Steve Garfield, Mobile Video Journalist

My friend Chuck Olsen put together a nice recap of my live online video streaming cellphone adventures from New Hampshire, the day before the first primary in the nation.

In this report he takes a look at some of my video including Duncan Hunter, Charlie Gibson and Sean Hannity.

Thanks Chuck!

Additional Coverage:
Watch Steve Garfield, Mobile Video Journalist on YouTube.

Veracifier: Ground Hound Steve Garfield. He's Mobile!.

Jose Castillo at Think Jose blogged about it three minutes after I streamed it live, Kick it Quick with Qik.

Rocketboom

NextNewNetworks: NewTeeVee: “Online Political Video a Winner in 2008″

Epic-Fu: political madness, insane sports, gOS.

Jackson West writes for NewTeeVee, Online Political Video a Winner in 2008.

Viral: Propaganda, Propaganda: China, theuptake.org, Ghost Whisperer

Variety.

Vermin for President

Charlie Gibson: 'You have a bigger audience than I have."

I got a chance to watch Charlie Gibson broadcast ABC Nightly News LIVE from Manchester, NH yeaterday and he was gracious enough to go live with me on my cellphone after the broadcast.

I showed him how I was broadcast live via cellphone over the internet and Charlie said:

'You have a bigger audience than I have."

Ha ha. Thanks Charlie!

Sean Hannity broadcast live from my cellphone

Sean Hannity broadcast live from my cellphone in Manchester, NH while being interview by Howie Carr on WRKO...

"Don't you love that you are being taped everywhere, you can't walk down the street."

Plus you get a behind the scenes tour of radio row...

Steve Garfield Scoops CNN: Duncan Hunter Does Not Quit

Jose Castillo has the story of me scooping CNN on Duncan Hunter's announcement yesterday from Manchester, NH that he is not goign to quit the race:

Kick it Quick with Qik:

Steve Garfield reported 3 minutes ago that Congressman Duncan Hunter will not give up in his bid for presidency. Steve captured this video as he was walking towards the CNN interview. Using his N95 and qik.com, Steve Garfield beat CNN. Watch out news world, here comes instant media.

As I was walking down the sidewalk in Manchester, NH I asked what was goign on. The response I got was that Duncan Hunter was going on CNN to make a major announcement. I asked if I could interview him live about it. An aide told me to walk back down the sidewalk and talk to another staff member. I replied, "No. I can interview him RIGHT NOW with this cell phone!" So the aide said, go right ahead. then I ran up to him and started streaming live video from the cellphone.

Here's a TV Newser report that is reprinted on the Duncan Hunter campaign blog:

Duncan Hunter DOES NOT QUIT, IS SICK OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA KNUCKLEHEADS:

The Hunter campaign alerted the media to a major campaign announcement coming at 2pmET today, which some may have thought involved dropping out of the race. Instead, he used the opportunity to lash out against ABC News and Fox News Channel for excluding him from their debates/forum this weekend.

“Some knucklehead executives in ABC closed me out. Similarly, Fox News decided not to allow me to take part in the Fox News debate on Sunday,” he said.

Hunter said that he picked up one delegate in the Wyoming caucus, which put him ahead, at least until tomorrow night, of candidates like Rudy Guiliani and John McCain.

Hunter wasn’t done. “A guy who actually had some points on the scoreboard, that was myself, was not allowed to attend,” he said. “Knucklehead, arrogant executives in the corporate media world at ABC and Fox News, in some third or fourth story glass offices, decided my campaign was over.”

It wasn’t, as he announced to applause from the gathered crowd. Interestingly, CNN was the only network to pick up the speech live, despite it being advertised earlier in the afternoon on Fox News Channel. MSNBC came in a few minutes after the announcement.

Categories:

I commented:

Hi Duncan,

You might remember me interviewing you on the sidewalk on your way to CNN. I also covered this announcement and streamed it LIVE from the sidewalk of New Hampshire from my cellphone to the internet.

Jose Castillo wrote about it:

http://www.thinkjose.com/kick-it-quick-with-qik/

Citizen media will help cover stories that mainstream media will not. With new technology that allows people to stream live video from cell phones to the web, you start to see more news from the street. Real news.

Thanks again.

All my LIVE streamed reports from Manchester are over here:

http://qik.com/stevegarfield

–Steve

Thanks for Nokia, ATT and Qik for making this possible.

Lego Millyard Project

Lego Millyard Project - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

CupOPolitics in Boston Herald

CupOPolitics in Boston Herald - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

During strike, Letterman writer and pal joke around with presidential politics (Boston Herald 1/7/08)

Me an Kucinich

Mobile post sent by stevegarfield using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3

One Year of my MacBook Pro Service History

My MacBook Pro has been sent back to Apple for service. After the year's worth of problems detailed here, I am expecting a new MacBook Pro as a replacement.



One Year of my MacBook Pro Service History

Dec 06
Logic Board, Top Case and Battery replaced

April 07
Keyboard Replaced

June 07
Logic Board, Hard Drive and Display replaced

August 07
Logic Board replaced

December 07
Sound Board I/O Card replaced

After picking up my MacBook Pro, the system would not power on.

The Logic Board and Hard drive now needs to be replaced and the MacBook Pro has been sent back to Apple.

Update:

Apple is replacing my MacBook Pro with a new model:

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400
SuperDrive 8X
MacBook Pro 17-in GLSY WidesS

Thanks Apple.

Ron Paul Takes the Radisson

Excellent coverage of Ron Paul supporters demonstrating against his exclusion from the FOX TV debate.

If you don't go out, nothing happens

My friend Marc F. Schultz just sent me this:

As I was nearing the end of the book I'm reading, Portfolio Life, by David Corbett, on page 157 I was delighted to see the following:

"It wouldn't hurt to show some of the chutzpah so evident in a Web log, or blog, on the Internet (www.mymomsblog.blogspot.com). It's the daily work of Millie Garfield, who at age eighty claims to be the oldest blogger in cyberspace. One of her main rules in life, she says, is, "If you don't go out, nothing happens."

Thanks Marc.

David - You don't need "www" in front of a blogspot blog address.

My mom says she's "one of the oldest bloggers."

My mom thanks you for the mention!

Boston Media Makers Slide Show

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Meeting report.

Join us next month on February 3rd.

Carol and Mom

Carol and Mom - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

No Crowds at Roche Bros.

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Boston Media Makers: Next Meeting 01/06/08

Boston Media Makers 01/06/08 - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Boston Media Makers

Next Meeting:
Sunday January 6, 2008

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

Steve Says:
I’ll be doing a demonstration of LIVE broadcasting from a cellphone. Very cool technology.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Please register at upcoming.
upcoming.yahoo.com/event/349350/

Advance the digital literacy

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

My friend Howard Owens, director of digital publishing for GateHouse Media presents 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist.

If you want to explore the new media landscape, this is a great way to get started.

You'll become a better writer, photographer and videographer.

You'll make connections online.

Pictured Citizen Journalists:
Chuck Olsen of The Uptake and Kenyatta Cheese of Rocketboom.

via [ Lost Remote ]

Content exists to attract passive viewers who will sit still for advertisements

You Don't Understand Our Audience
What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC.
By John Hockenberry:

Networks are built on the assumption that audience size is what matters most. Content is secondary; it exists to attract passive viewers who will sit still for advertisements. For a while, that assumption served the industry well. But the TV news business has been blind to the revolution that made the viewer blink: the digital organization of communities that are anything but passive. Traditional market-driven media always attempt to treat devices, audiences, and content as bulk commodities, while users instead view all three as ways of creating and maintaining smaller-scale communities. As users acquire the means of producing and distributing content, the authority and profit potential of large traditional networks are directly challenged.

In the years since my departure from network television, I have acquired a certain detachment about how an institution so central to American culture could shift so quickly to the margins. Going from being a correspondent at Dateline--a rich source of material for The Daily Show--to working at the MIT Media Lab, where most students have no interest in or even knowledge of traditional networks, was a shock. It has given me some hard-won wisdom about the future of journalism, but it is still a mystery to me why television news remains so dissatisfying, so superficial, and so irrelevant. Disappointed veterans like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather blame the moral failure of ratings-obsessed executives, but it's not that simple. I can say with confidence that Murrow would be outraged not so much by the networks' greed (Murrow was one of the first news personalities to hire a talent agent) as by the missed opportunity to use technology to help create a nation of engaged citizens bent on preserving their freedom and their connections to the broader world.

Great read.

via [ Ron Watson ]

Social Videoblogging

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy 2008. That's a video I recorded with Carol last night in my kitchen. It was easy to make. Using Seesmic, I just pressed record and the video was saved and posted to the web. It wasn't just posted to a web page somewhere, it was added to a community. A social community of friends.

SOCIAL VIDEOBLOGGING
As we enter 2008, I see a future where more people will be capturing and sharing unedited moments with friends via social videoblogging.

It's going to be a lot more social for a number of reasons, most important is that it'll be easy for people to have video conversations.

VIDEOBLOGGING BEGINNINGS OF A CONVERSATION
Let's take a look at how we got here.


Four years ago I started Steve Garfield's Video Blog and posted my first video.

That video was posted to a brand new blog. The blog allowed comments. That's where the conversation happened. Sometimes people would record response videos, and post them on thier own blogs and in my commnets, provide a link back.

Sometimes people talked about a certain video on the Yahoo! videoblogging group.

VIDEO HOSTING - A COMMUNITY SQUARE
Then video hosting sites like OurMedia, Vimeo, YouTube and Blip.tv came out which had the added feature of providing a central location where you could post and discuss the videos.

I SUBSCRIBE TO PEOPLE
When RSS 2.0 with Media Enclosures came out, it allowed you to subscribe to someone's feed of videos, so you'd get every new one delivered to you.

What I said about that advancement was that "I Subscribe to People."

I was making a commitment to watch every new video that someone produced.

FROM QUICK TO FULL
Now people are producing videos that span the continuum from a quick, unedited moments, up to a fully produced show.

RECORDING LIVE FROM A COMPUTER
Sites like Seemic, let you record a video using a webcam. Once recorded, the video is immediately available for everyone visiting the site to view. The video sits there at the top of the river of new videos until someone else records something. The conversation happens when someone clocks 'reply', and adds their video to the river of videos, in response.

STREAMING LIVE FROM A COMPUTER
Lot's of sites are now available to stream live video with the ability to chat live. Check out Ustream.tv, Operator 11, Blogtv, justin.tv, ijustine.tv



STREAMING LIVE FROM A CELLPHONE
I've recently been experimenting with Qik, which let's me broadcast a live stream from my cellphone up to the web. While broadcasting, people who are watching live, can type in comments which are then displayed on the cellphone's screen.

After ending the stream, the resultant video can be embeded into a blog.

WHAT'S NEXT
Social videoblogging frees people from expectations. Much like MySpace or Facebook, where you can join to communicate with a group of people you already know, you can do the same on social video sites.

Watch a video, post a response.

Watch the responses flow into a river of video.

Stand on the shore or jump in.

In addition, like on MySpace or Facebook, you can also make friends.

One tip, ignore the negative people. There are always going to be people who criticize what to them looks mundane.

As Chuck Olsen says, Mudane is the new Punk Rock.

Google search for 'Social Videoblogging' - 9 results.

Disclosure: I'm an investor in Seesmic. Contact me if you want to try it. Nokia provided my cell phone and ATT provides my cell service.

Viral on Veoh: Reflections and Predictions

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Sunny Gault invited producers from around the world to give us their thoughts about the past year and their predictions about 2008.

Here's my clip:

"My goals for Vlog Soup for 2008 are the same goals I had for 2007, to produce it on a more regular schedule, and where do I hope to see it at the end of 2008? On TV. Not really."

Yay!

Creative Commons Plus: Coming Soon

Larry Lessig talks about future enhancements to the CC license including CC+, On what exactly happened Saturday night (Lessig Blog):

"CC+: This protocol enables a simple click through ability to get rights or permissions beyond those provided by a CC license. So, e.g., a Flickr photo licensed under a BY-NC license could have a simple click through to some agent to provide commercial rights for that photo. We announced with a bunch of partners already. But really key was:
Yahoo announced it was baking CC 'into the system' of Yahoo, making it possible for any Yahoo service to offer content using the CC infrastructure."

This is very cool.

I first talked about this in September of 2006, Proposal: Creative Commons 50/50 License. Andy Carvin enhanced my idea and blogged about it the next day, A New Idea: A Creative Commons RevShare License.