Bill Cammack

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Bill Cammack & Mike Hudack

Network2 @ Proof in NYC
March, 2007

Effective immediately, Bill Cammack joins Drew Olanoff as a member of “Team SCRIGGITY“. :D

When I first got involved in videoblogging, a little over a year ago, I used to troll blip.tv’s recent uploads to get ideas about shows that I thought were good. One of those shows was Jonny Goldstein’s “Reinventing Television” (reinventingtv.phovi.com). I got involved, immediately. => Text chat from Reinventing Television Episode 2 (October 12, 2006).

Another show that I thought was cool, interesting and innovative was scriggity (scriggity.com). Eventually, I met and hung out with Drew @ several NYC events, including Videoblogger Meetups, Network2 get-togethers and PodCampNYC.

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Meanwhile, I was gearing up to do my own show… I mean, I *HAVE* my own “show” already, but it’s more like a feed of stuff that I do day in and day out. It’s not a actual show, but rather an indication of what it’s like to be me on any given day. So… I was gearing up to do an actual show and started filming episodes of “The Lab”.

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What I found out, and outlined in my notes about the project… was that while I enjoy MAKING shows, I don’t enjoy the rest of the process. The “paperwork”, as I call it of all the stuff that has to be done PAST production and post.

Interestingly enough, Drew decided that he doesn’t want to edit. :D We chatted this morning, and I’ve joined “Team SCRIGGITY”, and we’re looking forward to big things. :D I always enjoy doing projects with friends, and I’ve been a fan of Drew’s concepts for a long time now. Thanks to Drew for the nod, and…

it’s ON!!! and it happens to be POPPIN’!!! :D

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billcammack

The kickoff party for PodCampNYC was this evening @ Slate. Amongst others, I got to meet and/or hang out with:

Vergel from Lx7, visiting from Canada
Chris from Network2
Grace from FearlessCooking
Drew & Alisa from Scriggity
Mike, Charles, Dina, Angus & Eric from blip.tv
Drew from Rocketboom
Kathleen from TheBurg.tv
Sandra from agtv
Nathan from Cruxy
Julien Smith from inoveryourhead.net
Malia from PBS
Karin from her mystery location… plus Karin’s sister

I didn’t see Eric Skiff, but my camera did.
I’m pretty sure I saw Christopher from financialaidpodcast, but he was ushered out of the aisle before I got a chance to say “hi”.

Here are the pics from the PodCampNYC @ Slate flickr set:

Yesterday, Jeff Pulver & Chris Brogan hosted a Network2 get-together @ Proof in NYC.

I saw David Kowarsky for the first time since the last Network2 event at Proof I attended. He was telling me about VON:San Jose and his future videoblogging plans. I also saw Bre, Kendall, Mike & Dina, Grace, Eric, Eric, and met Matt & Dave from G14productions.

Here are some flickr pix from the evening:

Last night, I attended the NY Video 2.0 Group “meetup”. The focus of the event wasn’t the _making_ of digital video, but the business surrounding putting video on the internet. I found the presentations to be interesting as well as informative.

The host was Yaron Samid, Founder, Pando.com.

The presenters were (in order of appearance):

1. dotSUB – Michael Smolens, Founder
http://www.dotsub.com

2. Network2 – Jeff Pulver, Founder (www.pulver.com)

http://www.network2.tv

3. NBBC.com – Marc Siry, VP, NBC Universal
http://www.nbbc.com

4. YouAre.TV – David Dundas, Founder
http://www.youare.tv

5. Bolt.com – Aaron Cohen, Founder

http://www.bolt.com

Also, Chris Brogan, Community Developer for network2.tv had special information for the NY Video 2.0 Group about the upcoming Video on the Net conference in San Jose, California.

It was interesting to hear about “the shell” surrounding creativity, or perhaps the vehicles by which content is presented to the world via the internet and hopefully monetized all the way back down to the content creator. I think I can say that I felt “behind the scenes”. That’s an odd way for me to feel, since as an editor, I’m _always_ “behind the scenes”, but they’re behind MY scenes, and I know exactly what’s going on and what I’m doing.

To the average person, sites, applications and widgets just magically appear one day and get reported on in a blog or a show. Now I know where these things come from. People “moonlight”, creating businesses during their time off from their day jobs. People solicit venture capital (VC). People count on what they learned in their last business to make decisions for their new startups.

If any of those topics are interest to you, the videos I made from the meeting are available on Network2.tv, tagged “nyvideo20group” [link]

Bill Cammack • New York City • Freelance Video Editor • alum.mit.edu/www/billcammack