video blogging & geotagging

while in Amsterdam each person will be responsible for writing a journal entry on our "daily blog" for a particular day. for each entry you will be asked to embed at least one small video clip. wait! no need to freak out. it's actually quite easy and several of us will be available to help if you get into trouble. and by the way, we're talking about the little clips that you can make with a typical digital camera.

here's the tutorial we selected as the standard process for video blogging:

if you have a few minutes, it would be a good idea to try it once on your personal blog before getting to Amsterdam.

we also selected flickr as a geotagging platform. sunil invited us to a flickr group a while back (perhaps he can re-invite us) such that we can all geo-tag on the same map. this is simply a way to link and annotate photos from flickr to specific locations on common map.

here are two short videos:

- vol1 - how to geotag
- vol2 - how to explore the map

thanks to sunil and ray for providing the tutorials!

the iGeneration

here's an interesting graph from a new york times article about video content on small screens.
the data show a definite generational shift, something we talk about in class but usually without supporting data. here's a link to the article. it's free but probably requires that you sign up for an account.

playing with iMovie

tourism video

found this video posted by one of my favorite academic bloggers. nice, simple (and funny). probably more than we would need to do for our video podcasts, but is a nice example of what can be done with a small format.

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Architecture ReviewHeaven, Hell and Purgatory, Encased in Glass
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: May 26, 2007

Wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is the most gorgeous work to date by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk.

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