August 11, 2006
My first vidblog… be gentle with me!
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Today marks the first videoblog from me.
A scary enterprise — now the world can see why some say I have a great face for radio!
In today’s videoblog:
- welcome and apologies for the scary visage
- the gorgeous CommsCafe mug, courtesy of CafePress (and I beat Allan to the punch!)
- Second Life and the Cafe’s new apartment (turn around 180 degrees when you land there)
- Duran Duran to gig in Second Life (courtesy of Sherrilynne at StrivePR)
- Text100 (courtesy of Shel)
- It’s starting to ‘gel’ for me how Second Life can be used for business purposes — they don’t call me ‘Sparky’ for nothing! (Actually, no one does…)
Download the video [24mb] — no dedicated rss feed for it yet because I’m not sure how often I’m going to vidblog. I also think I need to adjust my recording settings to reduce the filesize.
Many thanks to Ross Monaghan for the webcam!
UPDATE: Bryan Person has been experiencing difficulties with this vidcast — in particular, sound but no audio. I think the problem may lie with podpress, so I have ‘unhooked’ it for this video and it seems to work if you download the file to your hard drive and play it from there. Let me know…
Stumble it!
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August 11th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Are you ready for Second Life?
If you’ve already embraced podcasting as a mainstream marcomms tool, which it now almost is, and you’re scanning the horzion for the next big thing, you need to look into Second Life. At first glance it’s terrifying - a whole new fiel…
August 11th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Frightfully engaging Lee.
Worth it just to take your rivalry with Mr Jenkins to the next level before anything else.
Your journey through Second Life is fascinating. Originally I stood where you did thinking that yes this looks nice but how is it important considering the resources it takes to get moving. Now your views are significantly altering my perception of this virtual world.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
The more time I spend in Second Life, Dan, the more I see the potential. What if global terrorism against the ‘coalition of the willing’ were to be so co-ordinated over so long a period that business, indeed tourist too, travel were stopped. Of course, commercial, major, airlines would go out of business — but watch how places and service providers like SL would jump into their graves.
I take your point about the new wave of opportunity — and the link you left on Neville’s post was a cracker! — that terrorism presents alternative meeting services like SL.
Imagine if someone could package it in a manner that was attractive (i.e. ’serious’/'corporate’) to business — they’d clean up!
August 11th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
UPDATE: Bryan Person has been experiencing difficulties with this vidcast — in particular, sound but no audio. I think the problem may lie with podpress, so I have ‘unhooked’ it for this video and it seems to work if you download the file to your hard drive and play it from there. Let me know…
August 12th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Lee, mate, you’re a real natural in front of the camera. Loved the hand gestures, too, but what’s that stain on the shirt on your left arm? A little messy with your brekkie, eh?
Hey, I’m able to see you as well when I play the video in Windows Media Player. The default setting in PodPress was for QuickTime, so maybe that was it.
In any case, looking forward to more of these! Well done.
–Bryan Person
Blog: Bryper.com
Podcast: NewCommRoad.com
August 12th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Ah Bryan — thanks for that. The stain is because that jumper is my very comfy “painting” jumper — the one I wear when painting on cold days (not that *that* happens much). As for your compliments — duly flattered, mate! I enjoyed doing it so may do some more…
As for Podpress — I upgraded to 6.6 and thought that would be the answer; no, but the quicktime default thingy might be — I will investigate further!
Cheers, old fruit!
August 12th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Bryan - how do you change the default file mode?
August 12th, 2006 at 10:27 am
[...] Thanks to all who emailed and commented about my first vidblog - especially Bryan Person who pointed out some troubles with the podpress plugin that caused a few hiccups [...]
August 12th, 2006 at 11:04 am
No idea how you change that, Lee. You better e-mail the PodPress guy. Let me see if I can track him down.
August 12th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
[...] With inspiration from my Aussie mate Lee Hopkins, who is also the “voice” of New Comm Road, I’ve published my very first video podcast. [...]
August 16th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Lee, sorry it’s taken me so long to chime in. Great vlog and thanks for the mention.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Lee,
Between some insane deadlines and a wee bit of vacation, I missed the fact that you had now entered the land of video blogging - congrats! It’s great to see your face beyond the image on the top of your blog!
Dan
August 31st, 2006 at 3:58 am
Hey Dan, hope the holiday was fab. I wonder if you had a chance to listen to my report on FIR 167 - I mentioned you by name and your conversation about Flash sites. Thanks again for your great blog, mate! How’s the VON pitching? You should watch my vidblog for 30th August - you get yet ANOTHER mention!!
August 31st, 2006 at 4:11 am
Lee,
The holiday was great and yes, I did hear your kind comments in FIR 167. Well, on the pitching, I got another 6 clueless pitches today, 1 half-clueless pitch (wrong subject matter but they did know my podcast is about security) and one half-clueless phone call (the PR person was clearly reading from a script, but it was actually a company I was interested in). Quite an interesting experiment!
Haven’t listened to your Aug 30 vidblog… will do so now.
Dan