Archives for the 'Vlog News' Category
Help interview Bre Pettis on Reinventing Television, Thursday, Oct 12, 10PM Eastern
You can help me interview We Are the Media founder, and Make Magazine video podcaster, Bre Pettis on episode 2 of Reinventing Television, the interactive web video talk show about the rapidly mutating world of TV (and I’m defining TV as videoblogs, IPTV, HD, broadcast, cable, sattellite, the whole shebang).
Here’s how it works.
When: 10PM Eastern, Thurs, Oct 12
What: An interactive live web video talk show
How: Log in here to enter the virtual studio. You will need a broadband connection for the video and a phone for audio. During the show you can text chat questions and comments, and there will be an open phones segment where everyone, including you, will be able to join the live discussion. Come join the frenzy!
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 11 .
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Help Maria Make Amazing Video Series: 5 days left!
Maria Gomez is the latest candidate for Have Money Will Vlog, an innovative project to fund innovative vlog projects. Maria is in the midst of producing a documuntary on migrants to the USA, future and past, from her native Columbia, and the pressures that have driven over 10 percent of Columbia’s citizens to migrate from that country. Maria has already intereviewed many Colombian immigrants in New York City, and now she wants to take a 4 month trip back to Colombia to gather stories of those still waiting to
migrate north.This is just the kind of innovative media that deserves our support. If you want to help Maria reach her goal of telling these migration stories, go to Have Money Will Vlog and help her fund this project.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 11 .
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Make a “free speech” opinion video for Katie Couric
(Note. I just swapped out the video I had up earlier due to its attrocious audio quality. This one’s basically the same, but with better audio).
Katie Couric just instituted a segment on the CBS news called "Free Speech." It is a good idea but doesn’t go nearly far enough. Basically, she gets big-name people to sound off about something they feel strongly about. She should involve us regular folks in the conversation by creating a website where we can upload our own video opinions, we can vote and comment on each others’ opinions, and CBS can use selected opinions from the website in their free speech segment. If you want Katie to open up the conversation, upload a video expressing your opinion about any issue, and tag it “sayittokatie”. And check out sayittokatie.com for more info. Special shout out to Jeff Jarvis? for the idea, and Steve Garfield for spreading the word.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on September 30 .
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WATM Challenge: Make A Video For International Peace Day by Sept 30.
Sept 21 is the International Day of Peace. Make a video about peace. Tag it peace2006 in mefeedia. And leave a link to your video in the comments section for this post. Some things to think about: what is peace? Is peace possible? How can peace be achieved?
The video I made is a bit irreverent, but yours doesn’t have to be.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on September 21 .
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Educators Who Use Vlogging: Help Becca
Becca, a graduate student from the University of Hawaii and from beccavlog.blogspot.com, is conducting a survey on educators and instructors who use online video and/or vlogs. If you are one of the many educators or instructors (full or part-time) who creates and posts their own online video for their classes, workshops or seminars, please take this survey and help out Becca! It’s only nine really short questions and she would greatly appreciate it!
To take the survey visit here.
You can also view her dissertation blog at videoblogdissertation.blogspot.com
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Published by Jonny Goldstein on September 18 .
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Katie Couric has a Videoblog
Big night tonight.
Katie Couric has a video blog.
It plays on a Mac! There are some buffering issues, but that’s expected.
Katie Couric’s Notebook looks like TV on the web. She seems to be reading a teleprompter…
It feels fake and genuine at the same time.
Weird. Like TV I guess.
Her First Look segment is a lot better, Fun!
Published by Steve Garfield on September 5 .
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Full time vlogger needed at Netscape
Say what you will about Jason Calacanis and the new Netscape, but he is one of the few people looking to actually pay people for work they love and I think that is wicked cool. (Personally, I think he is one step ahead of the internet and is not just talking about it either like most of us …but actually doing it.)
Basically, Netscape is looking for a full time New York based vlogger. Traveling, writing and developing online video and audio content for Netscape (both podcasts and video podcasts) is the basic job description. Specifics are as follows:
The Netscape anchor added a bit more If you think you fit the bill, send me an email (ck at newnetscape dot com) with subject line “Netscape Anchor / Preditor“, a cover letter, resume, and a link to both an online writing sample (your blog will do) and some online sample of your video work. Remember: we’re looking for a “one person band,” jack-of-all-trades who can do all this work without the benefit of a full film crew and staff.
Sounds like a heaven sent opportunity for the right vlogger. I’d run to this job in a New York minute, but alas…I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
More details here: Wicked cool vlogging at Netscape
Published by Graham Walker on August 16 .
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Steve Garfield at Boston Podcamp
Published by Markus Sandy on August 15 .
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Judge Sends Vlogger Journalist To Prison for Not Handing Over Footage of Protest
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that videoblogger Josh Wolf was imprisoned today for not giving videotapes he shot of an anarchist protest to a federal grand jury.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup found Josh Wolf in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena that the grand jury issued in February for tapes Wolf made of the July 2005 demonstration in the Mission District. Wolf posted some of the videos on his Web site — thisrevolution.blogspot.com/2006/07/1-year-ago.html — and sold that footage to local television stations. Federal prosecutors demanded the rest of the tapes, saying they might contain evidence of attempted arson. Link to article
Ryan Hodson shot a ten minute video of a press conference held by Wolf immediately before today’s hearing (Correction, this was shot on July 24). Hodson had this to say about the importance of this case:
For us, it’s important to support journalists or anyone with a camera being harassed by the government to turn over recordings of public events that each of us has every right to record. We don’t want the government, local or federal, to make it a habit of asking for anything we happen to record. Then we each might question: “Do I want to record this and be harassed later on?” This is especially true during controversial political events.
California has a shield law which gives journalists the right to refuse to give unpublished work to prosecutors, but there is no federal shield law. The prosecutors claim a police car was burned at the protest, and since the San Francisco Police Department receives federal funds, they argue that burning the car is a federal offence.
Wolf will be imprisoned for at least 10 days, until his appeal of the contempt order is heard. If he loses the appeal he could be jailed until this coming July.
On a personal note, I met Josh in June at Vloggercon 2006 in San Francisco. We talked about his legal travails, and he came across as sincere and principled. I feel like the federal government is reaching too far in this case. I’m going to contribute money to his legal defense fund, and if upon examining his case you support him, I urge you to do the same.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on August 1 .
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On The Road Again
It’s the one-year anniversary of the conception of Road Node 101 and Jan Mclaughlin of The Faux Press is off again on another vlog filled adventure. Click the picture to find out all about it.
Jan’s driving the mid-west this August. She’s planning to stop in Pittsburgh, Toledo, Chicago, Miniappolis, Fargo, Montana, Vloggercue, the Ozarks and then back to North Jersey.
Please contribute a tank of gas to Jan’s trip. She has a Paypal contribution button on her site. As Jan would say, press it because you can. If you’re on the route, meetup with Jan for a Meet The Vloggers. She could probably use a place to crash too.
Published by Markus Sandy on July 26 .
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