Someone please apply so we don’t have to watch another video from this guy. Next, someone please fire the producer for jump-cutting every 4 seconds and making the video very uncool by trying to seem cool.
Unless they meant it to be cool by seeming uncool. Maybe they should keep that guy, but hire a writer and a better producer. Unless he wrote and produced it. Then they should fire him. Reduce, don’t over produce! It makes you look like you are trying too hard.
I just tried to apply, but I need a BrightCove account to upload my audition. Nevermind. It’s obvious they don’t understand.
If you plug your ears, you would think it’s an anti-drug PSA.
I think the guy is in love with his unkempt face.
I am applying. I like some of his other work:
http://theurbancoredotcom.blogspot.com/2007/08/riverwalk-it-out.html
Sheesh. Blatant rip-off of Ze Frank’s show.
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/11/112706.html
Is this a paying position? If it is, I wonder what it pays.
You get paid in Social Network Bux, which you can redeem at Facebook Ranch for YouTube pizzas and Digg milkshakes
lol @ joey
lol @ Jeff and Joey
lol @ Dennis for lol’ing at joey and i
This is hilarious.
Anyway, for those interested, it IS a full time job and supposedly pays well.
Good luck to those applying ;)
Attn: TU
How bout you put off the video blogger position for awhile and put some money into that travesty of a website?
or replace some of those trusted TU faces that seem to be abandoning ship.
then again,if you keep throwing “stuff” at the wall, something is bound to stick….
right?
yours,
“the 26″
ooo that burnt a little!
It doesn’t really burn much if the people working on that website agree with you.
@Another TU Employee
Ha ha. I think most people in the city know the TU is struggling. And, as alluded to in the comment by atticus, it doesn’t help to alienate the “savvy 26%” of people who choose to get their news from organizations who care about them and recognize that they are the future. Not the 74.
Someone is asleep at the wheel at the Times Union and it shows. They are making lots of small bad decisons and not seeing the big picture. Nothing will change until they make some huge organizational changes in the web department. They should be investing the same amount of money, if not more, in their interactive department.
I actually thought about applying for the video blogger position, but I after thinking about it I came to the realization that this position won’t be allowed to do anything groundbreaking or independent. The video blogger will have the same editorial mandate as the rest of the TU and anything that blurs the lines of that mandate, i.e. speaking out against the city’s plan for Bus Rapid Transit, will be frowned upon and possibly silenced.
TU, if you do find a video blogger don’t crush their spirit. Give them the freedom to shake up the organization. Watch some Current.TV and model your video blog after that content.
@Joey
I agree with you 100%. You only have to watch them make so many horrible decisions before you stop caring. My advice? Don’t apply. We have lots of openings right now. Whenever anyone asks about them, I tell them that they really don’t want to work here.
The TU has gone from 900 employees to about 700. I figure they’ll ‘figure it out’ when they get down to down to about 300.
Hi Joey,
I read your blog daily and I am happy that you are pouring your considerable energies into such an important endeavor. You probably don’t remembrer me, but I was your “advisor” and Spanish I and II teacher when you were at Stanton. Keep up the good work!
Megan D Porter
I do remember you “Mrs. Porter”. Thanks for saying hi Megan!
I appreciate the criticism. I’ve had a few phone calls from friends and it’s fun when they have a bit of ammunition. Tired of hearing the ol’ “shut up name caller.” Get someone good on this and they get free reign…. as well it pays pretty damn good… “look at the screen!”
How much is “pretty damn well”?
Guy on the video is a friend and co-worker of mine. He’s a cool dude, even though they made him do this video.
I hear the stubble was makeup.
@Yet Another TU Employee
I figured it was a situation like that!
I am not strictly one of the “26″
I just find myself reading the paper less.
It has little to do with the website.
The TU is neglecting the elements that would secure its future. The elements that make local journalist indispensible.
Online and print readers, as well as bloggers, still value the facts and context provided by committed professionals.
The TU has the abilty to provide this content…and sometimes does, but not often enough.
The new media consumer would rather look over PR talking points and wire stories online.
enough with the gimmicks, get back to reporting.
it is what you do best.