I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a
little frustrating too.
I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use
their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really
think that open media should be "owned" by a single hardware platform.

Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for
presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative.

-Josh


On 2/3/06, Susan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my
> powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their
> desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they
> want.
>
> A recharge sounds nice...
>
> Susan
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> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Streeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little
> > weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing
> > they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I
> > can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to
> > sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you
> > can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops?
> > Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff.
> > And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media
> > literacy and vlogging fits right in with this.
> >
> > I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time
> > for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging
> > again.
> >
> >
> > Bill Streeter
> > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
> > www.lofistl.com
> >
> > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <kitykity@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose,
> > and
> > > I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or
> > two
> > > about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging.
> > >
> > > My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging
> > > presentation at the apple store.  The girl before me teaches
> > iTunes,
> > > and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about
> > > twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a
> > > lead-in, when she was done she said "thanks for coming" and
> > basically
> > > walked away.  Everyone left.  After that, I suppose I wasn't
> > > interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people
> > that
> > > were walking through the store.  Afterwards she apologized to me--
> > she
> > > said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter.  For
> > some
> > > stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of
> > tears.
> > >
> > > They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a-
> > month
> > > gig--great, no problem.  Then I got an email saying that February
> > was
> > > pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my
> > > Saturday.  Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the
> > manager
> > > wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or
> > someone
> > > else can teach it.  Then I got another email this week saying they
> > > want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac
> > platform.
> > > My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store.  I
> > > haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either.
> > >
> > > Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me.  I love to do it,
> > > but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I
> > > can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with.  They're
> > > just not here.  Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having
> > fun
> > > with it, making maybe a post a week--but the "passion"s not there,
> > > know what I mean?  Plus--she's on a Mac.  It's like Spain Spanish
> > and
> > > Mexican Spanish.  We share a similar interest, but not a similar
> > platform.
> > >
> > > Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay.  I upgrade my
> > camera
> > > about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to
> > take
> > > the leap into the miniDV realm.  My cam sold for about $100 less
> > than
> > > I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a
> > Canon
> > > ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC
> > > crashed, and crashed, and crashed.  From reformatting my hard drive
> > > and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard
> > > drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my
> > > three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and
> > > ceased to work.  Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the
> > > store for a refund.
> > >
> > > So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside,
> > without a
> > > camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love
> > but
> > > don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I
> > have.
> > >
> > > Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some
> > kind of
> > > pick-me-up right now.
> > >
> > > Susan
> > > http://vlog.kitykity.com
> > >
> >
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