the mystery genre loses a master

Tony Hillerman died yesterday at the age of 83 from pulmonary failure.  The Los Angeles Times also includes an AP article with video.  don’t forget that NoveList includes a nice, though slightly dated, author read-alikes list for Hillerman from Joyce Saricks.

Instant Audio and Video Internet Librarian 2008

I know it sounds like I’m hyperbolizing by saying how terrific all the Internet Librarian presentations were, but they truly were inspiring and filled with practical take away information.  Here are my notes from Connie Crosby’s great presention on web based audio and video tools such as seesmic, ooVoo, and 12seconds tv.

Thanks to Connie for sharing her slides via Slideshare.

There is no better time to create a community of friends who can come together and execute on your brilliant idea.  Cofounder of 12secondstv.

Ignite the web.

Building community

• Reach out to others like you
• Be part of a group
• Audio creates intimacy Possibly this is one reason why podcasters may not be migrating to video so quickly As anyone who has ever listened to an audio book through headphones can speak to the intimacy of an audio experience–explains why folks become such huge fans of audio book readers.
• Video connects to humanity

Which communities will you engage?

Talkshoe

talkshoe

• Create manage and host your own audio
• Several people talking at once
• Record for listening, downloading, or podcasting
• FREE recording, storage, and bandwidth

Ideally you want to own the content so you can push out to other places.  Not being able to own your content and store it on your own server is a drawback but since Talkshoe is free it allows you a chance to try this out and then explore so you can determine whether this is a workable tool for you.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary-(uses Talkshoe) a library industry talk show open to anyone to call in and discuss the issues of the day.  A show such as Uncontrolled Vocabulary is a good forum to share ideas and network with other librarians.  Insert Norm McDonald style note to self here..”need to lurk the Uncontrolled Vocabulary show a couple weeks and thes screw up my courage to call in.  Note to self, omit the “screw up” portion of the last comment.

The hard part of Talkshoe is actually calling in to participate, strangely it’s easier to create and schedule the show.  Widgets allow you to post to their blog or facebook or elsewhere.  Sweet!

Utterli,

utterli

formerly utterz

andycaster–poweruser

• A bit like twitter
• Audio video pictures or text
• From phone, computer, mobile device,
• Cross post to flickr, or facebook.

Seesmic

seesmic

• Video conversations
• 9/08 30k users
• 5k active in community
• Craig manganello tributes-stacy sunshine
• Conversation-allows you to read the discussion, and see the original video.
• Easy to do-way easy to do. This could be very cool for libraries

Seesmic is the first of the video tools that I’ve tried out and it really is amazingly simple to create these videos.  If you have friendfeed, your friends will know when you’ve posted a video and can reply to your post.  I wanted to post a Seesmic video to WordPress.com, but ran into some weird compatibility issues.  Ask Connie for help/advice with this.

12Secondstv

12secondstv

• Twitter for video
• Be succinct
• What will you share

Most videos are what you might expect, people saying, “hmmm, what can I say in 12 seconds?  Hmmm, uh, well, guess that’s it for now”.  However there are videos that are amazing examples of succinct video storytelling.  Connie shared a video from a person who told a story about a friend who used to put sliced pickles under the windshield wipers of the cars parked in front of her apartment so that she could look out in the morning to see the puzzled looks on the faces of the people as they came out to their cars in the morning.  Funny.

ooVoo

www.oovoo.com

• Higher quality video
• Record video chats
• Proprietary software that has to be downloaded
• Up to 3 people videoconference at once for free-more people available for cost
• Launched in February
• OoVoo promotional video on YouTube-my day on ooVoo.

How big can you go

18 people on screen at once on tokbox

Tokbox

tokbox

• Web based not proprietary software
• has an app for facebook–cool, might make a neat way to add video to Sno-Isle’s facebook page.
• Large numbers video chatting
• Confusion

Ustream .tv

ustream.tv

• Live video
• Chat
• Record for later viewing
• Camera and internet access

Example of teaching an online journalism course his lecture streamed live.   Possible applications for libraries-capture the live experience

Qik

qik.com

• streaming video right from your phone.
• Mobile live video jailbroke iphones
• Broadcast events
• Pistachio live
• Chaotic and really feels like your’re there

Phreadz  coming out there

Social multimedia

Building community

Informal communication

Unscripted

Let your clients patrons participate-don’t just broadcast

Creating content = engagement between the library and customers

Don’t keep up with the technologies, keep up with the literacies—howard Rheingold

How Will You use these to ignite the web.

www.crosbygroup.ca/blog

oh, to be a favorite thing

yes, Oprah did it again, this time picking amazon’s Kindle as one of her favorite things.  i’d argue against Jeff Bezo’s comparison of the Kindle to “a cell phone” seeing as how it doesn’t make calls (how technology ignorant does he think we are?!).  Jane over at “Dear Author” provides some alternative viewpoints to all the gushing.  perhaps the Oprah endorsement and discount means we’ll actually see more on the streets.