Haiti Photo: Home is all rubble now. How it spread from a cellphone, to twitpic, to twitter, to Getty, AFP and more.

I saw this image from Haiti in a copy of yesterday's Metro newspaper. It's the newpaper that you pick up on the subway.

The caption read, "A Twitter image purportedly shows Haitians standing amid rubble yesterday in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake."

There was no credit given to the photographer.

That annoys me.

Twitter image
Twitter does not host images, so the image was found VIA twitter, but was actually posted elsewhere. It's not really a twitter image. Is it?

Username
Where was the twitter username?

That's like TV stations crediting videos that they take off of YouTube as "YouTube video." There is a user name associated with the video. Credit them!

Image Credit
So back to this photo. The photo had an image credit of AFP/Getty Images, so I started a search and found this.


GETTY Images

This image obtained from Twitter purportedly shows Haitians standing amid rubble on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after a huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. AFP PHOTO / TWITTER == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / NO SALES == (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Then I found this on AFP:


AFP

HAITI, Port-au-Prince : ------ EDITORS NOTE ----- ADDING NAME OF PHOTOGRAPHER -----

This image obtained from Twitter purportedly shows Haitians standing amid rubble on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after a huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. AFP PHOTO / CAREL PEDRE == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / NO SALES ==

Credit
AFP
Source
AFP
Creation date
2010-01-13 00:36 +00:00
Photographer
CAREL PEDRE

They determined the photographer's name and added it to the AFP site, but that doesn't help for all the places it went uncredited.

Next is the local TV station which has a credit for the photographer.



WCVB
Credit: AP Photo / Carel Pedre

CT Post also credits the photographer.



CTPOST

This photo provided by Carel Pedre shows people running past rubble of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area shook Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help. Photo: Carel Pedre / AP

Mashable reports on the source of the image. Twitter posts by Marvin Addy of cellphone photos taken by Carel Pedre.

Nice job Mashable.


Mashable - Haiti Earthquake: Twitter Pictures Sweep Across the Web [PHOTOS]:

An outpouring of well wishes and support for the Haitian people has swept the web in the wake of a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. And just like during the Eureka earthquake, tweets have quickly spread moving and gut-wrenching TwitPics of the disaster.

Photos taken by journalist @CarelPedre on his mobile phone are providing a glimpse into the devastation that has slammed the Caribbean nation. Another Twitter user, @MarvinAdy, shared those pictures through TwitPic, resulting in tens of thousands of views and countless retweets.

Here's Carel Pedre's twitter page and websites...


Carel Pedre on Twitter
Carel Pedre Official Site
Carel Pedre on Flickr

Here's Marvin Ady's posting on TwitPic.


@MarvinAdy

It's interesting to read the comments and see all the news outlets asking for photos.


Marvin Ady TwitPic Comments

This is the state of news.

Real time direct reports from people at the scene using social media tools like twitter, twitpic, flickr and more.

Update:

TF1 News - Carel Pedre, the eyes of Haiti: [ Transated from French ]

Soon after the quake, it is clear the streets, going door to door to check how will his friends and collect the testimonies of those who have lost everything. With his mobile phone, it takes pictures that he sends her Twitter service via TwitPic. CNN publishes on its website. "Honestly, these pictures are not representative of the extent of damage," says Carel Pedre, live on the big American chain. Among the first eyewitness of the catastrophe, his photos are taken by the agencies and published in U.S. newspapers. One of them is including a prestigious Washington Post.

BLACKCOFFEE: Audio and Branding

Black Coffee: Audio and Branding, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

"When we see something, we analyze. When we hear something, we do not." Wilbert Hirsch, Acoustic Consulting Group Inc.



Hosted by BLACKCOFFEE brand expression





Sony Anycast Station.

Video production by Miguel Aponte-Rios, S.O.C. Veloz Media.

BookTour Events Auto-Embed into Amazon.com Author Pages

BookTour Events Auto-Embed into Amazon Author Pages, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Example:

Steve Garfield Amazon.com Author Page

I'm With COCO

I'm With COCO, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC

Conan O'Brien Image by Mike Mitchell
sirmikeofmitchell.com/

Mike says, "Show the world whose side you're on!

Feel free to use on blogs, twitter, etc."

Follow Mike on twitter.
twitter.com/sirmitchell

The official "I'm with Coco" fan page.
imwithcoco.com

I'm with COCO Facebook Group
www.facebook.com/imwithcoco

Schlomo Rabinowitz- Get Seen Interview

Schlomo

Steve Garfield: So, it says "camcorder empty" and I'm like, "Oh, my God. The camcorder is empty!" I'm like, "No, wait a minute. That's a good thing."

Schlomo Rabinowitz: Yeah. It's empty. I haven't used it today. I could actually put stuff on it. Is that what you mean that was a good thing?

Steve Garfield: They need a new wording for that.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: They do.

Steve Garfield: Camcorder is fabulous. Record.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: Yeah, camcorder is excited to be used. Camcorder excited.

Steve Garfield: Camcorder empty. Oh, my God. That's like a gas gauge.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: Exactly, seeing that's negative. Yeah, I agree.

Steve Garfield: I got to talk to user interface kind of. So, tell us who you are.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: I'm Schlomo Rabinowitz.

Steve Garfield: And why don't you just tell us what the secret of online video is.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: To me, the secret of online video is really understanding how, you know, we all have these little toys, right? You understand that I could just run a gun and go "Ba! Ba! Ba!" but it's about now what do I do with that and how do I deal with my subject, how do I get what I need from them and make them feel comfortable, so in the end they look fun on camera and I'm getting my information out and how do you do that. That's really the secret of online video because we're all talking about making concise things with crazy, f*cking click machines and now how do I make that happen like over here, they are doing an adoption service and I decided to do some on there and one of the people there is this little 10-year-old girl. So, I said, "Hey, can we use her to represent the adoption service?" Right? So, I got the little girl and we're talking. I said, "Okay, so this is Little Missy, the dog," right? She's introducing the dog and I said, "Since we're looking for an owner and we're at South by Southwest, what sort of music does the dog like?" and she goes, "Uh, Miley Cyrus?" I said, "Perfect!" So, hopefully people will see this then Miley Cyrus may come adopt Little Missy, you know? That sort of thing. So, you get something fun as opposed to just, "Here's the dog adoption service. Here's the static wide shot. Now, let's go in." It's a little bit more than that. It's between that and bringing a camera from here into here. Get a close up then go back. That's actually engaging online.

Steve Garfield: Oh okay.

Schlomo Rabinowitz: See? See?

Steve Garfield: Oh, wait a minute. Let's go find that dog. Where is that?

Schlomo Rabinowitz: Over here.

Steve Garfield: Okay.

Read an excerpt of this interview and more in my book, Get Seen.

He completely shredded the curtain I had mentally erected around this intimidating thing called "video podcasting"

Dan York reviews Get Seen, Want to do online video? Get Steve Garfield's new book "Get Seen":

I can still remember when Steve Garfield completely blew my mind and opened it up to all sorts of possibilities.

It was April 2007 and a whole bunch of us from the from the Boston area had gathered at Boston University for Doug Kaye's latest Podcast Academy 2... C.C. Chapman was there... Chris Brogan (before he started his ascent to rock star status ;-)... I seem to recall Christopher Penn... it was all the "early days" of podcasting and so by and large most of us knew each other in some way. Many of us were in a local email mailing list for New England podcasters - and we were there to learn from Doug Kaye and the talented list of instructors he brought, but also to learn from each other.

The final session at the end of the last day was Steve Garfield up to talk about "Video Podcasting".



I can still remember Steve up on the BU stage... because in the first few minutes of his talk, he completely shredded the curtain I had mentally erected around this intimidating thing called "video podcasting".

You see... I had been blogging since 2000 and participating in audio podcasting since early 2005 (with "For Immediate Release", where I still contribute to this day), but video?

No way! Video was hard... it required expensive equipment... it was difficult to do... it took special knowlege... it was complicated...

And there was Steve, standing up on the stage pointing a silly little commodity point-and-shoot camera first at himself and then at all of us... copying the file over to his computer... and then uploading it to YouTube or his blog or some site... all in the first 5-10 minutes of his talk!

Hello?

Was the awesomely intimidating "video podcasting" really as easy as this???

Thanks Dan.

That was a great day at Podcast Academy 2. I remember sitting through the earlier presentations, thinking, "why are they making podcasting sound so complicated."

Here's a video of the session:



It was fun to show people how easy it was, and it still is!

Where To Buy Get Seen

Thanks for visiting!

** Welcome to fans of David Wells' Inbound Now. **

Watch a replay of my David Wells interview on SteveGarfield.tv. Initial live broadcast was Thursday April 21st.

SteveGarfield.tv is LIVE every Thursday at 2 ET.

I've been blogging since 1997 and videoblogging since 2004. Over that time I've had thousands of interactions with people who are interested in learning how to put video online.

Get Seen Overview:


I wrote Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building your Business. It compiles the latest information in an up to date guide.

I hope you'll consider buying a copy.



Thanks for your support.

Where to Buy Get Seen

in alphabetical order

800 CEO READ

Amazon.com [ January 12, 2010 Amazon.com Official Release Date ]
[ Affiliate Link ]

Kindle Version Available!



Amazon.ca (Canada)

Amazon.co.uk

Barnes & Noble [ Affiliate Link ]


Book Depository (UK)

Books-A-Million


Chapters (Canada)

IndieBound


iBooks

Get Seen is also Available wherever books are sold.
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Audio version coming soon.

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Buying this book supports my efforts to document what you need to know to put video online. This book includes step-by-step guides, interviews and examples of how I've used the technology to Get Seen. It also explains the importance of storytelling and putting together good content. I had a blast writing it and hope you'll enjoy reading it.

Thanks for your support.

We can continue the discussion here on the blog or on the book's community site on Facebook.

Thanks!
--Steve

Note:
Thanks Chris Brogan for his support. I'm following his guide to book promotion. He's a few months ahead of me and does it so well.

Update:
The Big Push for My Book - Get Seen Official Publish Date 1/18/10.

Help spread the word. Thanks!

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Brett Gaylor - Get Seen Interview

Brett Gaylor

Interview Transcript:

Brett Gaylor: My name is Brett Gaylor and I directed a film called "RiP: A Remix Manifesto." It's a film I made over the course of about six years actually and kind of the thing that I tried to do all the way through the production of the film was to try and involve the audience in the creation of the actual film. I mean the film is about remix culture, right? It's about this kind of tension between participatory media and copyright law because of course people are using copyrighted images to express their culture and this whole war that's been going on over the last 10 years is sort of directly affecting that and I felt it's not getting us anywhere. So, it's a pretty strong viewpoint film, "A Remix Manifesto." It's not a remix chat. Right from the beginning, I had a website called opensourcecinema.org and as I was shooting, I would put my rushes and sort of works in progress on this site under a CC license. So, what that allowed me to do is to let the audience know that they can participate in the film. They can use my footage however they want, but I want them to submit it back to the site as well so that I can include it in the final film. So, then I would start to edit these into the film during the editing process and sort of do like a call and response with the audience. So, at some points in the film they kind of take over and it's their part of the film and then I'm back, you know? That's how I decided to do it, sort of a structured open source sort of experiment.

Steve Garfield: Okay. So, how do people see the footage, grab it and send it back to you? Like sometimes footage is kind of big. I mean how do you do that. What software?

Brett Gaylor: That's a good question because right when I started doing this, there was no real option for that. It was just basically peer to peer. They would post something and at some point, I might ask them for a higher resolution or I would just eat the bandwidth and download it, but now what I've done since the film has been released is I'm working with a company called Kaltura to integrate onto Open Source Cinema web-based editing. So, it can actually take place on the web using your browser. You don't have to have Final Cut Pro or iMovie or whatever the PC folks use. You don't have to have that stuff. You can just do right on the browser. So, that takes care of that kind of part of the question.

Steve Garfield: Oh, that's cool.

Brett Gaylor: What's cool about Kaltura is that they keep a reference to your high resolution one and what happens online is almost like an EDL. So, you can always point back to the original high resolution version.

Steve Garfield: That's neat. So, if people want to find out about this project and the movie, what URL, where would you send them?

Brett Gaylor: Opensourcecinema.org.

Steve Garfield: Okay, great. Thank you.

Brett Gaylor: Thanks Steve.

Read this interview and more in Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business.

Join me at the Steve Garfield HubSpot TV Taping & Book Party. 1/15 at 3:30

Join me at the 'Steve Garfield HubSpot TV Taping & Book Party'. 1/15 at 3:30

HubSpot TV weekly live video podcast is excited to have local celebrity Steve Garfield on the show. Steve is a true video expert and author of brand new book Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business.

NOTE FROM THE PRODUCERS: We're going to tape this episode a little differently. Thanks to Steve's help and expertise, we're going to INCLUDE the studio audience in the show for the first time!

Complimentary foods and snacks are being offered by the kind folks at @TheLandsdowne (Be sure to tweet them your thanks!) And of course, free beer from HubSpot for the 21+ folks.

Doors open at 3:30pm. The show goes live at 4:00pm and lasts a half hour. Come meet Steve at the end of the show for a casual book signing.

Can't make the show in person? Tune in at 4:00pm EST at www.hubspot.tv.

Get Seen at Amazon.com:


Where to buy Get Seen.

Book Tour.com: Microsoft NERD and Hubspot.tv

Book Tour.com: Microsoft NERD 01/14, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Just joined BookTour.com and added my first events.

I'll be at Jeff Pulver's 140conf Boston Meetup on Wednesday January 14th and at Hubspot on Hubspot.tv on January 15th.

Here's my author page on BookTour.com. I also added a BookTour sidebar here on the right, and also added it to my book site.

First impressions are this this is a very valuable site for authors. Looking forward to adding more book tour events across the country in 2010.

Are you an author? Sign up for BookTour.com.

Twitter StreamGraph for @stevegarfield

Twitter StreamGraph for @stevegarfield, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Twitter StreamGraph for @stevegarfield

Kick-Ass The Movie

I'd embed a video here, but all the movie embeds autoplay or add sound effects when the page loads. I don't like that.

Kick-Ass The Movie: Official Site

Become a Fan on Facebook.

How to Create A YouTube Playlist and Embed it in a Blog Post

If you've got a number of related YouTube videos that you'd like to present to your viewers in a playlist player, here's how.

Prior to creating your custom player, first create a PLAYLIST and add select YouTube videos to it.

Six Steps to Creating a Custom YouTube Playlist Player
Step 1: Click your username, account, and 'create custom video player'
Step 2: Select player format
Step 3: Enter name, description and choose colors
Step 4: Select the playlist of video you want to show up in your player
Step 5: Copy embed code
Step 6: Paste into your blog

Here are the detailed steps to Creating a Custom YouTube Playlist Player:



Click on your USERNAME on the top right of your YouTube page and select ACCOUNT.

Click CUSTOM VIDEO PLAYER


Select the player you want to create.


Enter a PLAYER NAME and DESCRIPTION.

Then choose THEME colors


In the CONTENT area, choose the Playlist you'd like to show up in your custom player.


Copy the EMBED code.


Navigate to your blogging software, create a new post, select to edit in HTML mode, and PASTE in the HTML code


Save.

Then you have a YouTube playlist player in your blog.


Here's mine:

Get Seen Interviews - YouTube Playlist

Get Seen Interviews - YouTube Playlist

This is an embedded playlist of interviews for Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to building your business. (Wiley 2010)

Video Overview of my book, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets

Overview of the contents of my book Get Seen.

Featured on Amazon.com.

My Parents Were Awesome

My Parents Were Awesome, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

My Parents Were Awesome - Millie

My Mom: My Mom's Blog

Too Many Plantain Chips (NEXUS ONE)

My friend Arin Crumley's first video of a series he's doing for Google.

In the Beginning - Music used in this video.

Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online

Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online [Amazon Affiliate Link]

The Social Media 100
100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable business

In The Social Media 100, social media expert and blogger Chris Brogan presents the best practices for growing the value of your social media and social networking marketing efforts. Brogan has spent two years researching what the best businesses are doing with social media and how they're doing it. Now, he presents his findings in a single, comprehensive business guide to social media.

Curious.

Chris Brogan's new book seems to have two titles.

Which is it "The Social Media 100" or "Social Media 101?"

Update:

How about something like this:



I'd have to guess that the Amazon.com image is preliminary.

Update II:

No wait. I get it. The Amazon.com TEXT is preliminary and NOT the title.

I like this game.

Here's my final answer:



Update III:

Ok. Final, Final answer.

The original cover design is correct, BUT the title on Amazon.com is wrong.

I'll go with The Social Media 100 as my final answer.

Update IV:

It's Social Media 101. I should have stayed with my earlier answer.

I should have phoned a friend.

I lose.

Let's play again.

UPDATE JAN 19:

My final answer looks surprisingly similar to the revised book cover on Amazon.com.

Get Seen 1280 x 720 Video Player on Google Sites

Get Seen 1280 x 720 Video Player on Google Sites, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Visit the site at http://sites.google.com/site/getseenbook/

Get Seen iTunes Store Listing

Get Seen iTunes Store Listing, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Apple iTunes listing for Get Seen. This Video podcast features interviews I conducted for my book, Get Seen.

See all the interviews on the Get Seen blog.

Steve Garfield iPhone Application is LIVE in the App Store!

Whoa! This is cool.

There's now a FREE Steve Garfield app in the iPhone App store. [ App Store Link ]

Developed for me by MotherApp, you can read my blog posts, twitter posts, and watch my YouTube videos from this dedicated iPhone application.

Here's what it looks like:

Steve Garfield iPhone App - iTunes MotherApp Listing


Steve Garfield iPhone App - iTunes Steve Garfield Application Listing


Steve Garfield iPhone App - Splash Page

Splash Page Image by Derek Wilmot.

Steve Garfield iPhone App - Twitter


Steve Garfield iPhone App - YouTube Video Page


Steve Garfield iPhone App - YouTube Videos


Steve Garfield iPhone App - Blog


I just took the application for a spin and my first impression is that it's a very convenient way to find all my content. Looks really sweet on the iPhone too. The YouTube video experience is stellar.

If you were on a web browser, you'd have to visit multiple sites to browse all this content, but in the MotherApp iPhone application, it's all there in one place.

I do have a friendfeed lifestream on my main SteveGarfield.com page, but I don't think people look at it.



It's a user interface issue.

Maybe I need a web based version of the iPhone app to make it easier for people to find my content?

What do you think about the iPhone app? What's the best way to present data from multiple streams to your community?

Get Seen: Book Cover - Front and Back

Get Seen: Book Cover - Front and Back, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Download Speed: 27.33 Mb/s

Just retested on Speed Test.

Get Seen Interviews

Interviews conducted for my book Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business.

This is a blip.tv player that plays only videos tagged as 'interview' using the blip.tv 'playlist' feature.

Boston Media Makers This Morning at 10:00 AM

Boston Media Makers 11/01/09, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Join us at Doyle's for Boston Media Makers.

Update:

Yes the meeting is on.

Also, one benefit of adding the meeting as an event on Facebook, is that it shows up in the right sidebar.

Comcast 4 FREE On Demand Movies - EXPIRED

Comcast 4 FREE On Demand Movies - EXPIRED, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

What's Wrong With This Picture?
There are a lot of things wrong with this offer, beside the fact that when I tried to redeem it, it had expired.

1. You have to visit a website to redeem the free offer.

It would have been easier to just credit my Comcast account for $23.96 ($5.99 x 4)

2. The free offer included 4 free movie coupons that you would get each month.

Same response as above. Sending me a free coupon does not help when I use automatic billing.

It would mean that I'd have to mail in a payment card IN ADDITION to my electronic payment.

Amazon.com Video On Demand
I just ordered a few movies from Amazon.com and had them scheduled to be delivered to my TiVo. I might have considered ordering On Demand movies from Comcast, but Comcast don't allow ordering On Demand movies via TiVo.

Comcast's Loss is Amazon.com's Gain.

Twitter Provides Algorithmic Authority

Why Twitter Will Endure by David Carr, NYTimes.com:

"Twitter helps define what is important by what Mr. Shirky has called “algorithmic authority,” meaning that if all kinds of people are pointing at the same thing at the same instant, it must be a pretty big deal."

A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority by Clay Shirky.

My Comcast Cable Line Quailty Just Got an A

Line Quality: A
Ping: 30 ms
Jitter: 10 ms

Download Speed: 19,789 kbps

Speakeasy Speed Test:

"Download Speed: 19,789 kbps (2473.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 6,685 kbps (835.6 KB/sec transfer rate)"

A year ago, download speed was 30,499.

Three Best Albums of 2009 and the Web Marketing that Made them Awesome

Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Imogen Heap embraced social media with her use of twitter, YouTube, and live video chats and concerts with her fans.

She crowd sourced images for her new CD and auditioned fans online to play with her in concert dates.

While making Ellipse, Imogen let us into her studio and showed us how she was recording hte album nad let us listen to bit and pieces.

Ellipse - Imogen Heap

Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom

Alicia Keys is also on twitter and YouTube.

Alicia Keys supported the Back to Africa charity with an a amazing live streamed concert on YouTube. The quality was superb.

After watching, I donated and then bought the album online.

The Element Of Freedom - Alici...

Black Eyed Peas - THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES)

The Black Eyed Peas are everywhere. Dipdive, their own site, Oprah, you know what I mean.

THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER D...

Note: This is the first time I've used this Lala embedded player to share albums. Pretty cool.

How To: Become a tester of new video products and sites

On the Yahoo! Videoblogging list, Amani Channel asked how he can become a tester of new technology.

Here's my answer:

You know I think you're doing a great job by sharing yor knowledge on your site. One thing you could do is add more text to your video posts.

In this example you are explaining how to use a pro mic, but the reader needs to view the video to learn how.

If you add text to describe what's in your video, it will make the video easier to be found via Google.

You also call it a 'profesional microphone,' I'd call it an 'electro-voice RE20 professional microphone' and link THAT back to electro-voice.

After writing the review, I'd drop the company an email to let them know it's out there. It they are on twitter, send them a message there.

By doing the interview, you're helping people learn more about the product and it's valuable.

In my case, I bought all my equipment my self and blogged about how I was using it to make video. In the beginning when we were all learning, when I posted each video, I also explained how I made it.

Even recently I purchased a number of new cameras and microphone to test for my book, Get Seen. It was hard contacting each of the companies and some don't even have a presence on social media sites.

For those products that I had to have in the book, I borrowed a product, or tried one from a friend.

When I saw that no one had done a review of the iPod touch when it added a video recorder, I went to the Apple Store nad did a review there and took product shots.

The most last thing I added to the book was a review of the new Windows Media Maker that runs on Windows 7. I learned it and made a movie and posted it while at the local Microsoft center for a presentation.

Once you have a history of being someone who can write well and review products, companies should want to contact you.

Best wishes for a productive 2010 reviewing new products.

Some examples:

Make a Magic Movie With FlipShare 5.0.5
How To: Share a Flip Movie to Facebook with FlipShare 5.0.5
Kodak Zi8 Entry Level Mic Tests
How to Shoot, Edit and Post Video with the Nokia N95

2009 in Pictures

Also on: Animoto, Facebook, and YouTube.

Music by Aerodrone.

One of the many alternative ways to create videos as seen in my book, Get Seen, now shipping. :-)

Hancock Ice Lady

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