The Future of Online Video

Co-editor, Boing Boing; general manager and host, Boing Boing tv.

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Tim Shey is a co-founder of Next New Networks and Head of Entertainment Programming, leading the company’s programming, technology and creative development teams.

Tim has worked in interactive media for over a decade, designing and producing experiences in a variety of emerging formats including interactive television, mobile entertainment, and social media.

In 1996, Tim co-founded Proteus, a pioneering interactive agency and mobile content company, where he was responsible for the first-ever interactive television broadcast in the U.S. using mobile phones during FOX’s Super Bowl XXXVI, co-produced four seasons of interactive TV for FOX Sports’ MLB, NFL, and NASCAR broadcasts and NBC’s 2004 Olympic Games, and developed numerous other innovative projects including network-wide mobile content offerings for HBO, ABC, Discovery Channel, and FOX. His ten years’ work as a creative director included major campaigns for clients including Sony, The Washington Post-Newsweek, ExxonMobil, and Motorola, among others.

After Proteus’ successful acquisition in 2004 by the Japan-based For-Side Group, Tim went on to work with a number of organizations on their interactive strategies and produced original content for the web and mobile devices including Amanda Across America, with Amanda Congdon, the animated series Afterworld, and the everydog show Worldwide Fido.

Tim’s personal blog is at shey.net.

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David has worked as a broadcast television producer, technology writer and journalist since 1999 for ZDTV, TechTV and G4 Media. He is a seasoned veteran of television production with several hundred hours of daily live production and many dozens of documentary and field productions under his belt in the roles of producer, writer, director, and talent. He has been heavily involved in computers and technology since becoming SysOp of his own computer BBS in 1989 and subsequently as a network administrator for the software company, Bowne Litigation Solutions. After joining Revision3, David quickly took over the day to day operations, managing business opportunities, developing new programming, and successfully building and executing a working business model for the emerging medium of Internet VOD programs. David holds degrees in Communication and Media Studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

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Robin Sloan is the new media strategist at Current, a participatory media company co-founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Current produces news by collaborating with its audience; it runs a cable and satellite TV network, available in 56 million homes around the world, and a social news site, current.com.

Before Current, Robin worked at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school and think tank in St. Petersburg, Florida. There, he co-produced EPIC 2014, a viral video view of the future of media. Before Poynter, he graduated from Michigan State, where he majored in economics and minored in wasting time on the internet.

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Andrew Baron is the creator and founder of the popular daily video show, Rocketboom. After receiving a BA in Philosophy from Bates College, Baron graduated with an MFA in Design and Technology in 2003 from Parsons in New York City, where he went on to teach graduate and undergraduate courses. He was teaching at Parsons and MIT when the notion of Rocketboom came to him in 2004. Although he has little interest in television (and has not owned a TV set during the past decade), Baron has always been inspired by the implications of the democratization of media.

For more information see:

Rocketboom: http://www.rocketboom.com

Friendfeed: http://www.friendfeed.com/andrewbaron

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