Scott Fisher

The best use of video-blogging, to me, are the journalism possiblities. If everybody on the street is a potential camera, anything newsworthy is caught on tape. Also, I'd imagine it'd become much harder to commit a crime and feel safe in annonymity.

Really, I think news casts are the perfect format for video blogging. Short, quick bursts of information that's constantly changing. And, unlike the vidoe clips we saw in class, they have an impact on the world around me.

Also, I was thinking about the ratio of games to movies sold on the PSP. I wonder if that's more of a function of the quality of games on the PSP than the availablity of movies.

The rising post of video blogs would feed more video content into the internet with which other bloggers can process and add into their blog. I say the more media, the better, just as long as it's tagged. So record what you can now. Let google sort it later.

Oh, I don't know, I think the best thing about portable media will be that media becomes as ubiquitous a form of communication as reading and writing.

This will mean more transparency in media, more humanity, more personal empowerment and well, my personal favorite a world where evil can no longer hide. A place where ubiquitous media will bring us back not just first person shooter videos from the front lines of a world changing tsunami, but a place where it will root out the inhumanities on the far corners of the earth, from Sudan, to china, to the front lines of a war in iraq. It's not that all information wants to be free or should be free... but it's that people will be free to speak it that will change the world. A little humanity showing through can't be a bad thing.

We just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

http://mmeiser.com/blog/2005/09/future-of-portable-media-we-need.html

As of this moment, I don't really have much use for learning how to post my films on the internet, or distribute them for mobile media. Until I am allowed to do that with my student films and as soon as I have created a film that I think I would WANT to distribute... only THEN would I do it.

Until then, I will limit my pool of victims to those poor, unfortunate few in my 507 class. :)

Once the ipod has video it's over. Leave it up to apple to take existing technology and mass market it to the main stream... I-mpeg4? Until then I feel it is and had been easy enough to compress and upload video. What's changed is the mobile devices we use to capture footage. Once people master these devices, and the footage doesn't look like a mosaic, video should be posted everywhere.

The iPod now has video (it was announced today, but to me, doesn't seem all that spectacular). I think it will take a media device that has wireless broadband before the homebrew video distribution really takes off.

Another problem with video podcasts is that I don't know where to find the good ones...
I'm waiting for the podcast directories to have a separate video listing.

Creating a contest can spark a lot of publicity. Much like the presidential videos, maybe there is a way to create something similar that will draw the target audience of portable media people.

Unfortunately, the technology isn't quite at the level it needs to be to spark mass appeal. Let's face facts, laptops are very easy to carry around today. It's not that tough to find a place outside of someone's home or office that will offer power and/or wireless high speed internet service. Thus they can interact with whatever media at high quality performance.

Portable media devices need to gain a few levels. Until then, these devices will only be for enthusiats.

It feels like you guys are missing the point - you are all addressing the issue of portable media from the viewpoint of a consumer, instead of as creators. New technology is often perpetuated by the existence of content that gets consumers excited about it. (i.e. The Wall and surround sound systems)

You all seem to have admitted that portable video IS coming, but that it's just not here yet. What a fantastic opportunity we have, then, to experiment with content; so that when it IS here, you are ready for it!

Videogame Research
Here is my first videoblog with some images from my research about the efficiency relationships between interface, interactive narrative, emotions and values.


http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jmfernandez/2005/10/videogame_research_1.html
More info morafern@usc.edu

Excerpted from an interview I heard with Bruce Campbell last year. Bruce Campbell, for those who don't know, pal'ed around with Sam Raimi since they were boys and often in school prior to Evil Dead they made a number of amateur short films. 8mm stuff young Spielberg style.

INTERVIEWER: Do you think the ready accessibility of video production equipment to amateurs that was unheard of in your day is going to produce the next generation of brilliant young filmmakers?

BRUCE: No, I think it's going to produce a glut of idiots.

And he went on to make a very good point that is illustrated perfectly if you take even 20 minutes and poke around ifilm or atomfilms looking for something decent. Just because it's easier to make movies doesn't mean we're going to get more good movies. And in fact, same is true of podcasts, for every gem there are now 30 or more that fall in the fertilizer category. And it's so daunting to sift through the garbage for the gems that yeah, at the end of the day, I'd rather just have Desperate Housewives on my ipod than waste all that time watching bad amateur movies.

As with all technologies- the cheaper and easier it is to use the more ubiquitious it will become.

In the meantime, I think the job of creators of content and hardware for the current crop of mobile video applications is to simplify the means to compress video and get in on devices. At the moment, one has to have some skill and although it isn't that hard to learn- the fact that there is a learning curve still deters people. Creating software that will ease this process will be a huge leap forward!

I imagine my father just plopping some of our old videos into a machine and spitting out clips that could be carried on his mobile phone. That ease of use is power!

perhaps this influx of video will create more crap for us to sift through but in the same respect there should be more gems to find then. if ratios hold...

I will be interested in seeing where this mobile video ends up. My question is how long will this media last? Well it be overtaken by video goggles/glasses that immerse us in a more movie like experience? Or will we be watching our favorite TV shows on our Ipods now?
Apparently the networks believe we will be watching a few shows on video Ipods as they now podcast them and charge for them.
So what happens when you are allowed to take video anywhere?
Time to start pondering...

while i have seen people watching their psps and video ipod's on planes, somehow, to paraphrase my networked publics colleague kazys vanelis, 'video still feels like an afterthought in these new portable media platforms. the ipod was a vast revolution in consumer lifestyle, allowing individuals to take ambient audio programming from the workplace and deploy it wherever they wanted, providing nothing less than a soundtrack for their lives, turning them into something profound. yet, as interesting as it may be, the video ipod adds little to such a transformation. on the contrary, videos are much more absorbing and escapist. by watching a video in public, you're checking out of the scene entirely, wheras by listening to music, you're reshaping the world around you in an audio landscape of your desires.' perhaps the inclusion of location-awareness into these platforms might accomodate for a more integrated experiences within the social. until this time, portable video can be seen as another element contributing to the zero-friction society.