Archive for February, 2007

Have Money Will Vlog: Lives in Focus-Family Life Behind Bars

Ryanne February 6th, 2007

Lives in Focus: Family Life Behind BarsClick here to download

Lives in Focus is vlogging the impact on family relations and dynamics when one or more member of a family is incarcerated. How do some families overcome the separation, financial strain, social stigma and guilt while others crumble? Why is there a greater likelihood that a child of someone who is in prison will also end up in jail at some point? How do society, politics or special interests help or hinder family relations?

A note from Jay Dedman, Lives in Focus’ advocate:

I met Sandeep when he wrote an NY Times article on Videoblogging back in 2005. It was the first time a journalist really seemed to respect what we were doing in the Videoblogging Community. We weren’t just people making funny viral videos, but actually had the ability to make videos of consequence. He ended up starting his own videoblog, Lives in Focus, helping set the example of what we can do with this new medium without boundaries. Any ambitious project needs some money to get started, so help fund the work we want to see.

This is the new project over at Have Money Will Vlog. We fully support this project and hope you will too by going over there and throwing Sandeep a dime!

Project Site: Lives in Focus-Family Life Behind Bars
Subscribe to Family Life Behind Bars Subscribe HERE.

Freevlog Previews

Verdi February 5th, 2007

I’ve been working hard on SpinXpress for a while now and I’m testing out a new feature we just added to the website - group web pages. Basically the idea is that I’ve set up this group in SpinXpress to share videoblogging tips and work-in-progress tutorials. What happens is instead of publishing these unfinished works to web we share them directly from computer to computer with the people in the group. Now we’ve just added group web pages to the SpinXpress site so you can have access to the files without having to install the program or be a part of the group. As long as my computer is online you can download the videos directly from me on the Freevlog Help page. And if you’d like have access to these all the time, just download SpinXpress and then login on the website and send a request to be added to the group (lower left hand side of the group page).