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met Warren and Marcia at the
debut T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in October 2004.
We had an immediate rapport as we had all come out of
the local TV business. In fact Marcia and Warren are
still in it as producers of Myrtle
Beach TV, a weekly 30-minute program
about life in the South Carolina resort community
that airs on the local Fox TV affiliate. They
also operate a number of locally oriented sites through
their production company Myrtle
Beach Inc.
Warren is a professional
videographer/editor and Marcia is a top notch editor and
producer. If you have attended some of the major domain
conferences you have probably seen them filming there as
they have been documenting the industry through still
photography and video for several years now. Jothan
Frakes, Sevan Derderian and I |
Warren
Walker and Marcia Lynn Walker
of DomainerTV.com |
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have all
conducted interviews for them from time to time. That material has
been posted on a variety of sites but now DomainerTV.com
gives them a central site to post their domain related
video.
Marcia and Warren were at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
West in Las Vegas last week and were nice
enough to document Bido.com's
launch party at the Tao Night Club after the
opening day of the show. Since no one else knew much
about Bido at the time, they asked me to interview my
partners in the project, Sahar Sarid, Jeff
Bhavnanie and Darren Cleveland, as well as
several other well-known domainers, including Kevin
Ham, Rick Schwartz, Michael Gilmour
and Sean Stafford. The interviews with Sahar,
Jeff, Darren and Sean are now up at DomainerTV.com with
the others to come shortly.
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Since I have an
equity interest in Bido.com I need to note for
the record that the interviews with other Bido
partners were part of an event held to promote
the launch of our new multi-service domain
company. As such, even though they serve to
document the company's launch, the recorded
discussions are not unbiased news interviews.
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the obvious but
since I am both a journalist and an entrepreneur
I want to make sure there is never any confusion
with regard to which hat I am wearing when the
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As most of you know, I was
a business owner and domain investor/developer long
before I started DN Journal on New Year's Day
2003 (I put my first site, a music retail company,
online in 1997). As someone who loves creating new
businesses more than anything else I expect to continue
doing that for the rest of my life. However when any of
those businesses are related to the domain industry that
I write about as a journalist, it is my responsibility
to fully disclose any interest I have in companies that
we cover. DN Journal remains a wholly-owned independent
company and I will continue to cover
the many good people and companies in this industry in a
fair and unbiased manner.
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Feb. 25, 2008) |
