I'm looking forward to spending some time down the cape this summer.

The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 13 - A Day in the Life of Carol

Blogging101: Wordpress

Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society explains how to get started with the WordPress based Blogsome.com blogging software.

Steps covered:
1. Create your blog's web address/username
2. Enter your Email address and Blog Title
3. Log on to your email and get your password
4. Log on to Blogsome with your username and password
5. Create your first post with a Link and text formating, em = bold and italic.
6. Publish

Other things covered:
Calendar
Archives
Categories
Links
Dashboard to manage posts, change links, modify users
How to delete a post

"This is the great thing about this. it took us about five minutes... an now we've got this thing," Ethan Zuckerman.

Jamaican Voices.

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Skiing Lessons

Carol and Steve go skiing at Loon Mountain New Hampshire and record a couple of lessons on how to ski.

Skiing Lessons
1. Putting on the ski pass
2. Putting on skis
3. Getting on the chair lift
4. Getting off the chair lift
5. Lesson 1: Snowplow
6. Lesson 2: Parallel Skiing

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Unreal

This is unreal.

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NYC Extra

Here's some additional video from our trip to NYC.

The blizzard hit and we went went out and found a place that was open for dinner, took the subway down to lower Manahatten, fought our way through the snow to a vloggercon post party, enjoyed the company of videobloggers from around the world, and went back to our hotel at 2:00 AM.

It was such a fun time!

How I Would Have Edited Nightline

How I Would Have Edited Nightline

My thoughts on the Nightline Bloggers show are here.

John Tobin: NECN - Baby Safe Haven

Irish Bread

Carol and her mom make Irish Bread with me in the background helping.

Green Screen

I went over to New England Cable News this morning for a meeting and got a tour from Steve Safran, Executive Producer at NECN, managing editor of NECN.com, and contributor to the Lost Remote blog.

Part of the tour went by a green screen, so I had to stop and stand in front of it to record some video.



How to use a green screen in Final Cut Pro.

Walk-To School Preference

John Tobin offered a resolution strongly urging the Boston School Committee to consider increasing the Public Schhool's walk-to preference for elementry and middle schools from 50% back to 75%, allowing more of the city's students to attend classes close to their homes.

Lighting Regulations

John Tobin requested a hearing to discuss exterior lighting and lighting regulations in the city.

We've had more and more complaints from residents that have experienced excessive lighting and sometimes this is refered to overlighting or light pollution.

It has an adverse effect on neighbors.

A lot of cities across the United States have confronted similar type issues.

It's happening more and more often. A lot of these condos are lit up light Fenway Park so I'd like to have a hearing scheduled as soon as possible.

City Council 3/2/05: Boston School Committee TV

In the Boston City Council meeting on 3/2/05, Boston School Committee.

City Council 3/2/05: Cord Blood

In the Boston City Council meeting on 3/2/05, Councillor Tobin requested a hearing to discuss the merits of cord blood donation.

New England Cord Blood Bank.

Hello Norway

Boston City Councillor John Tobin says hello to Raymond Kristiansen of Norway who's leading the way to get the Norwegian Liberal Youth political party videoblogging.

"This avenue allows people who want to be, and who are elected officials, to talk directly to people and make themselves even more accessable to people out there.

This is the wave of the future I'm very much excited to be the first, I believe, elected official in the United States to have their own video blog, that's all thanks to Steve Garfield, couldn't have done it without him.

We're very excited about it."