Workshop: Hands On Videoblogging, Open Source Tools
Jay Dedman began as a writer and producer of local news in Cincinnati and Atlanta. After working at CNN International, he became discouraged with the coverage and worked as a freelance journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he first tried to use the Internet to publish video showing how people live in a country at war. Returning to New York, he landed a job at Manhattan Neighborhood Network, one of the leading public access stations in the US. He continued his experiments with putting video on the web until he found that blogging was the perfect distribution method. In 2004, he co-founded the Videoblogging Group. He has since helped orchestrate Vloggercon, HMWV (a cool way to raise money for vloggers!), Node 101, and one of the first videoblogging books.