From the “move along, there’s nothing to see here” department, my last posting reminded me that a friend pointed last week that my email isn’t actually located anywhere on my radar site.
Um. Sorry about that — I’ve added it (lisarein@finetuning.com) to my A-Z listing.
There. Now re-read my last post and pretend that my email was actually available on my blog site when I posted it… (DOH!)
Hey guys, how’s it going?
Sorry I haven’t been blogging much the last few days. You probably already know that there’s just a ton of stuff going on this week — and many of you have been sending me great stories and I’ll be catching up on blogging them today.
I’ve spent the last two days going to films here at the SXSW Film Festival and attempting to crunch the video from the SXSW Interactive conference.
I’ll be here in Austin for the protest Saturday, and will, of course, be filming it.
More soon…
Having a blast here in Austin at SXSW.
I’ll be uploading footage of Lawrence Lessig’s talk, a blogger panel, a Creative Commons panel and more…
But first I need to link to a bunch of stuff I uploaded before I flew out Saturday of Colin Powell, the Daily Show, etc. from last week.
Back in a flash…
So I was planning on being on a plane all day today, but I decided to wait a day and rest up a bit before this week’s SXSW Conference in Austin, TX.
I didn’t get into the Music Showcase as I had hoped, but I’ll still be there all week and I’m going to bring my guitar just in case any of you with gigs feel like letting a girl with a guitar sing a quick 3 minute song or two before your set. (Or perhaps in the middle of your party — I only have two songs so I can’t take it over — and I need zero preparation or set-up — just let me sit down somewhere with the guitar.)
Shoot me an email if you’re interested: lisarein@finetuning.com.
Attention: Speakers and bands. I’ve got my camera and a relatively flexible roaming schedule. There’s no reason why I couldn’t roam over you’re way if you’d appreciate some footage of your work. Just drop me a line.
Okay so what’s in the kitty for today: Raving at the Feb 16 march, The Daily Show takes a look at the Shrub’s “Faith-based Aid”, Pelosi finally speaks up (a little), and Colin Powell continues to say close to nothing at all…
Plus some clips of the Senate arguing about the war and addressing the issue of the potential future (or lack thereof) of a Kurdish nation under American rule.
Lots of incredible developments over the weekend on the Peace front.
Turkey said no to 6 billion dollars and a Major U.S. Diplomat sent his resignation letter to Colin Powell.
We also found out here in California that several energy companies conspired together to fake power congestion so they could sell us power from other sources at higher prices.
Meanwhile, I’ve got highlights from last weekend’s Spectrum Policy conference at Stanford, last week’s DRM conference at UC Berkeley, more footage from the Feb 15 protest (really cool footage and MP3s of the mix from the rave that went down on the corner of Polk/Grove all afternoon).
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) – Judiciary Committee Ranking Member is on CSPAN right now talking about the Estrada nomination.
Not a whole lot has changed. Estrada won’t answer any questions from the Senate Judiciary committee and they are plenty pissed about it.
I’ll grab some of this and put it up.
I also have another installment of my February 16th adventure going up today.
Then I have to cool it for a day or two while I finish up my grad school application before I miss the deadline…
I’m going to need as many people as I can get to participate in an online survey about how people interact with their TiVO’s.
Should you decide to participate, you’d be answering a page or two of questions online and perhaps a few follow-up questions afterwards via email.
This is for a graduate “Seminar in Media and Society” class I’m taking at San Francisco State this semester.
Please email me at “lisarein@finetuning.com” if you’re interested.
(Oh yeah — please be interested 🙂
Put “Media Survey” in the subject line so I’ll see your email quickly!
Thanks!
More movies a little later today — after I catch up on about a million backlogged stories for ya’ll. (The comments will be sparse, if any — I just feel bad enough dumping all of this reading on you guys on a Friday afternoon 🙂
So let’s see…. What do I have in the kitty for the next few days?
How about:
-more protest stuff (of course) — my little adventure continued…
–Dana Robinson and Matt Haughey explaining
why they’re looking forward to SXSW 2003
-Cory Doctorow reading from his new novel at
Borderlands Books last weekend
And that ain’t all folks!
I’m swamped today with life n’ stuff but I’ve got a bunch more footage already captured so I can get the next round of Sunday’s little adventure up later this evening.
I could really use some suggestions for software for making these video files smaller. I’ve been using 10 MB chunks, but am told that I should be able to get more minutes of footage for the MB sizes of the downloads that I have.
I’m already compressing them down to 10% in Premiere and I don’t have the funds to blow $600 on Cleaner right now (the most obvious solution).
Anybody know of some cool open source tools for video compression on Mac OSX?
pick an email and let me know (some are easier to remember than others): lisarein@finetuning.com, lisa@creativecommons.org, lisa@xml.com, lisa@lisarein.com…
Back later today!
Wow – I put this out there at 8:44 am this morning:
(Reminds me that I’m pretty lame for not making my music files available as Oggs yet….Tsk. Tsk. Time to look for a good encoder for OSX. Any suggestions?)
And had my answer by 9:17.
Thanks Blogistan! (Thanks, David.)