I read Billy Bragg's editorial in the New York Times about how musicians make money in the age of the Internet.  I first heard Billy Bragg twenty years ago perform live in Northampton, Massachusetts when I was a high school student attending Deerfield Academy and I've loved his music for years. ...

I've just survived my first South by Southwest in Austin. It was a great time - a bit long for me though - I was at the whole festival from March 7-16 (interactive, film, and music). The highlight of the festival for me was yesterday, starting with attending a packed interview with Ice Cube and DJ Pooh...

Working with UVNTV.com , I've been increasingly exposed to Hip Hop music so I decided to attend a panel discussion at SxSW: Widening Hip Hop's Global Reach .   Davey D from the Bay Area lead the panel - very interesting.  One of the big takeaways that I got from SxSW was that MySpace is a key...

After Mix , I'm heading straight for Austin, Texas to go to the South by Southwest festival (the whole thing - Interactive, Music, and Film).  One of the very exciting thing happening at South by Southwest is a free Ice Cube concert on March 15th , streamed live to the UVNTV.com site via Silverlight...

Check out the article in today's USA Today (is that redundant?) about Ice Cube's UVNTV.com . It has been a blast assisting this team on getting their site up and outfitted with Silverlight. They have been really fun to work with and I got a good clip of Ice Cube and his team talking about their site...

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow: I shoot the video at 1080p I connect the camera...

Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. Musician/Actor Ice Cube and his team talk about the web site in a short video that I recorded at Ice Cube's CubeVision Production Company office. If you watch the video...