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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

24 Cellphone Ringtone

24 CTU (3 secs)
24 ctu jack beaur
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Morning Stories Mash-up

The video project I worked on with Tony Kahn of WGBH Radio's Morning Stories is now being posted to YouTube. This was a fun musical mashup.
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Snowman


Snowman by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Bre <-> Hilary

 
I like how these two photos showed up on my flickr contacts page.
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CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear

CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear

Nice job CNN on getting a report out right away with the true story. Good to see it on YouTube too, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.
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See Dick and Jane Kill a Bunny

See Dick and Jane Kill a Bunny

"Jewels, Ink, and Feathers", A Run Wrake Animation.
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Monday, January 22, 2007

The Mitt Romney Deception

Activist rains on Romney's parade - The Boston Globe:
"It was 4 a.m. Brian Camenker , 53, a computer programmer, sat at his kitchen table in Newton, hunched over his Toshiba laptop. Strewn around him were papers detailing former governor Mitt Romney's alleged ties to gay youth conferences, gay judges, and abortion rights activists.

The documents, mostly printouts of news stories, represented weeks of work by Camenker and a few volunteers who had searched the Internet for material to disprove Romney's assertions that he is a conservative. Now, the results glowed on the screen in front of him, compiled into a 10,000-word dossier, 'The Mitt Romney Deception.'"
Providing a link because the Boston Globe doesn't.
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Wheatpasting Hilary


Rasterbation Challenge by Brooklyn Hilary, uploaded from flickr.

Bre and Hilary took larger than life pics of themselves and posted them in public places. They wheatpasted them to the wall at 11 Spring Street in NYC.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

How To: Wordpress Plugins

links for 2007-01-21
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Swimming Across Jamaica Pond


Sam Allis writes in today's Boston Globe, On the wild side, an article about Rick Berlin:
"Jamaicaplainspoken.com, the website he and Todd Drogy, a fellow musician and a waiter at Zon's, another estimable JP eatery, have created to showcase the astonishing array of characters who live in the 'hood. We're talking 43 video interviews of folks in JP, with more coming, along with a documentary down the road."
This is a very interesting project that documents the lives of people in Jamaica Plain. I just watched The Swim. Nicely done.
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Video Vertigo

Aggregation Best Practices: Mike Hudack of blip.tv outlines the "Best practices for syndicating video work to a destination site while respecting content creators."

All video aggregation site owners should read and adhere to these best practices.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Lindsay Lohan Screentest

Lindsay Lohan's screentest for The Parent Trap
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Vlogging Social Media Podcasting

links for 2007-01-20
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Podfeed.net Please Respond

Podfeed.net is using the wrong video link for my videos in their directory. This means that the view/download is not counted over on blip.tv, and Mike Hudack tells me that the video link they are using could break.

I'm posting this here because a submission at the site got no response.

A link to Vlog Soup 22 on this page:

http://www.podfeed.net/podcast/Steve+Garfields+Video+Blog/4056

Results in this video page being loaded:

http://mirror.video.blip.tv/Stevegarfield-VlogSoup22608.mov

They should be using this link:

http://blip.tv/file/get/Stevegarfield-VlogSoup22608.mov

Steve Garfield's Video Blog at Podfeed.net

One more thing, they aren't linking back to the permalink of each blog post either. Don't get me started on that one.
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Fark.TV on Super Deluxe: The Future of Video


The Plain-text, non-Web-2.0 Story of FarkTV
Super Deluxe is the first broadband network launching entirely with original production-quality content. They're not doing what everyone else is doing. They're not putting a huge stable of crappy re-runs online that youve already seen on TV a million times. They're not inundating their network with thousands of videos of people playing guitars or candid little vignettes of guys getting kicked in the nuts (although that stuff is pretty funny). No one has ever seen this before - it's an Internet-launched network with professionally produced shows. It's the future of video.
Super Deluxe is good. I linked to them twice yesterday.

Fark.TV on Super Deluxe.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Vlog Soup: Episode 22


Vlog Soup by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
In this episode of Vlog Soup we visit the daily life of a graduate secretary, visit a junk collector in Texas, learn how to best use a microphone, meet a talking dog, and meet a vlogger from France who is traveling to America! Enjoy.
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Video Wants to be President When It Grows Up


Listen to or Join the Talkcast: New Mediacracy
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Talkcast Name: New Mediacracy
Host: New Mediacracy - Zadi Diaz, Steve Garfield, and Steve Woolf

Next episode: EPISODE4 - New Mediacracy, Thu, January 18, 2007 08:00 PM EST
Online Video Wants to be President When It Grows Up.

Listen live online while we record the show.

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Undiscovered filmmakers


On the Lot: For All The Marbles.

Burnett & Spielberg Offer $1-Million Development Deal to Undiscovered Fimmakers:
ON THE LOT, executive-produced by Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg, will give aspiring filmmakers from around the world the chance to earn a $1-million development deal at DreamWorks.
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Ze Frank Goes Hollywood


Spencer Morgan gives us a Ze Frank Hollywood update in First Ze Take Hollywood:
So Mr. Frank has decided since then to focus on feature films for his first foray into the mainstream. But don’t worry, netizens! He swears he’ll never ditch the Web.
I enjoyed reading this story about how Ze was initially contacted by United Talent Agency and what has happened since.

via [ NewTeeVee ]
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Micki's iPhone Nano Revamped


Micki's iPhone Nano Revamped by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Space Talk from Dimension Eugene #1

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Bob Dylan Wrote Every Song

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Brightcove Beats YouTube


Just talked to Jeremy Allaire from Brightcove, about the Barack Obama announcement video, and he says:

"There were over 140k views of the video yesterday. That will update on our site today..."

Amazing.

This is big news.

John Edwards announcement video on YouTube now has 103,524 views since December 27th.

Barack Obama's video on Brightcove has over 140K views since yesterday.

Has Brightcove dethroned the king with this video? Has Obama jumped to the top of the presedential race with one video?

I'll be watching developments closely.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Samantha & Bianca at Harvard


Samantha & Bianca drop some science on us by RubyJi, uploaded from flickr.
Samantha Velez and Bianca Ramos talked about what it's like for them as sixteen year olds in High School having to work 35 hours a week and go to school where half their class has already dropped out of school.

I was very impressed with these two young women and I'm glad they came to Harvard to speak at the Berkman/Sunlight meeting on Political Information in an Internet era.

in the midst of seeing all the new and exciting web and wiki initiatives, hearing from them about what needs to be done at a local. gave us a much needed perspective.

I see there is a snowball microphone there and hope that the recording of their talk gets posted to the net for a greater audience to hear.

I hope they get to go to SXSW.


Geek parade 1 by RubyJi

John Palfrey: Sunlight Foundation event on MLK, Jr., Day at HLS
Ethan Zuckerman:
- Ten democracy projects in seventy minutes
- Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
- Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting
David Weinberger: Cool Democracy Tools
Dan Gillmor: Political Watchdogging

Tag: berkmansunlight
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End the War


United for Justice with Peace:
"MARCH ON WASHINGTON

January 27, 2007

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, NOW CONGRESS MUST ACT

On Election Day, voters nation-wide delivered an unmistakable MANDATE for PEACE. And now, it's time for ACTION!

On Saturday, Jan. 27th, people from every corner of the country will march on Washington, DC. Our message will be clear, our voice will be strong: End the war in Iraq, Bring all the troops home now!"
Boston Phoenix: Dumb and Dumber:
When it comes to Iraq, Bush has become a dictator.

It’s a scary thought: the president of the United States doesn’t know what he’s doing. What other conclusion can the nation draw?
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Barack Obama on YouTube





Barack Obama just released a video over at YouTube titled, Barack Obama: My Plans for 2008.

Senator Obama is announcing the formation of his Presidential Exploratory Committee over there and on a new website BarackObama.com. He's also got a video page hosted by Brightcove. There's also a full text transcript of his announcement. All he needs now is a blog with RSS 2.0 and media enclosures. ;-)

As of 1:49 EST there are 551 views on YouTube. Let's see how long it takes for this video to register 1,000, 10,000, 100,000.

Update:
7:46 PM EST 15,870 Views on YouTube

7:57 AM 1/17 21,616 Views on YouTube

Statistics on his Brightcove Channel haven't been updated yet

It'll be interesting.

I saw this over on CC Chapman's blog.

Update 1/17:
Brightcove Beats YouTube
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Steve Garfield's Personality via Autocomplete

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifI saw this Personality Test via Autocomplete over on Ed Kohler's blog so I tried it.

"This is the autocomplete personality test, where you type each letter of the alphabet into your browser's address bar and note what autocompletes."

I cleared out my browser's history this weekend so the results are for a few days. A number of the links are from the Berkman/Sunlight conference I went to this weekend at Harvard.

A - http://azcongresswatch.com/ - Heard about this at Harvard
B - http://blip.tv/ - Start your video blog here. blip.tv is people.
C - http://www.cbs.com/originals/15_seconds/ - Say it to CBS
D - http://www.democrats.com/ - Heard about this at Harvard
E - http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog/ - Ethan Zuckerman
F - http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/ - I love my flickr friends
G - http://www.galacticast.com/ - the best sci-fi parody series on the web
H - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ - David Weinberger explains things
I - http://imakethings.com/ - Bre Pettis makes things
L - http://www.lostremote.com/ - All about the new TV landscape
M - http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/ - My mom
N - http://newmediacracy.blogspot.com/ - Podcast on New Media by me, Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz. Recorded live on Thursdays at 8:00 PM EST
O - http://www.opensecrets.org/ - Find out about government. Your Guide to money in U/S. Election
P - http://pulverblog.pulver.com/ - Jeff Pulver
S - http://scobleizer.com/ - Robert Scoble
S - http://smashface.com/ - Zadi and Steve
T - http://technorati.com/search/stevegarfield.com - Ego Surfing
U - http://www.universalhub.com/ - the best way to keep track of what the Boston area blogs are saying
V - http://vermontdailybriefing.com/ - Philip Baruth takes the time to write longer posts that mean something.
W - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ - Washington Post
Y - http://www.youtube.com/ - Sis you see that YouTube video yet?
Z - http://zadidiaz.com/blog/ - Zadi Diaz
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Citizens Response

Joho the Blog: Citizens Response:
"At dinner last night with Zephyr Teachout and Steve Garfield (lucky me!), at the kick-off of a Sunlight -Berkman conference (tag: berkmansunlight), we had an idea.

The next time there's a national speech or a press conference, instead of waiting for the opposition party to nominate a single person to issue a response, let's vblog citizen responses. If we tag our responses 'citizenresponse' and perhaps use a second tag indicating what we're reacting to (or maybe just the date will do), we'll all be able to find them. "
Let's do it.
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Casey Hulk


Casey Hulk by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

My favorite Casey shots from Galacticast: Episode Project Gamma.

Casey Hulk!
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Video Conversations on My Blog



Just saw this new video recording widget that lets you have video conversations. Let's try it out.

INVITE CODE
Here's an invite code for you to use flickzor on your own blog: omg.43l4qt

YOU NEED TO SIGN UP TO RECORD A VIDEO
You've got to sign up to send a flick video.

MY INITIAL FEEDBACK
I've sent them in some feedback:

1. Can you make the record greeting button change into a stop recording button so that you don't have to look down after starting the recording? Please do this.

2. When looking at the widget, how do you know that there are other videos available for viewing other than pressing the right hand fast forward button to check?

3. Do you send email notifications that new flicks are awaiting approval?
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Following Nicole Kidman


Streetzen
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Robert Scoble Needs a New Head

Over on Robert Scoble's blog, Scobleizer, he's got a page header graphic that needs updating.

There's a photo of him there. He doesn't look like that.

I sent Robert a new banner suggestion a few weeks ago made up of Thomas Hawk photos. I just updated it.



What do you think?

Do you have an idea for a new Scobleizer header graphic?
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New Mediacracy: CES, iPhone Podcast


bloghaus by Zadi Diaz, uploaded from flickr.

Zadi Diaz recaps her CES experience and gives a link to a New Mediacracy Podcast we recorded last night:

The two Steve's and I finished recording another episode of New Mediacracy. We cover more stuff on CES, Bloghaus, MacWorld, the iphone, AppleTV, SteveTV, Nerdcore, the future of videoblogging and a bunch of other interesting things.
Yay podcasting!

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Friday, January 12, 2007

The President Is A Failure


The President Who Cried Wolf.

Keith Olbermann: Bush's strategy fails because it depends on his credibility.
Only this president, only in this time, only with this dangerous, even messianic certitude, could answer a country demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy for Iran.
Time to impeach Bush?
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Birdfeeder Webcam


Birdfeeder Webcam by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Here I am on the Makezine Podcast: Make a Birdfeeder Webcam.

Bre Pettis was here and we did this weekend project together. It was fun.
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TV, Phone Calls and WiFi. Oh My!

links for 2007-01-12
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Red Theater Boston


Red Theater Boston by brex, uploaded from flickr.

I'm making this my new page banner!

Thanks Bre.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

DriveAwayTime: Hosey Forced From Axiom


I got a call from Ravi Jain last night asking me to come down to the new Axiom Gallery on Green Street to help him push his car, Hosey, OUT of the gallery.

Moving Hosey
With the help of a few others we actually had to lift the back end of the car off the gallery floor to get the car situated so we could push it out the door. Dave Wildman has more.

Boston’s Weekly Dig: Cops declare car in gallery to be "unsafe art":
"Think having an exhibit of videoblogs done in a car is a crazy idea? Well, pulling the car itself into the gallery proves to be an even crazier idea."
Come to the opening reception: Friday January 12th, 6-9pm.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie

CBC Television: Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Looks funny.
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No to Iraq War Escalation

This is the most important moment to speak out on Iraq since the war began. Last night, President Bush proposed an escalation in Iraq. If we act today, we can make sure Congress stops this plan in its tracks.

There's an Emergency Rally to Stop Escalation in Iraq today at 4:00 PM in Boston.

Here are the details:

Emergency Rally to Stop Escalation in Iraq
Where: BOSTON COMMON - Park St. & Tremont St. (in Boston)
When: Thursday, Jan 11 2007, 4:00 PM
RSVP: Click to RSVP

If this event doesn't work for you, click this link to search events in hundreds of other locations around the country.

Tonight, the media will be out watching and reporting on our rallies and that means we really need to turn out in big numbers. This is our chance to show without a doubt that Americans want a responsible exit from Iraq—not an escalation.
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They Lost the Moon Landing Tapes

Here's a story some of us were talking about recently where the government lost the moon landing tapes.

Buzz on the Footpad

Wired 15.01: One Giant Screwup for Mankind:
"THERE ARE 4 MILLION musty boxes at the Washington National Records Center, a squat brick building in Suitland, Maryland, that's been housing inactive federal records since 1967. The boxes are stacked on gray girders that rise about 20 feet and would cover the equivalent of 14 football fields of cold concrete bunkers. 'We have income tax records, passport applications, patent records, trademark records,' says Alan Kramer, division director at the center. 'And we have records from NASA, too.'

The building grows more crowded every day. In 1950, the federal records totaled 45,000 cubic feet. Today they cover 25 million, and bureaucrats add more than 500,000 cubic feet every year. Digital migration was supposed to lighten the load. It hasn't. 'People don't trust computers, so they print out everything,' Kramer says."
Sounds like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

In Love With Birds

Bird in Love - Daily Self Portrait - January 10, 2006352833658_3d9b390e7b.jpg

Bre Pettis and I made a birdfeeder webcam. While documenting the process we did some fauxtobooth photography.

Watch for the video at the Makezine Blog on Friday.
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Say It To CBS

YouTube and CBS: If You Had 15 Seconds:
"If you had 15 seconds to tell the world whatever you want to, what would you say? Well, now's your chance to be seen and heard on national television, courtesy of CBS Interactive. Post your 15-second video on YouTube, and CBS Interactive will select one to be broadcast on TV! The first selection will air on Sunday, February 4, 2007. "
Yay CBS.

This is a step in the right direction. CBS is now asking people to submit videos to YouTube.

CBS is following the path that Jeff Jarvis suggested, and that I prototyped with SayItToKatie.com.

I personally explained how user submitted content should work in a discussion with management at CBS. I looks like they were listening.

CBS has a 15 Seconds page over on CBS.com where you can read the rules and follow a link to watch the recently submitted videos over on YouTube.

This is a smart move by CBS since they don't have to screen any videos, and all the submissions can be seen on YouTube. The only videos they have to get a release waiver for are those that they choose to put on CBS TV.

Congratulations.

Now I need something to say. ;-)

Update:
Jeff Jarvis writes: Say it to CBS and the world
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The iPhone for Elders?

Apple's New Calling: The iPhone:
"Cell phones do all kinds of stuff—calling, text messaging, Web browsing, contact management, music playback, photos and video—but they do it very badly, by forcing you to press lots of tiny buttons, navigate diverse heterogeneous interfaces and squint at a tiny screen. 'Everybody hates their phone,' Jobs says, 'and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there.' To Jobs's perfectionist eyes, phones are broken. Jobs likes things that are broken. It means he can make something that isn't and sell it to you for a premium price."
Sonds like a phone my mom could love.

Apple iPhone - Official page.
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Teaching Bre Pettis Fauxtography



Fauxtography with Bre Pettis on Vimeo
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Bre's Fauxtobooth


Fauxtobooth - Daily Self Portrait - January 9, 2006 by brex, uploaded from flickr.

This is a lot of fun. I'm helping Bre figure out how to build a photobooth and we're experimenting with the process.

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Monday, January 08, 2007

O'Hare Airport UFO


O'Hare Airport UFO by weirdamerica, uploaded from flickr.

My friend Chuck Cirno writes:

In the Fall of 2006 a UFO was spotted over O'Hare Airport. I managed to squeeze off this shot out the window of my plane.
Why does the government deny these claims?

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Fauxtobooth


Fauxtography by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Bre and I are doing research into making a photobooth.

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Steve And Bre


Steve And I - Daily Self Portrait - January 8 , 2006 by brex, uploaded from flickr.

Bre Pettis is getting a whirlwind tour of media-making in Boston.

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Blogger Lets You Use Your Own Domain

Blogger Lets You Use Your Own Domain:
"Blogger added a new feature: Bring your own domain. All you have to do is buy a domain, anywhere, at any price you can find, set up your Blogger account and point your DNS at Google’s server at ghs.google.com, and viola*! Now your Blogger blog appears at its own domain name, and all you had to do was pay less than ten bucks a year for the domain. You don’t need hosting, because Blogger handles all the traffic, you just bring the domain."
This is big news.

Yay!

i might just do it!
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Knights of the Rectangular Table


Knights of the Regtangular Table by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Boston Media Makers met on Sunday morning and the meeting notes are up along with audio!
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Jump!


Jump! by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

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Raise the Roof


Raise the Roof by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

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Ninja Goal Setting


Christopher Penn and Bre Pettis by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

Last night over at Christopher Penn's a few PodCamp Alumni and friends gathered for a small get together which included a Ninja excersise.

No, not that Ninja.

Christopher prepared us with this email:
In preparation for the party on Saturday, for those of you attending, I'd like for you to bring something with you, and for any guests you're bringing, the same. We will be performing what's called the goma, a ninja meditation exercise involving helping each other achieve our goals.

What I'd like for you to bring on Saturday is this - please choose one goal you want to achieve in 2007 more than any other. A goal you are fiery passionate about, a goal that you know you can achieve if you stretch past your comfort zone and one you'll burst with pride when you've completed. Be sure the goal you want to achieve is measurable in some way as well, and try to be concise in your description of it, ideally no more than a sentence or two.
Christopher did a great job leading us through the excercise.

On a record breaking day of warmth in Boston, I was wondering why Christopher had his fireplace blazing. It all became clear later on.

Chris Brogan would have totally loved it. A lot of the excercise had to do with committing to a goal and working on it everyday.

That reminds me, I should send off an email.

Christopher Penn has "Show Notes" from the party. This is the coolest thing I have every seen in my whole life!
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Still Vlogging Three Years Later


Killian Fox of Guardian Unlimited mentions my starting blogging date in an article he writes about Ze Frank in The Observer, I'm Frank, give me three minutes, you'll love it ...:
"On 1 January 2004, a man named Steve Garfield (www.stevegarfield.com) pulled his finger out of a dam. He launched one of the first notable video blogs on the internet and announced to whomever was watching that vlogs would be huge in 2004."
Hard to believe it's been three years. I'm looking forward to 2007.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007

links for 2007-01-06
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Meeting John Edwards


Meeting John Edwards by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

This photo reminds me of the Arnold "Arnie" Sachs photo of a young Bill Clinton shaking hands with John F. Kennedy.
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Andrea Ross and Vanessa Hudgens

 
Nice article in today's Boston Globe about Andrea Ross.

Ross played the Vanessa Hudgens role of Gabriella Montez in a stage play of High School Musical this summer at Stagedoor Manor in Loch Sheldrake, New York.

High School Musical, The Concert hits Worcester on Wednesday.
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Friday, January 05, 2007

Today on Rabbit Bites: Steve Garfield


Rabbit Bites Interviews Steve Garfield:
Join us for Coffee with Chou. This is Chou Chou's talk show where she is interviewing a few of the internet's key people and the hot hot celebrities of today! All things come full circle in this episode when Steve Garfield joins Chou Chou for a chat about internet video and it's future. Steve is a video pioneer, having been among the very first to exploit new video technologies available on the Web. He has his own show, Vlog Soup (among others) and is a contributor to Rocketboom. He's a very nice guy and an asset to online video. Grab a steaming mug of Java and join us!
Those bunnies did a nice interview.
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Pudd Channels Ze Frank for AdBright



Philip J. Kaplan aka Pud is pretty funny as the pitchman for AdBrite's new video ad service.
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Vlog Soup


Vlog Soup: Episode 21:
"In this free video tour of the vlogosphere we travel to God's office, India, Amsterdam, John Edwards plane, then end up with three music videos. Fun times."
Enjoy!
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

New Mediacracy Podcast Recording Live at 8:00 PM

New Mediacracy: EPISODE 2: Heavy Discussion About Video:
"EPISODE 2: Heavy Discussion About Video
Title: New Mediacracy
Description: EPISODE 2: Heavy Discussion About Video

Zadi Diaz, Steve Garfield and Steve Woolf talk about the new media landscape focusing on video on the web and new developments from the past week.
Start Time: 01/04/07 08:00 PM EST
Duration (minutes): 60"
You can listen to us record this podcast live online and call in if you want to participate in the second half hour of open phones.
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links for 2007-01-04
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Democrats For Romney

Dems For Romney.
Now that the burden of the Governorship has been lifted off the shoulders of Mitt he can concentrate on the 2008 campaign. Unfortunately last year he was only able to dedicate 212 days to the campaign...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Sell Passionate User Generated Video

links for 2007-01-03
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A Knish on a Plate


Millie's Yiddish Class is featured on the Associated Press' asap incoming! page.

Thanks Andy for letting me know.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

WSJ.com is Free Today


The Wall Street Journal came out with their new redesign today.

NO TIME
I don't think there is enough time in the day to read everything they have written in today's issue.

Has anyone tried? Does anyone actually read every article?

The newspaper has has changed from being skimmable, to being like the Sunday New York Times where you need to block off a period of time to read and digest everything.

TOO FEW WORDS PER COLUMN
One thing I noticed is that the font is very easy to read, but there don't put enough words in each column.

You can compare the online version of this article to the printed one.

Iraqi Leader's Past of Shiite Activism Undermines Pledge to Heal Rifts - WSJ.com. Free access today. Free on newsstands too I hear.

In print it looks like this:
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- His only son was
getting married on Friday, but the
Iraqi prime minister couldn't stay long
at the wedding.
Online, all the words of this sentence are on one line, except for the last word which wraps to a new line.

It gets worse when you turn to the continuation page. Once there, each line has only 3-6 words on it. I think that's a lot of work for your eyes, shifting back and forth all that time.

Online, each line has around 30 words on it.

Can someone explain to me why newspapers have many narrow columns instead of paragraphs that cross the page?

The shrunken Wall Street Journal
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Deval Patrick on Marriage Equality

I just got this email from Deval Patrick:
DEVAL PATRICK STATEMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Boston – January 2, 2007 – The following is a statement from Governor-elect Deval Patrick on today’s Constitutional Convention:

“I believe that adults should be free to choose whom they wish to love and to marry. The SJC’s decision in Goodridge affirms that basic human right, and I support it.

“Above all, this is a question of conscience. Using the initiative process to give a minority fewer freedoms than the majority, and to inject the state into fundamentally private affairs, is a dangerous precedent, and an unworthy one for this Commonwealth. Never in the long history of our model Constitution have we used the initiative petition to restrict freedom. We ought not start now.

“For practical reasons as well, it’s time to move on. Whatever one’s views of marriage equality, all can agree that we have far more pressing issues before the Legislature and the Commonwealth. It serves no public interest to focus more time and attention on this issue when there are under-served and under-performing schools, an infrastructure showing signs of sustained neglect, gun and gang violence on the rise, jobs and people leaving the state, a growing homeless population, soaring health care costs, a looming deficit and a score of other serious challenges crying out for the attention and the creativity of the government and the people. We cannot in good conscience ask these unmet needs to wait while a few individuals try to insert discrimination into our Constitution.

“I favor ending this petition initiative promptly. If adjournment can accomplish that, so be it. If the Constitutional Convention chooses to vote on the merits, I want to be utterly clear that I believe a vote to advance this question to the 2008 ballot is irresponsible and wrong. Given the significant challenges we face on so many other fronts, I would be deeply disappointed in such a vote. It would do nothing more than condemn us all to more years of debate and expense on a matter that is legally and practically settled.”
This is what John Edwards should be saying.

And BTW, this statement should be on the Deval Patrick website, in a blog post with a permalink, so I wouldn't have to repost the entire thing here.

If you find it somewhere on his site let me know and I'll link to it there.
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Millie's Yiddish Class


Millie's Yiddish Class by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.

My Mom's Yiddish Class, Lesson 1 is up.

Enjoy!

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Monday, January 01, 2007

New Year's Toast


New Year's Toast by stevegarfield, uploaded from flickr.
Happy New Year!

Video: Carol and Steve: New Years in Boston 2007
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