The initial idea for Pixelodeon in LA this past weekend was: let’s have a video festival instead of a tech conference. Let’s actually watch what we’ve all been making. It could not have gone better.
Zadi and Steve formed such a great crew of people to help us.
Rick Rey and his brother, Eric.
Lan, Vu, Bonnie, Annie, and AngelaSauceda….
A good festival happens because everyone wants it to happen.
We had a really good schedule of speakers, tech presentations, and then the curated screenings where you could just go and bask in the amazing creativity that’s developed in videoblogging the last couple years. The curators deserve much much credit.
I was really excited to have Matt Mullenweg (from Wordpress) and Eric Case (from Blogger) be sponsors at the event. Each did a session/Q&A with the videobloggers to find out what we were doing and what we needed. Do not be surprised if they add some cool videoblogging-specific features soon.
Blogger and Wordpress has been basically the defacto standard of our videoblogging world.
We had a good group of serious Youtubers attend, which was really a first.
For whatever reason, an invisible barrier had formed between them and the vloggers.
I think Pixelodeon helped crystallize that we’re all just making video regardless of our platform or distribution method. The curated Youtube screening by Robert Boyle showed the vloggers what a rich community is on Youtube.
And of course there were the Hollywoders attending in mass. They were quieter and more taking it all in. Hopefully they saw how they can now just jump on in.
