UPDATE: Here’s the high quality streaming video of the entire talk.
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“Youtube and beyond: What you want to know but never knew who to ask”
A public talk on the present and future of online video sharing by Kevin Lim
When
Tuesday, 19 Jun 2007
7:00PM – 8.30PM
(I’ll be there at 6pm for the early birds!)
Where
Multi-purpose Room, Central Lending Library
(Basement of National Library, Victoria Street)
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What
Youtubers, Videobloggers, Video podcasters, or anyone who wants to get started with sharing videos online, this interactive session is perfect for you! Here are 5 reasons why you have to join in:
* Explore the world of free video sharing services -> going beyond Youtube
* Learn tips to producing great video for web -> high quality, small file size
* How to protect yourself by staying legal -> copyright, Creative Commons
* See the future of online videos -> Lifecasting and searching within videos
* Make friends and show your clips with fellow video bloggers!
Plus: If there’s time, learn how to videocast without spending a bomb on web hosting, by integrating Internet Archive with your blog.
Who
Kevin Lim [of theory.isthereason.com] is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication and is teaching in the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He studies the wide-ranging cultural affordances of technology, focusing particularly on the pedagogical aspects of social media. Being passionate about making and sharing videos, Kevin is currently challenging notions of virtuality through his modular “sousveillance” backpack. In an attempt at enhancing the usefulness of video, this unique backpack allows him to experiment with lifecasting, ambient intimacy, and video as a form of memory prosthetic (also see eyetap and wearcam).
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Why bother making online videos?
In an unassuming trip to Macworld Expo back in January 2006, I happened to shoot 15 minutes of the then brand new Apple MacBook Pro. Little did I know that that video clip would make me realize how important it was for me to be a blogger, especially a videoblogger.
More than half a million people watched that clip. It appeared on the front page of Youtube, Digg and every other tech-related blog. Friends called me up telling me about it, and even the Mac Geniuses at the local Apple Store said that they’ve seen it. Traffic soared, new opportunities presented themselves to me.
Recently in March, Siva, Ivan and I were in catching up over dinner at the National Library when the thought hit us. Since I knew quite a bit about sharing videos online, why not organize a public talk about it?
As mentioned in an earlier post, we’d like to share the joy by helping to build an informed videoblogging community in Singapore. As such, I’ll be giving a public talk at the National Library on sharing videos online. Above are the details so if you can, please help me spread the word.
I’ll share my personal experiences: Such as when you should use Youtube, Google Video, Revver and so on. I’ll also share basic tips on how to shoot and encode video to get the best-looking clips on the web. Finally, I’ll demo some of the exciting new things we can now do with online video. I hope all this will blow your mind and get you inspired to whip out your video camera. If you’re coming, bring your geek toys!
Got better ideas?
If you have question or suggestions for this event, do drop a comment about it. This talk is meant to be interactive and I wish to make sure you can start making videos confidently as soon as you get home.
Bloggers who have helped promote this cause:
- WebSG (Web Standards Group Singapore): “Youtube and Beyond: A talk by Singapore’s very own inspector gadget Kevin Lim“
- Upon hearing that this talk is finally happening, Siva wrote the entire background story about how it came about! See Learning from Geeks – this time its “Sharing Videos Online”
- The Rambling Librarian shares a timeline, which illustrates how the library establishes a speaker’s credibility, the channels used to help promote the event, and the changes made according to initial user feedback: “Youtube and beyond“
- HabitatNews @ NUS: “Kevin Lim on Sharing Videos Online“
- Youth.sg forum: Talk at the library – Youtube and Beyond…
- NUS Blogging Community Server: “Youtube and beyond“
- Digital Terrorist: “Remember Kevin, the Videoing-whore?“
- PY: “A public talk on online video sharing“
- Hazman Aziz: “A Public Talk by Kevin Lim“
- Keropokman (photoblogger): “white classic : the national library (+ talk by Kevin Lim)“
- IZ Reloaded: “Youtube and beyond: Public talk by Kevin Lim“
- vantan: “Youtube talk by Kevin”
- This could be you. Please help promote this talk on your blog! :)
