This weekend was a lot of fun with Tamara, Amy, Bicycle Mark and Mindcaster. For more media content check out podcasts and pics on mindcasater and Bicycle Mark's pages and some entries from Tamara. My video is encoding and will be up in the morning.
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Go get yourself a copy of the NRC Dutch newspaper if you can. I did an interview with them this morning and it's already in the paper this afternoon! Vlogging is becoming respectable I guess. For those that don't know Dutch media, the NRC is kinda like the Financial Times of Holland. We are right above the weather which is cool, which is predicting easy going mist and sun. If you can't get a hard copy, just click on the pic to read it if you hands on a hard copy. We'll have a vlog up shortly about it. Or you can look at it online: (Thanks Daniel)
The forum.xolo.tv is over for now, and I am exhausted. I want to thank all the speakers that came and gave great presentations. The stream is no longer streaming but we will be posting ALL the presentations online for everyone to download, mashup, and repost at their own discretion. By next week this time we will have vlogs of all the speakers and the panel discussions. And as we have in the title, this is only the beginning as we are already talking about the next forum in 2006. Stay tuned as this development continues with the collaborations that have founded their seed at the forum.xolo.tv!
I would personally like to thank those that brought this together:
the Machouse Amsterdam
The Xolo.tv team (you know who you are)
our speakers:
Bjorn and Paul from Creative Commons
Chris from 49media.com and SpinXpress
AND to all those that attended both in person and who watched the stream.
And with that all I have to say is,"it was vlogging vlogerific!!"
I've been submitting Gabe.nl and Xolo.tv to a bunch of podcast directories today. If you want to see a great page with a bunch of links of where you can submit your videoblogs and podcasts, check out this webpage.
One site I was really impressed with was Podcast Shuffle directory. The owner sent me this e-mail almost immeditaly.
Thanks for submitting your show. I've added it to the directory. FYI -I created a new category for your show "Video Blogs" and thus changed your category from Audio to Video. I checked your show out in iTunes and it worked great!
So go check out our listing in the videoblog directory. And for those of you with Panther on the mac installed he even has a cool widget for searching the directory. Thanks Jeff!
My good friend Betsy Green is rounding up her 6 month trip in China. She has been photoblogging the entire event. She is a Camera Obscure photographer, and was asked to come teach at an art school in China the last semesters. Go check out her blog and see some great photos deep in the forests, cities and more. She'll be coming back home soon and start to develop all the pictures she's been taking with her cardboard camera. I can't wait to see! Come home safely Betsy, but enjoy the last moments in China!
Gabe & Gabe have started a new videoblog. An idiot's review to videos on the web if you will. As in we are the idiot's! Have a look at our first episode and let us know what you think. And goto the website and subscribe to the feed to get more. www.xolo.tv
Click here to watch the film
In our first episode we highlight a great videoblog called "TikiBar TV". Check them out at tikibartv.blogspot.com
Sony announced the much anticipated Playstation 3 at E3 this week. Besides the 2 HDTV outputs, Blue-Ray DVD recorder, up to 7 bluetooth and PSP controllers support, Sony also said they:
Will offer a high definition camera as a peripheral to the PS3, allowing players to use the game machine as a makeshift video phone or let them broadcast their own programming, whether live or from the machine's detachable 2.5-inch hard drive.
That is SO COOL! Folks, just get yourself a Sony Playstation 3, and HD Camera, and a BIG internet connection, and you are broadcasting LIVE to the world! Oh man. Everyone will have their own TV station soon. Maybe we will all get so sick of each other, that we will actually go outside and try to improve the environment. Nah!
Last Friday I was VJing for the Jamparty. Great Party btw. Everyone had a great time. In any case, all night people kept putting their drinks next to my laptop. I constantly asked people not to, but of course it doesn't help. The whole night went great up until the last song when the barman was cleaning the empty glasses, and you guessed it spilled a beer all over my powerbook!
AGHHHHHHHHHHH! Quickly I rememberd a post on a forum somewhere of what to do when someone spills liquid on your laptop.
- Quickly turn the laptop over and pull out the battery. Don't worry about shutting down. You have seconds o remove all power to the laptop. Don't waste time saving documents!
- Then begin to dry the laptop completely. Get as much water (or in my case beer) as you can.
- Then let it sit in a dry place, open for 2 days. This is to make sure all the moisture is dried out, and that when you turn it back on, the electrics won't fry. Make sure to keep the battery out during this time.
So this afternoon I powered up my laptop and prayed! The keyboard is a little sticky, and it smells a bit like the laptop has a hangover (old beer smell). But it's powered up and working. The only real damage besides a feeeeeew keys sticking is the display. It looks like the crystals don't like beer, and some areas of the display are brighter than others. Displays are expensive things to replace on laptops, but at least it less than the laptop, (but not by much). If I had lost my laptop, I had a backup from last week, so not to much damage would be caused there. Remember to BACKUP your work!
So my laptop is now a drunk on beer. Man. I hope you never have this, but if you do, you know what to do.
To help us fans in the wake after Star Wars, Episode III "Revenge of the Sith", George Lucas is coming out with an 3-D animated TV series of "Clone Wars". It will then be followed by a Live-action series featuring six Star Wars film characters. I really hope that Harrison Ford gets in on this. Gabe & I agree that's the key ingredient in the first 3 films that is missing up till now. Sorry, but Jar-Jar doesn't fill Han Solo's boots. Read more: BBC news article
Adobe has been really busy this past month. The big news is that Adobe has bought Macromedia. For those of you who don't know, that means the company that makes Photoshop (and lots of other imaging apps) has bought the company that makes Flash. It will be very interesting to see what they will do with the products in the coming year. I'm a big fan of both Macromedia's software and Adobe's software, but these kind of changes are always a little scary to hear. The applications I know and love, and use every day for business, may not be around after a shake up like this. To read more check out Adobe's press release.
More big news from Adobe is the release of a new version of it's Creative Suite of Applications. This includes upgrades to Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat. There are some really cool features that have been added to this upgrade, especially to the Photoshop. And to see some of these new features in action with video, goto the NAPP's website.