It all started with a tweet from a guy in Utah. He said he had cracked up be cause his mother had emailed him after watch his lawn cam - capturing some landscaping.
Anyway - his blog post was a bout the concept of video stitching:
I saw this amazing Stabilized Video Collage this morning while reading … this is really impressive. You have to see it to really appreciate what is being done.
The author has used a program called Motion (in FinalCut on the Mac) to stitch two videos together to make one. Not only is it obscenely cool, it makes the video enjoyable to watch. It appears you can stitch video from many different sources and multiple camera together to build a killer panoramic vid.
I’ve been raving about some blog tools here and also Nick Peters & I over at Wediaup - but here is another example called Skribit. (I found it in my feeds from Social Media Today.) The quote is from the SMT post:
As Paul envisioned it – “It’s where you go for tomorrow’s news or a Techmeme for tomorrow.”
It is similar to the blog add-on called Zemanta. But Skribit is more of a forecasting tool. It would be cool if someone had more info on Skribit usage - anyone?
My buddy Jason sent me a link to Sean Blanda’s blog today, there is a really good post on it today talking about his college newspaper and how they are using WordPress to publish their online edition - but what I really wanted to talk about was Sean’s blog itself.
This guy has a really great blog.
Number 1 - He’s customized the design. And wow, what a great design. Nothing too fancy, but nice. I love the post it note.
Number 2 - He’s starting conversations. It’s not about posting - but engaging.
Number 3 - He’s putting up fresh content. Talking about how to run an online paper with WordPress is cool.
Keep an eye on this guy and his blog…it should be an interesting conversation to enjoy.
I enjoy reading and advocate the use of corporate blogs - here is a post I ran across at Social Media Today that speaks to that subject:
Blogging outside of the firewall has some measurable numbers for determining ROI. However, it also offers noticeable value that doesn’t always translate to numbers. The following is a list of the kinds of value blogging offers a business and how that value can be determined.
That’s the hard lesson learned by veteran GOP political strategist Ed Rollins, who was repeatedly flummoxed in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, who hectored him about a conversation he had that was transcribed and sent to a TownHall.com blog by the one other person in the restaurant.
It still gets hard to leverage all of these items when the rubber hits the road - good stuff!
Patrick Ruffini blogged on Dec. 19th that he was shaking things up a bit - “Twittering Iowa“
I would like to launch an experiment with Twitter on Iowa Caucus night. If you’re caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign up for Twitter, make sure you have the mobile feature turned on for the night, and send a Twitter a text message with your caucus location and the results in 140 characters or less. If possible, please send your message from inside the caucus location as the vote totals are being announced. Make sure your tweet contains the word “caucus” or is prefixed “@IowaCaucus” so we’ll pick it up at the account we have designated for this purpose. We’ll be tabulating the results and providing a real-time tally of our totals in the Republican and Democratic Caucuses.
Wow - I have emailed this to my com padres at gazetteonline.com - I think they are going to pull the twitter feed into their caucus site.
It’s the first ever - Blog World Expo in Las Vegas Nov. 8 and 9 - and I am attending.
I’m looking forward to the interaction with these new media people - and getting the low down on the latest in video blogging (vlogging) and podcasting. I’ll try to put the highlights here soon.
I wish this Social Media Today site would improve the UI a little - this site is really hard for me to read…everything runs together - but this article hits a subject Ihave been reading thinking about more and more, and even though it isn;t super great - it is “good enough”. The article is called: “5 BIG Reasons CEOs Should Blog”
If you skip halfway down the article where it says “Well, you may say that this is not a particularly relevant achievement since plenty of managers out there are already blogging” this is where it gets good.
Well, you may say that this is not a particularly relevant achievement since plenty of managers out there are already blogging away for a few years now, but what happens when your boss happens to be the VP executive from the Social Software Programs and Enablement Team? I guess that changes things a bit, doesn’t it? It surely does and that is why the whole day I have been very very excited, because my manager, Gina Poole, is already blogging behind the corporate firewall and diving into some of the different conversations going on at the moment.
I think it really has a good overtone of opening lines of communication. Blogs are the type of communication many people enjoy - very informative, yet unobtrusive and allows people to engage comfortably.
This as been a project I have been interesting in doing for sometime now, but just never was able to get started. With my “new” duties in innovation - it became the perfect time for me to kick start the blog.
The Goal:
To research the web and web-based technologies - then report the finding to this blog for interest parties to read and comment on.
You will notice I am trying to be “web 2.0″ with the blog and will include tagging with these post for people to sort and find different areas of information.
One of my favorite parts of the site is the option of RSS. This allows you to get notifications within Outlook by adding a feed. If you are unsure of how to do that - Take a look at the CommonCraft guy’s video.
Please use the comments section and we will all learn as we go.
