Off On A Tangent

Friday, July 14, 2006

Zefrank viewed 1 million times

"ZeFrank is one of our most popular community members. His daily videos are powered by Revver and shared with the world on ZeFrank.com. In just one month on the network, his videos have been viewed almost 1 million times."

Now one million and one. ;-)

Go watch the show with zefrank: 07-14-06 over on revver. [ My affiliate link is in there ;-) ]

If you click the Share This Video link on Ze's page, you get a choice on how you can share his show.

You can embed the video on a web page, make a link to it with an image, banner or text, and you can even download it if you like. All these options maintain the revver ad links so that Ze can make money off the videos. That's cool.

When you show Revver videos on your website or blog or even in an email to friends, you'll get 20% of the ad revenue from that video.

When you do that with Ze's videos though, your links send people over to revver and not to Ze's blog.

I wonder if there's a way to put affiliate codes on links to Ze's site? I'd prefer to do that.

Elder Cell Phone

I've been looking around for a phone for my mom. She's 80, and wants to have a cell phone.

This Virgin Mobile K10 Royale Phone looks like a good choice to me.

It's $19.99 - Web Special Price, then $6.99 / month and .10 per minute. Seems like the best plan out there for someone who isn't going to use a phone that much.

I hear that cell phone companies are finally looking into making phones with bigger buttons and numbers for those with failing sight, but haven't seen any yet.

Do you think this is a good one?

Video: Ravi Jain on Fox25

First Big Dig Driver Shaken by Tragedy.

Ravi was on Fox 25 last night talking about the tunnel tragedy and looks back on being the first to drive through the tunnel when it opened.

I was the first backseat passenger with a video camera. ;-) Here's my video from the day the I-90 connector opened. [ Video ]

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Life and Death

For a site that helps you document your life, Dandelife.com, they've picked an ironic tagline.

links for 2006-07-13

Why Do Men Have Nipples?

(tags: books)
Internet star tries to make it on her own - Scarborough Country - MSNBC.com

Congdon hopes to translate Rocketboom popularity to mainstream

(tags: amandacongdon)
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Who is Amanda Congdon, and should I care?

(tags: amandacongdon)

It's a series of tubes

Enormous Tubes: The Rap.

Bang Camaro

Sooz points us to Bang Camaro:

"I have never been so thoroughly amused (in a good way) at a concert. The premise behind the band is that they do mostly guitar solos and choruses. There is no “lead singer.” It sounds ridiculous; but these guys are pros and they sound great."

Push Push and Bang Camaro are great songs!

Camille points us to a review of Bang Camaro in the Phoenix that includes a free download of Push Push. [ mp3 ]

Amber and Leo Ask A Ninja

Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte interview Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine from Ask a Ninja on Inside the Net | TWiT.TV.
This was a really fun interview. I like being able to sample this podcast online, instead of having to subscribe and get delivered a tons of shows that I might or might not be interested in.

RSS and subscriptions are good to get shows that you know you want to listen to or watch, but subscriptions to shows that you don't normally watch just fill up your disk and use bandwidth from the provider that they probably wouldn't want you to use.

It's a lot like using TiVo to subscribe to shows you want to watch vs. channel surfing with your remote control.

I like doing both.

Second Life

Camille Dodero's Phoenix article on Second Life just went online, Does your life suck?.

We talked on the phone and I told her about my experiences in Second Life, trying to figure everything out.

She talks about what happens to a lot of people when they first get started, lots of falling:

It took me a while to learn to control my avatar. I’d press the wrong key and end up descending into what appeared to be solid ground . . . sinking, sinking, sinking. Apparently, my steep learning curve isn’t unusual. “Someone was asking me what Second Life was,” says Boston-based video producer and video-blogger (a/k/a “vlogger”) icon Steve Garfield, who set up an SL account in May to attend a Harvard Berkman conference in both real life and Second Life simultaneously. “I’m like, ‘I went to go check out this conference center, and I fell in the water, and I walked around on the bottom of the water, and I flew out of there. Then I bought a Devo hat and it took me a half-hour to figure out how to put it on.’”

It's a seven page article online. I'll pick up a hard copy tomorrow. Nice job.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Vlogger Charged with Civil Contempt

Vlogger Josh Wolf Charged with Civil Contempt:

"After being excused by the Federal Grand Jury last month, the Assistant US Attorney is bringing civil contempt charges against vlogger Josh Wolf after all."

Josh is a friend, please support him.

Josh Wolf’s Grand Jury Resource Page.

Vlog Soup 15

Vlog Soup: Episode 15.

In this episode I talk about Participatory Journalism and look at some exciting raw footage of CNN correspondent Nic Robertson in Darfur, Sudan and in Iraq. I feature my friends Casey and Rudy's SciFi show Galacticast. Kent and Jen share their thoughts on the film, An Inconvenient Truth, at EbbandFlow.tv.

Futurama and Al Gore make a cameo.

I point to just released videos from the TED conference and show a little of David Pogue.

Lots of fun!

links for 2006-07-12

BloomBox – User-generated TV made easy

SpinYourOwnTV is a presenter-led entertainment show that asks web users to create amusing or unusual content based on weekly themes.

Radiomatic invites amateur musicians to submit videos. Each week the artists behind the most popular clip are invited t

(tags: TV media video videoblogging)
Minnesota Stories: Daily Videoblog: En Route to Korea

Chuck travels to Korea.

(tags: watchthis)
iKlipz See - Show - Share

Yet another video sharing site. This one for short films?

(tags: film video web)
Behind Rocketboom's breakup fireworks | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

Amanda Congdon interviewed by CNet.

(tags: amandacongdon)
TIME.com: 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon

(tags: amandacongdon)

Solve Sudoku

Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!).

Hey Abby, check this.
via [ BoingBoing ]

Rocketboom 2.0

The new Rocketboom 2.0 Beta is now up with Joanne Colan.

Nice job pressing the keyboard, making trades and catching the tomato!

The Game

Watching the Game!!! This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.

From Podcast of my discontent.

Comments are now moderated

There is some loser robot that has figured out how to defeat the comment spam filters that blogger has set up.

So instead of going into blogger and deleting every single comment by this robot, I have turned on comment moderation.

Members of blogger will not have thier comments moderated and they'll fly right through and be posted.

Others will have to be pre-screened by me.

So now is a good time to sign up with blogger!

You'll have a blog too where you'll be able to post all your thoughts, dreams and frustrations. You don't have to use the blog though if you don't want to. But at least you'll have one, so at cocktail parties you'll be able to tell people that you have a blog.

Wait.

That doesn't make sense. I'm enabling comment moderation on my blogger blog because their spam filters are starting to fail me, and I want you to sign up with blogger?

Ironic.

Pay Pete Prodoehl To Blog

Pete Prodoehl has "a bold experiment in blogging and advertising," PayMeToBlog.com.

Comcast Cut My Line

Speakeasy - Speed Test
Since Comcast cut my dedicated modem line and put me on a splitter, my download speed has decreased 30%.

It's still amazing, but frustrating.

There's no one to talk to at Comcast who cares.

The Comcast call center reps can't do anything.

The Comcast service rep who visited the house says that the line quality is good.

Comcast doesn't care about online speed tests.

Shadow Falls

Shadow Falls:

Podcasting's first professionally-produced original drama series, SHADOW FALLS tells the eerie tale of a remote Northeastern town that holds secrets some will kill to protect and others will die to expose.

I wonder if they are talking about Boston and the Big Dig?

Maria9Sansone's Profile

Maria Sansone of Yahoo!'s new daily video blog The Nine is my new friend.

This Flash Update update fixed the problem I had of The Nine crashing my Firefox browser on my MacBook Pro:

Intel Macs need this it seems...

I like The 9 (Beta). It's quick, fun, and has a nice interface to the sites they are highlighting. I like how they have implemented a chapter-like interface with buttons down the side of the page relating to each part of the video AND giving you links to the content Maria is talking about.

Is it a vlog?

Reverse chronological listing, with a permalink to each post.

Yes!

And it has an RSS feed too:

http://thenine.tv.yahoo.com/rss

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

FCP Won't Import H.264

dvcreators.network forums - Cannot Import H.264 into FCP...:

"FCP is a 'Pro App' and won't handle H.264, mpegs, along with many other compressions. You will need to convert them to quicktime compression like you already have. Only other option is to edit with iMovie."

Ah ha. No wonder why I can't inport H.264 movies into FinalCutPro.

If He Knew, Why Didn't He Talk?

I-90 Tunnel Worker Cites Problems With Construction:

"One of the workers who helped build the Interstate-90 connector said Tuesday that he knew from the beginning that there were problems with the construction."

Download and Share Free Music

ccMixter Submarine (featuring Lisa Rein).

Real Choices

I want to listen to Chuck Olsen on Future Tense, but it requires Real Player.

So I ran Real Player and was presented with this dialog box:

Media Types
Select the media types that you want to play using RealPlayer.

What do I do now?

Boston Media Makers - Coffee with Carl & Carvin - Sunday July 16th

Boston Media Makers - Coffee with Carl & Carvin - Sunday July 16th.
Sweet Finnish, Jamaica Plain. 10 AM.

All are welcome to chat about media!

Flash Player 9 for Intel Macs

Adobe - Flash Player 9 Public Beta - Flash Player Installation.
Flash Player Public Beta for Apple Intel-based Macintosh.

Matthew Hincman at Jamaica Pond

Matthew Hincman at Jamaica Pond by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Matthew made that cool bench that's now on display at the pond. We videotaped an interview today. Stay tuned.

Joanne Colan has a Blog

The Official Site of Joanne Colan:

"Hello Everyone. Yes this is my new site and yes...I will have my 1st blog entry up for your viewing pleasures later on today. Thank you for coming and please come back later today. "

Hello.

Make your own EVDO WiFi Hotspot

Kyocera KR1 Broadband EVDO Router with WiFi.
If you have one of those Verizon EVDO cards, you can pop it into this WiFi router and set up your own WiFi hotspot.

Go play with the peanut butter

violet by megamommatron, uploaded from flickr.

Ha Ha.

This is what happens whe you tell your kids to "Go play with the peanut butter."

Via BoingBoing

Blogging from inside Second Life

BlogHUD : Second Life blogging system : by Koz Farina: You can blog from your location and blog readers can then teleport to that location if they have Second Life installed.

"Outside PCN Tower on Spin Martin's SlackStreet
from Koz Farina on Slackstreet
posted: 1 day, 13 hours, 57 minutes, 22 seconds ago.

Blogging from inside Second Life is going to be easy. Maybe even easier than blogging from real life.

The 'blogHUD' is a 'heads-up' device currently in early alpha stage of development which allows the owner to easily post an entry to bloghud.com

Residents in SL wearing the blogHUD post by simply typing:
/9 your message here

And that's it! Done. Blogged and fed. ;)"

Wouldn't it be cool if you could do that in real life too, from anywhere?

My friend Dan can do it with his laptop and a Verizon EVDO card.

The Nod

Creating Passionate Users: How your product can inspire The Nod:

"Sit in a cafe with a Mac PowerBook, and chances are you'll get The Nod--that acknowledging, approving, knowing, we're-special look. "

I got The Nod this weekend.

I was sitting in a hotel business center with my MacBook Pro and I got the nod.

Her: Is that a new MacBook Pro
Me: Yeah

Her: I want one.
Me: It's great. What do you do?

Her: Teach elementry school.
Me: Do you teach Blogging?

Her: No, but last year we taught podcasting.
Me: Cool. You've gotta teach blogging too. We're having a podcamp in Boston, you should come.

Her: Sounds great.
Me: See you there.

The next Web is the human Web

Robert Scoble says, The next Web is the human Web:

When I speak I’m just telling audiences about what Dave Winer and Dori Smith showed me six years ago — really blogs haven’t changed a whole lot since then. There’s no reason to bring up OPML or Second Life or AJAX, or Trackbacks or the latest thing that Wordpress or Six Apart are showing off. They are still discovering that there’s value in simply encouraging their people to talk with their customers.

Right.

Monday, July 10, 2006

links for 2006-07-10

Thought Mechanics » Blog Archive » The best podcast EVER

WildVoice

(tags: podcasting)
First example of Seurat Painting Photo on Flickr

via Abby

(tags: photo)
Mozilla ActiveX Plug-in

Active-X plugin for Firefox

(tags: browser)
TechCrunch » Whither Television Programming?

Streaming video on the web

(tags: TV video web)
unmediated: Collective action, peer production, sociable media

Adam Smith, ..."every individual contribution to the general productiveness of society intends to foster individual gain"

(tags: delicious)

Live video through the Internet

Linksys Wireless PTZ Internet Camera with Audio:

"The Linksys Wireless-G Pan/Tilt/Zoom Video Camera sends live video through the Internet to a web browser anywhere in the world!"

Three Way Cable Splitter

For those of you who are interested in the results of the follow up visit from Comcast regarding my direct modem line being disconnected, here's the story.

Yes, my dedicated line was disconnected. In addition, it has been deactivated. Now no signal is coming in on it.

The three-way splitter is now feeding two modems and one TV.

The Comcast technician moved my modem which is on the third floor to the 3.5db output since my cable has the farthest way to go. The other modem and TV are on 7db output.

There's a thread over here talking about the different Cable Splitter outputs. Good luck understanding it.

The Comcast technician sys not to believe the online speed tests. Just look at how fast pages load.

His line testing tool says that the signal up to the third floor is good.

The pages do load pretty quickly.

Now all I need is a new router that doesn't have a 10MB limit. How do you like the Linksys WRT54G? My initial research leads me to believe that the WRT54GL is a better choice.

Blogging principles

Learning The Lessons of Nixon - Some blogging principles.

I have the same policy for comments on my blog as Lisa does on hers:

Comments and the “Living Room Doctrine.”
I consider my blog to be a virtual extension of my living space. As such, any comments that I would find threatening or offensive if said to me in person in my living room will be deleted. It’s fine to disagree with me (I allow that in my living room). Not fine is unbridled hostility, name calling, etc., either towards me or towards other commenters.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Billy J. Ray as Paul McCartney

Billy J. Ray as Paul McCartney by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Strawberry Fields.

Tony Garofalo as John Lennon

Tony Garofalo as John Lennon by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Strawberry Fields.

Joanne Colan: New Rocketboom Host

Dave Winer reports on Scripting News: 7/9/2006 that Joanne Colan is the new host of Rocketboom.

Let's see how many people post this info and how much press she gets out of it.

"Hello Joanne, this is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com." ;-)

Joanne Colan: Google Search Results.

Video Comments

Scobe points us to this ITP Research - Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin.
I'll have to try this on a WordPress blog...

Shock the money

Lost Remote: Shock the money: profit from your fans, don't fight them.
Somehting else to read later when I'm not in a hotel lobby. ;-)

Getting an ISBN from Lulu

Joho the Blog: Getting an ISBN from Lulu.
Just passing along this good info.

Amanda Congdon News

CNN.com has an AP story that does a good job with the Rocketboom story, Popular host leaves Rocketboom:

"'The Internet is like a smoothly paved road,' Amanda Congdon told viewers the last time she appeared on her popular video blog, Rocketboom. 'I can go anywhere I want.'"

Ironic.

I Met The Beatles

I'm still on Long Island. Last night's wedding party for cousins John and Diana was truly amazing.

The party was at Diana's parents house which was right on the water. The yard seems to be permanently set up for functions.

Soon after we arrived, I heard Beatles songs, and up on the deck were two guys dressed in black suits with skinny little black ties. The announced that they were John and Paul from Strawberry Fields , a Beatles tribute band made up of former cast members of Beatlemania.

These guys were good.

I enjoyed them so much that I had to call my friend Casey to let her hear some of the music. I ended up leaving a message for her and she texted me back asking if I was drunk at a Beatles concert. Ha! Nope, not drunk, but very happy.

After an amazing array of appetizers and a few Yeungling's, we were entertained down by the water under a huge tent. This tent was so big it could have Cirque de Soleil show under it. The evenings entertainment was provided by Greaseband. They were a really fun party band, and took us through the years, changing costumes for every era, 60's, 70's and 80's.

Unfortunately there isn't any video of me dancing with my cousin Marie, and belting out the chorus of "I Feel Like a Woman" by Shania Twain. That my friends was lots of fun.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

links for 2006-07-08

Will Video for Food » Two New Video Sites Pay for Content!

(tags: videoblogging)

Discovering Long Island

Long Island Wine Country is surprising.

It's a lot like Napa.

Done:
Corey Creek Vineyards.
Osprey's Dominion Vineyards.

To Do:
Martha Clara.
Jedediah Hawkins Inn

Seek First to Understand

My entry in Chris Pirillo's "Put words in Adam Curry's mouth" contest.

Podfather Faux Pas - Chris Pirillo's original comic about PodShow's rocky start.

CURRY.COM | UnLeash Update - Adam's response.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Paperback)

Networked journalism

Unmediated reports on Jeff Jarvis' new way of thinking about Citizen Media, it's Networked journalism:

"In networked journalism, the public can get involved in a story before it is reported, contributing facts, questions, and suggestions. The journalists can rely on the public to help report the story; we’ll see more and more of that, I trust. The journalists can and should link to other work on the same story, to source material, and perhaps blog posts from the sources (see: Mark Cuban). After the story is published — online, in print, wherever — the public can continue to contribute corrections, questions, facts, and perspective … not to mention promotion via links. I hope this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as journalists realize that they are less the manufacturers of news than the moderators of conversations that get to the news."

Friday, July 07, 2006

links for 2006-07-07

Spexious » Vloggercon unKeynote (transcript)

(tags: videoblogging)
YouTube - The Cars - Don't Cha Stop LIVE 1978

Enjoy this 1978 video performance of the rarely performed track from The Cars debut album. Recorded Live in England from the Rock Goes To College TV show.

(tags: video music)

Senator Stevens vs. The Ninja

aprigliano: Senator Stevens vs. The Ninja - Net Neutrality:

"Since Senator Ted Stevens and The Ninja both have gone out of their way to explain to us the issue that is Net Neutrality - I figured that both together plus music could only clear Net Neutrality up further. I personally am for it, or against it - all depends on the wording."

Combine Glue and Greed and you get Gluereed, but not Lou Reed, he was cool.

Kerry Healey Opt Out

The Kerry Healey For Massachusetts Governor campaign assumed that since I was on the mailing list for Governor Romney, that they could automatically subscribe me to Kerry Healy's campaign emails.

Instead of asking you to Opt In to her mailing list, she forces you to Opt Out.

Unsubscribed.

NY Times gets the Rocketboom story right

A Rift at the Video Blog Rocketboom Triggers a Cyberspace Soap Opera.

Chuck Olsen, Rocketboom's Minneapolis correspondent and the mediator of the dispute, said, "They argued over creative stuff; they argued over business stuff," mentioning disputes over content and how to lure advertisers.

The NY Times took the time to interview all parties involved, plus get outside comments from JD Lasica and Jason Calacanis.

I'm glad we have big media.

Free Blog Links to NY TIMES

New York Times Link Generator (presented by reddit).
Use this link egenerator to post story links to New York Times articles on your blog that don't require a login and never expire.

Rocketboom Replacement

YouTube - Rocketboom Replacement.
This is pretty funny!

Photos as Postcards

PostcardViewer

And you can do it with an iPhoto plug-in.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Podshow+ is Live

PodShow.com's new Program Guide looks sweet.

It's their first day out after stunting with those cool videos. I'll reserve judgement until they get all the bugs worked out with registration and playing content.

Video: The Honey's on Lake Calhoun

Minnesota Stories: Sky Blue Waters.

A Play by Darren Barefoot

Bolloxed | A Theatre Blog about Writing a Play:

"An intrepid Canuck meets the girl of his dreams in an exotic foreign land, but will the clash of cultures kill romance? Set in Dublin, Ireland, this off the wall love story chronicles the mis-adventures of a man on a mission in a country that doesn't understand him. He's bolloxed."

God Save the Internet

New super girl group, not created by Diddy, The Broadband, made up of singer songwriters Kay Hanley, Jill Sobule, and Michelle Lewis has released a free download, God Save the Internet. [ mp3 ]
via [ Colin ]

Podshow Isn't Up Yet

The new www.podshow.com isn't up yet, as of this posting.

Adam has got some amusing videos playing in the meantime.

There is HOPE

The HOPE conferences have been running since 1994. HOPE stands for Hackers On Planet Earth and it has become a gathering point for thousands of computer hackers, phone phreaks, net activists, government spooks, and a whole lot of curious people from all corners of the globe. This will be our sixth one (hence the name) and we expect to continue to grow and have more imaginative events, cool speakers, and fun projects than ever before.

Jason Scott will be there.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

links for 2006-07-05

Speakeasy - Speed Test

Test your cable modem connection speed

(tags: online statistics web cablemodem)
ma.speedtest.rcn.net

Cable Modem Speedtest

(tags: cablemodem internet speedtest)

At Least the Comcast Cable Guy didn't Fall Asleep

Comcast came over today to hook up our tenant's cable modem and TV.

For some reason, the Comcast technician took my dedicated cable modem line and used it to add on the tenant's TV AND cable modem.

So my cable modem isn't a dedicated line any more. It was put on a dedicated line a while back to resolve connectivity issues. The technician at the time told me that he labeled it so that future technicians would not disconnect it.

Guess that plan didn't work out too well.

I just got off the phone with Comcast and the rep informed me that he could not send out a technician to put back my dedicated line, but could send someone out to BOOST the line.

What?

Why can't they put things back the way they found them?

Was it too much work for today's installer to run a new line? He wouldn't even have had to run a new line, there already was a line right there.

I'll have to report back next week on the resolution to this saga.

Connecting Communities Videos

Blip.tv feed | Connecting Communities.
Video posts from the Alliance for Community Media 2006 conference that's happening in Boston. Ravi is on a panel this afternon, Fire it Up: Web Based Media Technologies on Display.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

links for 2006-07-04

Max Kiesler- Strategic Designer

(tags: ajax webdesign Blog)
Become a camcorder pro, Special Features at CNET.co.uk

Video tips

(tags: videoblogging)

Production Values

Dave Huth says:

Videoblogging is about exploding a lie. The lie goes like this: “You’re not good enough, you’re not pretty enough, you’re not smart enough, your equipment isn’t good enough, your lighting isn’t sweet enough, your audio isn’t controlled enough, you don’t have the proper training or knowledge of the right production conventions for your voice to have a place at the table. Media making is for professionals, the rest of the riff-raff is just too low-tech and ignorant of ‘proper staging’ techniques to be taken seriously.”

Common Sense

Mike Hudak writes, Happy Independence Day:

"The Fourth of July isn’t significant simply because it marks the beginning of independent American politics. It’s significant because it marked one of the first times that a group of people threw off the yolk of foreign leadership and chose self-government. It is significant because of the emphasis placed on individual empowerment and individual choice. It is significant, most of all, because of the ideal of America created on or around July 4, 1776 — an ideal that we have yet to realize, but that we continually strive for."

Video: July4Us - Bennington Flag

July4Us: Bennington Flag:

"For July 4th I decided to try to shoot a movie with my still camera."

It worked!

Happy 4th!

Worcester fireworks

Worcester fireworks by Glacial Wanderer, uploaded from flickr.

July4US on GigaDial

July4US:

"For all content regarding the Boston Media Maker campaign and New England Podcasting July4Us event."

Happy July4Us!

Posts are starting to appear. Get out and make some media today and tag it, July4Us.

Monday, July 03, 2006

links for 2006-07-03

Boing Boing: Scott Beale reviews Kyocera KR1 Mobile EV-DO Router

(tags: EV-DO wireless)
Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

(tags: web books photo)
Lulu TV

(tags: video web)
ePluribus Media Community || ePluribus Media Giraffe Project: A Great Blend

Steve Garfield of Rocketboom opened things up in a warm and inviting way

(tags: News)

Audio: Walk Through Haymarket

Boston Behind the Scenes Podcast: Haymarket Walkthrough:

"This is the first 'Bonus Track' for Boston Behind the Scenes. I recorded this for those of you who have never experienced Boston's Haymarket.

You can listen to this short soundseeing tour however you'd like, but to get the full experience, you have to put your headphones on. This is because I used some special microphones that will give you a true 3D soundscape."

This is really cool. A while back I posted about Adam Weiss' in ear microphones that let you record what your ears are hearing.

In this bonus podcast, adam takes you on a walk through Boston Haymarket produce market.

This is best listened to with headphones.

Listen to Adam's Boston Behind the Scenes interview at Haymarket too.

Free iLife Tutorials

Apple - iLife - Tutorials - iLife ’06 Multimedia Tutorials.
Cool.

I'll have to check out the GarageBand and iMovie HD tutorials.

James Boyle at Beyond Broadcast

Beyond Broadcast Audio and Video — Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture Archive.
All the sessions are online.

Make sure you start with this, "Keynote Presentation: Reinventing the Gatekeeper - James Boyle".

Boyle was amazing and gave me a new way of thinking about the future. Worthwhile.

Live - MediaGiraffe

Archived video of MGP2006 summit

Through the courtesy of the University of California School of Journalism, The University Channel at Princeton University, and Apple Computer, the Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst is please to offer archived QuickTime video of key presentations at the MGP2006 summit conference: "Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World." Summit proceedings ran from 5 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 28 through approximately 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 1.

Sonia Chang-Díaz - Democrat for State Senate

I just saw that Sonia Chang-Díaz has posted her campaign kick-off speech.

Good speech.

I'm looking forward to the start of her blog.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Interactive Video

I was just interviewed by a reporter from Economist for an article about interactive video.

After the interview, I searched around and found this:

VideoClix TV | Hypervideo | Video Hotspotting | Clickable Video.

If you have QuickTime, check this:

http://www.videoclix.com/showcases/LotR/index.html

I think this is pretty cool.

Now that I've seen it, I wonder if I've been using interactive videos all along and not realized it since it's pretty seamless.

The cursor turns into a hand, instead of an arrow, when there's something to click on.

Intuitive.

Are there interactive videos that you like?

How do you feel about the fact that they only work in QuickTime?

Video: Is the Medium Still the Message?

The video from my session at the Media Giraffe Summit is now online:
Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message? [ QuickTime ]

Includes:
Robb Montgomery, Paul Grabowitz and me, plus all the attendees.

It was an unconference done Phil Donahue style. Going through the attendees first to see who they were and what they wanted to learn helped us determine the content of the session.

Some of the things I covered were how to make a blog post and how powerful that is when combined with Google, making an audio podcast using only your cellphone, and making a video using a standard digital still camera and posting that to your blog with a few clicks. Fun stuff.

At the conclusion of the session a number of people came up to me and told me that our session was hte best one that they had attended.

I think part of the reason for that is that we included them in the session in a meaningful way and did a lot of showing vs. telling.

Thanks to Robb and Paul for working on this with me and thanks to Tish Grier for helping out.

mgp2006

July 4th = July4Us

Boston Media Makers - July 4th = July4Us.

No media makers meeting today. Go out and make media on the 4th!

Code to make a Technorati tag on your blog:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/July4Us" rel="tag">July4Us</a>

Displays like this:
July4Us

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Meet Big Media

Watch a short PSA on big media produced by area youth with the help of ACME VT partner MemeFilms.
via [ ACME Vermont ]

An Electric Car

An Electric Car by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

I saw this electric car in the UMass Campus Center Garage being recharged from an electrical socket in the wall. You can see an electric meter in the back.

It's a new thin client

The Personal Internet Communicator:

"The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is a new category of affordable consumer devices designed to provide managed Internet access for people in global, high-growth markets to enhance communications, entertainment, and education opportunities. "

I was just talking about Larry Ellison's old thin client that never caught on years ago.

Here's a new version that has a better chance because of wide broadband deployment.
via [ BusinessWeek ]

I'm not buying Microsoft Word

ajaxWrite - AJAX for Everyone:

"ajaxWrite is a web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats. Anytime you need to open, read or write a word processor file, simply point your Firefox browser to www.ajaxwrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be available for you to open, edit, print and save."

I could reload my copy of MS Word to my new MAc, but I'm going to try ajaxWrite for free instead.
via [ BusinessWeek ]

Where citizen video should go? Paul Grabowitz tells us.

This one was taken with my Canon S400 and uploaded to Hipcast where it was transcoded to Flash and Quicktime from AVI.

Check this link for videos from the Media Giraffe sessions including mine, "Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message?"

mgp2006

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