Channel 9 - Entries tagged with geekstories Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with geekstories http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/geekstories Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/geekstories en Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:37 GMT Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:37 GMT Rev9 5 1 25 The Geek Stories: Online Communities, Citizen Journalism This week I decided to interview two experts in the local online communities, social networking and citizen journalism space.

First up is Laurel Papworth, a lecturer, online community expert and WoW fan. Laurel has worked for many gaming community sites, as well as incubating many organisation's community strategies. She tells the story better herself, so have a watch.

Second is Steven Noble: digital PR expert and blogger at Life in Chippendale. Steven explains how a citizen journalist and local community blog helps "offline", and is a powerful tool. Steven also recommends you listen to more garage music. Smiley

Listen, learn and find out blogging using Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces from Tina Wood.

Blogs do not have to be purely by geeks for geeks: they are new ways of having two-way conversations with people, locally; and all over the world

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Online-Communities-Citizen-Journalism This week I decided to interview two experts in the local online communities, social networking and citizen journalism space.First up is Laurel Papworth, a lecturer, online community expert and WoW fan. Laurel has worked for many gaming community sites, as well as incubating many organisation's community strategies. She tells the story better herself, so have a watch.Second is Steven Noble: digital PR expert and blogger at Life in Chippendale. Steven explains how a citizen journalist and local community blog helps "offline", and is a powerful tool. Steven also recommends you listen to more garage music. Listen, learn and find out blogging using Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces from Tina Wood.Blogs do not have to be purely by geeks for geeks: they are new ways of having two-way conversations with people, locally; and all over the world http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Online-Communities-Citizen-Journalism Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:28:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Online-Communities-Citizen-Journalism Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Online-Communities-Citizen-Journalism/RSS WoW geekstories NickHodge TheGeekStories The Geek Stories: BarCampSydney, Joel Pobar
Joel comes over as a mild-mannered geek. Underneath his manner is developer who knows his stuff: especially when it comes to Microsoft's CLR, dynamic languages and some personal research he is doing that was presented at BarCampSydney.

For more up-to-date info, visit Joel's Blog at http://callvirt.net/blog/. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Joel-Pobar Joel Pobar's Geek Story.Joel comes over as a mild-mannered geek. Underneath his manner is developer who knows his stuff: especially when it comes to Microsoft's CLR, dynamic languages and some personal research he is doing that was presented at BarCampSydney.For more up-to-date info, visit Joel's Blog at http://callvirt.net/blog/. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Joel-Pobar Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:32:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Joel-Pobar Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Joel-Pobar/RSS geekstories NickHodge TheGeekStories joelpobar The Geek Stories: BarCampSydney, Tangler and Cylo BarCampSydney, I caught up with two Australian startups: one hardware and the other online.

Cylo have produced the 3Dstyle mouse, highlighted at the recent CES Event.

Tangler.com is a group interaction and communication site.

Hear Mick from Tangler and Laurence from Cylo describe; and show; their products for me. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Tangler-and-Cylo Whilst at BarCampSydney, I caught up with two Australian startups: one hardware and the other online.Cylo have produced the 3Dstyle mouse, highlighted at the recent CES Event.Tangler.com is a group interaction and communication site.Hear Mick from Tangler and Laurence from Cylo describe; and show; their products for me. 490 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Tangler-and-Cylo Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:07:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Tangler-and-Cylo Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney-Tangler-and-Cylo/RSS Video geekstories NickHodge TheGeekStories tangler cylo The Geek Stories: Behind the Scenes of BarCampSydney BarCampSydney, held at University Technology Sydney on Saturday 3rd March 2007. Being a Saturday, I hired my 15 year old son Liam to be my cameraman for the day. Thanks, Liam!

The better audio quality is thanks to a new condenser microphone, which is highly directional and sound recorded with excellent quality. The only real mistake this video is not tweaking the background lighting in different lighting circumstances, and having to resort to the Shadow/Highlight video effect from some parts of the video.

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Image: fellow Microsoft Geek, Michael Kordahi at BarCampSydney.

There was no formal storyboard for this show, as it was a vox-pop (vox-populi, or voice of the people) style rather than single talent with a formal 'story flow'. The simple idea was to capture interesting people/things, and ask the "what is your geek story" and see where the interview would lead. Voxpop is easy without the tripod; and you have to get around to get the stories.

During the day, Liam and I photographed still shots with my Canon IXY 600. Using Windows Vista Photo Gallery, I could quickly import, tag and upload images to Flickr (conference picture colloboration site).  Tagging in Photo Gallery, and the grouping by date captured conveniently sorted into sets so I could see what had been/had not been Flickr'd.

The new "the geek story" branding has now appeared. Thanks to Adobe After Effects 7.0 and the Venetian Blinds, Optics Compensation (to get the edge-of-a-TV-tube feel) and finally a Glow. I just love After Effects; it is Photoshop with time. Since being at Microsoft, I've used more Adobe products in "production" than my 8 years at Adobe. Interesting, that.

Editing Alone.
There will be three on10.net videos from the 90 minutes of footage. Again, my finding of 1 minute of footage is 8 minutes of post-production is holding as a metric. Still pictures are easy, video is relatively tough and time consuming. The editor is working with the theme, the footage, the audio and the final output - and all this takes time. Being the onscreen interviewer, director and editor can take it out of you. Don't know how Scoble does it.

To make life a little easier, there were interviews that were not in the theme on on10.net, so they were quickly cut, encoded and uploaded to YouTube (conference video collaboration site).  Yes, you will see a Microsoft person asking about Linux distributions, Ubuntu, PHP and dynamic languages. For next time: add "The Geek Stories" outro video so people know where the video came from.

Image: Joel Pobar at BarCampSydney, Photo by Rex Chung.

Sadly, I absorbed the feeling of the BarCamp without being in any of the sessions. I would have loved to see Joel Pobar's MapReduce work. However, I have a feeling this won't be the last opportunity to see Joel talking on this topic.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Barcampsydney BarCampSydney, held at University Technology Sydney on Saturday 3rd March 2007. Being a Saturday, I hired my 15 year old son Liam to be my cameraman for the day. Thanks, Liam!The better audio quality is thanks to a new condenser microphone, which is highly directional and sound recorded with excellent quality. The only real mistake this video is not tweaking the background lighting in different lighting circumstances, and having to resort to the Shadow/Highlight video effect from some parts of the video.Image: fellow Microsoft Geek, Michael Kordahi at BarCampSydney.There was no formal storyboard for this show, as it was a vox-pop (vox-populi, or voice of the people) style rather than single talent with a formal 'story flow'. The simple idea was to capture interesting people/things, and ask the "what is your geek story" and see where the interview would lead. Voxpop is easy without the tripod; and you have to get around to get the stories.During the day, Liam and I photographed still shots with my Canon IXY 600. Using Windows Vista Photo Gallery, I could quickly import, tag and upload images to Flickr (conference picture colloboration site).  Tagging in Photo Gallery, and the grouping by date captured conveniently sorted into sets so I could see what had been/had not been Flickr'd.The new "the geek story" branding has now appeared. Thanks to Adobe After Effects 7.0 and the Venetian Blinds, Optics Compensation (to get the edge-of-a-TV-tube feel) and finally a Glow. I just love After Effects; it is Photoshop with time. Since being at Microsoft, I've used more Adobe products in "production" than my 8 years at Adobe. Interesting, that.Editing Alone. There will be three on10.net videos from the 90 minutes of footage. Again, my finding of 1 minute of footage is 8 minutes of post-production is holding as a metric. Still pictures are easy, video is relatively tough and time consuming. The editor is working with the theme, the foo http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Barcampsydney Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:11:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Barcampsydney Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Barcampsydney/RSS how-to Video geekstories NickHodge TheGeekStories The Geek Stories: BarCampSydney In the quest to capture more of Australia's Geek Stories, I attended the first BarCamp in Sydney.

Hear stories of joy and delight, power and passion. And of course, just downright geeky.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney In the quest to capture more of Australia's Geek Stories, I attended the first BarCamp in Sydney.Hear stories of joy and delight, power and passion. And of course, just downright geeky. 720 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:05:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/The-Geek-Stories-BarCampSydney/RSS Video geekstories TheGeekStories