Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Boston.com wants to OWN your Wedding Video
Boston.com - Weddings - Lifestyle:
Welcome to Boston.com's newest wedding feature! Send us romantic, funny, or touching video clips from your wedding ceremonies and receptions. Share your love and your special day with us!
"By submitting your video(s) to Boston.com, you agree that such videos(s) and the accompanying information will become the property of Boston.com and you grant Boston.com, The Boston Globe, Boston Metro and their sublicensees permission to publicly display, reproduce and use the videos in any form or media for any and (all editorial and related promotional purposes) purposes.You also warrant that (i) the video is your original work, or is properly licensed, and does not violate the copyright or any other personal or property right of any third party, and (ii) you have obtained any and all releases and permissions necessary for our intended use. Your submission also allows Boston.com to edit, crop or adjust the colors of the image(s) on an as needed basis."If your wedding video becomes the property of Boston.com, does that mean that you don't own it anymore?
What If you send in the cute shot of the flower girl walking down the aisle?
Does Boston.com now own that and do you therefore have to license it to get it into your own wedding video?
I'd love to send Boston.com some videos, but only to borrow for a while while I retain all ownership rights.
I prefer having them feature my videos on the front page and linking to them. That way everyone is happy.
Would you share your videos with Boston.com under these terms and conditions?
Boston Public Garden and Swan Boats
Carol and Steve show you the Boston Public Garden, established in 1837, and The Swan Boats of Boston.
The Swan Boats open Saturday April 19th for the season.
Note: Steve also did the web site for the Swan Boats
BostonNOW is Gone
Media Nation: The demise of BostonNOW:
It was exciting to participate in an experiment of getting readers to actually contribute content to a newspaper.
I wrote some blog posts that were published in print and on their web site, but what was most exciting was getting my photos printed in the newspaper.
Here are some of my favorites:
I'd love to see the Boston Globe or Boston Herald pick up where BostonNOW left off.
"When BostonNOW started out, it was supposed to be a state-of-the-art meld of print and Web, with readers setting up blogs that would be excerpted in the paper. That did happen, but it never really garnered much attention after the initial flurry of interest."I was excited when BostonNOW came to town. I met with John Wilpers and shared some advice on how to get bloggers involved with the newspaper.
It was exciting to participate in an experiment of getting readers to actually contribute content to a newspaper.
I wrote some blog posts that were published in print and on their web site, but what was most exciting was getting my photos printed in the newspaper.
Here are some of my favorites:
I'd love to see the Boston Globe or Boston Herald pick up where BostonNOW left off.
Universal Hub: Read and Talk About Boston Area Blogs
Adam Gaffin and Universal Hub are profiled in this Commonwealth article by Dan Kennedy, Your Blog of Blogs: Universal Hub’s Adam Gaffin may be the most influential editor you’ve never heard of:
"[Gaffin] offers something of a mission statement: “There’s a lot more stuff happening out there than you might see in the daily papers. Here’s a place not only where you can read about it but you can talk about it, how are you affected by it.”"I'm happy to be a part of Universal Hub's success.
Check it out.
When to Use Live Streaming from a Cellphone
Veronica Belmont is thinking of ways to use her Nokia N95 and the Qik live streaming service.
She posts: Veronica on Qik: I’ll try to be more exciting, I promise
I've been using Qik for a while and replied with this:
Hi Veronica,
This is a great question.
One thing I love about Qik is that once I press the button to stop streaming, the video is posted to the web and there's no further capture, edit, export, upload, and post procedure to complete. It's a very freeing feeling.
Here are some ways I use Qik:
STORY TELLING
When I turn on Qik, I think of it as crafting a short story, with the emphasis on short.
As an editor, I think about how the whole stream will come together in the end, and shoot that way.
So I first point the camera at what will become the thumbnail, then introduce what is happening. Usually it's an interview, so I'll do a quick interview and then end.
Camera off.
I like seeing this as storycasting vs. lifecasting.
EVENTS
The other time I like to turn on the Qik camera is when I am at an event and want to share it live.
One good example is at an Obama rally in Boston where people could chat back to me and guide my coverage. I loved that two-way experience.
PRESENTATIONS
I've also used it to live stream presentations where they were not being broadcast and people wanted to see the presentation. In those cases it was good to have as an archive too.
BREAKING NEWS
Finally, Qik is great for breaking news. As more people get this technology, we'll see newsworthy events being captured and streamed live.
Looking forward to see what you do!
--Steve
I am in to iminta, but I hate this phrase!
stevegarfield @ iminta - what are you inta?
stevegarfield obviously has some spare time to burnDear iminta,
Please program your computers to never show me this phrase. It's insulting.
Just because I'm an active user of social media, it does not mean I have spare time to burn.
Thank you,
--Steve
P.S. You also said this about my friends:
"rickrey should probably turn off the computer and go outside at some point."
"stevewoolf obviously has some spare time to burn."
Also insulting.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ford Hall Forum - Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter on the Web.
Danny Schechter News Dissector Blog.
Media Channel.
MediaChannel is concerned with the political, cultural and social impacts of the media, large and small. MediaChannel exists to provide information and diverse perspectives and inspire debate, collaboration, action and citizen engagement.In Debt We Trust.
In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation.
IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."
Berkman@10
Berkman@10
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is proud to celebrate its tenth year as a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Running through the 2007-2008 academic year, the celebration includes an event and distinguished speaker series; major releases of books by Berkman projects and people; a culminating conference - "The Future of the Internet" - May 15-16, 2008; and a gala on May 16The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
This Friday, hear Berkman co-founder and faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain talk about the book that's making waves, The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Twitter Got Student Out Of Prison
U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt - San Jose Mercury News:
"When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter"via [ Chris Brogan - College Student Twitters Arrest in Egypt ]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Governor Deval Patrick at Jamaica Pond
Watch the video: qik.com/video/57225 (4:42)
Also: A Big Fish Hugs Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Stocking Jamaica Pond.
Stocking Jamaica Pond
Governer of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, Boston City Councillor John Tobin, Representative Jeffrey Sanchez and others turned out to stock Jamaica Pond in Jamaica Plain, MA.
Also: A Big Fish Hugs Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Stocking Jamaica Pond.
Monday, April 14, 2008
How To Painting Tip: Remove Paint Odor
Prior to painting, pour some vanilla extract into the paint. Dave suggested this and I tried it. See what happens. In the end, I had vanilla White Paint!
Watch the video:
How To Painting Tip: Remove Paint Odor
As seen on Boston.com!
The thought of shooting a video with the GL2, and capturing, and editing in FCP, exporting, uploading and posting would have kept me from shooting this How To video. That's why a lot of times I decide it's not worth all the hassle, but with Flickr and it's 90 second limit, it gives me the freedom to shoot something shorter, and also the limitation and challenge to tell a story in that shorter length of time.
Combine that with the ease of use of the N95, and it's ability to do in camera edits, I can look at filming these short clips as less of a hassle and more of a challenge.
Doing the whole edit in QuickTime is also sweet.
Carol was sitting beside me and called out an edit as I was watching... In the exact right place... That was a great moment.
:-)
My Mac Takes A Year to Display HTML Email
This is what my email looks like when it arrives in my Mac email.
After a random period of time, when I go back and take a second look, the HTML is rendered into something I can read.
Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution?
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