mad dog in the fog

I’m trying out a new photo sharing service called Photrade (>>coverage on TechCrunch). The twist is that you get paid when your photos are shared by other people. You can also make money by selling photo-related products such as prints, T-shirts, mugs, etc. Below is an example of one of my photos with an embedded ad.

Michael Wesch has created another video…

This is a good overview of del.icio.us, my favorite social bookmarking service. You can find my del.icio.us page here.

By now, just about everyone who is interested in Web 2.0 has seen the The Machine is Us/ing Us video. Here’s a video of the creator of that video (Michael Wesch, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University) speaking at the recent Web 2.0 conference. He breaks down each part of the video, explaining what he was trying to accomplish and how he went about producing it. The video cuts off part-way through his talk. I will post a link to the complete presentation if and when I find it.

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The last session that I attended on the final day of web 2.0 EXPO was The Social Media Revolution: You Oughta Be in Pictures (and Podcasting, and Vlogging). The panel was made up of Thomas Hawk, Chris Pirillo, Robert Scoble, and Jeremiah Owyang. There’s been discussion over the past week or so about whether the trend towards live video streaming and Twittering is information overload a Web 2.0 echo chamber. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, this was a very interesting panel discussion. I was able to get some video from the fourth row.

Thomas Hawk talks about photo-blogging.

Chris Pirillo talks about live video (using Ustream.tv) and the impact that it has had on his ability to interact with his audience in a new way.

The panel talks about the power of the “Sneeze Effect” - the ability for social media to spread around very rapidly.

The panel talks about the impact of Ustream.tv.

Robert Scoble talks about what it was like to do a live video broadcast at web 2.0 EXPO.

The panel talks about the challenges of finding the signal through the noise.

Stewart Butterfield (flickr), Biz Stone (Twitter), and Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us) at the Building Awesome Web Sites & Services Using the Power of Happy Users panel.

More photos here.

I’ve been attending the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone West. More photos here.

Here’s video of Robert Scoble and Chris Pirillo broadcasting live at the same time on Ustream.tv. Robert had an EVDO card so he was able to broadcast from his car. Scoble was doing this as a dry run for doing a live video feed from the Web 2.0 conference on Monday. Jeremiah Owyang has more details on Scoble’s set-up here.

Chris Pirillo was hosting a live call on Ustream.tv when an earthquake hit in Mexico. The word got around on Twitter, Scoble blogged about it, and within minutes, there were over 60 people on the call. Then Chris pulled in a caller from Mexico using Skype video.

Update:
More video from earlier in the call here and here. And a video from later in the night here.

A local news station in San Francisco (KPIX) ran a story tonight on Twitter. Robert Scoble (PodTech) and Biz Stone (Obvious) are featured in the video.