living in digital
peeter marvet
media hacker

channel and purpose

“can you help us to
videostream our
conference?”

typical result?

5 viewers online

expensive setup,
real-time problems,
good marketing needed

requirements for
alternative?

#1 cheap and easy
to produce

you never ever
consider NOT to
record and publish it

#2 convenient for
future users

linking, embedding,
commenting,
downloading

#3 marketing through
search engines, blogs,
word-of-mouth

add descriptions, tags,
shownotes, links,
stenograms etc

typical setup

+

= MP3 file

for better audio...

• Olympus LS-10 ca 400$
• + flash memory ca 100$
(4GB holds full day in high quality)
• + cable, batteries
• learning to operate, testing - ca 1h
• editing time per session - ca 5 min

for your own “studio”:
• + mixer ca 100$
• + mics ca 100-150$/pc

publishing to the net

more metadata

let’s add some video!

youtube.com (< 10 min)
video.google.com

screen
speaker
camera

• Camera, tripod
• + cable, tape
• learning to operate, testing - ca 1h
• capture/editing/encoding/uploading - min 5x
the length of original (mostly unattended
for conference-type recording, very
complicated for good video content)

conclusions

start trying!

these tools are made
by users for users

= must be easy

and: if you ever want to
archive it, you must be
using the same tools!

thnks!