David Lee King

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Local Paper Talks about Twitter

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Yesterday, Greg Hill, who blogs for our local newspaper, did a video interview with me about Twitter – how I use it, and how my library uses it to connect with customers. Here’s a link to the blog post, and the video is embedded above!

The part with me starts about halfway through, but watch the whole thing – Greg does a great job of explaining Twitter to newbies.

Playing with Mics

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I was playing with different microphones this morning – testing out four microphones for podcast & videocast quality, and decided to do a video test, too.

So here are 4 mics, plugged into my MacBook Pro laptop. Video is the cheesy-but-easy PhotoBooth. Microphones I tested were:

  • Samson C01U
  • Blue Snowball
  • Bescor TCM-88 lavalier mic
  • … and the Mac’s internal mic

So… which one do you think sounds the best? The worst? Were any/all/none adequate? Why? Thanks!

Ustream.tv on my iPhone

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Just a quick post to show this – did you know you can get ustream.tv, a live video service, on your iPhone? I loaded the app onto my iPhone, then remembered that I had a ustream account… so I did what tends to come naturally to me… I played and experimented a bit!

So the above video is of me doing a live video stream from my laptop, and showing the live video stream on my iPhone.

Anyone using live video stream services like uStream.tv or justin.tv in their library? If so – what are you doing with it? Let us know!

First Day of VloMo08!

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What’s VloMo08, you ask? It stands for Videoblogging Month 2008 – sorta like NaNoWriMo08 (National Novel Writing Month 2008)… but it’s a video a day instead of a chapter a day.

So yep – the general idea is simple: make a video every single day during November, put it up on the web (your blog, blip.tv, YouTube, etc) and tag it vlomo08.

But don’t stop there! Sign up for a free account at mefeedia.com, add your video feed, then join the vlomo08 channel – and connect to lots of other participants. Fun!