Monday, January 28, 2008

ern's world

i finally got this uploaded to youtube after being unable to upload it directly here...

Sunday, January 27, 2008

vloging and blogging

i'm about to start vloging and i'm going to use this blog to annotate the experience and to throw up (regurgitate) stuff of interest that i come across in my explorations in this new magical world of free expression - or not. i've been here before without much continuity, but i'm thinking the discipline of putting up a weekly vlog will force me to write something - we'll see.

i'm not a maker of films although i know the front end of a camera so i can point and shoot, which is all that's required it seems and i'm going to use a borrowed cybershot until i can buy my own - i don't know how to edit nor do i have the equipment, cinema verite with my own narration.

there's a bit of a learning curve here what with blogging, vlogging, twittering, and ninging but the only way i'm going to get it is to do it, so here goes.

i'm going to focus on my garden which is in the deep freeze right now but spring is coming and this will be a weekly diary of sorts, watching the garlic and dandelions growing - the other theme is going to be the torture challenge for which i'm going to have to create yet another blog and/or ning - blogtalkradio as well, perhaps.

and homelessness in the valley - it's bloody cold out there, i don't know how they survive.

if you want to do your own vloging, check out rupert howe - he's the bloke what turned me on..."Every week in 2008, we're posting videos. 52 videos by the end of the year. Post on your blog, on Seesmic, Facebook, YouTube, whatever, wherever and however. You can do anything you want. As long as it moves."

i'm trying to upload my first vlog and it's taking forever, like maybe it's not going to do it - na, it's not, on to youtube.