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My friend Rachel Toole has posted a great video where she recaps our summer learning adventure at Outhink working on SpinFlow related projects. It was great fun and I am so proud of her.
Please post your comments on her vlog.
My friend and associate Rachel Toole has created a fun and interesting mash-up video post around the BlogHer event that "we" are all going to on July 30th.
Who are "we"? Outhink and Apperceive are helping and sponsoring several people coming to BlogHer and the SpinFlow meetup dinner afterward for vloggers and "like minded people" as my good friend Dave Toole puts it.
He's doing a lot to help people like Ryanne Hodson, Jay Dedman, Michael Verdi, Rene Amini, Alicia Shay, Rachel Toole and myself to come and participate in these two great events.
Click the pic to view Rachel's video.
As part of our work together for Outhink, I suggested that Rachel post to her vlog about the upcoming BlogHer event. I also suggested that she make a video without a camera this time and to make use of images from Flickr that had an appropriate Creative Commons license. I suggested images of women working, sharing or collaborating.
One of the things I find most interesting about this video is the choice of music. We did not have time during my short visit to Outhink last week to discuss this and so she made her own choice. Personally, I love it This was a song from my youth and I had no idea she even knew about it, much less liked it. I love that a woman has taken this message as a symbol of her own empowerment.
Women of the world are uniting and collaborating around this great event and it has stirred the passions of Rachel Toole and others. We need more women to blog and vlog. We need more people to support their efforts.
Too cool! My friend Dave Toole is now posting video at SpinFlow.org. Here's an interview that Rachel Toole helped produce that describes how musician and producer Michael Bearden uses a file sharing product like SpinXpress to remove barriers to creativity.
Link: SpinFlow - The Fine Art of Moving Digital Media: Michael Bearden.
I'm too stoked. Chris Ritke was kind enough to ask me for an interview for his podcasts. I had too much fun and it's now on the 49Media.com.
Please visit 49Media for the complete post. Here is a link to the mp3 file.
"Chris speaks with Markus Sandy about Spinflow.org, video blogging, vlogifying people and organizations, Podcast Hotel, Spincasting, videoblogging street teams, Blogher & a Spinflow sponsored west coast vlogger meetup, SpinXpress and more."
Chris was also so kind as to put the podcast on the Internet Archive. Thanks Chris.
I am excited to be working with my friend Rachel Toole. She is home from NYU for the summer and we are collaborating to document the process of implementing SpinFlow principles at Outhink, Inc.
Yes, Outhink. Everyone can derive value from more SpinFlow training and discipline. Like Tai-Chi or a martial art, SpinFlow requires study and practice. There are no colored belts, but clearly there are masters and there are people who have a passion to create and wish to spin and flow media with ease.
So how are we doing it? First we are establishing modern networking lines of communication between us and, to that end, we have created a pair of blogs (mine's a vlog, hers will be soon also; others may follow).
Much of our discussions and activities will revolve around using SpinXpress, ANT and vlogs. You can find all the details and my first video related to this on my new vlog. Rachel is free to do whatever she likes with her blog and I think it's already very interesting.
You are invited to observe and participate through the comments, we are very interested in your feedback and value quality interaction.
I posted an article on "Collaborative Video" at spinflow.org, please check it out; I'd really appreciate your feedback (or pushback! I like that word.)
It covers a wide rage of group efforts centered around video in general and videoblogging in particular.
Here is clip from yesterday's videoblogging video conference in which Nathan Peters is discussing music and video collaboration.
Just one of the many topics dicussed.
I mentioned that my friend Dave Toole has started posting videos on his business blog (business vlog?). Recently, we went to LA to video creative professionals talking about their passions at E3. On the way, we stopped to take some intro vids.
It's funny how things happen. Just before we stopped to shot a vid up against a cool sign, Dave had been tring to connect with a long time friend who lived in the area. He had called the home and office numbers and had just said to me "I sure hope we can hook up with him".
Then we started this shot. Small world. Dave's friend just happens to waltz in to the shot on the way to a fitting on Rodeo Drive. How's that for syncronicity?
Blew my shot though. It was worth the moment. We were all laughing at the incredible odds of running into each other on one of the many, spread-out and busy, LA streets.
My good friend and schoolmate Dave Toole has started a series of posts about our adventures last week in LA and Santa Barbara. He's spinning some good stories and I have a feeling he's going to start videoblogging too.
A leader in the semi-conductor and software industries, Dave has sponsored much of my work for several years, making it possible for me to pursue our shared passions. Today he is helping people like Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi pursue their passions.
Lately we have started to get involved in entertainment related projects, which is a whole lot of fun and part of why we went to E3 (sort of, read Dave's article and find out what I mean) and UCSB last week.
Please check out his blog and encourage him to vlog (he knows about freevlog and just needs to get time to edit his vids).
I posted a few new items on SpinFlow News about videobloggers. One is about freevlog.org and the other relates to "speed jamming". Check em out.
These are some of my favorite blogs of course. As is Seth Godin's and a whole list of others. I've been thinking about writing up a post about the best blogs I read and Seth has posted the challenge: It's national tell-a-friend-about-blogs week!. So what better excuse? Here are the ones that I enjoy the most:
Creating Passionate Users
Fractals of Change
Jon's Radio
Seth's Blog
Signal vs. Noise
Staccato
Ryanne Hodson's Vlog
Michael Verdi's Vlog
RocketBoom Vlog
SpinFlow
Seth has a great list on his blog. I like the SVN site so much, I decided to adopt their pleasant green (#393) color choice for this blog. Now if just ten friends read read this blog, I'll have met the challange.
We listed SpinXpress on download.com and got a whole bunch of users today. WooHoo! Some old friends are showing up again. Too much fun.
Now I just need to get everyone to particpate in the SpinFlow Discussion Forum.
I just re-mixed a nice little post of Mitch Ratcliffe's for SpinFlow on collaboration and "Speed Jamming". Please check it out.
I posted a new feature article to SpinFlow.org. This time it's about my friend Daniel Duerr.
Dave Toole introduced us some time back, up in Tiburon (click pic to see Flickr slideshow) and I think Daniel is a great guy. He's on top of so many things. He's the one who truly got me thinking that content was really far more important than applications. Although I remain the "app man", (now and forever), I do truly see that content is king.
Anyway, check out Daniel's story. Our marketing consultant Liz pulled together the rough copy on this and then I hacked her marketing hype into something a little more suitable for SpinFlow. I think it makes for a good story.
Of course, this knocks my videoblogging friends from the top of the SpinFlow feature articles, but I'm hoping they will turn up with another SpinFlow oriented video again real soon.
Next up is the fascinating interview I had with the digital artist Metrov.
I've been fortunate to work with some very talented people lately. Here is a post on SpinFlow that I wrote about one of their projects. Watch the video they made about a videoblogging workshop that they gave in NYC.
Oh boy! I owe Marc Canter a drink dinner at Guaymas (let's invite Dave Toole too!). I finally got a chance to upload one of my videos to the Internet Archive via OurMedia.org. It was really simple, quick and easy. Thank you Marc! I'll write up a more complete description of the process in SpinFlow. Here is a link to my OurMedia blog. Now, if I could only upload by simply dragging and dropping my files into SpinXpress...
Here's a short story (3 minutes) about true collaboration, Kathy Sierra and SpinFlow. Click the pic to view.
Obviously I am way too close to the camera in this one (I thought I'd try something different - you should see the failed swimming pool experiments from earlier in the day!), but this is how I learn - by doing.
Also, it's like 1am after a looooong day and I was about to call it a night, but I had just taken the freevlog pledge and so I thought I should shoot another vid as promised.
Big news related to SPIN (that's secure personal internets)...
First, Outhink's SpinXpress is now FREE!!! WooHoo! No more trial period, no more subscription for the base product which let's you collaborate with anyone across the net securely. You can create invitation-only groups where you can share files with others in private. Serve content securely from your desktop. Transfer and backup files between computers. Outhink intends to make money by offering add-on services for hosting, registration/notary, etc. Smart! Built with open source tools. Works on Mac or PC.
Second, the new version of the Outhink sponsored SpinFlow site is up and running and ready to begin it's transformation from a simple weblog to a great community for creative professionals centered around moving digital media. Come and join us! Help make SpinFlow be to digital media production and distribution what Archive.org and OurMedia are to digital media storage.
I'll be contributing to SpinFlow and evangelizing the fine art of digital media movement (think Tai Chi meets Darknets here - did you hear the gong?). Come and join me. Send me your project ideas and let's change the world. Got something to share? Need something? Let's talk about it! Let's all practice the art of SpinFlow!
Disclosure: My company benefits from a generous Outhink sponsorship.
Just a short 'katsup' note. I'm so busy with SpinFlow related projects that I have little time for blogging. Things are definitely starting to spin and flow with respect to our Outhink sponsored projects.
I had a great interview with Metrov on friday. He's a multi-talented and insightful digital artist living in Goleta, California. He graciously invited me over to his studio and we had an interesting conversation about his work and moving digital media. I'm putting together a complete writeup for SpinFlow.
I've also been trying to get back into the groove with Internet Archive Tonight and have been adding significantly to the playlists at WebJay.org. Check out the new Lounge playlist.
Speaking of music, hop over to Hideout for a great source of legal tunes. Hideout is a radio show with "drops of 30 minutes of music featuring selections made by Brazilian DJs". Don't expect too much Samba here, the last show highlights some hot rock and roll bands. This is a nice Blogger site and you can use your own favorite media player or the embedded flash one if you are player-less.
I took a walk with Alicia yesterday in the Ventura River Preserve and just got so fired up by all the sounds that I have started to play more with my old Olympus D1000 digital recorder so that I can start an "Ojai Sites and Sounds" weblog (anyone want to help?) where people can visit to just take a break and listen to birds, horses, streams, parades, children's laughter, etc. Click the picture of horseback rider to view a Flash-based slideshow of the pics.
The good news is that the D1000 seems like a great little portable recording device. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a driver for the Olympus CA1 PCMCIA flash card reader that works with Win2K (this is weird, as I have another, similar, reader for my camera and old pda flash cards that works fine without installing any special drivers). Oh well, I can always go from recorder's mono headphone out to a computer's stereo line in. Joy. Sort of defeats the point of capturing things digitally. Anyone know how I can make Win2K recognize the Olympus CA1 flash card reader? Does it work under XP? I guess I can look into buying a new reader that handles flash memory cards and the newer and smaller SD ones used in my new iPAQ pda/phone.
Ok, back to work. I have aggregators to tame and lots of video tasks to get to (I learned how to do pic-in-pic and simple text videos in Quicktime last night - fun, but it takes way too much time from my programming). I need a 40 hour day, not week.
I've been busy on the SpinFlow site. We're getting ready to start engaging with people. Lot's of cool things being preped. I've had the pleasure of talking with some very special people (hint: audio and video folks) and they are getting ready to contribute to the flow! Any day now. Watch for it. I'll make an announcement here soon.
Hmmm. I just tried to see if the RSS feed for this blog would work in ANT. Nope. Ant indicated an error downloading and parsing feed. I've done this before successfully for webjay feeds, but not a TypePad blog.
I was thinking about using Feedburner anyway as it will be useful for the new SpinFlow site. Perhaps it will work better. I notice it's use on other sites and I hear you can get good stats too.
Ok, so more stuff to learn and do trying to get my message about SpinFlow out to you. I'll make notes here as I resolve things. I'll probably have to learn more about RSS enclosures or something like that.
This is what SpinFlow is all about: helping to remove the barriers to self expression.
I was asked today what I meant by "moving media". Click the pic for a short discussion between me and Jimmy on this interesting topic.
Post 5 of 7 for videobloggingweek2005.
While hoping and waiting to hear from Ryanne, I decided to make another video. Have I joined for videobloggingweek2005? Only time will tell. I'll need another five more videos.
This one begins to explain the vision for SpinFlow, a community that we want to build to address "moving media for creative professionals".
Ryanne sent back the nicest email. I'm stoked. This may seem redundent now, but what the heck. Click to play.
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