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Surprise Footage Found On My Xacti

Never leave your camera where videobloggers can get ahold of it. I think I left these punks in the car for just a few minutes while I was getting some gas. Serves me right for leaving my camera behind and in reach. As soon as you turn your back these kids are teasing each other in the back seat. What's a vlogger to do? Click the pic to view the vid. Jay recently posted a video from his visit to the Digital Dojo. It was really great being able to spend time with him and Ryanne.

New Collaborative Vlog: Digital Transitions

Here is a brief selection of interview clips from the UC Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions. What do vloggers like Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson do the day after Videoblogging Week 2006? They join JD Lasica and others to record dozens of interviews with leaders from both academia and business about transitions and challanges for online communites.

Some of the people interviewed include Howard Reingold, Mena Trott, danah boyd, John Sealy Brown and many other interesting folks on the cutting edge of online communities.

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #7 - Office Etiquitte

Just in case you haven't been properly indoctrinated, here is a excerpt from this classic piece of corporate propoganda and brain washing. From the Internet Archive's Prelinger collection, here is this little gem from the 50's that explains how it is. Click the pic to view the vid and then get back to your cubicle!!!

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #6 - What Is A Node?

We're talking Node101 of course. A bunch of folks in a workshop decided to make a video with some of their own answers. Then we edited them together. Here's the result (it was our first time using FCP; this file is a little large because of size and quality and because I'm a klutz). If you're interested in creating video and putting it on a blog, come join in on one of our free workshops at the Digital Dojo.

Here's the hi-res version.  Click the pic for the lo-res one.

Thanks to Richard, Alicia, Roger for contributing.  Thanks to Ionia for leading the workshop.

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #5 - Make Vlog Not Soup

Today's vlog de la dangerouso is dedicated to one of my favorite vloggers and a great inspiration to many. I've set up a special site just for this, so do come check it out or even use it youself. For you see, we are all not Steve Garfield. In fact, my wife is even not Carol. We're thinking of starting a Not Steve and Not Carol show sometime soon.

On the not so bright side of things, it appears that interest is waining in videobloggingweek2006 as shown on technorati. Here is my small contribution to attept to shore up our numbers. Happy friday all.

If you're in LA this Saturday, come to Meet The Vloggers at the Grove at 7pm and meet Zadi Diaz, Jay Dedmam, Ryanne Hodson and other great vloggers for a fun presentation and some pizza afterwards.

Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #4 - Neon

I have a bunch of clips of neon lighting that I had been meaning to assemble into something.  That's what's good about VideobloggingWeek2006; it gets you trying those things you've been meaning to do.  For me, living dangerously is trying to sync video to sound.  I have no sense of rythem.  Hell, I can't even spell it. 
Another great thing: I never used two contractions together before.  Wow!  What an exciting week.  Click the pic and take a walk with me down the streets of Santa Monica, San Francisico and Santa Barbara.  Why all the "sans"?  Cause I'm Sandy, of course.

The music is from the Internet Archive.  It's called "neon", of course.  It's by Leo Martinelli.

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #3 - Digital Dojo Sights and Sounds

Ok, this one's a bit late because I was having too much fun documenting some code. Please come and join us for a small sample of the sights and sounds that one encounters in this magical place. We are very fortunate to be able to work and live at the Ojai Digital Dojo. The Digital Dojo is a Node101 affiliate. Please come and visit us sometime for one of our free videoblogging events. Check out our website at digitaldojo.blogspot.com. Click the pic to view the video. Enjoy.

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #2 - Pimp My Profile, Please!

Stephanie Bryant has asked us to vlog dangerously. So I decided to let go and let an expert redesign my profile at MySpace. Here is a screencast of the process. Boy was I surprised at the outcome! Click the pick to view the vid.

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Videoblogging Week 2006 - Post #1 - Transferring An Idea

I was looking for some materials at archive.org to go with a talk about transitions in online communities and I ran into this little diddy starting Jerry Mathers (you know, the Beaver). I cut out this short (30 second) definition of "communications" and sent it to my friend Dave, who is preparing a conference talk.

For some reason, it just seemed the perfect place to put some dangerous old footage from Adam Quirk's Bullemhead from back in the day when Shannon declared vlogging was banal.

Those were the days my friends and we thought that they would never end. Well they haven't and now it's 2006 and time for some serious vlogging this week. Ok, here's a warm up before we really get going. We got a whole line of videos in the queue waiting to break loose.  Mortaine suggests that we "vlog dangerously".  What could be more dangerous than transfering an idea?  See? Look what happened when she posted that idea, eh?

Click the pic to view the vid.

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