Steve Garfield's Video Blog

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Hello Nightline viewers!

Welcome to new visitors who are here after seeing me on the Nightline story about bloggers.

Thanks for taking the time to find my video blog.

While you're here, take a look around. This video blog exists to help promote the idea that anyone can get out there and start a blog and put video on it. If you want more information on how to start your own video blog, check out videoblogging.info.

Here's my blog post with the video I shot of the Berkman Meeting. It also explains the whole process.

On my daily blog, Off On A Tangent, are my thoughts on how the Nightline story came out.

Enjoy!

Terror Free!!

I took one of the pieces I did for the DNC and expanded it after seeing more news about terror and terror alerts.

The Statue of Liberty Gang promotes being Terror Free.

Video Blogging the DNC

Hi and thanks for visiting my Video Weblog.

It's a new month and there's plenty of bandwidth for you to watch the videos I shot and edited during DNC week here in Boston.

I tried to produce at least one video per day.

This was a part of my push for citizen journalism.

I did a total of eight reports from the convention:

1. No Sam Adams Ice Cream


2. James Michael Curley House


3. Blogger's Breakfast


4. Wesley Clark speaking to the Veteran's Caucus


5. Veterans Caucus featuring Wesley Clark


6. The Statue of Liberty Gang


7. Tim McIntire


8. Participatory Democracy

I've got more video on tape, which I'm going to edit into new pieces.

It was an exciting project and I was happy to get a lot of press.

Some of the coverage of credentialed bloggers missed out on the un-credentialed bloggers story.

I'm thinking about going to Video Blog the RNC in New York, and am talking to a few people who might help me make it happen.

That would be sweet.

Bandwidth Exceeded!

I guess that's the price of popularity.

Just got this email from my hosting company:

Dear Steve Garfield,
You have used 100% of your included monthly traffic of 5000 MB (5.00 GB).

Traffic above and beyond the free volume will be charged at the price shown on our Website.

Please note that you can check your current traffic usage in the Control Panel at any time, as well as set your own cost limit.

Yours sincerely,
1&1 Internet Team

Prior to covering the convention, I was cautious in how many new videos I posted here and how much I publicized them.

I wanted to make sure that I didn't exceed the monthly bandwidth allotment from my hosting company. I was under the false impression that my limit was 15 GB, when in fact as the email above shows, it is actually 5 GB.

For convention week, I decided to just go for it and post as much as I could and send the word out about it.

Well, the popularity of my video blog posts has been amazing.

Good thing it's now August. My extra bandwidth usage is only going to cost me $2.52. I hope I've got that calculation correct. ;-)

Now I'm looking into upgrading my package.

Video Blogging the convention was very fulfilling. I've gotten so much positive feedback. I'm looking forward to going through the rest of my convention footage and posting some more videos next week.

I wonder if anyone is interested in having me cover the RNC convention?

Steve Garfield's Video Blog is on the Syllabus!

Murray Jensen, at the University of Minnesota, is suggesting that his students use my videos as content for their class, CI 5391 Technology in the Postsecondary Developmental Education Curriculum.

It's interesting to me because a link to my Video Blog is just above his link to Copy Right Law. Ha! I think he means copyright.

I followed the link and ended up reading a page about Fair Use which states, "Students may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations and perform and display them for academic assignments."

Hi Kids! You ROCK!

Please note that I have a Creative Commons License on my videos, which says you can use my videos under the following conditions:

Attribution. You must give the original author credit.

Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Tell your professor to start teaching you about blogs. Blogs are the future. In fact, just go to Blogger or TypePad and start one yourself!

Sweet!

Dude!

Doing Great Work

Jonathan Dube over at Cyberjournalist.net just added me to their Great Work Gallery.

He says:

There's no better way to learn than by examining great work. Here's some of the best ever done.

Thanks Jonathan!

I'm working hard to post at least one new video a day.

Video Blogging isn't as easy as posting text and pictures from your cell phone, but by doing a project like this, I hope to help us all figure out the easiest way to get video on a blog.

More news here.

Here's my third DNC video report

Here's my third DNC Video Report: Blogger's Breakfast.
[ QuickTime 7.9 MB ]

The official blogger breakfast for credentialed bloggers was held at the Hilton hotel in downtown Boston.

Looking to get inside my first DNC event, I figured that a video blogger covering bloggers as a citizen blogger would be a great way to get in.

I made it down to the breakfast at 10:45. Forty-five minutes after it started. That way I figured that I would be able to go in and interview some of the bloggers at the end of the breakfast.

When I got to the hotel, I entered the Fenway ballroom. Go Sox! A woman at the door asked if I was a credentialed blogger. I told her that I was a video blogger covering credentialed bloggers as a citizen blogger for my video blog. I think the number of times I said the word 'blog' got me in. I signed in on the media sheet.

As it turns out, I was just in time to see Howard Dean make a surprise visit and talk to the bloggers. Here's my report.

Here's my second DNC Video Report

Here's my second DNC Video Report: James Michael Curley House.
[ QuickTime 4.9 MB ]

Tennessee delegates were due to arrive any minute, and I was there to capture all the action. Well, at least the action outside the James Michael Curley House.

The house "had been rented for a private party", so I was not allowed to go in and take a look. Lot's of volunteers were there to greet the delegates, as well as a contingent of Boston police and a tow truck off to the side to keep the street clear.

I hope the delegates had a nice time.

I wonder if they were able to sample some of the rare Sam Adams ice cream?

Here's my first DNC Video Report

Here's my first DNC Video Report: No Sam Adams Ice Cream.
[ QuickTime 2.2 MB ]

The scence was desolate. No activity at all.

All our hopes and dreams of the convention bringing revenue to Jamaica Plain were dashed:

On the evening of Sunday, July 25, 2004, Boston 2004, Inc. will host receptions for fifty-six delegations representing the States, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Democrats Abroad and the District of Columbia. Such parties are traditionally held on the eve of the opening of the convention and hosted by the convention host committee.

The announcement was made at the Samuel Adams brewery in Jamaica Plain, where Brewer and Founder of the Boston Beer Company, Jim Koch, will serve as sponsor and host of the Ohio state delegation party.

"We're grateful to Mayor Menino and delighted to partner with Boston 2004, Inc. to host the Ohio State Delegation," said Koch. "I look forward to showing our guests one of Boston's successful urban renewal partnerships at work here at the Samuel Adams Brewery."

Too bad the fear of an informational police picket line canceled the event.

The question remains, "What happened to the special Sam Adams ice cream that was produced for the party?"

The Boston Globe reports:

New home needed for beer ice cream

When the Ohio delegation pulled out of the city's welcoming reception at Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain yesterday, saying its members would be partying with local unions instead, the move left party planners holding the bag. Or the vats, as it were.

Gallons and gallons of beer-flavored ice cream were slated to be churned in preparation for the brewery fest. Samuel Adams Cream Stout -- which leaves a cappuccino after taste, company officials say -- and Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock were the flavors to be served. Now, the delicacies will be sent to other events.

''I know some of it will be served at the Children's Museum," said Michelle Sullivan, spokeswoman for Boston Beer Co. ''But not to the children, though."