BarCamp: Social Networking + Mobile Devices; Podcasting; Making Video & Audio Searchable
I wasn’t sure how to blog BarCamp Boston 2 because I didn’t know if I’d be making posts for each session or just doing brief summaries. The two sessions I attended already I can briefly summarize. Now, I’m in Amanda Watlington’s talk about making video and audio searchable. She rocks. I know her in real life. She’s a very dynamic speaker. I think we’re both on the hypothetical schedule for the Spam Conference at MIT on Friday, March 30. I’m absolutely thrilled that we’re going to be speaking at the same conference. Hopefully, I’ll be able to attend her talk.
The first session I went to was Keith Erskine, who’s affiliated with PadPaw, talking about social networking and mobile devices. I was late because I had to run back home since I forgot to bring the projector adapters for my laptop. Most of what I caught of the talk was basic stuff I had heard before: text messaging on mobile devices, Dodgeball, how to connect people with similar likes better through mobile devices, etc.
Next, I got to hear Adam Weiss, who does the podcasts for the Museum of Science as well as podcasts about Boston, talk about the latest in podcasting. He shared some interesting statistics showing how the phenomenon has spread from just about one podcast in 2003 to more than 6 million based on data from Feedburner. I’ve heard Adam talk before when he visited blog group a while back. His talk reminds me that we should invite him back.
Amanda’s covering some useful ground in her talk. Use metadata and the data fields attached to audio and video files, as well as various kinds of tags that are possible on sites like YouTube and Flickr. Someone in the audience suggests linking to whatever key Web site (perhaps your own) whenever possible, like in Flickr captions. Write the metadata for the videos before compressing the file. Use typical fields: title, author, description, keywords, content, transcript, etc.
She uses the subscription program Keyword Discovery.
Don’t pinch me.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
[...] The schedule for the Spam Conference, Friday, March 30, at MIT is available. On Thursday evening, there’s a kickoff at the Cambridge Brewing Company beginning at 5 pm. I have the dubious unfortunate lucky honor of giving the first real presentation Friday morning at 9:45 am. Much to my relief, Amanda Watlington, whom I’ve known for a few years through blog group and whom I saw speak last weekend, speaks after me. She’s a hard act to follow because she’s very good. Throughout the day, many other people will be addressing lots of interesting topics related to a variety of aspects of spam. [...]