I live with 3 other people in a small apartment in Harlem.
We each have our own room. It’s like a hotel I guess, that’s incredibly expensive.
For the obvious reasons, we have no TV.
Cable is expensive, most TV programming sucks, and it’s not worth the money for the few good existing shows.
I love TV. Hell, I work at a TV station and make it all day.
But you can only be condescended to so much while you do your best to ignore the 15 minutes of mind-numbing commercials each hour.
This is why I’m so into videoblogging.
The obvious vision is create a stage for people to inject their own video.
Call them original TV channels that come through your broadband connection that you watch on your computer…and may eventually end up on your video iPod or the TV itself.
In this process, Im even learning how we can be different from TV and take it further.
In the meantime, my roommates listen to a lot of radio…AM radio…talk radio…which is pretty rich in NYC.
Mike Malloy is the recent favorite….a radical progressive.
I worry when our media becomes so one-sided…right or left…but I got to admit that it’s very empowering to hear someone speak plainly about the "Bush crime family".
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The election is over…Bush has won…and many in New York are dealing with the anger, confusion and fear of what kind of country the US is becoming.
Mike Malloy reads a letter from a woman to the people in the red states.
Its truer than anything I hear on TV. You may not agree with her opinion but it’s good her opinion can be heard.
So this video is how I imagined she would make a videoblog if she knew how to videoblog…instead of writing a letter to a radio host…which is the traditional way to get your voice heard at this time.
How lame. How cool we are now.
I love mike malloy.
another good example of what video adds to text and audio posts.
I understand that there are some hardcore text bloggers chafing and whining about podcasts and audio.
They say it’s “impure.”
I can only imagine what they’d make of us.
Chris
i too work in television
and am tired of cutting and creating video for/from other people’s ideas.
i am so excited at the possibilties that may come from video podcasting.
as soon as i finish editing and figuring this rss thing out,
watch out world.
yeah Mike Malloy is great…late at night..he has great pauses…calls it like it is…
but i think, is this where we are?
jesus, the country is really getting polarized.
do we have to get this dirty?
i guess so…till people stand up.
i dont know about you…but i just discovered this blogging world back in March.
i got no sense of history.
i have respect for the people online…but all i see is video.
why not?
ive been dreaming of this way back when i had a hi-8 camera in school and would make these videos in the fields behind my house.
i would edit on two VCR’s and send tapes to my friends.
this is what i wanted to do.
momentshowing.
yep.
after starting in news, freelancing, i now work at MNN…saw that you did a show for us.
for TV, it couldnt be better.
get to teach and create and watch stuff that people like you make.
you really got an awesome site.
but its a WEBSITE.
i wanted to link to your timelapse video specifically…which was dope..but theres no PERMALINK.
i wanted to subscribe to the site so i could get updates automatically each time you post a video…but theres no RSS FEED.
Also, i wanted to ask you a question about a video…but there’s no COMMENTS enabled.
you need to get a BLOG.
keep this website for getting work..its slick and professional.
get a blog to play.
you know how to edit and, more importantly…tell stories…show stories.
so learning how to blog is easy as pie.
get a TYPEPAD account.
we’ll walk you through it.
it’ll take you one full day to fool with it and get it set up and posting video.
http://videoblogging.info.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/
Join the power.
Most awesome Jay.
Most awesome.
You are a stupid fuck!
Trees give you air to breath you worthless idiot! We don’t need anymore people like you killing our trees.
I suggest you do some research before you go creating videos that say nothing but stupid shit!
We as a planet and people are losing our trees. They give us life, shade, heat the list goes on and on. YOU are boring, because you could not find a single interesting thing to video about trees. I feel very sorry you.