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VP Content & Affiliates , Nixle.com; Broadband Jungle Blog (Owner)
www.rigler.tv,
www.broadbandjungleblog.com
Pasadena, California, United States
Business owner , Freelancer
Member since: May 27, 2007
Thomas Rigler is a new media and TV development executive whoproduces and devises content strategies for film, television and emerging mediaplatforms. He’s consulted for Talpa Content USA, PBS-Now, MSN Germany,Treehugger, DDB Juniper Group and E! Networks, frequently against their willand better judgement.
Thomas serves on the board of directors at the InternationalDocumentary Association and as an industry mentor at the American FilmInstitute’s Digital Content Lab. He is a member of the Academy of TelevisionArts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the International Academyof Digital Arts and Sciences. Thomas oversaw the launch of Documentary.org as avideo-driven online community, and executive produced the launch ofVine@eonline, E! & style Networks' video portal. He currently holds theposition of Vice President for Content and Affiliates at Internet start-upNixle.com, launching in the fall of 2008.
Thomas co-founded GoGooroo.com, an unsuccessful attempt atbringing order to the wonderful chaos of Internet video and writes on new mediaproduction for his own Broadband Jungle Blog, Handelsblatt.com and DocumentaryMagazine.
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extremely insightful guy, wonderful interview. applying the mind of an abstract artist to the social networking space?
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on Is there anybody out there? (Twitter intvw) (August 21, 2008)
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great points! I see we are all still stumbling when explaining monetization and advertising models in quick and simple terms....just a matter of time.
on First big hit will help define Web TV (August 15, 2008)
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Great story, very informative, certainly puts this unfortunate stand-off in perspective. It's all about 4 cents ?You can only hope that too many repeats will lead to more consumption of scripted quality content like Good Night Burbank and everything else that's been perculating duringt he last few months. Maybe the break the space needs to finally send us into the mainstream?
Since it's all about the writing, my only hope is that it's not happening on the backs of other talented creators who're currently sidelined due to the strike. One would hope it simply demonstrates how significant the numbers of viewer attraction and consumption have become.
on Vator Reports: The Hollywood Writers' Strike (November 27, 2007)
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Couldn't agree more: we haven't even seen the beginning.
Several other citizen journalism video initiatives are launching over the next few months: Current TV has repeatedly announced their plans, and it looks like it's going to be some time in the fall; greatness can be expected from the folks who introduced viewer-generated content into America's living rooms.
NBC News is partnering with students, ABC is testing the waters with a user-generated news magazine, and CNN has obviously been doing it for a while. Every online print publication from the Washington Post the Sacramento Bee is embracing citizen journalism on their sites, often against the editorial staff's resistance.
The MacArthur Foundation recently awarded a 5 Million grant to PBS' long running Frontline in order to overhaul their online operations. With that kind of funding, the sky's the limit.
Very curious who's going to create the rules for this type of content: Who's drawing the lines between professional and viewer contributions, and does anyone care? Aggregation seems to be the key in every niche market, and the news may not be any different: As long as I have plenty to choose from when 'digging' into a topic my research should turn out fine.
on Vote of confidence for citizen journalism (August 06, 2007)
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Terrific conecpt and execution judging by the promise of the pitch trailer. Love the idea of an art broadband channel as the ultimate niche channel, and since there's not too much out there, Robert Knafo can actually end up owning the space. There are some other destination serving the same target audience (Perpetual Art Machine, Psychopedia.com, Zigram in Europe), but there's always room for more. To produce clips in TV quality will be hard to maintain without a decent production budget in the long run, once the novelty effect wears off. Curious if NewArtTV eventually plans to include artist's submissions, because if they provided a portal for video art itself (artTube), real gallery money might be flowing for exhibition, distribution and downloads. The there's always potential networking and brokering contacts / sales between artists and collectors. Since this is global, everything's posible... Best of luck!!
on NewArtTV (August 06, 2007)
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