"I recently interviewed Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire.
Allaire is interested in the democratization of media, and hopes to help producers and publishers of video take us into the emerging era of Internet Television."
"This week Carol and Steve head down to Boston's North End for a nice Italian meal.
It's the noisest restaurant we've ever been in, good food though."
"Vlog Soup: Episode 1
Welcome to Vlog Soup, Episode 1.
People always ask me, 'Steve, what video blogs do you watch?'
Well, here are some of the vlogs that I watched this morning. Right now I'm a little behind in watching all the vlogs that I've subscribed to with FireANT. I've got 331 unwatched."
"flickr users can now print their images into Photobooks or posters through QOOP's integrated printLinQ system."
The main support beam on my back porch is rotten!
Good thing I didn't have a party and invite everyone out onto the backporch.
"You might think a mayoral debate would be boring. I did. I was wrong.Nice job Chuck.
This video, to me, shows the power of democracy and democratized media. None of the local television cameras were there (except, importantly, MTN cable access). Marcus Harcus stood up and demanded to be heard. One thing he yells from the balcony is 'How come the media doesn't give equal access to all the candidates?' Good question."
"With entities like Clear Channel working to create a monoculture of the airwaves, Big Macs being served up piping hot and perfectly identical from Boston to Beijing, and mom-and-pop stores being bulldozed to put up Wal-Marts, truly independent artists offer a model that doesn’t jive with the system: real cultural and creative autonomy."via [ Mark ]
What if God wanted pasta saucevia [ BoingBoing ]
With some meat ’cause He’s the boss
Just a monster flying over us
Trying to make his way home
"I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him."via [ BoingBoing ]
Are they a kind of an evolution of the same idea or are they based on different things?...in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract value. You want to add value. You don’t want to build walls or fences or gardens to keep people from doing what they want to do without you. You want to enable them to do it. You want to join in.
Over time, I'll be building a library of ScreenCasts covering lots of different topics. They'll range from simple beginner level topics to the more advanced topics later. I'll try and keep them brief and to less than 10 minutes.Requires Quicktime 7.0 to watch. :-(
I'll be demoing some of the various utilities and shareware packages that I find really useful in my everyday computing life. As the number of screencasts increase, the site will expand and change to help find the information that you need.
"This weekend we put something cool out into the world. Wikiwyg is what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for wikis, or pretty much any other text area on the web. It's open source licensed, available for download and demo. Jeff Jarvis said wikiwyg is 'the way wikis are supposed to be.'"
I had some fun taking pictures at Karen and Gino's wedding last night.
"In Jamaica Pond, he caught what was then a world record koi, a goldfish that had been dumped in the pond from a fishbowl some years earlier and grew to 20 pounds 8 ounces."Roy's website - Off The Hook Fishing.
"Boston City Councillor John Tobin headed out to Hyde Square and filed this video report on the graffiti problems in the district and his ideas of how to get it cleaned up."Just posted a new video over on John Tobin's blog.
Half-Naked Woman Found In Miami DumpsterThey owe us an apology for this.
Woman May Be Victim Of Sexual Assault
POSTED: 9:12 am EDT August 19, 2005
UPDATED: 10:47 am EDT August 19, 2005
MIAMI -- Miami-Dade police say a woman found half-naked near a Dumpster Friday may be a victim of sexual battery.
A garbage truck operator found the woman by a Dumpster behind the Wendy's along the 7300 block of Northwest 36th Street in Miami-Dade County.
Balloon rides in Boston start today from Boston Common.
Look, up in the sky, it's a balloon!
"Millie, your efforts in the blogosphere are tremendous and much-appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the risk, venturing out, and doing us all a great favor. And YOUR mom deserves some thanks, as well. For it was she who advised you, 'If you don't go out, nothing will happen'. Thanks for 'happening' to us - and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"Happy Birthday Mom!
I went down to The Monument on Centre Street to cover the Vigil for Cindy Sheehan tonight.
Here are some photos.
Video to follow...
"We have a company in our portfolio that I will be writing you about shortly. It has an advanced, scalable, personalized subscription engine that enables intelligent, automatic and real-time delivery of any RSS-published multi-media content to any Internet-connected node, including software and hardware devices. As an example the “My Subscription” feature can now have customized feeds like: First 5 mts of CNBC and Bloomberg news, Traffic Conditions on 680 to Sunol, First 20 mts of Howard Stern, Music & blogs.
The correlation engine is a patent-pending, in-memory process that employs state-of-the-art algorithms to match vast patterns of personal preferences to media content AS IT IS PUBLISHED. The unique preference matching is coupled with automated delivery of multi-media content, making it the a unique if not only solution of its kind in the market today."
Since when is "The Carol & Steve Show" online?
I started putting The Carol and Steve Show online on January 1, 2005.
What's the idea behind it - and why is it such a huge success?
The idea behind The Carol and Steve Show was to get my wife involved with me in videoblogging. When we watch reality TV shows, she always kids me that I like to think everything is real. So we decided to do our own reality show where everything IS really real. No desert islands and no food challenges. Just real life. We just set out to record our lives and share our experiences through videoblogging.
It's become popular because people want to connect with each other. Video allows others to really get to know you. The intimacy of video gives you a glimpse into our lives. With videoblogging, the people who are watching The Carol and Steve Show on a weekly basis, get to interact with us and other viewers through the comments area associated with each new video. How many TV stars can talk back to viewers?
How many people visit your vlog per day/month?
I average a few hundred visitors per day with some days reaching over one thousand. My videos get between 500-5,000 views each. That's not counting the additional viewers I get on TV via Akimbo, which is delivering my videos to their subscribers and OMN.org which displays my videos to their online audience.
What's your fascination behind it?
The thing that a lot of people don't see when looking at the surface, of videos on the net, is the community that has developed around videoblogging. This community develops through people leaving comments on videos, linking to each other when they watch a video that they like, and joining in on the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group.
I've made real friendships with people around the world. Some of these people I have met in person, and upon meeting them for the first time, it feels like I am meeting an old friend.
Is it difficult to create new content - or why not?
Creating new content is easy. That's because I'm just capturing life as it happens. There isn't any pre-production involved, no script writing and no rehersals. What you see is real life.
A lot of the time I use a Canon S400 digital camera which also shoots video. This allows me to carry my camera in my pocket and shoot video at a moments notice. Also, since I'm capturing video to a compact flash card, there's no delay in getting the footage onto my computer like there is with video cameras that use miniDV tapes.
Why - in your opinion - are Vlogs the next big thing on the internet?
Vlogs give people a voice. Vlogging gives people a distribution method that isn't controlled by others. Vlogging allows people to get feedback on their productions. Vlogging brings people together. Vlogging makes the world smaller.
Vlogging is the next big thing on the internet because it promotes the ability to get to know people in other countries on a personal level.
Vlogging brings pen pal corresponding to a whole new level, and allows the whole world to join in on the conversation.
Which Vlogs do you like - except your own one, of course...
Here's a page where I list a few of my favorite vlogs
These are daily vlogs I watch:
The 05 Project
Rocketboom
Clark ov Saturn
Fat Girl From Ohio
Minnesota Stories
These are my other favorites:
Josh Leo
Chuck Olsen
Eric Rice
Clint Sharp
Melanie Sharp - Mel's Life
Jay Dedman - momentshowing
Raymond Kristianson - DLTQ
Bre Pettis - I Make Things
Johnny Goldstein
Ryanne Hodson
Schlomo Rabinowitz - Echoplex Park
Gabe and Gabe's World
Human Dog Laboratory
Nordark
90 Seconds of Dave
Michael Verdi
The Random Show
"Bloom also said that his podcasting model is different than blogs–he isn't looking for 100 million content creators. Instead, he prefers 15,000 content creators and 100 million listeners, and demand driven programming."Listen to the podcast.
"Today, when you lose a customer, you don’t lose just that customer, you risk losing that customer’s friends. And thanks to the internet and blogs and consumer rate-and-review services, your customers have lots and lots of friends all around the world."He then goes on to give Michael Dell some good advice.
"Podcasting, video blogging, RSS feeds, citizen journalism, citizen media, online on-demand media, timshifting, placeshifting. Maybe you are familiar with some of these Internet buzz terms... or maybe we are speaking Greek to you. Either way, KQED has launched this beta version of our first foray into bringing great on-demand media to our online audience.Check out a list of their favorite Podcasts and Citizen media on the right sidebar.
Here you will find not only some of the first online-only original programming created by KQED, but also online programming from other public broadcasters, and, in the spirit of keeping the 'public' in public broadcasting, we will also feature media produced by citizen media producers. "
"In Part 2 of Apple Store Fans, the doors open to the new Apple Store in Braintree, Mass.
All the cutomers get high-fives, Carol and Steve gets T-Shirts, and Carol uses Steve's secret method to enter the Apple Store contest for prizes."
Browser security indicatorsSo anyone could set up a non secure page and then post a text message that says, "Really, trust us, go ahead, don't worry about anything, we've got it covered."
You may notice when you are on our home page that some familiar indicators do not appear in your browser to confirm the entire page is secure. Those indicators include the small "lock" icon in the bottom right corner of the browser frame and the "s" in the Web address bar (for example, "https").
To provide the fastest access to our home page for all of our millions of customers and other visitors, we have made signing in to Online Banking secure without making the entire page secure. Again, please be assured that your ID and passcode are secure and that only Bank of America has access to them.
"Diese dreimin tige t gliche Show ist ein so genannter Vlog (Kunstwort aus „Video“ und „Blog“) – eine Webseite, die periodisch gepostete Videos enth lt. Tagebuchartig zeigen Amateure Ausschnitte aus ihrem Leben – f r jeden frei zug?nglich. Ein Weblog mit Videos."It seems that they really like Amy in Germany.
"In a few days I am going to be eighty years old! I just typed that and I can not believe it, maybe I feel it sometimes but I sure don't think or act it.Yay mom!
One of the reasons I feel so good is that I have something that I am involved in, excited about and look forward to. You guessed it, it's blogging."
... the coolest podcasting tool I've seen yet. Wow. This gives you a lot of control of audio files and a neat interface to impress your friends with. Far more than I need, but way better than Adam Curry's software or what I've seen from Evan Williams so far.Since I don't want to use Regedit to make Castblaster work, I'll try this.
1. It works on a Dell laptop without requiring me to mod the system using regedit.
