Today I attended a wonderful meetup of bloggers at KRON4 TV in San Francisco. Lots of familiar faces: Anil Dash, Scott Rafer, Renee Blodgett, Eleanor Kruszewski, Mike Rowehl, Chris Nolan, Chris Newmark — some heavy blogger firepower there. About 120 folks in all turned out to hear KRON General Manager Mark Antonitis and Nashville blogger/TV consultant Terry Heaton (who just called Darknet “the most important book of the year” on Amazon) talk about the station’s commitment to beginning a dialogue with Bay Area bloggers. (Terry snapped the photo above, with me showing how it’s done citizens journalism style next to Stanley Roberts, a 30-year cameraman at KRON.) Renee and Terry are among those with early entries on the event.
I’ll be posting a couple of short videos I shot during the event on Ourmedia. In addition, there was a one-minute story about today’s event that KRON aired on its newscast tonight (Scott Rafer and I were in it, even though Chris Nolan was more articulate).
So I’ve got it on DVD now, and I can play it on my PC, but I can’t copy the VOD file and convert it to a format for playback on the Web. Any ideas on how to do this?
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J.D.:
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for attending the event.
I wanted you to know that I also prepared a longer form (2:02) piece that ran at 9PM and 11PM Saturday. It did include an articulate comment from Chris Nolan.
The piece is now up streaming at:
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3462860
Click on the video icon under the group picture. There are also links to larger versions of the group pictures.
Thanks again for coming.
Brian Shields
Online News Manager
KRON-TV
[email protected]
Hi JD,
It was nice to talk to you on Saturday. I felt like I stumbled a bit on my words, for my brain was running way ahead, but you probably got the gist, heh.
I am a big fan of community and hope that KRON can prove to be a part of that. Bloggers are a finicky bunch, as we all know ;)
Look forward to seeing you again at future events!
–Courtney
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