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In the DIY spirit of The Winnies, Micki updates her Vloggies dress for this year's online video award show.

Here's some roving around. I spoke with the lovely co-host of the show Irina Slutsky who won a vloggie for Best Interview. I also chat with super bloggers Robert Scoble and Steve Gillmor. They reveal an arcane blog strategy about how you can build more "Google Juice" for your blog if you are just mentioned but not directly linked -- this forces the interested person search process of Google helps you get Google Juice -- make sense? Also spoke with the "voice of the vloggies" Joe Klein and the incredibly cool Micki "Mickipedia" Krimmell, who heads community building for Revver and is building a tech scene in LA. See this video on Beet.TV: http://www.beet.tv/2006/11/live_from_baghd.html

I was in San Francisco last night for the first annual vlogggies awards. Here's a comprehensive report from Robert Scoble. It was a terrific turnout. Some great vlogs and services were honored. The best vlog went to Alive in Baghdad. I caught up with Brian Conley who has established a network of video bloggers in Iraq and has developed an editing and distribution content for unique content from the war-torn nation. This is a very different style of journalism. Congrats. Tom Foremski also has a great post about the awards. He ponders, why didn't Beet.TV win an award? Thanks Tom -- there's always next year! See this video on Beet.TV: http://www.beet.tv/2006/11/live_from_baghd.html

I think the coolest guy I met at the Vloggies in San Francisco last Saturday night was Steven Starr, the founder and CEO of Revver, the viral video sharing network based in LA. Steven and I had a great talk about the potential of viral video in fundraising. Not just speculating about the future either; Revver has just launched a novel visibility/fundraising program for Creative Commons. Not merely a fan of Larry Lessig's not-for-profit organization that help creators make money from their work, Revver uses CC licenses so that people can legally share the videos in the Revver network across the Internet. Steven thinks that this sort of viral distribution of fundraising messages could be successful for various non-profits and for brands seeking to enhance their visibility through cause marketing. I totally agree and we're going to be exploring this topic over the next week or so. Here's a really interesting background story about Steven on the CC blog. You gotta love a guy who got his start in the entertainment business working with Bob Marley. See this video on Beet.TV: http://www.beet.tv/2006/11/viral_video_and.html

The video blogging world is something of an alternative universe. It sure seemed that way last Saturday night at the Vloggies where I met the very influential Laughing Squid, the TreeHugger and some crazed Ninja dude from LA who threatened to "kill Beet.TV" -- it was a joke, of course! But there is an alternative television universe that is growing and it's quite separate from the maintream media. Mike Hudack and Blip.TV have been very important in helping video bloggers create effective content distribution networks for vloggers. Blip.TV won the vloggies awards as best video hosting service. The company provides a bunch of services including creating Flash files, QuickTime files and is starting to send files to Akimbo -- the new service that links Internet video to the television set. Check out this product and stay tuned to the convergence of Web video to TV -- it's going to happen, Mike says. Congrats to Mike and his co-founder Dina Kaplan for winning a Vloggie and all your important work in empowering this new universe. See this video on Beet.TV: http://www.beet.tv/2006/11/what_are_implic.html

I always make reports to tell Japanese people what's going on around SiliconValley. This time, I was at SXSW in Austin Texas, and I've realized that I'd been always making reports by myself, and I felt kind of lonely... Through the vloggies show, I've realized that I was not alone! I've got buddy! Now I'm ready for fight against loneliness!

I was reading in my feeds this morning that irina, podtech etc had given out a date for the next event in november (in la! - man that is some flying i gotta do again - might come over for a week this time) So i did a quick update about how my life has changed a little bit and the re-direction i took and how it is working out for me back home in overcast england (united kingdom) - i somehow (still strange to me) got an award for our bit part in the node666 (i still think paul stole em!) oh which i am very proud of and it helped me feel less of an outsider. After all to promote and elevate videobloggers so more people are doing it we need to educate and make others aware of this powerful medium right?  -  so quick video for the vloggies show that is coming out soon i recorded fairly early on my macbook this morning chatting briefly about what i have been doing. Hope i get an invite to the november one.   By then i will need to come and get a break from things over here i bet.   Hopefully i ll be able to hook up with a few fellow vloggers.

When Microsoft threw the final Vanishing Point bash in Seattle, we made sure we were there to see what all the fuss was about. In this episode, we interview those who made the contest happen, and talk about some of the prizes. Want to know all about the grande prize trip to space? It's in here...

At an event like CES business cards are flowing like water rushing from the fountains at the Bellagio hotel here in Las Vegas and managing them can be a challenge. Rubbermaid has brought to market an improvement to their Cardscan line, a portable business card scanner that makes importing the contact information from business cards a snap.

Vloggies Awards Party by Podtech.netPicture Credits: Thomas HawkPhoto Video created for The Blog Herald by Amit Agarwal

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I wrap up the year with a quick view of where I've been (Podcast and Portable Media Expo 2007, Halloween Videoblog Fest, The Vloggies, PodCamp Pittsburgh and a few other places), and I talk about where I hope to meet you in 2007.

These guys are the best. They're brilliant. They're Ask A Ninja : a videoblogging phenomenon. They're also super, super cool people.

Love Goodnight Burbank. Love Hayden. So exciting they won a Vloggie - well deserved!

Nicholas Quixote has a talk with Buns and Chou Chou, and informs them that they WILL be attending the Vloggies, an award show for VLOGS, or Videoblogs.? Naturally,this makes them a bit nervous.

This is the rest of my footage from the Vloggies.? It is pretty much the whole show.? I just slapped everything together and here it is.? Be prepared, this video runs 30 minutes.

Steve Garfield points his camera at his daily life: his basement, his wife, opening soup cans,? his pants leg - get excited folks!

Feel like barfing? Then this artist, practicing her craft, is for you! We ask you Ryanne, If art is a mirror, why point it at the trash?!

Running through the waves in a Speedo, a woman who waxes her mustache, making a? shopping list...sleeping. Oh we are precocious aren't we my dearies?? Bun's says "I could make better videos with me paws behind me back and just using me? feet.? ART?? Me arse!"

It's been a while since the vloggies and i have not really got around to doing a video post for a lot of reasons, mainly stress over the house - getting myself prepared for next year - work and if to take a part time job to "tide" myself over.? It's been really hectic the last three months.

I'm trying to beat out Ronnie and Ernesto over at RSS News for the most Teasers and Trailers without an actual product. Here's some video captured in and around the Vloggies in San Francisco, as well as me roaming a parking lot. Hey, why not?

Alive in Baghdad is a videoblog shot on the streets of Iraq that provides a direct unmediated pipeline to stories of Iraqi citizens. Alive in Baghdad recently swept the Vloggies by taking home 7 awards. Irina talks with Brian Conley, co-founder of the project, on what Alive in Baghdad is about, its history and where it is going. Episode links: Alive in Baghdad, Brian Conley, The Vloggies

Welcome to all of our new viewers! Thanks for the vote of confidence, we shall do our best to not disappoint. We love comments at Freshtopia.net, so please do drop us a line. Let us know what you like, and what you dont; let us know what you would like to see more or less of.There's so much to tell, I'm afraid we won't be able to cram it all in to today's episode. We met so many welcoming, enthusiastic, ambitious people at The Vloggies that we'd like to tell you about, but it'll have to wait for the next episode I'm afraid. Many great conversations were had about the nature of this new medium, about it's strengths and weaknesses, and I'm still in the process of deciding how much of it I want to bore you with. In the mean time, with today's episode we've tried to give our new viewers a cross section of the kinds of things they can expect in the future. Tanja has been making apple chowder for breakfast for months now, and finally we are getting around to share the recipe with you. It's one of my personal favorites.Hark, it's late, and I must away! zzzzzzz.... - OscarView with QuickTime 7 Player - download here freeSubscribe in iTunes or Fireant! (or the XML viewer of your choice) It s free, easy, and helps us get ranked on the iTunes store. Just click on the subscribe button of your choice in the right hand column. Leave a comment for us on iTunes while you re there. Thanks!

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This is probably the only recap of the vloggies by someone who wasn't there ... ;) Thanks to the people who submitted footage for this (especially Greg), all work is duly attributed in the video. Note: I have got to figure out a way to get a line into my camera for audio. You can barely hear me at times. *Music from Ocean Alexander (one of my favs)