I’ve launched a video blog at http://vlog.rheingold.com and plan/hope to update it weekly. Spread the word! It all started when I started thinking about updating A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community, which I wrote twenty years ago. It didn’t take long to realize that a description of how I spend my time online these days would be conveyed more effectively via video/screencast than plain text. Once I got rolling, I realized that it would take more than one episode to show how and why I spend time reading RSS, scanning blogs, blogging, gardening wikis, posting in virtual communities, Twittering, teaching, etc. So the first month or so will feature episodes of A (re)Slice of Life Online. However, once I started including my indoor and outdoor offices in the videos, it occurred to me that I ought to explain something about the parts of my life that haven’t been so visible to my readers — the painting, gardening, sculpting that are as important to me as the publishing activities that are most visible to others.
Don’t expect it to be too polished, although I guarantee that production quality will improve over time. I’m hoping that all the frustrating details of cameras, cables, batteries, lights, microphones will become second nature to me and I’ll begin to become fluent enough in video vernacular to include interviews with some of the more interesting people I encounter.
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@ 12:03
[...] Rheingold, a technology/culture writer and noted shoe painter, has just launched a vlog, where he’ll be sharing his experiences in the online world. Twenty years ago, I wrote [...]
@ 12:19
[...] written in Smart Mobs: I’ve launched a video blog at http://vlog.rheingold.com and plan/hope to update it weekly. [...]
@ 13:44
Any chance of setting up the RSS feed to function as a video podcast so I can subscribe to it in iTunes (or another podcatcher)?
@ 13:53
Bravo, Howard, I can’t wait to watch you!
@ 19:17
[...] the context of online community, social networking, and activism over the late 20 years. From his intro post on Smartmobs: It all started when I started thinking about updating A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community, [...]
@ 00:24
howard, i’m excited about this. don’t worry about polish
gotta make a spot on the new site for comments, ay..
@ 04:43
Hi Howard, I’m a big fan of your work - and I’ll be adding your video to my vodpod… but I wonder if you’ve considered ways in which you could make it a better reflection of participatory media.
I have concerns about currently available video software (which I fear has a tendancy to turn us into little broadcasters, rather than opening up to participation).
It is for this reason that I prefer to call video ‘poor media’ presently - it doesn’t allow me to add my comments, thoughts, counter-points into the flow. Indeed, on your Vlog I couldn’t see anyway to comment at all?
Participatory media in video form isn’t, for me, just about allowing everyone to have a voice, it’s about allowing everyone to connect and share in the creative process.
Sorry if that sounds a bit negative - at least I hope it supports your world view.
I posted a little about video having TV envy here: http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2007/12/video-is-poor-media-until-it-loses-tv.html
Best regards dc
@ 10:07
well done on gliding over the hurdles into visualizing and making the storytelling very compelling.
Looking forward to seeing much much more!
It is so fun to see how much some things have changed as well as what has remained the same…
Suggestion: Maybe hook up something like feedburner’s RSS emailer so notifications are sent when you post new material to my email!
@ 21:48
Oh man, thats fantastic. I love your videos
Are you still on SL? I get the feeling it’s dying slowly…
@ 12:46
Howdy Howard,
This particular seems warm.
T’other (whereat I left a casual query), a tad less so.
About joined-up-warmth, and your version,
The Collaberation Project.
Coming at you obliquely, as distinct frae the
more usual methodology for my own reasons. I
wonder whether you can find time and space to
open the website above, and just leave it
running as an abstract, whilst you are in
paint/sculpt/garden/muse-mode, and then (once
you have the construct gently embedded), dive
into an ongoing correspondence via the Mail
button provided; (much as I am doing the noo), viz-a-viz
The Collaberation Project.
Regards, d