VIDEO: BloggerCon3 (in little pieces)

Click the photo to see my video from BloggerCon3 in Palo Alto.
It's taken me over two weeks to get it up here.
My fellow videobloggers will laugh at me....but I was thinking about it way too much. Honestly, I was just overwhelmed.
BloggerCon was a full day of talking in classrooms.
It was like the cool college courses I never got to take.

But how do you videoblog that?
Recording and posting video really shows me what works and what doesnt.
Since I really didnt know anyone there, I just couldnt really catch my snap.
But I think I got it.
Here is a 9 minute video of the different voices and faces present.

Sean Gilligan and Eric Rice were the two other videobloggers present.
Everyone else was into podcasting and their long-running text blogs.
Video just didnt seem to interest many people.
Adam Curry even told me that "video scares me"...meaning the storage/bandwidth issues.
Undersatndable. I guess he hasnt heard of CC Publisher yet.
If only we had the whole videoblogging crew there...we would have had a real presence.

The best experience I had was at a discussion called "the emotional life of blogging".
It was great because it was a small group of maybe 20 people.
The other 200 were at "How to make $$$ blogging". (seriously)
But these people got why video is so powerful in blogs.
Many of them were already using pictures and audio to document experiences and feelings.
This whole "Rocketboom controversy" really makes clear the different ways you can use this technology.
In any media, it's all about motives.

What we are doing is really amazing.
I saw that very few people are doing video...or even know how it would work.
maybe they understand it in their heads how it would work, but no one is DOING it.
We really are collecting some original work.
We need to have our own videoblogging conference party.

I give a big up to Dave Winer who organized the event.
I dont know the man except through his blog, but he seems to be a lightning rod for controversy.
I appreciate the focus on us regular users.

Comments

[cweagel]

Jay this video is fantastic!

Anyone asking about videoblogs, particularly text bloggers, need only be shown this video to get it.

This is the potential.

Please post more from the con.

The editing, giving a sampling of the whole experience, that really adds to it. I'm glad you stayed away from just straight video of a given discussion ala the podcasts that have come out of bloggercon (although those have their place) The editing creates and expresses your experience.

Hearing and seeing these formerly faceless people is so powerful. It transcends text.

Just looking at that dim classroom with the rows and rows of laptops with their attached zombies is such a wonderfully depressing image!

Great work!

[Jay Dedman]

ah...coming from you, i appreciate.
i notice how you edit daily life together.
subtle.
show enough and move on. keep it moving.
it was the only way i could figure out how to do it.
do you ever watch Charlene's or Mica's videos?

[Mica]

jay, i had a nighmare about this video - for real!

[Julie]

Thanks, Jay. Thanks for all you brought to the emotional life session. I know that you got me thinking about video and I'm glad to have met you. By the way, do you happen to have any video from my session? I'd be curious. The one you posted here is great. Thanks again.