My keynote at vloggercon is now live. Remembering vloggercon is a bottom-up conference, organized by the community, it’s amazing that for 2 years now it’s the absolutely best archived conference in existence. ALL talks are available online as videos, for both years. And were streamed live. And this is on the cheap!
Download my talk (Quicktime)
When I was in Laos, I sprained my ankle badly, and the village doctors tried to heal it by calling out to the spirits. Maria made a great video: thevillagedoctors.mov (video/quicktime Object)
The marathon came by today by our house in 129th St.. The NY marathon rocks. And Harlem rocks harder.
Watch the Quicktime movie (Quicktime movie, kinda large)
As the early videobloggers, we need to tell people about this, and show them. I was just encouraging a potential videoblogger, and to show them how fast it goes, here’s the movie (10 mins later - Quicktime, about a meg).
Haven’t videoblogged in a while. I downloaded the Ourmedia uploader and it’s good. I build this Instant Archive feature on Mefeedia today, and everyone just plain loves it, and it just struck me how crazy it is that you can truly only build good things if you really, really talk to users. Here’s the movie. (Quicktime, about a meg)
This is a test: reposting a vlog entry.
I asked some people at the recent IASummit about folksonomies in the hallways. PeterMe thinks the IAs have a better conversation going on around folksonomies than the techies - I’m not so sure. I’ve been a bit dissapointed with the lack of IA’s speaking up in the blogosphere about this.
The panel at the IA Summit was good though. It lacked insights about integrating folksonomies with other approaches (how exactly, folks?), and there were some misconceptions (synonyms are NOT a problem with folksonomies, they’re a problem with the technology. Google solved search query synonyms pretty well, the folksonomies will do the same.), but overall it was great to hear IA’s speak up. Too bad we don’t do this publicly, enough (and I’m as guilty as the next guy).
Peter Morville’s part of the panel was brilliant. I’d actually never seen him speak - he had me laugh out lout quite a few times. David Weinberger’s favourite metaphor (folksonomies are leaves falling of the trees) was extended in many ways. Peter Morville: “what happens with leaves that are raked together? They rot. And become food. For trees. Which then live long and useful lives.” There was more talk about trees having many shapes, trees blocking out the light for new things to grow, people bumping into trees which can cause pain and so on. Fun.
Anyways,
here’s the movie (Quicktime, 7M)
Ryanne’s Video Blog: a video entry about the buster controversy: where a bunny is being censored because they mention same sex couples.
Another old movie, this one from early 2004. Jay talking about videoblogging (Quicktime, 38M).
This is an old movie - the first one I ever edited. It’s Jay pre-videoblogging, talking about ways to connect. Jay in 2003. (Quicktime, 7M)
I went to see The Gates in NYC central park. I saw so many people making video with small digital cameras, I wish they were all vloggers. This is my video (Quicktime, 10M):
Vloggercon: Tools. (Quicktime) I was in this session. The cool thing with these vlogging tools is that, no matter how hard the big $$ companies try, all the really cool tools are being developed by us kids in the basement.
Vloggercon: Content is king. (Quicktime) “Discussion leaders: Steve Garfield, Mica Scalin, Ryanne Hodson, Chris Weagel, Jay Dedman Creating and posting videos is the key.”
Vloggercon: sustainability (Quicktime) Just another word for making money? Or more? I’m linking to these videos here so they can be tagged, sliced and diced in Mefeedia.
Vloggercon Masses Media (Quicktime) Discussion with Eli Chapman.
Vloggercon opening sessions. (Quicktime movie) The start of vloggercon.
(1.2M Quicktime). I was trying to compare two cameras by filming simultaneously and then editing it together, but having different movie formats in my Vegas editing program really messed up the rendering: it ended up taking hours and hours. So I ended up with this little piece of crappy movie that doesn’t really let you compare the quality of the two cameras very much. Right.
The cameras I was comparing are the Mustek DV 4000 ($120) and the Canon Powershot SD 100 ($190 at Amazon).
The Canon is much better for videoblogging: better picture, better sound, and much better build quality. It will last a lot longer, and is not that much more expensive either. Disadvantages of the Canon: you can only film for about 30 secs on max resolution, a few minutes on the mid resolution (which is what I always use). It doesn’t adjust light to changing conditions, so if you move to a dark hallway while filming things come out very dark.
The Mustek:
The Canon:
(Quicktime, 1.5M) I was trying to compare two cameras, but when I started editing it things went wrong, rendering two different formats in one movie took hours, and I ended up with this useless crap. Oh well :)
My Hoboken vlogtour: I walked around Hoboken and gave a tour. Click the animated gif to see the movie (Quicktime, 83M)
Today’s screencast is a demo of CCPublisher (Quicktime movie), a tool that lets you upload stuff to the internet archive.
My first screencast is an explanation of Camtasia screencasting software. (Quicktime movie, 11M)
Woohoo! My first functional internet archive-hosted video!
Raymond and me talking about political videoblogging. (Quicktime, 4.7 M)
The evening of vloggercon there was a snowstorm (Quictime, about 3 Megs). It turns out filming in the snow is really, really cool, because not only do you get nice contrasts, it is also earily quiet (the snow dampens sound), so the sound you get is good.
Raymond’s first day in nyc - pe-vloggercon (Quicktime, 800K)
First episode (Quicktime movie).
A few words about vloggercon (Quicktime, 2.6 Megs).
A pretty large post about videoblogging (Quicktime movie, 4.7 Megs). I hope it doesn’t eat up my bandwidth.
Here’s Jay explaining how playlists work on me-tv. The idea with these is that our users create their own help systems by explaining how certain features work to each other, using video. The About me-tv playlist (keyword aboutmetv) will automatically pick up these explanations.
We’re experimenting with user documentation in video format. Here’s jay explaining how peopletags in me-tv work. I’m adding a playlist keyword to this post as well: aboutmetv.
I met with Mica, Kenyatta, Josh and Jay today to discuss the future of me-tv. I will talk about that more later, meanwhile, here’s the video (Quicktime, about 4 Megs). I was psyched when I realized what a fantastic group of people were together in that room! The movie includes the first secret preview of the upcoming ANT tool which is like ipodder for video.
