Mashing up the personal media revolution

I’ve been under the gun so didn’t get a chance to blog about a groundbreaking experiment I participated in on Friday afternoon at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, east of San Francisco.

Videoblogger Schlomo Rabinowitz, Outhink CEO Dave Toole, Creative Commons general counsel Mia Garlick and I spent a couple of hours on stage before a group of students and educators talking about the personal media revolution.

Before our talks, however, Alex Woodard, a talented singer-songwriter from San Diego, performed some songs from his album Mile High (iTunes link).

Three vloggers and I recorded his performance of the song “Wonderful” and incorporated the footage into some remixed videos — complete with other shareable footage — that was shown at the end of the two-hour session. Folks like Marcus Sandy, Enric Teller and Tim Tagami were busy scurrying back and forth between the auditorium and the editing bays.

I’ll try to post the photo montage I put together, with Alex’s music, by the end of this week.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.