Use of Flip Video at Blog World Expo

Jim Kukral with Flip Video at BWE


I went to Blog World and New Media Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center last Dec 7th, 8th, and 9th, and I have to say that I had a great time. I am fascinated by some of the newer media being used as social objects such as podcasts and video. The term podcast I have since found out is being de-emphasised because of its connotation with a single commercial product the ipod and replaced with the term new media. The only thing about audio and video is that it is not directly text searchable. It seems to me that it is important to go through the effort if you can to create text transcipts so the search engines can find the content.

I carried my Flip video around with me at the conference and I noticed a lot of other people with the Flip. I had the intention of doing video interviews on the show floor but I just ended up taking pictures. The hour capacity of my flip was used to get small samples of the sessions just to try things out. I found myself taking notes, pictures, and flip video at the sessions to develop some ideas to blog about. I do regret taking 15 minute segments on a few sessions forcing me to delete one session that I really liked: Building Your Online Reputation.

Getting back home I had placed back some of the videos and used mencoder to create 320 by 240 size mpeg4 videos for YouTube. The Flip uses the MS ADPCM audio format so I convert to mp3 using the lame part of mencoder. I uploaded six videos onto YouTube tagged BlogWorldExpo. The great thing about the Flip Video is its convenience and size and I love experimenting with it. I am just going to take shorter video segments.


Anil Dash on Open Social, one my BWE videos