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Al Gore is starting a cable network called INdTV.
Get it?
But check out the site.
Seems they want to hire a bunch of younger people who can roam the country and record stories.
seems kind of chaotic.
But isnt this what any of us have dreamed of?
Now some money is behind the fantasy..i wonder if they can pull it off?
good luck to them.

Anyway, they also have a videoblog or Vlog.
Check it out.
and here’s a little training video using some kind of streaming Flash format.

This “video stuff on the internet” is getting normal….and through the perfect medium..blogs.

The unmediated guys are busting out:
unmediatedtv
(Look to the left of the screen).

“Monday’s show starts at 2PM EST and will last at least an hour. The show’s homepage will only go live at 2PM, but access the show here: The Weekly Show“

Basically, they are building on some ongoing projects…especially Shawn Van Every’s Interactive Tele-Journalism device which was officially (and successfully) tested at the RNC here.

With a computer, a camcorder, a wifi connection, and custom interface….these guys are going to go LIVE each week from NYC.
You can watch and write in the chat window to the people on screen.

During their first episode, I had the weird experience of being caught at work furiously typing away at the keyboard while two guys sitting in my computer screen were talking to me.

This is a great step for videoblogging.
Like Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code for audiobloggers.
We just need to find a way to get this onto our TV’s.

So log in and watch and PARTICIPATE every Monday afternoon, 2pm EST.
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Ive been away from videoblogging these past couple weeks because Ive been watching the audio guys going nuts.

Adam Curry has a daily audio show that he posts on his website.
The Daily Source Code.
“where users and developers come to party”.
For about 30 minutes, he plays a little music and discusses the new world of P2P sharing, podcasting, and how audio can and should be made by regular people.
Like what we do want to do with videoblogs.

Here’s the cool part…check out the distribution they’ve set up just in the last month.
I can go to the site and listen to the MP3 of the show.
I can subscribe to Adam’s RSS feed and am notified of new shows.
I can of course download it to my computer for later.
I can even put the audio show on my iPod and listen to it on the streets.
THEN he put the call out to developers:
“I want to have a simple program that will automatically check for audio feeds and download them to my iPod without me doing anything.”
he talked about on this on his show for a couple weeks, some developers started getting together online, they formed a yahoo group, and BOOM several versions came out…and now they have iPodder.

iPodder, though i haven’t put it through the tests, looks great.
simple, intuitive, automatic.
Took 25 seconds to install.
Took another minute to set it up with the feeds I wanted.
My iTunes then starts to fill up with stuff. (again not fully tested yet)
These guys should be proud.

Adam has done a great job rallying everyone.
He wanted to make his iPod/MP3 player be more than just a music box.
“Let’s talk to each other through this device….easily.”
He is the ultimate user and used his natural broadcasting skills to bring people together.
Then, some very talented people made this great thing for free.
Amazing to watch…and use.

I now listen to all kinds of audio on my iPod.
Audio books.
A handful of homegrown “radio” shows are popping up from people’s living rooms.
Audio is really easy to make, and easy to store and transfer.
Listen up: audio is about to go mad soon.
These companies probably had no idea that users would figure this stuff out.

But we videobloggers can take note.
We have some huge hurdles to cross, but it can be done.
I see it all in the works.
Video, uploaded to the internet, onto the TV in my living room.
By the way, i noticed that iPodder supposedly grabs any enclosure in a feed…even a video!!