Archives for September 2005
Precipice: Pretty
Taxiplasm has an eye for pretty vlogging. Check out Precipice to see what I mean.
Published by Jennifer Rundle on September 29 .
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New Media Scores One Against Established Journalism
Steve, who is one of the writers here at We Are The Media, recently wrote of an encounter he had with an established media journalist. Steve’s report of the event reads like a boxing match between New-Media Steve and Established-Media-Journalist.
Round one began on the steets of Nantucket when an Established-Media-Journalist for The Inquirer and Mirror asked New-Media Steve for a quote about the Red Sox. New-Media-Steve gave her a great quote. Round one breaks as a tie when the Established-Media-Journalist write his quote down. Steve’s quote is worthy, and the E.M.J. is writing it down.
The bell for round two rang when New-Media-Steve whipped out his little camera in movie mode and asked her to read his quote back. As if Steve had just connected with a right hook, the journalist squirmed, reaching to cover up the camera as she said, “No, it doesn’t work that way.” Steve scored an uppercut when he asked for her name and she dodged the question, finally relenting to read it back… incomplete! She had to have him restate his quote in order to get it right. The power of the new media runs strong in Steve’s veins as he held the Established-Media-Journalist to her word to maintain journalistic integrity. New-Media-Steve wins round two hands down. Steve reflects in his blog and responds with, “Now it does (work that way). We are the media, not just you.”
Round three opens the next day when New-Media-Steve opens up the paper, expecting to find his quote in its entirety. Instead, Steve finds that even though he has documented proof of what he said and what she wrote down, the Established-Media-Journalist has published an incomplete quote proving that the Established-Media-Journalist does not know that when you put something in quotes, you are actually quoting what someone actually said, not what you think they should have said. She didn’t even bother to state her name and so continues to remain anonymous, earning the title, “Anonymous-Misquoting- Established-Journalist.” Round three went to New-Media-Steve!
The title of “Journalist” stated as Steve’s job is truly the only thing besides his stately photograph worth an ounce of journalistic merit in this smackdown match. Wearing the victory belt, New-Media-Steve stands strong against the forces of half truths and lies in the Established Media.
Published by Bre Pettis on September 29 .
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Upload your video dot com
Download.com Video is now accepting your videos. They’ll check them out to make sure they adhere to their guidelines and if they’re not popular they’ll be deleted.
“…we may remove material that is rarely or never viewed. Successful videos may be hosted indefinitely, though this is always at the discretion of our editors.”
Free has it’s price.
Published by Steve Garfield on September 29 .
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$$Podcasting$$
Vlogger’s wanting to get insight into how to actually make money off what they are doing, can learn from the Podcasters who have a had a head start experimenting with different financial models. Considering all the attention that Podcasting has received, advertisers are still not rushing in with bags of cash. This Wired article: Podcasting Gold Rush Is On gets into some of these challenges such as the difficulty in measuring actual audience size/demographics and finding advertisers that can benefit from the borderless nature of podcasts.
Vloggers take note: If your aim is to make money, you will have to think of niche ideas that can have broad appeal when applied to webbased delivery.
Published by Graham Walker on September 29 .
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Now All You Need Are Vlog Croutons
You have your favorite vlogs that you subscribe to or check out on a regular basis, but you know there’s more out there that you would love. The thing is you don’t have time to wade through tons of random vlog posts to find the gems. What to do?
When you want to add some tasty new vlogs to your media diet, the answer may be Vlog Soup, Steve Garfield’s irregular roundup of vlogosphere posts which have tickled his fancy. Steve just posted his fourth serving of Vlog Soup. Grab a spoon and feast.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on September 28 .
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TILT: Teaching Teachers How to Teach Tech
As a teacher interested in technology I have been interested in how teachers use technology in the classroom in order to make learning more fun and relevant to the tech-savvy kids they teach. Indeed, it is ironic that kids can often teach teachers a thing or two about technology, and teachers are already so bogged down with work that they simply can’t find time to teach themselves how to use the technology they should be teaching. But some teachers are beginning to take the bull by the horns and teach teachers how to use and teach technology.
Danny Maas is the visionary behind TILT (Teachers Improving Learning with Technology), a site created for teachers by teachers that focuses on using technology in the classroom to enhance learning. So far this site has covered such topics as using digital pictures in the classroom, using the internet to enhance writing, educational robotics, and my favorite, student-created science lab video reports. He has also included links on his main page that walks teachers through the basics of vlogging, including info on RSS feeds and how to watch videoblogs in iTunes.
Check out this site and tell all of your teacher friends about it…after all, they should be the media, too!
Published by Jennifer Rundle on September 28 .
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Yahoo and Video
Interesting New York Times article that talks a bit about how Yahoo plans to get more invloved with video content. They want to make Yahoo the place for people to go to watch video on the web. hmmmm…sounds just like what everyone else is trying to do
Published by Graham Walker on September 28 .
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Translated German Radio Transcript: Vlogs
Yesterday, Graham posted about German public radio covering Vlogs. Well today, I give you the translated transcript of the feature, thanks to the mad-translating skills of Clark Saturn and Chris Ritke.
Vlogs im Internet
March 28, 2005 - Phil Hamilton a student from a suburb of Boston complains about the school cafeteria: 1. The food tastes horrible, 2. They always serve the same stuff and 3. it gets more expensive every year
“I think it’s quite a phenomenon”, says Stephan Seidel, the guy behind the videoblog rebell.tv, “people are putting weird stuff online on which pretty much every body, including the person who’s putting it online himself, agrees that nobody (no pig!) is interested in. But they do it.” And they’re kicking off the next step in a media revolution, which is being talked about everywhere.
First it was the weblogs that were competing with traditional web pages, then there was podcasting where you could publish your own radio shows on the internet - which revived “peoples radio”. People are talking about grass roots journalism and “me” media, a democratization of the public opinion. It seems that the hopes of the world wide web prophets of the 90s, who were looking for a force to oppose established media, are coming true.
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Published by Josh Leo on September 28 .
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Interview with Chris Ritke of 49Media
Chris Ritke interviewed me and then I interviewed him! In this video he gives some good advice for interviewing and lots more. He also shows off his gear and tells about an amazing hack job he’s done to record phone calls which I would love to duplicate! Thanks for the great interview Chris!
Published by Bre Pettis on September 27 .
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Vlogger Of The Week #8: Rene
This last weekend, Zadi and I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing Rene in person at Webzine2005. Rene works on really cool collaborive vlog projects like the green thing project and this last weekend she had the ultimate project, “Meet The Zinesters.” She put up a green screen and video-taped everyone who would have it at the conference. Then she edited it so that their website showed up behind them as they were talking about it! What she ended up with is a series of videos that document the people on the bleeding edge of independent online publishing. Besides thinking up cool projects, Rene is an editing genius who does really cool things with video effects. I’d travel from Seattle to San Francisco in a heartbeat if she ever offered a class in Final Cut Pro. Go to her site, watch it all and Subscribe!
Published by Bre Pettis on September 27 .
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