Archive for November, 2006

How Video changes the conversation

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Some of you may have read how a recent California student was tasered
by security guards
lets see how the story plays out.

Read the Text: 
"UCLA Officer Shocks Student With Stun Gun
A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun at a campus
library after he refused repeated requests to show student
identification and wouldn’t leave, police said. The student, Mostafa
Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11 p.m. as police did a
routine check of student IDs at the University of California , Los
Angeles Powell Library computer lab."

Now watch the video.

Text is extremely important because it allows us to discuss the
depth and subtleties of a story.

But just watch the video taken by a fellow student using her
videophone and uploaded to the web. The video shows the real drama behind the incident that usually gets washed over in text stories. Now everything changes.

Reinventing TV

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Ryan, Verdi, and I will be on Jonny Goldstein’s crazy internet show.
Join us live and let’s fuck shit up.

When: Thurs, 7PM Pacific, Nov 9
Where to go to watch:

http://reinventingtv.phovi.com/studio-entrance/

VIDEO: Coming Home

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Ryanne and I got back from India yesterday.
When I was sick was the last video we posted.
I don’t think we realized how tired we were till we came home.
Check out this short video.

coming home slow and low


click here to download (1:52/3.9mb)

I learned a couple things in India.
First, you can videoblog from just about anywhere now.
India was the first trip I’ve taken to a developing nation since I began videoblogging.
I had no reason to worry that you couldn’t post video from the road.
We would have even done a better job documenting our experiences with some practice.
I’m so excited because I can totally see the traveling crowd now building bridges between the different cultures on this planet…just by posting video of their experiences.
This makes the world not a smaller place…but a CLOSER place.

Secondly, non-westerners will find their own reason to videoblog.
When we were teaching workshops in India, the young people especially got it…but they reminded me of Americans two years ago in that you could tell they didn’t have a real passion to post video yet. Many young Indians are on Orkut which is owned by google…so maybe video will be incorporated into an already used service.
Obviously, videoblogging thrives when people share video with people who they already know.

So why do I care about this?
One day soon, people from different nations will make the space to really start sharing their lives with each other through video. This will be the sea change. Like what wikipedia has done for exposing shared knowledge…global personal videoblogging will do for exposing shared realities.

I sound like a hippie, but I’m just staying busy.