.

So, here we go:

Let’s keep some things in perspective here

1) Leno was initially ousted from the tonight show 2 or 3 years ago when it was decreed that Conan would be moved up in 2009 to the tonight show. This was to bring in a younger demographic to the show. This isn’t speculation, this was widely reported fact. Leno wasn’t a happy guy about this, but he towed the line. (The upshot here is that Leno didn’t “give” the show to Conan, only to take it back)

2) To keep Leno from looking around to other networks, the Jay Leno show was conceived. It was risky at best, but hey, I’m going to give NBC credit for trying something different as opposed to yet another “Law and Order” variant.

3) Conan’s show moving back to 12:35: It’s not like he actually tapes the show at 11:35 at night and now he would be stuck taping it at 12:35 in the morning. Cry me a f’ing river. He tapes sometime around 5pm and goes home. (Having said that, let me be clear, I think Conan is the funnier guy, but to be claimed he’s somehow getting screwed over is ludicrous.)

In summary: Is this really important to anybody beyond Leno, Conan and their staff. Not really. Do I want to see how it turns out? You betcha. Kind of like the Apple Tablet, I want to see how it turns out

Watching Pay Per View on Ustream

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:22:22 +0000

I had an interesting weekend. I keep a couple of search columns on Tweetdeck open for ?ustream? and ?stickam? looking for interesting feeds(hey, I spent a week watching the Burning Man festival feed). Suddenly there was a lot of activity under ?ustream? about ?the fight?. It was the Mayweather-Marquez fight that was on pay per view. Sure enough somebody had routed the video into a ustream feed.

Not to surprisingly about 25 minutes later:

But there were a couple more feeds using the old fashioned shoot the camera at screen method.

In-between rounds the camera would swing around and the hosts would responds to the chat room. An interesting way to go.

Here was another camera shot feed, less framed up.

We live in interesting times. And suspect there?s an interesting meeting going on at Ustream headquarters today with interesting phone calls being made. And that leads to interesting questions about ways to prevent this, can you prevent this, should you even try. I?ve seen plenty of ustream feeds showing old public domain movies, but this is the first time for this (for all I know, this goes on all the time). But it brings up the you argument of how responsible is the website(publisher) for the activities of it subscribers. Me, I?ll just watch.

I had an interesting weekend. I keep a couple of search columns on Tweetdeck open for “ustream” and “stickam” looking for interesting feeds(hey, I spent a week watching the Burning Man festival feed). Suddenly there was a lot of activity under “ustream” about “the fight”. It was the Mayweather-Marquez fight that was on pay per view. Sure enough somebody had routed the video into a ustream feed.

pay per view fight on ustream

A quick note: more than 5700 viewers, wow. (I guess if your viewer count is lower than you’d like, start pointing your webcam at HBO)

Not to surprisingly about 25 minutes later:

banned

But there were a couple more feeds using the old fashioned “shoot the camera at the screen” method.

camera screen shot

This guy’s view counter went up to 2662 after the other channel was banned. In-between rounds the camera would swing around and the hosts would responds to the chat room. An interesting way to go.

Here was another camera shot feed, less framed up.

another camera screen shot

We live in interesting times. And suspect there’s an interesting meeting going on at Ustream headquarters today with interesting phone calls being made. And that leads to interesting questions about ways to prevent this, can you prevent this, should you even try. I’ve seen plenty of ustream feeds showing old public domain movies, but this is the first time for this (for all I know, this goes on all the time). But it brings up the you argument of how responsible is the website(publisher) for the activities of it subscribers. Me, I’ll just watch.

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Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno, yet another take

Watching Pay Per View on Ustream