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.
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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.
Glad you guys are back safely. You made some great vids while in India, but you were never really GONE thanks to videoblogging. To me, that’s one of the great things about being able to videoblog from (almost) anywhwere. The fact that we can be close without being physically close. Thanks for doing what you do.
Yeh! Home again. I’m interested in what the first thing was that reminded you you were back in America. I’ll tell you mine sometime. While you were gone you missed the formation of the Society of Legitimate Videobloggers for the Intraweb.
ahh, there’s nothing like coming back home after an awesome trip. Beautiful sunset!!!!
yeah!
we’re home!!!