Colin Rhinesmith

Vanessa and I bought a Flip Mino this week. It just came in the mail today. I haven’t been feeling very well over the past few days. So it was a nice treat to have the camera arrive.

The Mino is surprisingly easy to use from start to finish. It doesn’t seem to jitter like the Flip Video does (i.e., that “warbly” picture effect). Plus I didn’t even have to install any software or fancy codecs to get the video onto my G5 and uploaded to the web = very cool.

This short vid above is a quick test recorded in our living room. I also bought the flip which is nice to have for shooting talks at conferences. I am really looking forward to using this camera.

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From Zip Docs:

“Odd Fellows Hall and Dance Complex: a video on the history and use of a historic old building in Central Square, Cambridge. A production by members of the ZIPDOCS class at CCTV: Inéz Eizmendi, Liza Zvereva, Irina Danilova and Laureano Batista. Music by Brazilian Touch.”

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I’d like to welcome Mike Deehan, as the new Multimedia Production Coordinator, to the Berkman Center. Here’s a bit from my email to Mike and the Berkman community today:

Mike brings an exciting background in journalism and new media to the center, as Deputy Online Editor for the New England News Forum, a former intern at National Journal’s CongressDaily and Conference Technology Coordinator for the Media Giraffe Project in Amherst, MA.

Mike will be taking over as point person for media projects at Berkman, including webcasting, podcasting, video production, and other related efforts, as I move into my new role as a Producer for the Citizen Media Law Podcast, debuting later this week.

Please join me in welcoming Mike to Berkman!”

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I just learned from Larry Gallagher over at MIT about their new blip.tv powered MIT TechTV. It’s fun to see how they worked with blip.tv to reconfigure the interface to suit their needs. The layout is similar to some of the ideas found in the demo/mockup of our Open Media Library project (insert shameless plug). I also like how they’ve brought in the feed from their MIT TechTV blog.

Only folks at MIT can upload. The terms of use are laid out very clearly. I would think they might be helpful to other academic institutions looking for examples of guidelines to promote institution-wide video creation and sharing.

Another very cool thing about the site is they’ve got the feed coming in from the Yahoo Groups Videoblogging List. They’ve also included a nice list of on-campus Camera Access, Editing, and other production resources available on the site.

There’s a lot going on here. I look forward to spending some more time “tuning in”.

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The A Team - Video #2

We’re working on a collaborative moviemaking project using video blogs this semester across two sections of a course titled, “Foundations of Image and Sound Production.”

The video above is the second video on The A Team blog. Learn more about this project.

In mid-December, I’ll create two final videos out of the material we have to post on each of The A Team and B Team blogs.

To subscribe, visit The A Team RSS feed and The B Team RSS feed.

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The first video for Community Media in Transition is up. It’s a short video with Ben Sheldon on Mapping Access. I’ll be posting our entire conversation as an audio podcast soon.

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“Behind The Scenes: PBwiki“

Ryanne and Jay sat down with the folks at PBwiki and shot this great video (above).

Wanna learn more about wikis and find out more about where the name PBwiki comes from?  Check out the video here.

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Here’s a short video that Danielle produced from our ACMEBoston videoblogging workshop at the Boston Neighborhood Network, last night.

We’ll be meeting for part 2 in a couple of weeks. At the second workshop, the producers will be creating their own blogs and learning how to upload their videos. Last night was great. I’m looking forward to the next one!

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