I made a 4-minute collage of photographs and video in a new piece titled Personal media: A visual collage. It’s set to copyrighted music by Alex Woodard (used with permission), with photos taken by me and also drawn from PDPhoto.org, Ourmedia and Flickr. Vlogging superstars Michael Verdi and Steve Garfield make an appearance. Check it […]
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What the video web should become
In InfoWorld on Tuesday, the ever-wise Jon Udell has some thoughts about what the video web could — and should — become. There was great rejoicing at Macromedia when Google Video switched its player technology from VLC to Flash a couple of months ago. The move validated what the Macromedians had long been touting: the […]
Video of Amanda Congdon of ‘Rocketboom’
At the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Nov. 15, I put together a panel to talk about participatory media. One of the panelists was Amanda Congdon, host of Rocketboom, whom I had a terrific time talking with. "Rocketboom" is one of the breakout successes of the very young Internet […]
Videoblogs vs. video podcasts
A lot of people have been using the terms videoblogging and video podcasts interchangeably. There are no hard and fast rules, but members of the Yahoo! videoblogging list had some thoughts on the topic today. Steve Garfield: “When some people first look at videoblogging they just see videos on web pages. It’s more than that. […]
Mini-review of my video iPod
Thursday morning, I bought a wickedly cool video iPod (black, 30gigs), after drooling over Steve Garfield’s Sean Gilligan’s new gadget (white) on Wednesday night. When the original iPod came out, a national columnist wrote that it looked like a device beamed back from the future. Well, this baby looks like a toy from the 23rd […]