Effectively, Pixelodeon was Vloggercon for 2007. It was a big and wonderful festival of web video at the AFI in LA. Seminal moment in videoblogging.
On 5 Dec 2009, at 18:51, Jay dedman wrote: > > I have went through some old messages within this group but apart > from some, let's say passionate conversation I haven't found the > answer why the vloggercon had taken place only two times. What > happened in 2007? I think it was Steve who wrote (not literally!) > "we need a bit time to have energy for the next passionate > conference". But if it had been an overwhelming success wouldn't it > have taken place in 2007? > > - Wasn't the vloggercon successful? > > - Did the vloggercon mean too much effort (maybe for earning no > money - I don't know the details for the organisers)? > > Hopefully it's not a redundant topic - I was searching and reading > for one hour. > > No good answer. I think because they were so fun, it created a lot of > expectation for the next ones to be better. Difficult to live up to. > Also putting on events with little money takes its tool. It's several > months of full-time work. There was something special about how > spontaneous and crazy Vloggercon was. > > An ambitious mix of Europeans have put on Vlogeurope every year since > 2005: http://vlogeurope.com > Adam has put on http://vloggercue.blogspot.com/ a couple times. > (2005/2007) > http://pixelodeon.org/ was a related event put on by this community > in 2007. > > Bill Streeter did a great job organizing > http://twitter.com/vloggercamp in 2008...but the crash of the economy > and high gas prices cancelled it. > > There are other online video events that have popped up as well like > New Media Expo (http://www.blogworldexpo.com/) and NewTeeVee Live > (http://events.newteevee.com/live/09/). Different beasts though. > > Events seem to happen when they need to happen. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
