Veronica Belmont — veronicabelmont.com
Veronica is an Associate Editor at CNET.com, where she develops audio and video content for CNET’s array of shows. She produces and co-hosts CNET’s flagship podcast Buzz Out Loud, a daily technology show, as well as the weekly MP3 Insider podcast and Crave video podcast. She is also a host for CNET TV, where she talks about the latest CNET videos to keep consumers informed of the many ways they can utilize tech.
Robert Boyle — podaddies.com
Robert has spent several years doing audio and video installations and performances in places like Berlin and Tokyo. He’s currently the co-founder and CTO of Podaddies, a company that helps user generated content creators to monetize their work.
Kenyatta Cheese — kenyattacheese.net
Kenyatta is a producer with the videoblog Rocketboom. In past iterations Kenyatta has served as Senior Technical Manager at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, developed video technology projects for Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and has led workshops on Portable Video at the Annenberg Center at USC. On late nights during the full moon, Kenyatta edits unmediated.org, a blog on decentralized and distributed media.
Eddie Codel — geekentertainment.tv
Eddie, currently reincarnated as a videoblogger, pours much passion into Geek Entertainment TV. Eddie grew up in the burbs of Washington, DC then escaped to San Francisco in 1997 when the smell of dot-bubble was in the air. 10 years later and that smell is back, hopefully with an aroma of permanence and realism this time. When not video geeking, Eddie can be found subverting other’s realities, exploring worlds beyond the bubble or occasionally blowing shit up.
Amanda Congdon — amandacongdon.com
Amanda is the Co-President of Oxmour Entertainment. She is a videoblogger, writer, actress and producer. She videoblogs at StarringAmandaCongdon.com and every Wednesday on ABCNews.com, while also maintaining a text blog at amandacongdon.com. Currently Amanda is developing a show for HBO that will feature both television and online components. Last fall, Amanda traveled across the country as part of her Amanda Across America project, where she chronicled her entire trip, via videoblog. Born and raised in New York City, Amanda graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University with an undergraduate degree in Organizational Communications and later received her graduate degree in videoblogging at Rocketboom.com. She lives in LA with her cat, Mattie, and BFF, Mario Librandi. To learn more about Amanda, read her wikipedia entry. In her free time Amanda enjoys skiing, hiking, traveling and talking about herself in the third person.
Steve Garfield — stevegarfield.com
Steve is a video blogger based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is one of the Internet’s first video bloggers having launched his own regular video blog on January 1, 2004. Garfield likes to capture and share fleeting moments and teach others how to do the same. This led to his becoming co-creator of the first vloggercon, and a co-organizer of the first PodCamp held in Boston. He currently runs the Boston Media Makers, produces Nina Simonds Spices of Life video blog, and is a regular contributor to Rocketboom, techPresident and the New Mediacracy podcast.
Pepa Garcia — vlog.blogia.com
Since the night she discovered freevlog, Pepa couldn’t sleep anymore. She’s obsessed with helping everyone make and publish video. She would like to have a “vloggers theater” in her neighborhood. You can see Pepa’s personal videoblog at vlog.blogia.com.
Gena Haskett — outonthestoop.blogspot.com
Gena is a videoblogger and writer in the Los Angeles area. Currently she creates content for Out On The Stoop, a free form video/text blog that documents her experiences traveling around Los Angeles and connections to the world beyond artificial borders. She is also working on a prototype for a library technology blog. Gena also contributes to Vidlicious, an online video collective of female vloggers.
Andreas Haugstrup — solitude.dk
Andreas is currently a graduate student in Aalborg, Denmark where he studies videoblogging as a cultural phenomenon. During late nights Andreas has created a range of tools that help make interactive video creation easier. He has been blogging since 2000 and videoblogging since 2004 at solitude.dk.
Eric Homan — Frederator Studios
Eric began the 1990’s first teaching high school English and then reporting news for a string of radio stations in and around his hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1992, he joined Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in Hollywood and later became the creative director of its animation art department. When the cartoon company was folded into the Time-Warner family in late 1996, he was hired by Warner Bros. Studio Stores to continue overseeing the production of Hanna-Barbera artwork and collectibles. In 1998, Homan became the first employee of Frederator Studios. Following a brief stint developing special projects for the online division of MTV Networks in New York City, he is back in Los Angeles and back with Frederator, serving as the studio’s vice president of development, managing the creative affairs of the studio’s new cartoon and book projects.
Ryan Junell — junell.net
Ryan is founder and curator of The SLOMO Video Festival, 100 one minute slow motion short films by 85 filmmakers and video artists from around the world. In 2006, the festival toured to 9 countries and 22 cities and was distributed online independently on DVD. Junell’s work with slow motion returns in October 2007 as The SLOMO Horror Festival — 100 one minute slow motion horror films by 100 filmmakers and video artists. He is also an organizer of WEBZINE, an event series held in San Francisco and New York (1998-2001, 2005) featuring the art of independent online publishing. Ryan currently resides in Oakland, California and has lived and worked primarly in the Bay Area for the last 10 years.
Daniel Liss — pouringdown.tv
Daniel liss is a filmmaker and writer from new york city. the work he publishes on pouringdown.tv, a collection of short experimental personal videos, is a respite from his day job as a freelance director of photography. pouringdown reflects a practice based on instant-artmaking and creation within daily sets of rules — and a sort of afternoon brainstorming — turned loose on the internet.
Micki Krimmel — mickipedia.com
Micki is an online community/social media consultant living in Los Angeles. She recently worked as the Director of Community at Revver.com, a ground-breaking video-sharing platform. The first site of its kind to share revenue with its users, Revver shifted the conversation in the industry, pioneering creator rights and open media sharing. Prior to Revver, Micki built and managed the interactive department at Jeff Skoll’s independent film production company, Participant Productions. She led the company in building an online activist community at Participate.net where film-lovers and activists can come together to make a difference. She also worked closely on the interactive marketing campaigns of Participant’s award-winning films including An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck. Micki is a regular contributor for Worldchanging.com, the premiere online magazine delivering daily solutions for building a better future.
Patricia Lange — annenberg.edu
Patricia is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Lange is currently conducting research on the video blogging community and on YouTube as part of a large-scale, MacArthur-funded project on digital youth and informal learning. Specifically, her project is concerned with studying the semiotics of video creation, sharing, and reception online. By studying the mediated experiences of everyday life among youth, the project increases our understanding of concepts such as identity, online communication, social network creation, and human experience of place offline and in the vlogosphere.
Mario Librandi — mariolibrandi.com
Mario is the Co-President of Oxmour Entertainment. He is a writer, director and producer of videoblogs. Currently, Mario is in pre-production for a videoblog series that he’s created for one of the major TV networks. After directing many Rocketboom episodes in the first half of 2006 and producing the Amanda Across America videoblog last fall, he is now the co-producer and co-creator of StarringAmandaCongdon.com. Mario graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a Bachelor of Architecture. He enjoys adapting architectural principles to his work with video.
Mary C. Matthews — 39secondsingle.com
Mary is a writer/producer who works in television and interactive media. With producing partner, Liza Persky, Mary launched Pound Productions, producing the wildly popular dating video vlog series 39 SECOND SINGLE and the intimate vlog diary VIDEO PANCAKES. With collaborator, Jeff Jarvis, Liza and Mary produce the weekly American Idol commentary IDOL CRITIC.
Bre Pettis — brepettis.com
Bre produces the show “Weekend Projects,” which is released weekly as a video podcast for Make: Magazine. For his show, Bre makes something every week, and then makes a video teaching viewers how to make it too. In his recent past, he’s been a schoolteacher, a multi-artist, and a puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.
Jennifer Proctor — jenniferproctor.com, lostinlight.org
Jennifer is a filmmaker and videoblogger whose experimental documentaries have screened around the world, including the Full Frame Documentary Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Cinematexas, Dallas Video Festival, DVblog, and others. She pioneered the first-ever videoblogging course at the University of Iowa and has taught several workshops and seminars on videoblogging. She holds an MA in Film Studies and has just completed her MFA in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa.
Eric Rice — ericrice.com
Eric Rice is executive producer of Slackstreet Entertainment, a Silicon-Valley based entertainment studio, and host of a variety of short-form video and audio programs. As one of the early videobloggers and podcasters, Eric’s main focus has always been the evangelism of new media and barrier breaking, anywhere from blogging and podcasting to virtual worlds and video gaming. Previously, Eric was a co-founder of online publishing service Hipcast. Eric can be found at ericrice.com, where he writes about mass- micro- and personal media, tech, or entertainment.
Damien Somerset — zaproot.com
Damien is the creator of ZapRoot, cofounder of TreehuggerTV, producer for Ecorazzi, and a web video consultant for GOOD Magazine. He is a writer for Whole Life Times and Worldchanging Los Angeles, as well as the video editor for Ask A Ninja and occasionally edits for Alive in Baghdad. Damien is very active in both online media and environmental advocacy, and hopes to use both to help reshape the face of modern environmentalism.
Duncan Speakman — duncanspeakman.net
Duncan is a UK based sound and video artist. He aims to create socially relevant experiences that engage audiences outside of gallery environments. His work has been exhibited at festivals including ISEA, Futuresonic, ArteAlmeda and he lectures on Technology in Performance at Dartington College of Arts. He is currently developing GPS based soundwalks and performance works that explore issues of memory, fragility and climate change.
Bill Streeter — lofistl.com
Bill Streeter is the creator of the videoblog and podcast LO-FI SAINT LOUIS. He dropped out of one of the best Film Schools in the US in the early 90’s and finished the decade doing odd jobs to stay off the street. He now supports his night time video habits by working as a graphic artist for a major US corporation, and is also a content partner with Podtech.net. His personal blog is at BillStreeter.net.
