Something To Be Desired
Amani Channel, host of the online video magazine Web Video Chefs, interviewed me last week about my long, strange trip as a web series pioneer. In part one of our 2-part interview, we talk about my shows Something to Be Desired (which I created in 2003) and The Baristas (which was spun off from STBD [...]
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As most of you know, I’m the creator / producer of The Baristas, an online comedy I funded on Kickstarter and launched in back January. It’s a spin-off from my long-running series Something to Be Desired, which ran from 2003-2009. But while The Baristas has only been around for 11 episodes, I feel like I’ve [...]
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UPDATE: Due to the high volume of traffic that this post always receives, I’ve launched a new blog called CrowdFunding Help, which provides tips, news, interviews and how-tos for Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and more. Check it out! Last month, I created a Kickstarter project to help raise the initial funding for my new creative project, The [...]
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As PodCamp Boston 5 gears up this weekend, I thought I’d look back in time a few years — specifically, back to September of 2006, when a few geeks from Boston changed the way we use computers. That summer, a no-name blogger named Chris Brogan had become friends with some of Boston’s social media crowd. [...]
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I’m fond of finding ways to fund projects that don’t involve traditional investors or advertisers. One of those avenues is Kickstarter, a crowdfunding resource for creative endeavors. It lets a project’s audience become its investors. So I thought I’d give it a try. The Backstory In 2003, I created Something to Be Desired, a web [...]
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