Archives for October 2005
Green Green Water: Righteous Vlog
Ever wonder how vlogs will change the world? Answer: Vlogs like Green Green Water.
Green Green Water is a vlog that examines the complex problems associated with Manitoba Hydro’s development of large-scale dams that supply power to both the US and Canada. The Province of Manitoba is located just west of Ontario, Canada, and north of Minnesota. The development of these dams was an exciting prospect to environmentalists interested in utilizing renewable resources and to consumers promised clean, efficient, and affordable energy. When these dams were originally developed in the 1970s there was virtually nothing like it in a comparable geographic area; as a result, the affects of the dams were virtually unforseen and irreversable to the Native communities that inhabit this area.
Green Green Water was started by Dawn Mikkelson, a Manitoba resident and consumer of Manitoba Hydro’s energy system. Dawn was interested in understanding more about where she gets her energy and how it affects her community. She began documenting this complex problem by interviewing many people directly affected by and associated with these dams.
Ken Bradley, a representative of Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy, talks here about the creation of the dams and why they had such a dramatic impact on the area’s residents. She interviews Glen Schneider, Director of Public Relations for Manitoba Hydro, and asks what he thinks about the U.S. activists against the project and the public accusation that local suicides have increased as a direct result of the dams. She talks with Carol, leader of the Justice Seekers of Nelson House, who discusses her experience publicly challenging Manitoba Hydro and what she believes was a result of that confrontation. She also interviews Dr. Peter Kulchyski, who talks about the psychological importance for Native communities of “standing their ground” to maintain their culture and integrity.
This site has many more fascinating interviews of residents affected by Manitoba Hydro, as well as information about Hydropower that may eventually affect us all. Please be sure to check out Green Green Water, now a featured podcast in itunes, and if you are in Minnesota, be sure to view the upcoming feature-length documentary of this project at the City Pages Get Real: Documentary Film Festival at the Laguna Uptown Cinema November 5 at 7:30. For a sneak preview of this documentary, please watch the Green Green Water trailer.
Published by Jennifer Rundle on October 25 .
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A Video Podcaster Reviews The Video ipod
I am a video podcaster and I got my first ipod today. It’s the video ipod of course! In this video, I show how it works. Watch the video to learn more about the video ipod!
Update: David Meade, another video podcaster, just got his video ipod and also promptly made a video about it!
Published by Bre Pettis on October 25 .
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Video Podcaster of the Week #12: Loiez
Loiez is a great video podcaster. I first encountered him in the video-podcaster flash meetings. His site is top notch. All his videos are beautiful. The audio on the videos is provocative too. I really like the way he set up his video podcast. It’s like a rocketboom style presentation, but it’s oh so pretty! Go watch and subscribe to Poesie des desires en desordre.
Photo credit: Michael Verdi
Published by Bre Pettis on October 25 .
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Blip TV
I just chatted with Mike Hudack and he let me in on some of the top secret extremely cool things that users are going to be able to do with blip in the upcoming week. These guys over at blip aren’t sleeping, they just keep coming out with more and more tools for video podcasters. Did you notice that if you are at your “blip-blog,” the tag cloud is all of your tags? Blip.tv is the swiss army knife of video podcasting! We’ll keep you up to date with the latest breaking video podcasting news right here at We Are The Media!
Published by Bre Pettis on October 25 .
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Videoblogging in Education
Videoblogging and education go together like peanut butter and jelly. And all of sudden, there are a lot of sandwiches being made. Here’s some links to some recent activity on this front:
Vlogging For K-12 Teachers Group. Membership is open to anyone interested in vlogging and education.
Gena Davis helped get a wiki for the group. Feel free to contribute links to related resources there.
Ryanne Hodson is teaching videoblogging to public school kids in Manhattan in an afterschool program at School of the Future. Here is the vlog of one of her students “Pac Man Van” Gonzalez. Here is one of Ryanne’s assignments. Of course, with vlogging the personal can get mixed up with the public and the professional. Ryanne has a great post featuring her class, a conversation with me about teaching, and a whole bunch of other interesting stuff.
For fans of infographics (I know you’re out there), here is a diagram I made about vlogging in education.
Jan McLaughlin put up an amazing post from teacher Carl Weaver’s GED class, and with interview footage with Weaver. Carl’s students are young people who, for whatever reason, did not succeed in the traditional education system. This piece is a fascinating look at this slice of reality.
Here’s Carl Weaver’s own piece about the frustrations of his workplace.
Bre Pettis is incorporating vlogging into his art and language arts teaching at room 132.com. Groundbreaking stuff here.
Danny Maas is vlogging away at TILT (Teachers Improving Learning With Technology).
On the university level, Jen Simmons is teaching a multimedia course in which all the students create videoblogs at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Eyebeam Atelier is doing an afterschool class for high school students using vlogging to explore media ecology and ideas of Utopia.
Of course we also have NODE 101, and freevlog.org which are powerful educational resources.
And there is doubtless much more happening that I haven’t heard of. Let us know in the comments if you know of other interesting vlogging-in-education news, and I’ll update this story accordingly.
Until then, I hope these tidbits keep your stomach from grumbling.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 25 .
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Automatic Torrent Service For RSS Enclosures
Gary Lerhaupt of Prodigem has created an automatic torrent service for your RSS enclosures. Here’s how Lerhaupt describes it:
“For the guts of how it works, Prodigem just scans your feed once an hour. It checks the latest 5 RSS items in your feed and if any contain an enclosure, it pulls that enclosure into your Prodigem account via the web and just torrents it. That’s it. You can also specify if you want Prodigem to email you whenever it attempts to make a torrent, and you also specify the license you want to use for the content you distribute. Folks, it doesn’t get any easier than this.”
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 22 .
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VlogDigest: 21 October 2005
Today in VlogDigest, our guide Clark Saturn (me) takes us behind the scenes to the vlogger that inspired Jesse of Agent Xenon (according to his interview on ippTeeVee podcast episode 2) to start vlogging: Des at CreativelyImpulsive.com. Check out her great post about her nice new feed. We then skip and hop over to Denmark for a new vlog, rart.blogspot.com. If my Norwegian serves me correctly, ‘rart’ means something a bit like strange. And if you like artsy lo-fi pixely short conceptual videos like I do, here’s the feed. Finally we check out veteran VlogMeister Bre Pettis over at IMakeThings as he interviews Greg Narain about "Beercasting" Have a great weekend!
Published by Clark Saturn on October 21 .
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Schlomo to Teach Vlogging in San Francisco
There’s no excuse not to be vlogging in San Francisco these days! Schlomo is starting a videoblogging program at the Bay Area Video Coalition! The Bay Area Video Coalition has been around for a while and has been certificating people to use video equipment and software. Adding Schlomo to their arsenal of teachers proves that they are right on the bleeding edge of media services.
Published by Bre Pettis on October 20 .
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Cool New Features At blip.tv
Mike Hudack of blip.tv has announced the release of some cool new features for this free media hosting service. This includes the ability to edit videos and thumbnails, plus some cool new ways to keep up with what’s new on blip.
Mike has also indicated that the foundation has also been laid for some great new features that will be added in the near future. Way to go Mike and all the folks at blip.tv!
Click this link for a quick mp3 report (30 sec) about new features at blip.tv.
Published by Markus Sandy on October 20 .
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Where in the World is Matt Lauer’s Video Blog?
“The Today Show” host Matt Lauer is entering the Vlogosphere November 7! For the past number of years, Matt has been traveling around the world for a segment of the show called “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” He gives hints about his location, to help the other hosts, and viewers guess where he is. Well, starting this season, the segments will be featured on the internet as well!
“In an Internet first, Matt Lauer will have a daily video blog, available exclusively on Today.MSNBC.com. He will share a behind-the-scenes look at his travels, including details about each stop and a clue about the next day’s location. Lauer will also provide a written blog, a photo slideshow from the trip and travel stories about the different locations.”
Of course, we are all wondering: Will there be an RSS 2.0 feed? Will comments be enabled? Is it just going to be the regular segments re-posted to the web?
It is great that some big names in media are recognizing the imortance/power of video blogs, but my only concern is that this stlye of video blog may not empower beginners the way that other video blogs often do. People may think that in order to have a “good video blog,” you need a film crew or a large budget. Just remember, we are the media, no matter how much money we put into our creations!
via: MSNBC
Published by Josh Leo on October 19 .
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