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based at 54/56 high pavement (@lacemarkethouse) is a brand new high quality and high definition web streaming video studio. our aim is to cater to the person in the street with an idea and concept right through to the fully fledged business with existing products and non-for-profit companies.

the community based 'fibre studio' as we are calling is unique in that we have a very fast fibre optic internet connection allowing us to broadcast video to the internet at a very high quality better than videos you normally find on youtube and facebook. our product has been designed so that the user can 'dropin' to the studio record a bunch of videos and clips and walk out of the studio knowing that the videos are already posted and online ready for you to promote on your blog, company website or intranet.

our prices is extremely low compared to a usual broadcast studio because our overheads are low and we want to scale the business up organically and so we have adjusted our pricing to suit. we are also able to provide additional social media and blogging services to assist our clients with promoting their content across the internet and show you how to build up your audience in the social digital space.

if you require any additional information feel free to contact myself (@philcampbell on twitter) or caron lyon (@pcmcreative on twitter) or use the contact phone numbers below to give us a call. the booking system for the website will be going up shortly on which you can book in the calendar date that suits you best.

example web streaming content shows are.. .

- makeup in hq (getting better, sharper quality that usual youtube videos)
- golf equipment reviews (direct from the source instead of magazine reviews)
- prepaid mastercard (howto use the card, model and spoken word)
- weekly or scripted episode based video show.

our fixed pricing is as follows

9:30 till 11:30 (2hr slot)
- £375 (record as much content as you can fit into 2hrs)

12:30 - 1:30 (3 x 20 minute slots)
- £50 a slot - (fast, company update or progress reports)

2:00 - 4:00 (2hr slot)
- £375 (record as much content as you can fit into 2hrs)

the studio is available every weekend and a special arrangements could be made for later evening or weekends if required but weekends would require the studio be hired for a complete day at a cost of £700 (9:30 > 4pm) - breakfast/lunch would be provided throughout the day.

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some people get to play with the best tools. looking forward to the next generation drone bots to use at sxsw next year utilizing an ipad as the controller. that will seriously be some fun stuff - must talk to the guys that do the hoverpod thing here in nottingham about taking that unit to the next level ;)

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quicklink | neistatbrothers & caseryneistat

i love video work like this. he seems so relaxed in making this video as well - a lot of work has gone into making this video. the narrative was perfect.

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I Am from Steven Nicholas Smith on Vimeo.

really nicely put together video. roll on better times, trips abroad and content creation.   i would love to do something similar with my seesmic video virtual friends from around the globe about seesmic, ask them a question of the camera and then collect all the content together and edit it up like this.

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one thing i found out on thursday is that vimeo automatically selects the html5 player when surfing in on a ipad.  swiping the video makes it go fullscreen.  my hd videos play perfectly well.  makes you want one just because of surfing vimeo.  i do hope vimeo make an ipad application for casual viewing! :)

     

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The Heather Gold Show from SXSW from Mr Nat Higginbottom on Vimeo.

Yay! - @aquilatv got this up today. you can see what lighting problems we had with it being outside but the audio makes up for it and the show was great with some fantastic topics raised. you should watch this.

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a few weeks ago i was concentrating on the house - hoping that maybe a secure base would make me feel like i had some kind of security, appears not.

bits of furniture and deep cleaning from room to room started to become morbid again when i was presented with each room needing *something* for it to be sorted. during the last week or so i have been just 'living' here - my motivation has dropped off - due in part from a variety of 'life' things. sods law thou (all of a sudden) my projects seem to be heading at full tilt again, trying to have the funds to get to places has been a bit of a restriction however this week. I thought i would put a list of projects that i will be working (or hoping to work on) in the coming month(s)

the nottingham and birmingham hubs
i've become very attached to both places, probably nottingham more so because of the faster connection (i'm a sucker for bandwidth) - nottingham is great to get to the lacemarket house for the fibre studio within ten minutes and birmingham with aquilatv in broad street is great when i want a change of scenery over in brum - they always have a really energetic vibe going on in the office with lots of things getting edited or talked about. i like that a lot. falling face first into both places and scrambling to my feet on both as been an experience so far - i'm really hoping to tap into some of the local nonprofits in nottingham and see what fantastic things we can get started with them in the fibre web streaming studio. i need to structure out some flyers and start really actively promoting that around the city. so much of the city i have not seen yet. would like to make some of the places nearby aware of what is possible from our little room.

a buddist podcast
a good friend who i have known for a long time (time flys with online friendships) jason jarrett and his lovely family has been producing the buddist podcast for five years now. it has a massive following in a large number of countries and recently we caught up in austin, texas at south by southwest (sxsw) - it seems weird to only see your friends outside of the country at conferences but it was a great surprise and a much needed chat and catchup. i'll be working with jason raising the social media profile of the buddist podcast and making sure that the distribution of the podcast is spread across as many platforms and formats as possible. it actually goes hand in hand with an idea i have had for years which needs a simple transcoding engine to take a format and encode into a variety of formats. i'm looking forward to see what open source code is now out there for conversion. be nice to get back into that side of things. i'll be working on his facebook fan page to start. Looking forward to seeing him this week to talk about the projects.

little old me is giving a lecture of sorts at nottingham university
how strange. feels like a weird paradox, to be presenting to a BA multimedia course about the 'things i do' - the social media work and how i got myself started with my personal brand - in fact why, i got started with it is probably more order of the day - i'm hoping it will go well, not really sure what to expect and i have no idea how many people will attend. i really need to start working on something punchy for this tomorrow. i need to find a stack of graphics and totally redo parts of my presentations. I was hoping to get a few other of my social media friends in attendance so they could tell the story of their 'entry'

an entrepreneur with a suite of businesses & services
not really keen to let this one out of the bag just yet until we have had our first meeting next week but if things 'click' and we feel like we could have a good working partnership together i think this suite of businesses and projects could be the cornerstone to my social media output (for nottingham to start) with a clear connection with the fibre studio at lacemarket house we are building out. this businessman (all to be revealed!) has a number of businesses in and around nottingham and is expanding into other areas of the uk as we speak. the crossover could be fantastic.

an old client reappears in walsall
not really sure what went wrong here, break down in communications or just issues that never got resolved in the right way but i do know that the website that we wrote from the ground up never truly got used and since then a lot has changed in the website world. i no longer enjoy or find the time to spec out website builds when the majority of people are using the transport of social networking websites to get to content - the times of the static website are gone. it has to be easy to post to and realtime. i'm hoping that if the client goes ahead that again we will go with a custom, themed version of posterous and spend a few days onsite with the team training them up in using the social media tools. i'm hoping this time they will be able to have someone spend at least once a week publishing content out to the website. doing things by email and using gadgets like the iphone make things so much easier these days.

a meeting in london with a master of a card
i recently picked up and blogged about the prepaid mastercard from mygocard.co.uk that can be topped up at any paypoint or be loaded up by bacs (social, wages, etc) - one of the features that really jumped off the page to me was the ability to send funds to another card. this started me thinking about the homeless and the fact that your not required to have this card 'tied' to an address - you have a method of banking that requires no address - something very difficult to do if your homeless with no fixed abode. The first idea was to simply have those workers that you have problems employing because of such a situation utilise the sms sending ability from a master company card.

The second idea was based around the idea of crowd-sourcing money via sms/twitter gateways to fund projects in a style similar to the way that kickstarter works in america. but this would be realtime and people could sponsor a variety of projects. i believe you can only have £3000 on the card at one time and you can only load £10000 onto it in one year. I think the idea for crowd-sourcing social media projects, creative arts and 'let's just build it' ideas could be massive with mygocard at the helm being the main sponsor. After all, they get commission from all transactions. I'm hoping we can talk about those charges too! :)

developing closer ties with hardware vendors for social media makers
already planted the seed with this some time ago and have a few hardware companies onboard with carrying on the conversation with a client and the use of the product after the sale. some of the content that is being produced by social media people 'ontheground' can directly feed back into promotion of the products and in turn the development cycle of future products that everyone needs rather than what everyone wants. i'll be starting an unofficial cradlepoint users website for all the prize winners that we had the chance to meet in austin and other users and communities that i have met recently in nottingham.

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i sat down briefly today with @pcmcreative and we had a chat about the full schedule this weekend for the mediacamp and all that it will offer to a cross section of people wanting to explore this wonderful space.

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Just a few photos of progress this morning. beta version of the layout so far.

               

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you know i like to come up with 'random' ideas.

They call it an activity course. .. from Philip Campbell on Vimeo.

this one came to me while running around (i say running but really i was out of breath and exhausted) on the 'activity course' at conkers. i'm not sure if they have ever had time trials or anything like it at conkers but all i could think about would be how much fun it would be to live stream and document a group of people blasting around the trail as we stream it out on bambuser.

I'm thinking. . .

- one person to carry mobility box (inet connectivity)
- a person streaming from the nokia phone using bambuser
- fun timing of the time trial based on the length of the video stream posted
- leaderboard system
- twitter voting to vote up their favorite entry
- split screen time trials maybe later on - split screen view side by side
- custom rezpondr theme for bambuser

Thinking that we should maybe test this at the next conkertu on the 27th of this month. If your up for it please drop me a message. i'm hoping to get some of the crowd that will be around the ampitheatre to take part on the day.

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it's true. you have to start somewhere.

i've been doing a lot of fresh start thinking recently regarding work, career and positioning of what i want to do and where for myself and the family. putting things into place based on the limited resources i currently have. optimising those resources and re-evaluating often. i've found it both frustrating and liberating at the same time.

Setting up a fixed location for recording 'thegravity' show again is one part of the motivation that keeps me going on a day to day basis and has been on my mind for quite some time, well since i stopped doing it last year. I've not been able to catch up with the audiogravity on a day to day basis recently. I have however been keeping the links in evernote for when i get a good chunk of time and when my nose is not blocked as it makes the audioboo sound rough. I'm sure all that is stress related.

Anyway, the web streaming studio in the lace market house is part of the overall plan to have a fixed location to be able to offer web video services including full HQ/HD streaming over a chunky 100mb internet connection - right now the fibre is dialled down per port per room to 20/15mb Up/Down but as we require more juice i'm sure we can get it. I'm taking over my green screen over hopefully tomorrow and my hdmi to hdmi cable so i can test a 1080i input streaming out on wirecast. i get the trial one month license tomorrow so that will be an excellent test. I'll probably give bambuser a good run again as well - i have a few clips and screencasts to get recorded tomorrow.

The room currently is very boomy. it's not a massive space but it is big enough for a web streaming studio and i already have a floorplan layout of how i want it to look. I'm thinking the layout will be very much like a 'drop in' appointment based setup where you can book blocks of time. I want to offer half-day, full-day sessions but also a lunchtime section for people wanting to drop in and do really quick web clips. Another side to the web streaming offering is maybe to do similar training sessions for utilising social media for distribution of content.

Once i have the test videos up from the test i'll bolt them onto this blog entry tomorrow. Working on the posterous theme for the streaming studio as well tomorrow, as well as a stack of screencast videos. Busy one then! :)

Gotta keep busy.

*btw* anyone that has a hookup in nottingham for egg boxes for sound proofing please hook me up - either that or some kind of a/v company in the nottingham area that has some of noise reduction material normally used in cars knocking about, maybe old stuff or just rolls of sound deading material knocking about drop me an email.

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quicklink | twitter and kickstarter project

* please note these are my views and not the views of any other person connected with the roadcamp project. they are my suggestions to potential interested sponsors in getting me across to toronto to join the roadcamp experience and a flight back from austin at the end of sxsw. i'm looking to find $10k from four seperate sponsors ($2500 each) - this blog post is to explain what i promise we can deliver for your product base and brand. i'll be aiming it at on message tech companies who's products i intend to use for the duration of the trip stateside.  the $8k is for the sponsoring of the transport and requirements of the project and $2k is for my flights to toronto and back from austin - i will pay for my own expenses during the trip.

apart from social capital what can a sponsor expect to get out of a bunch of social media makers running around like headless chickens producing media as they dash from place to place and event to event? - as this would be my third year i can honestly say that aside from the 'human' collective element of enhancing our virtual friendships in the physical - not a lot in the usual sense of sponsoring. seriously, if you really want to invest as a sponsor in social media you need to know what your message is and what you want to glean out of being in the middle of this social meatspace of seriously smart people.

It's a melting pot. the conversations are engaging, the information flows and ideas and failures of the past year are shared in a euphoric engaging manner. we are re-connecting our physical to the information flow that we have been watching in the previous year. these are not just friends, these people have an unparalleled connection to my time, these people are good people, doing things in their lives that effect others, often in a positivity, upbeat vibe. you have a good idea, a brilliant product or something that pushes their buttons they will invest their most valuable asset - their time, in the things you care about.

these are the coders, visionaries, artists, musicians, creatives of existing successful web 2.0 sites. concepts and ideas who's often radical thinking, ethics and rewriting of the business rule book make you re-evaluate why you do what you do and how you do it. social media and the art of the conversation with your clients is changing the way the customer interacts with your business. if your not talking to your customers before, during and after you sell them your service/products your not doing your job properly. your actually missing out on saving yourself a lot of pain and money on ideas that just might not work in this brave new digital world. am i overselling it? - i don't think so.

i'm sure all the people at the business club i told two years ago to get on twitter are probably respecting my suggestion now - although many of them would dare admit it. but that's cool, those are not the people i hang with now. being an early adopter is not enough, being able to 'adapt' early and often is the new standard. your business needs to be able to surf the tsunami wave of information, choice and demand. you have to be where the kids play. and those digital mood swings change often.

So now i have got that of my chest let's look at what we can offer a sponsor(s) to share in the excitement of the roadcamp experience - from the interactive elements that we can broadcast and chat about regarding your products and services while in transit down to austin and during our interactive sessions onboard the bus and at each evenings tweetups. it's going to be awesome, it will be talked about and it will be streamed as much as possible. create buzz before sxsw starts by having a multi media team document their digital journey into the yearly pilgrimage to geek mecca. this would be my third year in austin for sxsw if you enable me to go so you know i'm not flying blind into austin - we also have some friends who live in austin that we are looking forward to hanging with when we get there.

What i personally can offer you. . .. .

audioboo with xlr rode ntg2 microphone
i have the most downloaded account on audioboo, i have barely scratched the surface of being able to get my message/audio out there yet - i do an almost daily audio show called 'audiogravity' and would love to do a daily show a few times a day which would mention your products and services. this audio can be reused by you on your website and can be used as testimonials for us using your products on the road. we use a custom iphone cable for our iphones that allows us to use top quality broadcast quality microphones from rode - the ntg2 (if you have a ntg3 you would like to send us to use rode, or even sponsor that would be nice) - a high quality mobile audio podcasting solution - we can record lots of audio for you during the length of this roadtrip.

posterous, flickr and geo located photos
we already have the distribution network in place on this blog, we can post geo tagged photos from all our locations as we are travelling around giving people an interactive feel to where we are, these also compliment the audioboo posts which also have a photo and geo located positioning on them as well. all of the images that we send to our posterous are automatically distributed on flickr and other picture sites. we truly believe our collective network of twitter followers are very interested in the roadcamp project and would really enjoy the daily updates our group could produce - i believe we have a few photographers onboard as well so expect some quality stuff here. maybe some kind of daily 'pic of the day' scene documenting us using your hardware in a certain way or task?

satellite tracking and location updating
i have experimented with some level of tracking with bambuser when we have done video streams before for our gumball rally we did for twestival and charitywater in 2009 but we have some new for 2010 in conjunction with a potential link up with womworld/nokia using the fantastic new laptop unit the booklet 3g. this awesome all in one unit has a 3g slot, a-gps and a fantastic long battery life. we have a bunch of ideas for updating our location regularly and some of our interactive elements will be quite ground breaking if we can find the right sponsors to work with. tracking the bus as we go in almost realtime is a strong commitment by us to make the experience as much as for the remote viewer as the people on the bus.

flip, kodak, creative, zoom are you out there?
no trip, project or event would be complete without someone putting one of the new mobile media making devices in your face. we want to do that in droves. we want you to enable us to capture content on the best device you have at the moment. do you want to show the world how good your product is for a roadtrip used by seasoned media makers. do you want to capture the reaction from someone that have never seen your device before - do you want to start a conversation about your device as part of a lifestyle choice rather than a techy geeky gadget? - we can help you do that. i can work with you PR team to come up with stings or set piece work that you might need for any of your coming years product base.

interviews with organizers
quite obvious this but you want to know what people are doing out there in the world of social media - we know the people that are doing wonderful things, often these are friends we have not seen for a while so the excitement of being in the physical space brings great energy to every single interview. part of the roadcamp is to teach at tweetups at different locations along the route - we want you to be part of that too.

rezpondr & doorstepr custom theme and geomapping
at the start of last year i started to develop a web service called rezpondr to aggregate, distribute and transcode video content based on the output of a socialmedia small content producer - the project stalled for a variety of reasons but the codebase and the project is alive - we are actively working on a new and improved geo mapping solution based on google maps with a new improved python based backend - we have made the ui simple and interactive - the project to be used for http://conkertu.com is a perfect compliment to the roadcamp for collecting together all the media we produce in one place for brand sponsors to 'at a glance' see our media output.

geomapping per location and around austin
when we actually get to austin we do not expect to just 'stop doing media' the roadtrip will be an amazing experience but actually getting to austin and telling people about our trip and sharing the stories should trigger new ones when we go from party to party and conference session to conference session. the scale and vibe of sxsw is like nothing your brand has ever seen - why go in cold. sponsor the team that will be wired and on point for then then arrive into austin!

gumball, eurorush and charity work
for the last few years i have been working directly with womworld/nokia on a variety of projects involving their products and brand and have raised money for charity on a number of times during these. the gumball rally was a four man team from travelled from newcastle to london via 4/5 different twestival locations along the route. we raised over $4000 for charity on this event and learnt a lot about mobile power needs and cellular network capacity. more recently i was part of the 'eurorush' which involved three teams members travelling around to separate twestival events across europe raising money for charity with nokia. i can provide references and contacts if so required.

If you are serious about sponsoring the roadcamp and indeed myself to be part of this amazing project/team please get in touch via my twitter account or email and let us work something out together - i can only promise you get great things and some fantastic social media making.

am available for chat via skype on dm_clanlife_uk and mobile phone - my number is at the top left of my main site - http://me.dm

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I guess i'll do more of a blog post when i can add to this. i want to add the text from the handout from last night but it is in my other coat i think. I'll get someone to forward me the information on it and add it to the entry - i have to get this up like this anyway as someone really wants access to the photos and i need to distribute them up on flickr etc.

                                                                                               

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I've also put the audioboo recordings i did last night below - give them a listen, some are just amazing.

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Setting up custom domains, subdomains and multiblogs on posterous from Philip Campbell on Vimeo.

Just put together a super fast screencast this morning for people interested in setting up custom domains, subdomains and also how we are using multiblogs on posterous to break apart information so that faster direct methods of getting sections of tips can make posting too easier and give a site more reach. Each standalone site can also be promoted elsewhere instead of the main one. I aim to use this method for all my projects as well. Should make rapidly putting together sites based on a similar theme a lot easier and therefore for clients a very easy process.

Back to recording my audiogravity now. . .

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i'm looking for a free or very low price email attachment solution for sending files bigger than 25 meg in size. that is the maximum size you can attach on gmail and i really need something that will do 100mb or unlimited size. The reason i want to be able to attach files of up to 100mb or bigger in size is that the 'autopost' to other destinations is a really strong part of posterous that i want to utilise - i've not looked at the api yet but i guess there is a possibility there to extend the reach of the distribution side as well for the old way i used it with rezpondr. I looked at a few solutions.

php/selfhosted/squirrelmail/styli
the problem with using a self hosted email system is the maintenance of it and the fact that the majority of them are pretty lame when it comes to the size of the attachment you can allow. i've not found one yet that will allow me to do what i want. surely there is a python, ruby or something else that allows this - anybody know anything in the cloud that allows this?

lycos wants my money
just feels weird to me to 'pay' for email hosting and accounts. i guess i really have been spoilt by google and gmail over the last three/four years that i have been using it but i really cannot afford the additional cost. they do say they offer unlimited attachments thou.

why don't you just use visualhub and fix the size to 25mb
trust me i get responses like these all the time. oh and the answer is i do not want to be messing around with files and conversion - i just want to 'send and go'

such and such service has 100mb with drop.io
at first i thought 'yay' this is exactly what i want but the attachment is not treated the same way as posterous expects it. the attachment is linked to the drop.io source instead of it being a real attachment so it does not get processed like a normal attachment does. it's more of a remote link to the file.

If you know of anything please get in touch and let me know. Looking for a simple pop3 account with unlimited attachment size.

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I think the logos look rather fetching on the side of the ammobox. I'm playing around with the latest beta right now and i have to say it is rather lovely.  My favourite sticker on the box so far thou is my dubai one of course.   If you have a web startup and some logos printed please send them to me!

       

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i asked on twitter tonight for a few decent up to date tools for getting a youtube audio layer from a youtube video. The latest version of mpeg streamclip did the job perfectly. Simply put in the url, say what you want to convert it too and off it goes and does the job. You need to get the latest beta which at the time of this post was version 1.9.3b2

http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/MPEG_Streamclip_1.9.2.dmg - is the link for the download for the mac version.

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Monday is. .. .

Finding one of your artists you like with a mashup video that just
works. This is why the internet is awesome. The realtime nature of
expression and the open access to tools that spark creativity.

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The Conkers Tweetup 1 Minute Reel from the 28th of November.

Just wanted to slow release this and it is the only video that comes under the 25mb gmail uploading sending limit, causing me a few problems today not being able to autopost anything bigger than this. I've tried other services that offer 100mb or more uploading services but they do not work in the way that i think posterous will expect them to be sent. Lycos has a package for uploading unlimited but you have to pay $5 a month. It might be an option i take.

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