Interview with Ed O’Keefe, Editor-in-Chief of NowThis News (Time: 28 min.)

Ed O’Keefe (@nowthisnews) spent twelve years working in network television with ABC News. Last year, the seasoned journalist joined NowThis News, a privately-funded news channel designed specifically for a mobile and social audience (Download the NowThis News app from the Apple iTunes store or the Google Play store).

While the network is working towards this mobile-specific goal, its primary viewing is via the “traditional” Web on desktop and laptop PCs. That accounts for 70 percent of all traffic. Most of that traffic is driven through syndication and distribution partners. Since the network’s launch in September 2012 until April, 2013, NowThis News has garnered 20 million video views.

O’Keefe and I chatted about the launch of the new network and what it means to produce video for a mobile and social audience. Here’s his advice.

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Interview with Ubergizmo co-founders Eliane Fiolet and Hubert Nguyen. (Time 32 min)

At the beginning of every year, Eliane Fiolet (@elianefiolet) and Hubert Nguyen (@hubertnguyen) descend on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a.k.a. CES, with a huge job, to publish an average of 100 blog posts a day on their gadget review and tech news site, Ubergizmo (@ubergizmo). While they cover lots of other big tech events such as CeBIT and Mobile World Congress, CES is a huge project for their site because it’s the launching pad for so many consumer tech products. Ubergizmo’s editorial mandate is to deliver the latest news on tech products as they’re released. That’s why being at CES and releasing stories as fast as possible, especially on the first day of the show, when most of the announcements are made, is critical.

Fiolet and Nguyen came to the Hacking Media Production studio for an interview and we discussed how they pulled off this unbelievable feat every year.

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On BeanCast: Insulting Fat People and Is Real-Time Advertising a Fad

May 13, 2013
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A spirited debate that involves also includes Nielsen recognizing online video on par with over-the-air video, how a slow web page can kill sales, and the value of G+.

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Hacking Media Production Podcast: Using Storify to Produce Content

May 8, 2013
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Storify co-founder, Burt Herman, on ways journalists, marketers, and political groups have been using his product to collect and publish information from the Web.

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20 Reasons to Move Your Startup to Vegas

May 8, 2013
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All the most brilliant minds in tech are not in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many are in other hot cities. On the last stop of the New Tech Tour in Las Vegas, I asked attendees to tell me why the tech scene is so hot there.

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27 of the Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned Since Starting My Own Business

May 7, 2013
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Over 6 years I’ve learned a few things about running a business, but I have tons more to learn.

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Hacking Media Production Podcast: Producing a Daily Web Show in Two Hours

May 1, 2013
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Interview with Rooftop Media CEO, Will Rogers, on publishing topical comedy video content before anyone else.

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20 Pieces of Business Advice You Should Ignore

April 24, 2013
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We’re constantly hammered with horrible clichéd business advice. Here’s a compendium of some of the worst advice and why it sucks so bad.

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Noodle Robots and XBOX Pizza on TWiT’s Tech News Today

April 23, 2013
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Hashing the tech news for 04-23-13: Waiting for Google Glass, Antennagate refunds, XBOX pizza, and Netflix earnings.

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Hacking Media Production Podcast: How to Create Really Fun Trivia Games

April 23, 2013
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Tips from the cast of the podcast Good Job Brain on how to write and produce entertaining trivia games.

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