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It's amazing what you can discover on flickr I find. Here is a photo an old friend from highschool posted. We were in photography class together. That's me being sandwhiched in the middle. Yeah poor kid always geting picked on in Highschool. I guess that's why I found art as my outlet. It never picks on you, you pick on it. But it's still cool to find old frineds through old photos I feel. Flickr rocks!
There are rumors flying all over about what the new iPod will look like. Here are the rumors in a row:
Cheers!
Well, after being at the DLD in Munich this week, there has been lots of articles talking about my speech. Here is a list of a bunch, but I can't read them all as they are in differtent languages. :-)
„Es gibt ein geflügeltes Word unter TV-Bloggern: Jeder wird seine 15 Minuten Ruhm haben. Ich sage: Jeder wird für 15 Leute ein Star sein. Video-Blogs fangen dort an, wo die klassischen Medien keinen Zugriff haben, weil sie einfach nicht überall sein können.“
Did I say that?
Das erste Panel gehörte dann auch gleich zu den interessanteren. Vor allem die Beiträge von Loic le Meur und Gabe McIntyre waren cool. In beiden Vorträgen ging es um das Thema Blogs, bei Gabe im speziellen um Video Blogging ("Vlogging"). Mit seinem Videoblog Projekt XOLO.TV gehört Gabe zu den aktivsten in der Szene.
A few other things picked up today: a great website offering a tutorial on how to videoblog: freevlog.org; the video Gabe McIntyre took with his cell phone while he and a friend were being random-searched by the police in Amsterdam (it's in the archives of gabe.nl);
Video, video, fortissimamente video
Tutti concordi sul fatto che il 2006 e il 2007 su internet, per i paesi dove la banda larga si è già diffusa, saranno gli anni del video. Quello prodotto o ritrasmesso dai giganti del settore (T-Online ad esempio in Germania ha da poco acquisito i diritti per il calcio della Bundesliga), e quello realizzato da soggetti poco più che amatoriali, come ha dimostrato il regista Gabe McIntyre con la sua Xolo.tv, un canale di distribuzione globale di video a costo zero, o come testimoniano siti quali Youtube.
Gabe McIntyre from Xolo.TV - made a very visual and interactive presentation about Vloggging ie.Video Blogging and showed us lots of examples of how ordinary people equipped with just video enabled mobile phones have started to document their surroundings and even launch their own "TV" programs.
One of my favorite pull quotes - Gabe McIntyre, of xolo.tv. "Blogs are OK, but there is so much text, and I hate to read..."
Yesterday Apple annouced an new application in their iLife Suite. It's called iWeb. It makes it very easy for mac users to make blogs, podcasts, something they are calling photo casting, and even vlogs or what they call "video podcasting". What do I think about this.
Pro's: EXTREMELY EASY to make your vlogs, podcasts and blogs using Apple's new software. This is great for those of you who are trying to get into it, but haven't figured it all out with RSS enclosers and the like.
Con's:
1. It isn't remote. That means you have to have the program running on one computer all the time. If you re moving around and you want to update your podcast or blog from diffrent machines, ie.e school or office or home. Sorry not gonna work.
2. You HAVE to have a .Mac account to use this software. I can't publish this stuff to my own webserrver. Now if you are doing vlogs and podcasts, thet first 100mb with .Mac is gonna go fast.
3. Apple users only can use this. Sorry windows users.
Summary, if you wanna get started with vlogging and podcasting, this is a great solution, but if you want to continue, I don't see this as a viable option for you.
I sent a little while ago a message to Leander at the Cult of Mac site with some pics of my hair. He's posted it on his "Cult of Mac" Blog. A great blog for those of you looking for how crazed us Mac Geeks can be. And if you are in Amsterdam this evening and want to talk to a bunch of Mac Geeks, head over to the Balie, cause we are getting together to discuss the last Keynote from Mac World Expo. See you there!!!
Gabe and I were just on Dutch TV talking about vlogging together with Ron from Dutch Vlog. It was a nice short piece. They talked about Gabe being on idols among other things. They didn't mention the XOLO.TV vlog too much, but that's cool. Hopefully this will get more people in the Netherlands talking about vlogging. Welcome new viewers! Enjoy the show, and don't forget you can subscribe in iTunes here.
In Paris I talked to the movers and shakers about vlogging and podcasting. The videos are finally online so you can click here to watch it!
If you want to learn how to vlog and podcast, check this site again next week as we will be saying where in Amsterdam we will be doing a free workshop, or just send us an e-mail!
Check out this awesome vlogger remix. The winner of the we are the media remix mashup contest is swordfight swordfight: watm remixoff2005
Jennifer also won with Don't let this happen to you. A remix of vloggers getting drunk.
And a special mention went out to KityKity for just vlogging up a storm.
This morning I woke up and was talking to my dad, having breakfast. My mom came in and got the paper and showed me an article the Atlanta Journal and Constitution wrote about grandmother. The link to the article is here below:Sarah Frances Morgan, 77, loved Georgia's mountains | ajc.com
But for those that may not have a subscription, you can read the article here:
By HOLLY CRENSHAW
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/15/05
Every summer, Fran Morgan welcomed visitors to the North Georgia mountains as if the peaks were her home. She loved them so dearly, she probably felt they were.
"For 10 years after my dad retired, they volunteered to stay all summer at Waters Creek and DeSoto Falls as camp hosts, greeting campers and answering questions and making friends," said her daughter Lynn McIntyre of Roswell.
"Camping like that, where people trust each other and there are no security systems, people behave in a more neighborly fashion. There's this great democratic thing that happens where people talk and get to know each other at a campsite if you have the right spirit, and my mother definitely did.
"We spent many nights around the camp fire listening to great doses of common-sense wisdom being dispensed with s'mores perched on our laps."
Sarah Frances Morgan, 77, of Tucker died of complications from a brain tumor on Sunday at DeKalb General Hospital. The body was cremated. The memorial service is 3 p.m. Sunday at Harmony Grove United Methodist Church. Wages & Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Morgan grew up in Pompano Beach, Fla., when it was still largely rural and she could ride her horse on the beach and indulge her love of the outdoors.
After she graduated in 1950 from Wesleyan College in Macon, she moved with her husband, Guy P. "Mickey" Morgan, to the Miami suburb of Hialeah.
Whenever they could, the couple piled their four children in a Chevy station wagon and drove to the North Georgia mountains to camp — first with a tent, then with a pop-up camper, then with a small trailer as their home base. Sometimes Mrs. Morgan would fry up the rainbow trout her husband caught for supper. Other times, she'd set up her easel and paint watercolors of grazing horses and cool, rushing streams and vivid flowers.
After her husband's death, she moved to Tucker in 1999 and formed a tight network of church friends. She devoured books like candy, especially favorite authors like Jan Karon, and never slowed down with her artwork, her daughter said.
"She always had a sketch pad with her," she said. "I gave her a miniature set of watercolors, and she'd pull that out at a moment's notice and sit down and start painting. She was completely devoted to it, anytime and anywhere."
A favorite coffee shop in Tucker, the Alcove, was one of the places she would settle in and whip out her paints.
"I think they would all see my mom more often than I would," her daughter said.
"She definitely loved to eat — that was one of her favorite things," said her son, Dean Morgan of Atlanta. "She'd go from a meal to a cup of coffee to another meal, and she visited most of the fine dining establishments of Tucker, like Matthews cafeteria and the Alcove. That's how she spent most of her time: church outings, church meetings and church eatings."
Survivors include another daughter, Bonnie Chislett of Atlanta; another son, Scott Morgan of Fair Play, S.C.; a sister, Ann Allison of Pompano Beach; a brother, Joe Allison of Pompano Beach; and 11 grandchildren.
I just flew into Atlanta to attend the Funeral of my Grandmother. Shed died sunday evening after having surgery in removing a number of tumors in her head. She went into a coma and had subsequent strokes. In the end it didn't appear that she had any brain activity in the places she needed them. My family decided to take her off life support and allow for a natural death.
