Burning Man Coverage: Burning the Man Too Early -- My Interview with Ranger Sasquatch

So thanks to Eddie and GeekEntertainment.tv, I actually got to interview Ranger Roger Sasquatch. He's one of the main guys quoted in the SF Chronicle and other places after Paul Addis burned the Burning Man down early. Ranger Sasquatch was not happy as you can see.

Play the Interview at Eddie.com

I'm going to let this interview sit up her for a day or two and then I'm going to weigh in with my opinion on the situation. (Feel free to comment here or on Eddie.com direct)

April Highlights -- Now In Video! -- Coachella, Scooby Doo Olympics, London I, etc.

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I got tired of trying to batch upload photos to Blogger, so I'm trying to do this in video instead. Let's see how this works.

Laziness, the mother of. . . quickie internet video?

Though of course, instead of going through the tedious task of uploading photos, 4 or 5 at a time through Picasa (30 min. task), here was my process:

1) Dig up Windows Movie Maker on my computer (10 min.)

2) Learn how to use Windows Movie Maker (15 min., including importing photos and the music file)

3) Make Title cards/captions in Photoshop (10 min.)

4) Edit movie in Movie Maker (15 min.)

5) Figure out the right format to save file (10 min.)

6) Sign up for video service at Blip. TV - thanks Geekentertainment.TV for the advice. (10 min.)

7) Post video (10 min.)

8) Edit post and redo my blogger template to accomodate the larger video window (15 min.)

TOTAL TIME: 1 hour, 35 minutes.

Still, it's a rare cloudy Sunday in L.A. and I've learned something. So yay.

MySpace Acquires Photobucket and Flektor - Wow


Well. . . Looks like MySpace is upping the ante on video editing and going hard after Google and YouTube.

They just announced an acquisition of Photobucket, the big ol' video and photo storage site. . . and coincidentally also announced acquiring Flektor, which apparently has really good web based video and slide show editing tools.

Once my new digital camera comes in, I'm gonna start using both of these to soup up my blog. Yippie.