Last Sunday, Titan and I went to the Malamute Working Dog Clinic sponsored by the Potomac Valley Alaskan Malamute Association. I figure Titan is a fifth generation malamute and nothing like a shepherd, so I”m real curious about malamutes! Turns out, he’’s probably lots like them. But not quite as vocal. Well, you”ll hear plenty of that in these clips! If you don”t have QuickTime and can”t see these clips, then you can at least see the thumbnails above. You can also visit my site at flickr to views the photos and comments. They aren”t the best quality, but you get the idea. (Okay, the dumb photographer — me — accidentally had the camera set to macro- all day.)
Denise started out the clinic with some basics. (12MB)
I have not been posting much recently. I think because videoblogging takes such intense effort to learn and execute. Imagine the day when it’s easy and fast to create and edit multimedia posts! The process of collection, editing and posting will have to converge to some extent. We’ll definitely need more intelligence — audio hotspotting, ontological knowledge about the canvas and the elements inside of it, the ability to add text, audio, images easily and move them about using a combination of language and gesture.
But the collection devices also need to improve. There can be difficulties associated with videoing in public spaces because of mistrust by others. I have a particular time using video with SAR training in the winter — it’s nearly always dark when we train. There is also difficulty associated with power consumption by my devices (camera, GPS, PocketPC) and the fact that all of my various devices need to be powered separately and require separate attention. Well, there are lots of problems…
I’m also working on taking this blog apart into separate blogs concerned each with a different topic area. My interests in multimedia is a sort of spider: multimedia annotation, multimedia generation, videoblogging, social computing, and wearable video. These spread to using multimedia in SAR and silly things like dogcams. But to learn more about multimedia, I find that I have to understand tools like PhotoShop, Php, QuickTime, Final Cut Pro, etc. So envisioning the future really entails a relatively deep understanding of the problem today and its effect on today’s videobloggers. And now that I’m making some progress with understanding bits and pieces of this, I find I’m spending more time helping others get started. We’re developing tutorials on http://videoblogging.info and I’m dragging my friends into blogging and videoblogging.
Just so that my blog is not so blah with text, here is a photo I swiped and altered.
Today I will try to collect some video and create a post about the malamute dog working clinic in Alexandria, VA. Titan is a fifth generation malamute mix (so say the Shiloh folks…). He will be my sled dog today.