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MSNBC: "HERE COME THE VLOGS"

MSNBC: Ready for your close-up? Here come the vlogs is a great snapshot of videoblogging by Michael Rogers. He namechecks all our favorites including Rocketboom, Ryanne, Jay, Human Dog, Steve Garfield, and Dylan. He also mentions the tools making it easier to find videoblogs, such as ANT and MeFeedia. And, inescapably, Serious Magic's Vlog It! software, which nobody I know actually uses. Check out Rocketboom's aggregation of SXSWi video/audio/pics/text and the official video coverage of SXSW for all the geekery you'd ever want to munch on. If you're just looking for fun, please immediately watch Dylan's latest vid, Toys of Our Lives, where Dylan's dolls engage in sick and hilarious romantic shenanigans. Then why not see me "shake my thing" (am I saying that right?) on 6th Street in Austin for DanceFlash - it was like a mini-Burning Man. Via Blogumentary...

Posted on March 21, 2005 5:27 PM

Talk: Crisis of Trust in the Media Landscape

As a part of Location One's regular program "Open House Wednesday", I will speak next Wednesday: *Crisis of Trust in the Media Landscape* Drazen Pantic Wednesday, February 23rd 2005 7 pm The talk will be an elaboration of some ideas I tried to communicate at Voggercon: videobloggers have a HUGE chance to depart from the existing mainstream infotainment matrix and create new formats and new discourse, independent of the existing media structure... What is the difference between video on the Net and videoblogging? A number of examples of new and creative use of video on the Internet by videobloggers, artists, video producers and journalists will be presented. Examples include recent conference in NY: Vloggercon 2005, the Youngest Videoblogger in The World, Momentshowing, Concrete TV, linuxvirgin (linuxvirgins will make a special appearance!!!) ... Live broadcast available, as usuall at Location One site. Suggestions and examples are welcome ......

Posted on February 21, 2005 7:16 PM

Solutions to the Bandwidth Bottleneck

The Problem:Ever since Michael Verdi's daughter, Dylan, posted her first video blog and had 1600 downloads in 24 hours....Ive been thinking a lot about bandwidth issues.In the near future, watching video on the internet will be part of our daily web process.I see no reason why 10,000 people won't watch a simple video post.But there is NO way current bandwidth allotments can handle this traffic.Even 50 gigs of bandwidth is not enough...and that's the max bandwidth that most servers allow. Solution #1:One solution is using the Internet Archive.Started by Brewster Kahle, this service has been around since 1995 mainly for archiving web pages...so we could have a record of what the web looked like in the past.But now they are opening it up for video and audio.Brewster Kahle, who got rich off the web in the 90's, says he wants to have all human knowledge on the internet. This is the motive behind giving us free bandwidth and storage for our videos.Ourmedia.org, the Creative Commons, and the Archive.org are teaming up to create a network for original content.So you can upload your video to the Archive, slap a Creative Commons license on it, and use Ourmedia.org to join a community of other people who are sharing their videos.The project officially starts in mid-January.(though you can use the CC Publisher to upload video to the Archive now and have them store/serve your video for free) Solution #2:But is the Archive the solution?Can any place serve up thousands of videos being downloaded...

Posted on December 26, 2004 10:23 PM

The Youngest Videoblogger in the world

My hats off to Dylan, the youngest videoblogger on the planet earth.She is the daughter of Michael Verdi, one of the members of our group.She qualifies with this videoblog.Welcome Dylan.Be yourself.You are awesome. She very unselfconciously disucsses her braces, her cello, her online groups, her clothes, her love of pop music (even though it's not real rock)...She gets it.and it tells me two things.One: the female species seems to get videoblogging much more intuitvely. (mica. charlene. ryanne.)Two: Once young people figure this stuff out, videoblogging is going to be the best.Big up to Dylan's father, Michael, for showing her the way.Will she post more...and teach her friends to post video?We are building the second world one person at a time....

Posted on December 21, 2004 1:09 AM