It is a quiet snowy, second Sunday of Advent as I sit at home and try to catch up from one busy week as I prepare for the next. I have a few different blog posts I need to write, but for now, I’m writing a general update. This morning, I read @professorkim’s tweets from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. I couldn’t get the live stream to work, so I relied on her tweets and tweeted a little bit about it.

At the same time, various people were tweeting about the Boston Media Makers gathering. I also picked up a little bit of it on Steve Garfield’s QIK stream. They talked a little bit about the Manfrotto 585 ModoSteady 3-in-1 Camera/Camcorder Stabilizer and Support System, which seems like a neat little device. I’m not sure how well it would work with my cameras, since I’ve got pretty low end equipment, and the stabilizer is probably more expensive than the camera I usually use.

They also spoke about gcast which I had signed up for back in August, tested once, forgotten, and never gone back to. However, it does seem to be the site that I was trying to think of for a person who was interested in getting started with podcasting. I should play around with it a little more.

Another system that they mentioned was ooVoo. It is for having video conversations with up to six people at the same time. It requires a download which is currently available for Windows and in beta for the Mac. I suspect that is why I didn’t try it last time I stumbled across it. It is all very similar to CUSeeMe from years ago as well as stuff I was working on with GroupIntervisual.

In other news, I’ve uploaded pictures of Papa and Nana’s new puppy, the snow we got here, and a chocolate pecan pie my wife made. I went with Kim and Fiona to the barn and am now hunkered down in the office for what sounds like a cold evening. In a little while, I’ll start preparing for this evenings episode of Fiona’s Radio Show.

Updated:
Forgot to mention that I added Google Friend Connect, check it out in my sidebar. I've set up ooVoo. So far nothing all that interesting. And, I want to note omeka.org as another site that got mentioned.

In terms of power.com, one person joined me, another friend is already there, and a third asked why to use it. In theory, it should be a nice aggregator of various other social networks. So far, I'm not impressed.