Steve Garfield's Video Blog

Broadcasting Live from Cellphone to the Web

Broadcasting Live from Cellphone to the Web - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

I can't believe I just did a live broadcast from my Nokia N93 over WiFi to the web. This is the future. Amazing.

Using the ComVu PocketCaster software I broadcast live audio and video from the secondary video camera to the web. I almost can't believe I just did it. But we have video to prove it. So it must have been real.

Here's the video from The future.

Here's my Personal Cellphone Webcast page where I also have a second video recorded with what ComVu calls the back cam, it's the bigger one on the side of the N93.

Harvard Live Broadcasts

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Here's a quick look at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society's live streaming QuickTime broadcast implementation. The webcam is attached to the wall and features a remote zoom control. There are multiple microphones built into the conference table that automatically capture the person who is talking. There are lots of talks happening at Harvard all the time. If you can't attend in person, you can attend virtually online. There's also an online chat. Sometimes the sessions are also streamed into Second Life.

Media Berkman features conversations with and talks by leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore topics such as the factors that influence knowledge creation and dissemination in the digital age; the character of power as the worlds of governance, business, citizenship and the media meet the internet; and the opportunities, role and limitations of new technologies in learning.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) 320x240, Quicktime (.mov) 640x480, Third Generation Platform (.3gp)

Tags: internet, steve garfield, quicktime broadcaster, jay rosen, stream, newassignment.net, harvard, berkman, news, interview, journalism

Jay Rosen on Open Source Journalism

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On Monday, November 13th at 4:00 p.m. EST, Jay Rosen was at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to talk about Open Source journalism and his new project, www.newassignment.net

I interviewed him after his talk.

Open Source has worked in software, but can it work in journalism? Can it break news? Can it tell big important stories? Can the advantages of the bazaar come to the cathedral of investigative reporting? NewAssignment.Net will try to find out.

Here's the video of Jay's complete talk, produced by Colin Rhinesmith. Recently Rebecca MacKinnon spoke about starting a new media workshop in Hong Kong! You don't even have to be in Cambridge at Harvard to attend these sessions... You can even watch in Second Life...

It's cool that the Berkman Center at Harvard is inviting the world into these sessions... Previous sessions are archived over at Media Berkman.

This video was recorded with an Nokia N93 cellphone and edited in QuickTime Pro. Credits were created in iMovie, exported and then pasted into QuickTime pro. The file was then exported as 640x480, 320x240 and .3gp for cell phones.

Featured on Rocketboom 11/27/06.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) 320x240 for iPod, Quicktime (.mov) 640x480, Third Generation Platform (.3gp)

Tags: steve garfield, jay rosen, newassignment.net, harvard, berkman, news, interview, journalism

Simon Singleton - Puregroove Records

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I interviewed Simon Singleton of Puregroove records. Puregroove is a record store, has a record label, has a publishing company, and a has a live music program. It's a mini music empire!

Video shot with Nokia N93 cell phone and edited with Final Cut Pro. Length: 2:56

Nokia launches international community of music connoisseurs - the Music Recommenders

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: puregroove, simon singleton, nokia, puregroove records, n93

Images:
Puregroove Records: http://www.flickr.com/photos/takasmz/
In Store Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleblommers/

Deval Patrick at Boston Common - Part 2

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DEVAL PATRICK REMARKS (AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 "RALLY FOR CHANGE", BOSTON COMMON

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

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Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06

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Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06 Boston Common

I will not engage in the politics of fear. Because fear is poisonous. All through history it has been used to hold back progress and limit fairness. Only hope defeats fear. It always has. At a candidates forum last week, the moderator asked each of us to say something nice about the other candidates. Kerry Healey rather grudgingly said, Well, he can give a good speech. She would know this not because she has ever attended a speech of mine but because she has them filmed by this fine fellow here. But her dismissive point, and I hear it from her staff, is that all I have to offer is words.

Just words.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Just words.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Just words.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Just words.

I have a dream.

Just words.

Let me say it before you do: I am no Dr. King, no President Kennedy, no FDR, no Thomas Jefferson. But I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Also available on YouTube.

Tags: devalpatrick

Nokia N95 Product Rollout NYC

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I attended the Nokia N95 product rollout in NYC and here are some moments i captured from the show floor. The main thing I learned is that Nokia is open. Open to developers and open to the future of mobile computing.

http://nokia.com
http://rga.com
http://howardforums.com

This video was shot with an N93.

Disclosure: Nokia provided the N93 cell phone to me, that this video was shot on, and paid my travel expenses to NYC. Nokia did not require me to write about the N93. All the opinions expressed here are mine alone and those of the people that I interviewed.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: stevegarfield, nokia, n95, nyc

MIT Glass Pumpkin Patch

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Steve Garfield interviews Peter Houk, director of the MIT Glass Lab about the lab and the glass pumpkin patch fundraiser.

This is so cool. It's the future of citizen media. Being able to have something like the Nokia N93 on you at all times allows you to capture moments that might have been lost.

The MIT Glass Lab

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

Peter Houk, Lab Director

Black and White photographs and text by Andrea Silverman

Color Photos by Steve Garfield

Video and Music by Steve Garfield

As seen on Rocketboom 10/04/2006.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: peterhouk, pumpkin, glasslab, mit

Interview with an AP Reporter

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AP reporter Ilana Arazie interviewed me at the Inspiration Festival in New York City. We talked about finding alternative careers. After she interviewed me, I pulled out my Nokia N93 and interviewed her. "People are finding opportunities online. They do what they love... Finding the courage to do that is difficult for people. People volunteer for causes and they don't think about the money, why not volunteer for yourself." http://asap.ap.org/

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: asap, ilanaarazie, ap, dowhatyoulove

Morning Light

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A study in light and recording capacity of the Nokia N93.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: nokia, nseries, light, n93