Here is the unedited footage of a few minutes of the breakfast we had at Schlomo's place last sunday, before we went off to have day two of VloggerCon 2006.
This sunday morning breakfast was one of the golden moments during the whole of VloggerCon for me. The people, assembled, talking, eating, letting their minds flow.
More to come soon.
This sunday morning breakfast was one of the golden moments during the whole of VloggerCon for me. The people, assembled, talking, eating, letting their minds flow.
More to come soon.
Friday I didnt take much footage, just enjoyed the day. Today is first day of vloggercon, and it starts in 20 minutes. Exciting! Will take some footage and post tonight or tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning I take the early flight to Paris and then San Francisco, arriving at 1 PM local time. I am working on my presentation now for the panel on "Political vlogging and social change".
I have many ideas from Reboot and Samtalerne still fresh in my mind, as well as videos and other media entries I have read on sites the last years. How can we actually make videoblogging affect society and be an agent for real change? It is pretty obvious that blogging, podcasting and videoblogging is changing media and the advertising industry, but how is it changing politics? How can we accelerate the impact of these new technologies and opportunities will have on civil society?
Preparing my panel presentation
The panel I am taking part in is the first one at VloggerCon after the welcome/introduction by Peter van Dijck and I am slightly nervous about that. What format are we expected to do this in? Ryanne Hodson lately published a video where she talked about BloggerCon and the unconference-like style of it and how they wanted to emulate that at VloggerCon. I like that idea, but what does that mean i praksis?
I have had a bit of e-mail communication with the other three participants in the panel, and the consensus for now is that we get about 7 minutes each for our presentation, and then about 20 minutes for discussion. Given the 50 minutes of time-slot for our panel, and the possibility that we might be a few minutes delayed with the beginning, I think it is important that our panel at least are on time and that we don't delay things further. So, let's say I have effectively 5 minutes for my presentation.
How can I bring my own perspectives and experience into the arena while allowing for the more unconference-like methods to come forth? Let's suppose that of the 400 people at vloggercon altogether, there will be about 150 people in the Freya Hall present for this panel discussion. We have IRC running, so there is a back-channel and someone will be logging that discussion. Hopefully wi-fi will work well in the location, so people present at the conference can log in to the discussion that way - approx 70% will have a laptop I presume. I will have a 3-minute video running on the projector, with sound. The video, which I will finish editing tonight, will bring up some lateral thoughts about this topic. The video will have basically two focal points:
* Political videoblogging - both as in political parties using videoblogging internally and externally and as in individuals using videoblogging as a means of political expression.
* Organizational videoblogging - Amnesty International, other human rights groups and organizations. NGOs.
Of course, I could also include some thoughts about corporations videoblogging (with channel 9 being a prime example), but I suppose that is better for another discussion.
So, I will have a short video running, and I will also upload it on here after the panel discussion. (Why not before? Hmmm). I will want to gear things up for the 20ish minutes of discussion after our presentations (whether I am the first, middle or last to hold my presentation). I have done a few presentations earlier about videoblogging and I have every time afterwards thought about how impossibly lacking it is in terms of using these new opportunities we have for keeping the questions and broadening the discussions.
I will figure something out, feel free to leave comments on what you would like to hear about / what you want me to do with those 6-7 minutes.
I have many ideas from Reboot and Samtalerne still fresh in my mind, as well as videos and other media entries I have read on sites the last years. How can we actually make videoblogging affect society and be an agent for real change? It is pretty obvious that blogging, podcasting and videoblogging is changing media and the advertising industry, but how is it changing politics? How can we accelerate the impact of these new technologies and opportunities will have on civil society?
Preparing my panel presentation
The panel I am taking part in is the first one at VloggerCon after the welcome/introduction by Peter van Dijck and I am slightly nervous about that. What format are we expected to do this in? Ryanne Hodson lately published a video where she talked about BloggerCon and the unconference-like style of it and how they wanted to emulate that at VloggerCon. I like that idea, but what does that mean i praksis?
An unconference : a conference where the content of the meeting is driven and created by the participants rather than by a single organizer.I don't know how the stage will be set on VloggerCon, but I have a bit of experience of the concept of Open Space, as I saw it at Samtalerne. What will, then, my own role be as participant in a panel discussion?
- wikipedia (my bold)
I have had a bit of e-mail communication with the other three participants in the panel, and the consensus for now is that we get about 7 minutes each for our presentation, and then about 20 minutes for discussion. Given the 50 minutes of time-slot for our panel, and the possibility that we might be a few minutes delayed with the beginning, I think it is important that our panel at least are on time and that we don't delay things further. So, let's say I have effectively 5 minutes for my presentation.
How can I bring my own perspectives and experience into the arena while allowing for the more unconference-like methods to come forth? Let's suppose that of the 400 people at vloggercon altogether, there will be about 150 people in the Freya Hall present for this panel discussion. We have IRC running, so there is a back-channel and someone will be logging that discussion. Hopefully wi-fi will work well in the location, so people present at the conference can log in to the discussion that way - approx 70% will have a laptop I presume. I will have a 3-minute video running on the projector, with sound. The video, which I will finish editing tonight, will bring up some lateral thoughts about this topic. The video will have basically two focal points:
* Political videoblogging - both as in political parties using videoblogging internally and externally and as in individuals using videoblogging as a means of political expression.
* Organizational videoblogging - Amnesty International, other human rights groups and organizations. NGOs.
Of course, I could also include some thoughts about corporations videoblogging (with channel 9 being a prime example), but I suppose that is better for another discussion.
So, I will have a short video running, and I will also upload it on here after the panel discussion. (Why not before? Hmmm). I will want to gear things up for the 20ish minutes of discussion after our presentations (whether I am the first, middle or last to hold my presentation). I have done a few presentations earlier about videoblogging and I have every time afterwards thought about how impossibly lacking it is in terms of using these new opportunities we have for keeping the questions and broadening the discussions.
I will figure something out, feel free to leave comments on what you would like to hear about / what you want me to do with those 6-7 minutes.
At VloggerCon, which takes place in San Francisco on June 10th-11th, I am participating in a panel discussion about "Political Vlogging & Social Change" together with Kent Bye, Josh Wolf and Brett Gaylor. (Hm, why are we only white guys? I didn't realize that before now...)
This video, by Kent Bye from the Echo Chamber Project, gives a really good introduction to political videoblogging and some of the issues we will be discussing during this session. The Echo Chamber Project is a great example of how people can collaborate on video on-line. Josh Wolf has done some very interesting work with videoblogging from political events - in fact he even got in trouble with the law over some footage he took. Brett Gaylor is one of my (many) heroes in the vlogosphere, and his work with Homeless Nation is inspirational.
What will we be discussing? What will my own perspective be?
From my own experience with political videoblogging in the election campaign here in Norway last year it is clear that there is a lot of potential in this field, but there are also loads of obstacles. It takes time and dedication to build any sustainable videoblog, and you have to do a lot of selling before you can get a mainstream organization to take this up.
This, perhaps, marks a difference in perspective between the others and myself. Whereas Josh and Brett are more active in giving voice to the voiceless, I am interested in how organizations like Amnesty International or Red Cross could use videoblogging, or other NGOs, or political parties themselves. The really interesting stuff would then come once these more formal networks could work together with the single voices, like how online newspaper sites in Norway invite the public to start a blog on their site, and they then use some of that material in their own news reporting.
By the way, Andreas Haugstrup from Denmark is going to hold a videoblogging seminar about organizational videoblogging later this month. I am going to Denmark for Reboot 8 about a week later, so I doubt I can turn up for this, but I hope Andreas can give us some more information about the topics discussed there.
I am still working on a video where I explore some of these questions, and I will publish it here on DLTQ.org this weekend.
Are you coming to Vloggercon?