Saturday, March 24, 2007

xolo.tv in Montreal

For all of you guys who were at the last Montreal Vloggers meetup, here's what Gabe bring back. Don't miss Galacticast's interview.



"We are in Montreal, Canada this week. It was great travelling around and to meet up with all the great vloggers thanks to Martin Lessard arranging a meetup. We talk to Galacticast creators Rudy and Casey, check out some animals and the Society of Art and Technology. A big thanks to Catelina, Guylaine and Marcel for making a fabulous stay for us!"
Source xolo.tv

Friday, March 09, 2007

Feedback from the Montreal Vlog gathering

The Montreal Vlog gathering held yesterday for Gabe from xolo.tv was a succes. Gabi alias Bad Mother Vlogger, directly from Amsterdam even gave the firs of us some xolo sticker and fake xolo.tv press-card!

Gabe, Tanara, that was a terrific evening. Thanks to coming by! The jet lag and your Philadelphia hub downtime didn't turn you off! (Version française de ce billet ici)

We were about 20, including people from la Journée de réflexion sur le multiplateforme ( l'Alliance NumériQc ) in perticular Dominique-Sébastien Forest from Canoe.ca, Iain Tweedale from BBC.co.uk/Wales and Claire Dion from Bell Funds).

Not enough time to speak with everybody. As usual. At least, I make it sure nobody gaet bored. Some came directly from France or United States --not counting UK and NL ! Gabi & Tamara quickly gathered with the wonderful team Galacticast who came! Rudy, Casey, thanks too to coming by -- we all know you had a plane to catch!

The YulBuzz.tv team did some shooting with there astounishing equipement (a headlight and a nanocamera!). Gabe did his weekly interview with Rudy et Casey (Galacticast). I'll put the links here when they will be available.

For the rest of us: a handfull of cell-camera did capture the essence of the gathering.

The conversation was going in any direction. I've kind of undestood that some spoke about how TV industry didn't really care neither understand multimedia world, other deplored the lack of montreal vloggers gathering, and some new commers how Montreal give such an impression that culture is part of the city life --even at zero farenheit.

I got a astouning conversation with Iain who is Acting Editor, New Media, at BBC about their wonderful multiplaform production structure, which might be the biggsest on this planet and alos on a very strange fact in on portion of their hiring contract : no-blog allowed inside or outside bbc. This is weird. And I ll keep you posted on it as soon as he transmit some more information back to UK.

End of the evening: time to go find the family, to see girlfriend before she flight away, to eat a real meal, to sleep , to fetch some VC cash in US, to talk about TV's future ou simply to try to find out where the hell the cell stocked her photos....

This was my first Internet-driven gathering : everything went well! Thanks to all, folks!
The (traditional) question of the day was : "How many clips did you watched this week on Internet" (et guess you saw the most!)

Michael Pauluzzi www.4h30.com --> + 50

Marie Kuter www.boulli.net --> About 10

Sébastien Provencher www.praized.com --> 5 - 10

Philippe Martin www.yulbuzz.tv --> 5 - 10

Christian Aubry www.yulbuzz.tv --> about 25

Laurent Maisonave (Zelaurent) www.zecanada.com --> 10 - 15

Gabe MacIntyre www.xolo.tv -->about 200 (Editor : you bet he's the winner)

Tamara LeRoy tamleroy.blogspot.com --> about 15

Paulina Podgorske --> about 5.

Dominique-Sébastien Forest www.espacecanoe.com/dominique --> about 100 - 150

Claude Maisonneuve www.emergenceweb.com -->at least 100 per week

Michel Leblanc www.michelleblanc.com --> less than 10,

Casey Mckinnon galacticast.com --> about 10 per days, so approximately 70

Rudy Jahchan galacticast.com --> ditto for me, 70

Catalina Briceno --> ... (Editor: got her signature, but lost her in a tornado -- how surprised are we?)

Guylaine Courcelles www.guylaine.ca --> a bit of youtube (4) some Bob l'anarchie culinaire - (from mag33.tv) and maybe 3 other sites / 3 video each. I'm more of a listener than a viewer (keeps me company while I work, cook, try to sleep)

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Bad Mother Vlogger in Montreal

Gabe MacIntyre, AKA Bad Mother Vlogger, XOLO.TV Vlogger will be in Montreal. (French version)

To welcome him, I planned a gathering for all active/non-active/wannabe/curious blogger/vlogger/web2.0 trend setter of Montreal and vincinity,

Come on in for a drink: March 8th, 2007, from 5 pm à 7 pm at the Méliès. (Quite central, isn't!)

Everyone are invited, join the club! (and 7pm isn't really a formal limit)

So far here's the one who confirmed their presence (wednesday night update): Casey & Rudy de galacticast.com, Philippe Martin (from YulBuzz), Michel Leblanc, Éric Baillargeon, Sébastien Provencher, Laurent Maisonnave (Zelaurent), Claude Malaison, Muriel Ide & Louis Delage (from L'AMM-PCM), Shawn Carpenter (The LOUD tour), Catalina Briceno et Michel Beaudet.

If you're interested, please leave me a comment to confirm that you'll be joining us (just to make sure I make enough reservation in the lounge area).
Gabe MacIntyre
(bio form dld-conference)

Gabriel McIntyre has become an European authority on the subject of video blogging, traveling all over the world to talk to companies, media agencies and at conferences about the subject. In his video blog XOLO.TV, both Gabe McIntyre and Gabe Bauer have created an internationally popular video blog doing reviews, interviews, and news about the vlogging community.

Both Gabe and Gabe are founders of XOLO.TV which will be releasing new software for bloggers, podcasters
and bloggers in 2007 that should reshape the way we think about online media.

Gabriel also teaches at the College of Arts for the City of Utrecht for the Faculty of Design for Virtual Theater and Gaming. Gabe is always out teaching about new media, or helping start new media projects with schools, companies and individuals. On the
internet he is known as a "Bad Mother Vlogger".