Is Charlie Rose’s Site PBS 2.0?
Jul 23rd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video 
Respected interviewer and journalist Charlier Rose, best known for his Charlie Rose Show on PBS, has introduced a new video portal that’s a great example of a corporate video destination.
The site, now in beta, has great content, is well organized, has news feeds, tagged content, comments, well-implemented search and integrated ecommerce. You can explore the video archive by topic, interviewee, by date, by “most discussed” and through “related videos.”
The site also supports embedding videos. Here’s an example, a recent Rose interview with Craig Newmark of craigslist.com:
If you’re into memes, Charlie Rose’s site represents PBS 2.0.
“The efforts that have gone into this unprecedented venture are truly remarkable. For over a year dozens of individuals have worked in partnership with Google to archive over 4,000 hours of Charlie Rose programming. They’ve broken shows into individual segments, created pictures and collected biographies for guests,” explains Rose. “What we now bring you is a collection of 8,000 segments, over 6,000 guests and 3,600 program hours that currently date back to the 1994-1995 season of the show. This is the single largest enterprise of its kind currently available.”
We’d like to see Rose add a sponsored video podcast to the site, to make it easier to keep current with the show. For example, we’d missed Rose’s discussions with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, George Bush, Al Gore, Lost’s JJ Abrams, Peter Jackson and mother******* Samuel L. Jackson.
While corporate television may still have a lot to learn from the world of Internet media, Charlie Rose’s site demonstrates how effective a media site can be when it effectively combines great professionally-produced content with the latest ideas and technology of Internet media.
Wonderful!
I am a senior citizen, no TV, all I wanted was to somehow hear Charlie Rose's interviews.
I will ask my son at Thanksgiving to tutor me how I can get audio podcasts of some of his
interviews.
The best thing is his good mind, and the second best is, no commercials!
Chicago
Wonderful!
I am a senior citizen, no TV, all I wanted was to somehow hear Charlie Rose's interviews.
I will ask my son at Thanksgiving to tutor me how I can get audio podcasts of some of his
interviews.
The best thing is his good mind, and the second best is, no commercials!
Chicago
Wonderful!
I am a senior citizen, no TV, all I wanted was to somehow hear Charlie Rose's interviews.
I will ask my son at Thanksgiving to tutor me how I can get audio podcasts of some of his
interviews.
The best thing is his good mind, and the second best is, no commercials!
Chicago
Wonderful!
I am a senior citizen, no TV, all I wanted was to somehow hear Charlie Rose's interviews.
I will ask my son at Thanksgiving to tutor me how I can get audio podcasts of some of his
interviews.
The best thing is his good mind, and the second best is, no commercials!
Chicago
Wonderful!
I am a senior citizen, no TV, all I wanted was to somehow hear Charlie Rose's interviews.
I will ask my son at Thanksgiving to tutor me how I can get audio podcasts of some of his
interviews.
The best thing is his good mind, and the second best is, no commercials!
Chicago