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David Weinberger's excellent rant
C-SPAN captured David Weinberger's excellent rant yesterday at the Technology and Politics Summit in DC. The stream was overloaded last I checked, but I captured a clip (WinMedia, QuickTime). The corresponding segment of the stream, when it becomes available, is here. It's the part where he talks about how networked markets erode the power of conventional marketing, empower the customer, and transform the business of product evaluation.
I wish I could say it was easy to do this kind of videoblogging, but it's just not true. What I hoped would be a quick, spontaneous thing turned into a chore. It's frustrating, really -- we're so close, yet so far, when it comes to being able to sling video clips as easily as we sling text, still images, and even audio.
I started with Camtasia Studio, aiming to produce a Flash video. The first effort to capture the stream I was playing in the RealOne Player yielded blank video, a problem I solved using this tip to disable hardware acceleration in the player. Next I edited the clip down in Camtasia, but couldn't figure out how to get Camtasia to make a highly compressed Flash video. So I saved as uncompressed AVI, and used Windows Media Encoder 9 and QuickTime Pro, respectively, to make the WinMedia and QuickTime clips.
After more futzing around that I like to admit, I had both clips in the can. But that wasn't the end of it. I'm on Windows at the moment, and I'm having trouble with playback of the .MOV file in MSIE, and playback of the .WMV file in Firefox. All in all, I don't have a high degree of confidence that a reader of this blog is going to have a good experience with the clips I've posted.
Of course all this reflexively underscores David's point. I'm jazzed about the fact that it's possible to do what I've done here, and at the same time annoyed by the hassles and limitations. In networked markets, customers who feel that tension resolve it through public conversation.
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