Alcohol

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Length: 1:42

Just smile and nod and pretend that it's still Videoblogging Week 2008. It'll all soon be over. 6 of 7.

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Dessert

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Length: 1:11

Every day is Videoblogging Week 2008 if you just believe it in your heart. Number 5 of 7.

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Box Lunch

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Length: 1:17

Missed a day due to a self-inflicted eyeglass injury and utter exhaustion. So for me this is Day 4 of 7 of Videoblogging Week 2008.

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Sandwiches

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Length: 1:57

Day 3 of 7 of Videoblogging Week 2008.

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Salad

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Length: 1:45

My testy relationship with food continues.

You may note the clock in the background. The one whose batteries I should have removed before shooting. You may also note it was late in the evening when I made this. Turns out my wireless RF mic messes with the satellite TV reception downstairs where my in-laws are staying, so unless I can figure out an alternate plan I'll have to wait each night until they're asleep.

Day 2 of 7 of Videoblogging Week 2008.

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Green Bell Pepper

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Length: 1:39

Yeah... I don't like 'em.

Day 1 of 7 of Videoblogging Week 2008.

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Blaming America First

I thought I'd contribute to the conversation.

In the least helpful way I could.

Length: 0:52

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unKeynote

Peter Van Djick seems like a nice and brilliant guy. But--and he admitted as much--he's not comfortable speaking in public, which made his Vloggercon keynote (text online here) one of my less favorite moments of the weekend.

So seizing upon the antiauthoritarian spirit of the conference I went back and wrote a speech I might have rather heard.

Peter had some interesting thoughts to offer about how values become embedded in technology, and of course I liked the Truffaut quotation he used to close. But I couldn't connect to it emotionally--and at times what I'm sure he meant as a compliment to the assembled crowd came off to me as offputting and elitist.

In retrospect Schlomo nailed it when he talked about the fear so many of us feel. Too much of Peter's speech I think was constrained by this fear.

Of course I wish I'd done a second take. Or made a different choice of composition. Or moved that stupid bag out of the frame. I wish I'd written a different speech, one that focused on the class and race and gender bull@#$% we'd like to wish away, I wonder still if I shouldn't have exploited all the videos and pics people have posted online, so that they'd sit through the whole video to see if I used their stuff.

But Peter had no such tricks to call on, so I'll just let this fly.

Plus I need to take my own advice and shut up about Vloggercon already, so I can get myself back to the real stuff.

Length: 10:53 (I hope never to ask this of you again.)

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UPDATE (7/6): I have posted this video's transcript online.

Vlog

Can't wait to meet people next week.
I the meantime I'll do my best to annoy them.



Length: 2:05

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Quote: Ryanne Hodson

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Prevention

No one could have anticipated.

Length: 0:39

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[Explicit] A Woman I Don't Even Know

[Contains explicit language.]

Flouting my "Family" designation in the directories at Democracy and iTunes with this one, a letter to a friend's new paramour.

The profanity or two won't bug most viewers, but the boy does have a few fans in the under-10 set.

Length: 3:18

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