Installation instructions for dell laptop with SigmaTel sound driver:I ended up using my Mac.
The changes below involve installing new drivers, editing the registry or editing system files. Follow the instructions below exactly and be very careful not to change anything but the values indicated. If you do not feel comfortable with this, ask an experienced person to do it for you.
Enabling the Microphone on SigmaTel sound cards
1. In the start menu, click on the Run icon.
2. Type in "regedit".
3. In the registry editor, under Edit, click Find.
4. Type in DisableMicFromPlayback and check all the boxes.
5. Now the screen is showing all the keys that have to do with the built-in sound.
6. Find the key listed as DisableMicFromPlayback.
7. Double click on the key: you will see a text box that says edit binary value. To change it, make the last two digits 00 (off).
8. Exit regedit (saving the changes) and restart the computer.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Podcasting with CastBlaster on a Dell Laptop isn't easy
I tied to use CastBlaster on a Dell laptop but couldn't get the microphone to work. One look at the help screen explains why:
A Cry For Help
The Onion | Podcast A Cry For Help:
BOZEMAN, MT—The few people close to Mitch Delomme say that he doesn't realize the implications of his new podcast, an agonizingly personal 40-minute digitally recorded capsule of news, information, and trivia about the chronically lonely pizza-delivery man. 'I wanted to share something about myself,' said Delomme, 48, who in the course of his life has been heavily involved in ham and CB radio, personal home-page construction, and participation in late-night community-access cable. Delomme's podcast is currently available on all major subscription links, where it has attracted no attention."He should try videoblogging.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Comcast, We have a problem
I just did a speed test over at Broadband Reports and got "2005-08-09 21:17:23 EST: 2705 / 707"
That isn't good considering that I'm paying for download speeds of 8mbit.
That isn't good considering that I'm paying for download speeds of 8mbit.
I'm part of a youth trend
NextBigThing.com has an article about videoblogging, Youth Trend: Vlogging, USA/The World.
Here's what they gathered from looking at my vlog:
Here's what they gathered from looking at my vlog:
"People use their vlogs to record their personal diaries and reality web shows, while exposing their daily married lives, or to film and share visits to conferences"Go check out the whole article. Chuck Olsen submits a report which starts out:
I've always been into making funny little videos with my friends - preferably with fake moustaches and feather boas.Ha!
Monday, August 08, 2005
Wanna be in a movie?
24x7 Blog >> Jabberwocky [ video ]:
"We kinda knew what we’d be shooting, the only thing we were now missing was the talent. This was not a problem though as Union Square Park is filled with people coming and going and we would simply recruit on the spot. Our goal was to make a mini documentary, one showing how cool people from New York are about spontaneously collaborating on a project."I enjoyed this.
Honey, the toilet's clogged
Last night Carol told me that the toilet was clogged.
So I took my super duper plunger and plunged. I wasn't sure that I had cleared the clog, so I flushed the toilet to see.
Oops.
That was a mistake.
I realized it as the water in the bowl slowly rose to overflow over the rim. Yikes.
Towels! We need some towels in here!
At this point I realized that I should probably shut off the water supply to the toilet.
With images of water dripping from the third floor, where the toilet is, onto the second floor ceiling, I took all our towels and threw them on to the floor.
While this is going on, Carol is downstairs.
Then I took the super plunger and plunged away.
Whooooosh!
The clog was cleared and all was well in toilet land, or as Carl Weaver calles it turlet land. ;-)
When I brought ten soaking wet towels down to the second floor, the experssion on Carol's face was pricesless.
So I took my super duper plunger and plunged. I wasn't sure that I had cleared the clog, so I flushed the toilet to see.Oops.
That was a mistake.
I realized it as the water in the bowl slowly rose to overflow over the rim. Yikes.
Towels! We need some towels in here!
At this point I realized that I should probably shut off the water supply to the toilet.
With images of water dripping from the third floor, where the toilet is, onto the second floor ceiling, I took all our towels and threw them on to the floor.
While this is going on, Carol is downstairs.
Then I took the super plunger and plunged away.
Whooooosh!
The clog was cleared and all was well in toilet land, or as Carl Weaver calles it turlet land. ;-)
When I brought ten soaking wet towels down to the second floor, the experssion on Carol's face was pricesless.
I deleted my movies by mistake
I'm still using an older version of iPhoto which does not support importing .avi movie files.
So I transfered my photos from my camera, passed the camera over to Chuck who transferred the photos to his Mac. iPhoto then asked Chuck if he wanted to delete the photos, Chuck asked me, I said yes, and then with the click of a button, everything was deleted off the CompactFlash card.
D'oh!
So all the photos AND funny movies of me and Chuck were erased.
But were they really erased? No.
They are still on the card, but only the directory entry to them is gone.
Any suggestions of programs to use on a Mac to recover these movies? I'll use a PC if I have to.
So I transfered my photos from my camera, passed the camera over to Chuck who transferred the photos to his Mac. iPhoto then asked Chuck if he wanted to delete the photos, Chuck asked me, I said yes, and then with the click of a button, everything was deleted off the CompactFlash card.D'oh!
So all the photos AND funny movies of me and Chuck were erased.
But were they really erased? No.
They are still on the card, but only the directory entry to them is gone.
Any suggestions of programs to use on a Mac to recover these movies? I'll use a PC if I have to.
Disclosures
I'm getting a lot of inquires from companies that are interested in the videoblogging space.
The more interesting ones come from representatives of companies who are in development of a videoblogging tool/site/add-on, and they want to get input from the community on how best to design/develop/customize their product to meet the needs of the videoblogging community.
I always suggest that they join the Yahoo! Videoblogging group and start a video blog if they haven't already.
I'm helping to Beta test a lot of products right now, the main ones are vblogcentral, FireANT and Akimbo. I'm talking with one company that wants to produce a weekly videoblog and another that wants to help put video ads on blogs, split the revenue with videobloggers and provide free hosting.
Apple has also contacted me to hear how I use their tools to create videoblogs and want me to provide feedback on what types of things that videobloggers would want to see in future products.
The two main things I told them were:
1. A button in iMovie to automatically publish web compressed video to
a blog
2. A video blog category in the iTunes store ;-)
The more interesting ones come from representatives of companies who are in development of a videoblogging tool/site/add-on, and they want to get input from the community on how best to design/develop/customize their product to meet the needs of the videoblogging community.I always suggest that they join the Yahoo! Videoblogging group and start a video blog if they haven't already.
I'm helping to Beta test a lot of products right now, the main ones are vblogcentral, FireANT and Akimbo. I'm talking with one company that wants to produce a weekly videoblog and another that wants to help put video ads on blogs, split the revenue with videobloggers and provide free hosting.
Apple has also contacted me to hear how I use their tools to create videoblogs and want me to provide feedback on what types of things that videobloggers would want to see in future products.
The two main things I told them were:
1. A button in iMovie to automatically publish web compressed video to
a blog
2. A video blog category in the iTunes store ;-)
Sunday, August 07, 2005
My 10 Favorite Shows
Jeff Jarvis asks us to make a list of our 10 favorite TV shows of all time in Tag the greatest - but not obvious - TV shows.
Here are my 10 favorite TV shows:
Seinfeld - A show about nothing. My inspiration.
Alias - One word. Jennifer Garner.
24 - This past season was the best. Keifer Sutherland rules.
The Amazing Race - We love to pause the show and discuss what we would do next. My request: More real people and fewer 'mactors' (model/actors).
The Office - Just brilliant. Make sure you see the Christmas Special.
The Simpsons - The characters, the stories, the dialog.
Futurama - Same as above.
Star Trek - Too bad Enterprise isn't coming back. It was on a sweet roll.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Brillaint. Larry David is my hero.
Lost - Really great ensemble cast, what happens next. I'm going to watch.
Here are my childhood 10 favorite TV shows:
The Marty Feldman Show - Did you see hte one where he hits a golf ball. Ha!
The Odd Couple - I love Felix.
Star Trek - The original series.
Dick Van Dyke Show - I liked seeing them in the office.
Bewitched - I wanted to be an advertising guy.
Man From U.N.C.L.E. - I like saysing Ilya Kuriakin.
The Prisoner - Very strange. I liked the bouncing blob that would come after people.
Hawaii Five-0 - Book-em Danno.
Get Smart - Don Adams, very funny.
Thunderbirds and UFO - Both these shows by Gerry Anderson we faves.
Here are my current 10 favorite vlogs [ Links go to RSS Feeds ]:
ZipZapZop.com with Clark ov Saturn featuring Ubel Knuble
Secret Vlog Injection
Josh Leo's Vlog
Rocketboom
Welcome to Amyville
Minnesota Stories
nordark
The Random Show
Gabe & Gabe's World
Clint and Mel
You can subscribe to these video blogs using iTunes. Just drag the link into iTunes, under Podcasts, and each new video will be delivered to you. If you want more features than iTunes, try FireANT.
Technorati Tag 10shows
Here are my 10 favorite TV shows:Seinfeld - A show about nothing. My inspiration.
Alias - One word. Jennifer Garner.
24 - This past season was the best. Keifer Sutherland rules.
The Amazing Race - We love to pause the show and discuss what we would do next. My request: More real people and fewer 'mactors' (model/actors).
The Office - Just brilliant. Make sure you see the Christmas Special.
The Simpsons - The characters, the stories, the dialog.
Futurama - Same as above.
Star Trek - Too bad Enterprise isn't coming back. It was on a sweet roll.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Brillaint. Larry David is my hero.
Lost - Really great ensemble cast, what happens next. I'm going to watch.
Here are my childhood 10 favorite TV shows:
The Marty Feldman Show - Did you see hte one where he hits a golf ball. Ha!
The Odd Couple - I love Felix.
Star Trek - The original series.
Dick Van Dyke Show - I liked seeing them in the office.
Bewitched - I wanted to be an advertising guy.
Man From U.N.C.L.E. - I like saysing Ilya Kuriakin.
The Prisoner - Very strange. I liked the bouncing blob that would come after people.
Hawaii Five-0 - Book-em Danno.
Get Smart - Don Adams, very funny.
Thunderbirds and UFO - Both these shows by Gerry Anderson we faves.
Here are my current 10 favorite vlogs [ Links go to RSS Feeds ]:
ZipZapZop.com with Clark ov Saturn featuring Ubel Knuble
Secret Vlog Injection
Josh Leo's Vlog
Rocketboom
Welcome to Amyville
Minnesota Stories
nordark
The Random Show
Gabe & Gabe's World
Clint and Mel
You can subscribe to these video blogs using iTunes. Just drag the link into iTunes, under Podcasts, and each new video will be delivered to you. If you want more features than iTunes, try FireANT.
Technorati Tag 10shows
Saturday, August 06, 2005
NPR reports on vlogging
Laura Sydell reports on video blogging for NPR, A New Internet Diary Frontier: Vlogging:
"...among the vlogging community there's a saying: Andy Warhol believed everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame; vloggers say everyone will be famous to 15 people."
Michael Feldman on Methamphetamine
Michael Feldman writes Speed Reading:
For several weeks now we have been noticing, here and there on the streets around Boston and its suburbs, a disturbing number of individuals walking alone while engaged in animated conversation with invisible interlocutors.
We know what you are thinking, but we are fairly certain that these particular individuals were not talking on cell-phones, unless they have been miniaturized to the point of corporeal implantation. When you see a 6 foot 4, 130 lb. bald guy naked except for stained gym shorts, shouting at the empty air, waving his arms as if batting at invisible mosquitoes, you don't think Verizon.
They don't deliver the NY Times
Fun with Telemarketers (Chris Pirillo).
During the live broadcast of the Chris Pirillo Show they had a telemarketer phone in.
Fun stuff.
During the live broadcast of the Chris Pirillo Show they had a telemarketer phone in.
Fun stuff.
Friday, August 05, 2005
links for 2005-08-05
- A perfect visualization of why videoblogging matters, using Google Earth.
- Fish and Wildlife officers tranquilized two moose Monday
- Phil is in his backyard making up a rap song.
- Rene's video coverage of BlogHer. A good example of why we need vlogs.
- What might be the opening segement from a documentary about blogs
- Two punk teenagers meet in a back alley for a quick exchange that reveals the truth about their relationship.
The 21st century's most significant technological development
Eric Hellweg writes Waiting for "Eye"-Pod:
"...the unveiling of a video iPod could be the flashpoint for video podcasting -- adding to the already-strong momentum in what might be the 21st century's most significant technological development thus far: do-it-yourself media."We are the media.
Dick Gordon: Disconnected
Dick Gordon, fired radio host of WBUR's 'The Connection' writes in today's Boston Globe about 'radio's great secret' in Disconnected:
"Ours is the most intimate form of journalism. It doesn't matter if you are listening to the radio in your car, in the kitchen, or lying in bed. The speaker is never more than a couple of feet away, and that kind of proximity gives rise to this remarkable link between the people who are talking and the people who are listening. I know this. I've been in this business for 28 years. The intimacy of radio creates a connection that is almost physical in its emotional power.Sounds like he's explaining the great secret of video blogging too.
It might be the anger in the voice of a Gaza settler, the thoughtful reflection of an artist, or the frustration of someone who supports the war in Iraq. It might be the giggle of a small child. These are real people. We let them talk. We hear them. That's how we learn to understand them. You will find an appreciation of this only on a few programs on public radio."
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