[videoblogging] Re:The Cult of the Amateur

2007-07-13 Thread Aldon Hynes
My review of his book can be found on Amazon, and is reproduced here: Aldon -- How do we determine if something has credibility, has quality? One way is to look at credentials. Is the producer paid for what they do? A 'professional'? Are they doing it simply because they love it?

[videoblogging] Re:Political video bloggers

2007-06-26 Thread Aldon Hynes
Living in Connecticut where we had some great political video bloggers during the Lamont/Lieberman race, I would encourage people to start off with CTBlogger and CTBob http://connecticutblog.blogspot.com/ http://ctbob.blogspot.com/ Of course I would like to promote some of my own stuff

[videoblogging] Re:Congressman YouTubes hearing this morning.

2007-05-11 Thread Aldon Hynes
I've put a blog post up about Jonny videoblogging Markey videoblogging the hearing. I've put it into the context of media reform and education reform, especially as it relates to efforts to regular broadcast television. Videoblogging as an antidote to too much TV

[videoblogging] Re: Scripting News: 4/18/2007 (moving off topic)

2007-04-20 Thread Aldon Hynes
I referenced this discussion briefly in a recent blog post, http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2262 Especial hat tip to whomever it was that pointed out Kevin Whitrick's suicide in a video chat room. Aldon

[videoblogging] Re: twitter and orginizers

2007-04-17 Thread Aldon Hynes
However, you could use twitterfeed to subscribe to the RSS feed of your Google Calendar. (Hmm, maybe I'll have to try that) Aldon Posted by: Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] cassiusbullemhead Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:19 am (PST) Google calendar can do that. You can set it to send txt

[videoblogging] Re: Fwd: Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct

2007-04-11 Thread Aldon Hynes
This has been a fascinating discussion. I tend to agree with others here that anyone should be free to come up with whatever rules they want to use for their own blogs and that if they do a good job of it, others might want to follow suit. As people have noted there are many different types of

[videoblogging] RE: Hope is Presidential

2007-02-05 Thread Aldon Hynes
I want to thank people how responded to my comments about 'Hope is Presidential'. Matthew Bernius, who is a Visiting Professor at Rochester Insitute of Technology and a 'New Media Researcher' had an interesting response. http://www.waking-dream.com/blog/?p=117 online discussion of my

[videoblogging] More on Josh Wolf from Memphis

2007-01-23 Thread Aldon Hynes
Chris Peck, Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, met with Josh's mom in Memphis and wrote the following column: http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/opinion_columnists/article/0,1426,MCA_53 9_5294051,00.html Journalist or not, he's no criminal Worth the read.

[videoblogging] In the business wires...

2007-01-16 Thread Aldon Hynes
Creators of Kazaa, Skype Debut Joost P2P Online TV Service New York - The developers behind the Kazaa file-sharing service and Skype Internet telephone service on Tuesday launched beta testing for Joost, their new online TV service. [more..]

[videoblogging] Re: Heavy.com, the NYC-based broadband video firm, has received $12.

2007-01-04 Thread Aldon Hynes
I wrote a fairly long blog entry about this on my blog, http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2117 Heavy.com and the dangers of social network investing I'm forwarding this on to some investors that I know. For those of you who have had your work improperly placed on heavy.com, can any of you provide

[videoblogging] Re: Heavy.com, the NYC-based broadband video firm, has received $12.

2007-01-04 Thread Aldon Hynes
videobloggers. I am wondering if any of you have any comments on my blog entry or the maelstrom that is brewing around heavy.com. Aldon Hynes http://www.orient-lodge.com --- I will be very interested to see what sort of responses they have to make. According to the Don't Go South article, Polaris has

[videoblogging] Re: John Edwards to Run for President

2007-01-02 Thread Aldon Hynes
FluxRostrum asks What relationship did he [Edwards] have to that area [ninth ward] prior to USING it as photo op? Has he done anything to help the people of the area? other than lipservice? Ever since hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast, Sen. Edwards has been making an issue of the

[videoblogging] Re:John Edwards to Run for President (announcement on YouTube)

2006-12-28 Thread Aldon Hynes
I'm helping arrange the bloggers Meet and Greet with Sen. Edwards in New Hampshire for Friday moring. If anyone is interested in attending and speaking with the Senator, please drop me a note. I'll be on the road a bit today, but I can get back in touch with people in the evening. Aldon 203 217

[videoblogging] Burning videos to disk

2006-12-27 Thread Aldon Hynes
Slightly off topic: For my friends that are still on dialup, or aren't even using computers yet, I would like to burn some of my videos to DVD, SVCD or VCD. I'm running on Windows based machines. Do any of you have any tools and/or tips for burning such disks? I did a search and found all

[videoblogging] Re: Sundance in Second Life

2006-12-19 Thread Aldon Hynes
I'm Aldon Huffhines on SL.

[videoblogging] Re: The Whitehouse is Vlogging (and Podcasting)

2006-12-19 Thread Aldon Hynes
Trying to step aside from the most basic reactions of whether or not people support Bush, I think there are a several interesting things to look at. Politicians who are in office have an advantage of using the office to produce media to get their message out. Often it is in terms of those direct

[videoblogging] Re: I was Attacked by NYPD ~ Wanna Watch?

2006-12-13 Thread Aldon Hynes
Very powerful video. I posted a quick link to it on my blog http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/2098 and added it to NewsTrust http://beta.newstrust.net/webx?14@@.f00bdeb (I would encourage people to check out NewsTrust, a new site where people can review articles based on their journalistic

[videoblogging] Re: free video editors

2006-11-17 Thread Aldon Hynes
I've used Jahshaka before. Some of the UI seems non-intuitive to me. (Like how to put clips on the time line.) The UI on Jahshaka seemed so non-intuitive to me that I spent a bit of time trying to figure it out and finally gave up. Jahshaka looks like it is very powerful and if someone has

RE: [videoblogging] MGP and The Shallow Nature of Video Blogging

2006-06-03 Thread Aldon Hynes
I've been fascinated by the discussion about 'The Shallow Nature of Video Blogging'. Enric asks what this has to do with videoblogging. I think that is a very good and important question. Personally, I want people to view my work. I want them to think that I've said something important. I want

RE: [videoblogging] (ISF) Yahoo's video streaming service

2006-06-01 Thread Aldon Hynes
As the person who wrote the message on ISF and who has been lurking here, let me explain my thoughts on why streaming is important and why some people may want seperate hosting setups. When working with a nonprofit or political campaign (and my focus right now is primarily on political