Curly World

The following is the basic script for the podcast I will create for We Media on Video Blogs and how Social Software relates to their future.  There will be music.  Probably.

[image of VlogMap.org]
Video Blog Network Report Script Video Blogs are rapidly growing in popularity throughout the world.  However, as Wikipedia describes, “One of the potential problems with Vlogs is the current inability of search engines to create rich metadata or "search engine" data from the stream. For Vlogs to be fully embraced as part of web culture, some indexing solution will need to emerge.”

 

[scroll through images of other social software, ending with YouTube]
This is where social software like flickr, wikipedia, and de.lic.ious has paved the way for vlogs.  YouTube has already grown very popular as a site to view popular individual clips, with many videos being viewed millions of times.

[shot of BTY, HMP]
Many different websites are trying to fill the void for high quality video blog content.  One such site is Reelblogs.com, hailed by many as the first video blog network .  Let’s hear what one of the creators of the site has to say about the future of Video Blogs and how social software fits in.

Questions:
1. Reelblogs was called the first ever Video Blog Network, but it seems that there were previous attempts to collect different video blogs into one space, what separates Reelblogs?

2. What role does social software such as tagging play in the future of vlogs?

3. Reelblogs is adopting the strategy of producing professional content first, and then opening mediums for users to upload their own content.  Why include professional content, as opposed to focusing entirely on creating a place for others to load and share their own?  Do you think there will be a place for such sites, which have already become so popular for photographs and other mediums.

4. How do you see video content from the internet competing with the forms of entertainment already available on television?  Why would people not simply move popular television programs online?

5. What do you hope Reelblogs will look like in a year?

Reel Fantasy Sports Pitch

If you are not dieing for Reel Fantasy Sports to come out after this pitch then I have no words for you.  Ok, to be fair, if you have interest in the show watching the pilot might be a better indication of its quality than my ramblings.

We will see how many consecutive posts can include a link to the pilot...

Reel Fantasy Sports Pilot

The pilot episode for Reel Fantasy Sports is finished!  It is an enormous file, we will figure out how to compress better shortly (I hope).

Shout Out

Just wanted to give a little recognition to my Mom for being amazing:

  Nikola Filby, Associate Director, Western Regional Educational Laboratory (San Francisco), for her contribution to quality R&D and innovation. Nikki has been a major contributor to innovation in education by documenting and successfully transferring knowledge about innovative practices in fields such as teacher professional development, district reform, and choice. She has also been on the forefront of strengthening R&D methods and rigor. Nikki is the first WestEd staff person to receive both an individual Paul D. Hood Award as well as the Distinguished Contribution to the WestEd Community, awarded in 2002.

-The Paul D. Hood Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field, honoring staff contributions to educational research, development, and service. Nominees are recognized for an outstanding body of accomplishment, work whose excellence is broadly acknowledged by their professional colleagues.

  -Award for Distinguished Contribution to the WestEd Community, honoring staff contributions to the WestEd community in its many forms, from project teams based in a single office to program areas spanning several sites. Nominees exhibit a level of professionalism in action and words that is exceptional for its positive impact on institutional operations, team performance and morale, and development of a productive work environment.

Reel Fantasy Sports

    I will be putting together an ongoing video blog about fantasy sports to be shown on Reelblogs.com.  Reelblogs is a video blog network being put together by a high school friend of mine at Yale and a couple other friends.  There are already two shows, both fiction and quite funny, available at the site.  My fantasy show is one of five or six others that are currently in the works.  The goal is for the website to support the whole team of us by the time we are all out of school.

    The fantasy sports show will involve two episodes a week of advice and news about fantasy sports.  The site will also include written columns that come out daily, and a tool to apply our statistical method of evaluating players' fantasy value.  Another key component will be a forum, where users can not only comment on the material we produce and other issues, but also upload their own videos onto site.  Look for it all in the coming months!  And catch the first episode of season two of BathTubYoga.  Though BTY is my favorite, you should also check out Help My Patients, I am particularly fond of Howie.

Trapped in the Closet

I pray that no one who reaches this blog has failed to watch Trapped in the Closet by R Kelly.  In case you have, there is still time:
Trapped in the Closet

I am not sure whether R Kelly is a genius or slightly retarded.  As the chapters go on I am leaning towards Genius.  Of course, he could never let anyone find out.  The show would not be nearly as funny if I couldn't harbor some hope that he actually thinks like that in real life.  I mean, I can imagine that R Kelly's life might have similar situations--perhaps with less Barretta scenes--but could it be that he really talks like that?  One can only hope.

Me

Which Is Real?
Originally uploaded by Greg Marliave.

Well, my first post! Theoretically there should be a picture of me too, I am the one on the right. The left is the only half-decent drawing I did in my art class last term. For the record my eyes are not normally red, my contacts must have been bothering me that day...

yeah, thats right. Its my blog, so I don't care if that wasn't funny.