Ryanne September 27th, 2006
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Video Pancakes comes to us via Mary Matthews, a Manhattan Neighborhood Network expat and comic genius. This is her timely document of the last days of (her employment and) The Tony Danza Show. We like Mary. She’s funny and smart and finally making videos, putting them on a blog and distributing them through RSS 2.0 with enclosures. What more could you want in a person?
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Also New This Week:
Video Karma- http://www.videokarma.com/
Kate On Sports- http://kateonsports.blogspot.com/
Weird America- http://www.weirdamerica.com/
Tokyo Josh- http://tokyojosh.blogspot.com/
Ryanne September 23rd, 2006
Economic crisis and globalization are putting unprecedented pressure on the lives of people in Colombia. Ten percent of the population have emigrated, many to the United States. Maria Gomez, a Colombian resident of New York City, has begun a video documentary project interviewing other Colombian people affected by this period of social upheaval and change.
Maria, who is trained in ethnographic data collection for anthropological research, has already interviewed many in the Colombian immigrant community of New York. She needs financial backing for a 4 month trip through Colombia gathering the stories of those still waiting to make the journey North.
This is the new project over at Have Money Will Vlog. Maria’s project is another great example of how videoblogging can attempt to bridge the gap between cultures. We fully support this project and hope you will too by going over there and throwing her a dime!
Project Site: colombiamigrationproject.net
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Verdi September 15th, 2006
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This summer I’ve been working for Outhink, coming up with ways their program SpinXpress can be used in collaborative projects (Disclosure - Outhink has been a sponsor of Freevlog, NODE101 and Vloggercon). Basically, SpinXpress is a program that allows you to create private groups of people that you can share files with. It makes media collaboration over the Internet easier. So for example, I’m taking over some editing duties for Alive In Baghdad. In this case the correspondants in Baghdad mail their tapes to Brian in Boston and Brian does some pre-editing. Then, instead of mailing another tape to me, Brian drops the video into our SpinXpress group and the video transfers directly from his computer to mine.
Ryanne and I used SpinXpress with the Freevlog translators last year. In that case it was really helpful because people could add files to the group (and have them transfer to both of our computers) while we were asleep.
I’ve been documenting how this all works on our wiki and as part of that, I created this screencast to show how to setup SpinXpress, create a group and share files. So if you’re thinking about a long distance collaboration you might give this a try.
Tags: Screencast, How to, P2P, File Sharing
Ryanne September 3rd, 2006
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We recently met Tanja and Oscar from Freshtopia at the Off The Grid Meetup in Montana. They live in Oakland, CA and produce a kick ass videoblog about raw foods and the new green movement happening throughout the world. Jay and I love their vlog and have been inspired to start eating more raw foods because of it. Check out some rad episodes: Chocolate Part 1 and Part 2 and a visit to a Cooperative Garden in Oakland.
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