i’ve been trying to find a way to write this post for a long time, i’ve sat down on multiple occasions to try and find a place to start writing the introduce myself post and detail what i’d love to do with this @vlogging account.
in early 2005 before youtube was a thing i had bought a video camera for a job for a client. it was a very basic dv camera and hard to attach to a computer without a bunch of capture devices and uncharted territory in terms of what codec to use to not only encode it but to a format that i could use for the web.
i used the video camera once for a job to put a video on a webpage using realplayer producer, at one point on the web we only had video able to be played back in a browser with a plugin from realplayer - it’s the way you got audio and video back then.
the video camera then sat on the shelf for a long time collecting dust until one morning i decided that i needed to stop buying hardware to use just once even if it was just client projects, i needed to get more from the technology i bought.
this led me to digging around the internet looking for some kind of video community, back then that was digging around for forums. i found a forum called the yahoo video bloggers group, around one hundred strong at the time.
and that’s when my life changed. i met my first online community that i wanted to invest my time into, to learn from peers, to get advice about encoding, hardware and story telling using video, i met a lot of people who i would still consider friends.
these video bloggers were pre youtube, hosting video on their own websites or at the time a platform called blip.tv — we were the early adopters of video on the web and all the problems that went along with encoding it and uploading those files.
being part of that community opened up a raft of other opportunities that i could have never expected. being in the right place at the right with something new and revolutionary to you at the time, at the dawning days of an explosion of new ways of making media was all consuming. i was hooked.
i soon found people who would become my peers. incredible story tellers, movie makers or ‘citizen journalists’ as they were called just picking up their dv cameras and recording ‘life’ without a narrative, arty expressions of self, short clips, collaborations and mashups.
i was part of a network called node101, a rag tag group of video bloggers from around the world that came together to do projects under the moniker, we all put together a project from the ‘end of the world’ from our respective basements around the world — we all won little awards from the ‘vloggies’ at an event in san francisco and my world and network got a little bigger.
i’m telling you this story because i really wanted to get back to vlogging but also setup a community here on steemit for vlogging, old and new alike, whatever skill level you are at you will be welcomed — i want to provide tutorials, how-to, contests and obvious resteems as a discovery of your own blogs.
with the upcoming hf20 (right? or where is it?) hard fork and wallet app i’m assuming that communities is not that far away either so i’d like to dedicated this account to that, i’m not sure if you need an account linked to the community but i’d certainly like to run one and would be looking for at least twenty five active vloggers to form a discord team.
so that’s my story, i’ll be posting tutorials and videos on @teamvideo (tutorials and how-to for steemit) but i’ll be using this account to post update vlogs, behind the scenes and general event videos and interviews, i’d like to get into daily blogging but because i’m static that’s not going to be too interesting right now.
i missing the old blogging days, maybe in some ways i’m trying to recreate them and i realise that it was mainly about the people rather than making groups so in some ways those memories are what they are, the legacy of the time however lives with me every day and i’d love to bring back some of the ideas from back then including platforms like seesmic, i know we can do something quite amazing to bolt onto steemit to bring it into the video age instead of just youtube or tube embeds.
anyway this is my introducemyself, i’m phil campbell, forty five years old with a wonderful daughter and partner @dayleeo who puts up with my geeky ways and i’d love to reach out to you if you are in anyway interested in video — hosting, live streaming, dtube, daily vlogging, webinars, video chats, whatever — if it moves and you can watch it on a computer i wanna hear from you!
pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.
