Taking place this weekend in San Francisco, the Vloggercon conference will unite vloggers from the world to discuss about new mediums used by people to tell stories: video blogs (vlogs, video-podcasts), podcast, text and photo blogging.
“Some of the participants and video blogging pioneers feel they’re a part of a “media revolution”–one that could finally give people “a viable alternative to commercial TV,” says video blogger Josh Wolf. “People don’t have to sit back and listen to whatever the media is feeding them.
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Even the Vloggercon numbers are indicative of the growing video blogging movement. The first Vloggercon, which took place in New York in January 2005, was attended by about 80 people. This year’s event, which runs from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, will host more than 300 people. While there are no more tickets available, sessions will be streamed on the Web and there are also outside events and parties to attend.
The growing numbers have been fueled of late by improvements in broadband, software and hardware. Another major factor was the release last October of the first video iPod and the subsequent hosting of video podcasts on Apple Computer’s iTunes online store.
And consumers have become increasingly comfortable with watching video online, in part because of the exploding number of video-hosting sites such as YouTube, which now lets users set up their own profiles and network with one another based on similar interests.”
So here we go, starting our coverage of the Elektra festival. Yesterday nite was the opening with the performances Man in e.Space and the scariest watchdog ever, 100dB at 100km/h. Click on images to see our picts and vids, more to come in the next days. Deutsch version hier!
Arrival at the cozy Ye Olde Carlton, choosing our room (every hotel should allow its visitors to choose between 2 or 3 rooms, i loved that), some footage of Luci performing, the dancing Guggenheim and so on.
Here is our material from the may 5th First Fridays event where Montreal based Akufen and Luci have been performing. The event in collaboration with Mutek was a success with the Guggenheim transforming itself into a sumptuous white dance hall. No need to say this evening was filled with magic – we could not have asked for more for this first going out in the city.
(…) while the vast majority are essentially home videos glorifying children, hobbies and pets, vlogs are beginning to infiltrate the mainstream media, part of the increasingly seismic shift in the way we get our news and entertainment.
“It’s because of cheap, ubiquitous, available technology and cheap, ubiquitous, available broadband,” explains Derek Gordon of Technorati.com, a Web-site tracker. “The average person has such effortless access to low-cost tools that they’re able to do these things that only mainstream media were able to do in the past.”
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And with technology getting cheaper, and the mainstream media jumping in, the proliferation of vlogs could transform the Net into a kind of limitless cable system. “The Web is this great democratizing force, so that everyone can be a publisher and a television producer,” says Landman. “Name it, and you can be it. That’s the world we live in.”
Artiste, globe-trotter et communicatrice vivant entre Mérindol, petit village du sud de la France, et Montréal, au Canada. Ce blogue est un collage de mes pensées, idées et explorations, et ce depuis avril 2002. Au cours des 10 dernières années, j'ai habité Montréal, Hambourg en Allemagne, et Paris. Je suis à la tête du studio de création meïdia, et suis disponible pour différents projets. Mon travail a été souligné par différents médias dont le Huffingtonpost, Elle, Glamour et le magazine Spin.
Hello! i am m-c, an artist living between the small village of Mérindol, in the south of France, and Montréal, Canada. This blog is a collection of my thoughts, travels and explorations, online since april 2002. I have in the last 10 years moved from Montréal, to Hamburg Germany, then Paris, and now the south of France.
My work has appeared in the Huffingtonpost, Elle, Glamour and Spin Magazine. My other projects are meïdia Studio and Creacamp. I can be hired for art/illustration assignments, conferences and workshops.
Je suis co-auteure de Pourquoi bloguer. Mon chapitre, Bloguer pour réseauter, a été rédigé dans le but d'inspirer les gens intéressés par le potentiel de réseautage des outils de blogues : étudiants, artistes, gestionnaires d'entreprise, curieux et patenteux de tout genres.
