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?