RED digital camera footage

120 FPS (frames per second) footage from the RED digital camera. Online from Vimeo. (*Somehow* I have to get my hands on one of these cameras! Gorgeous!)

skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.

Too bad I couldn't get hands on one for Digital Video Secrets book. No one has one, but they would be fun to talk about.

Online video links

1. Video Clip page at Wikipedia.
2. Video sharing websites at Wikipedia.
3. Comparison of video services at Wikipedia.
4. YouTube. Daily views: 100,000,000.
5. Toudu. Daily views, 55,000,000.
6. DailyMotion. Daily views, 26,000,000.
7. MetaCafe. Daily views, 17,000,000.

Online videos

While writing the YouTube chapter to Digital Video Secrets, I realized that the distribution model for video has changed--permanently. It used to be both expensive and difficult to distribute video and films to the world. Now it's cheap and easy.

What does this mean? Socially? Economically? Culturally? No one knows. Corporate reporters tend to write about the issues of ad revenue and impact on broadcasters. I think free online video has larger social implications, but I'm not sure what they are.

The YouTube chapter of Digital Video Secrets tells how to post a video online and how to increase your chances of making a great YouTube video. Simple and quick. (Amazon has a great deal on Digital Video Secrets. You can pre-order now.)

Getting Things Done At Work

1. 9 Simple Strategies To Getting Things Done At Work on Lyved
2. 7 Zen Habits

Kindle, Ebooks and TOC (Tools of Change for Publishing)

A friend just got a Kindle.
He is downloading books daily at 49 cents. The Kindle will hold hundreds of books. What does this mean for book authors? No one knows. Looks like it's either a tremendous opportunity, or the end of the profession.

Useful links:
-> Amazon's Kindle Store.
-> A good review of the Kindle.
-> Kindle bestsellers
-> Is The Net Good For Writers? by RU Sirius.
-> OReilly TOC (Tools of Change) -- For Publishing. OReilly appears to be in the lead when it comes to sussing out the new publishing paradigm.
-> Steven Poole writes about giving away a book online. Comments outline the major issues.
-> Cory Doctorow advocates posting online simultaneously with publishing paper book.

Writing A Book That Makes a Difference -- keep a journal

An exercise inspired by reading the book Writing a Book That Makes A Difference:

Write one page each day about an experience in your life. At the top of the page, give the entry a one-word description.

After a while sort the pages so all similar themes are in separate piles (or files?).

Combine particularly interesting experiences and use them as source material for an essay, article or book.

How can I use this on Digital Video Secrets book?

Writing A Book That Makes A Difference

How do you write a book that makes a difference?

Philip Gerard has written eloquently about this very subject in Writing A Book That Makes a Difference.

I found the book in a used book store in Santa Rosa a couple days ago, and I'm slowly working my way through it. Well written, competent, useful, insightful... it's a very good book.