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A conversation that made me cry.

Nathan wanted to go on a car ride with me last night. In addition to being in the “me too” phase, he’s started his “Why?” stage early, so of course he wanted to know why we were taking an …
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Quix: Better than the video game of the same name.

First off, I know the title is wrong. The video game was named Qix and was completely awesome.

At any rate, I discovered a new browser bookmarklet early last week that completely changed the way I use my browsers. That …
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Happy iPad Day.

So. the iPad is announced, and just like so many people, I’m going to toss in my two cents. Because I know you care. A lot.

I’ve seen a lot of lukewarm reception to the announcement today from my friends online …
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Shouldn't cancelled mean CANCELLED?

So, the big TV news is the rumor of the Jay Leno show being cancelled and Jay being moved back to his 11:30 p.m. time slot. Call me crazy, but if you’re cancelled, …
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Introducing "The Yet To Be Named Podcast."


Click the play button to hear the podcast or download the file here.

I’ve been working on a little …
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Is this the first vlog post EVER?

Shaken for you: May 6, 2008

I was rummaging through archived files last night, putting the finishing touches on my online museum of old site designs when I ran across a video file in a version of my site from the year 2000 that is most definitely a video blog (vlog) post.

I’ve talked about the fact that I was a “vlogger” years before the practice was popular, but I finally found proof of it. I also love the subject matter… smells transmitted over the Internet. I also love that the company mentioned in the video still has a presence and still believes they’ll be pumping scents down the pipe in the near future.

Anyway, check out the video and you tell me… first vlogger or not?

UPDATE: I found an even older video blog post than the one below. Well, one day older, anyway.


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  • Ah, Sony Handycam! That was such an innovation over the Sony Portapak.... ;-)

    tx, jd
  • The overall process was pretty crude. I captured my video on an 8mm Sony Handycam and then captured into the computer using an Iomega Buz.

    I edited in Adobe Premiere, exported to Quicktime and then used Media Cleaner Pro to compress two Windows Media files, one optimized for 56k (!) and another for 300k.

    After that, I'd just upload the files to my server and link them up on my "pure drivel" page that I maintained on my site until 2001 or so. Eventually page went away and became this blog some time in 2003.
  • How'd you do the video back then?

    More on how DigiScents worked:
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digisce...

    From 2002, Phillip Kerman:
    http://weblog.bergersen.net/archives/2002/07/20/

    jd/adobe
  • Awesome, Amy! I'm so honored.
  • Amy
    That is so cool!!! I'm going to do a vlog tonight in your honor.
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