Awesome Emerson Students

Utterli Audio Post from John Wilper's Emerson Class.

Mobile post sent by stevegarfield using Utterli.  Replies.  mp3

Some post class tweets:

kaex88 OH: how much was that camera? @stevegarfield: I don't know, they sent it to me... (3 different times for 3 different cameras!! LOL)

JohnWBZ @stevegarfield happy to follow students at my alma mater. Proud Emerson alum here (the TV business is littered with us)

chyacinthe Went to a fun lecture w/ @kaex88 from @stevegarfield Great stuff shown!

_jaime Laughing at the video @stevegarfield took at my internship meeting today. http://qik.com/video/1430201

apriliris @stevegarfield thanks for following me! great talk today -- love your boundless curiosity!

chyacinthe @stevegarfield Thanks for your presentation today, Steve! It was great to see how you integrated so many services to your advantage.

Follow the students on twitter:

twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/1493258768
twitter.com/stevegarfield/status/1493265303

Boston Media Makers - Sunday April 12th

Boston Media Makers - Sunday April 12th.

Also:

Next Wednesday:
Media Tech Tonic #9: “Connections” and the work of the Sociable Media Group, April 15, 2009

CVS Sale? Not.

Eucerin, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

I saw this Eucerin on sale at CVS the other day. But was it really on sale? No. It isn't. See?


Regular price: $12.49

Highlighted price on the yellow SALE tag: $12.49

Note: The $5 off listed is for a totally different product.

Turkey for Passover

Jamaica Plain resident John Papson finds a turkey on his garage roof.

Boston Water and Sewer Improvements

Secrets Revealed: How Ford Rates Video Bloggers

Scott Monty points us to this WSJ article featuring Hilary McHone, aka. Brooklyn Hilary: Ford Takes Online Gamble With New Fiesta:

"To build a new generation of Ford car buyers, the 'Fiesta Movement' marketing effort is enticing its 100 test drivers with a free car for six months, auto insurance and gas. In return, they agree to upload their adventures online.

Ford selected the 100 participants from more than 4,000 video submissions viewed more than 640,000 times online. Ford assigned applicants two scores: a 'social vibrancy' rating based on how much they were followed online and across how many platforms; and an overall grade based on those factors plus creativity, video skills and their ability to hook a viewer within the first five to 10 seconds."

Now that's in interesting inside look at how a major brand looks at the value of videobloggers.



Ford Video Blogger Scorecard

Social Vibrancy
- # of online followers
- how many platforms

Creativity
Video Skills
Ability to hook a viewer within the first 5 - 10 seconds

Note to the Wall Street Journal:

How about a link to the featured videobloggers. Can't you embed the Brooklyn Hilary video?



Visit Hilary's blog.

American Idol - Adam Lambert - Mad World

American Idol ran over on the East Coast and anyone who recorded it on their DVR without padding missed Adam's performance.

Here it is.

It's on the iTunes store too, but Fox is charging for it.



FREE ADAM LAMBERT!

Stocking Jamaica Pond [SD100] 2009

State officials and Boston school childred stocked Jamaica Pond with 925 state hatchery raised trout and salmon.

Featured in the video is Ken Simmons, Chief of Hatcheries, State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, and a big brown trout.

Third in a series.

Stocking Jamacia Pond 2009

Stocking Jamacia Pond. Video shot with a Panasonic SDR-SW20

Stocking Jamaica Pond 2009

State officials and Boston school childred stocked Jamaica Pond with 925 state hatchery raised trout and salmon.

Featured in the video is Ken Simmons, Chief of Hatcheries, State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, and a big brown trout.

Boston marathon

Boston marathon, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Testing out http://beta.friendfeed.com/bostonmarathonbu to compile BU Boston Marathon Coverage #BMBU

Blog Rally to Help the Boston Globe

We have all read recently about the threat of possible closure faced by the Boston Globe. A number of Boston-based bloggers who care about the continued existence of the Globe have banded together in conducting a blog rally. We are simultaneously posting this paragraph to solicit your ideas of steps the Globe could take to improve its financial picture.

"We view the Globe as an important community resource, and we think that lots of people in the region agree and might have creative ideas that might help in this situation. So, here's your chance. Please don't write with nasty comments and sarcasm: Use this forum for thoughtful and interesting steps you would recommend to the management that would improve readership, enhance the Globe's community presence, and make money. Who knows, someone here might come up with an idea that will work, or at least help. Thank you."

My ideas:

Follow the plan of BostonNOW and include bloggers as part of the paper and not as an afterthought. John Wilpers can help with that.

Link to blogs. You've never gotten that right. I've got a lot of students that would love to have thier articles featured in the Globe.

Highlight user submitted local videos on the home page. In recents weeks you seems to have stopped doing that.

Shut down and produce a Boston/New England focused insert to the NY Times.

Your thoughts?

IKEA

Second video for VideoBloggingWeek 2009. Made with a Flip mino HD and edited with FlipShare software.

Teaching Mogulus today at BU

John Herman answers the question, "Who are you?"

Here's part two of the interview we did with John Herman today.

You can also visit my Mogulus channel page.

FriendFeed 2.0 suggests the capture of the sense of the moment

Steve Gillmor says it's Only the Beginning:

"FriendFeed 2.0 suggests is the capture of the sense of the moment. Like a Kennedy press conference or the incredible rhythm trills of Lennon on the roof in Get Back, we’re seeing something electric and tangible appearing out of nothing. I dive in and swim in the current, swooping from swirl to eddy, then into direct communication and back to the world I’ve left behind for a moment. It still takes several moves to accomplish a single task, but the handwriting is on the wall and the time is near when we can pick up where we left off months ago."

We'll know more at 12:00 EST.

Friendfeed.

Boston Pillowfight 2009

After pressing play, Click HD to watch in High Quality

Boston Pillowfight 04/04/09 shot with a Panasonic FX37 and edited with iMovie 09.

Boston Pillowfight 040409

Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno Movie Trailer

This trailer may not be approrpiate for many people, but it will be hillarious to many other people.

via Zadi

The Daily Twitter 04-03-09

Screencast: The Daily Twitter with Steve Garfield of SteveGarfield.com

A look at the links I posted to twitter yesterday.

A Boston College Minute: BC bOp!

Ravi Jain made this!