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Now, you can upload photographs directly from your cell phone to Wburg.tv.

Just send an MMS to Wburgtv.1111@mobile.blip.tv

Just one reason I love hosting media free at Blip.tv They make it really easy to upload, share and control digital media.

Have at it!

- Jan

Why Blog? Why Vlog?

This post and Manifesto from Hugh MacLeod are the answers to the questions, "Why blog? Why vlog?".

For you time-challenged folks out there, they're big concepts in nutshells.

If you read nothing else today about how to thrive your business, read these two things.

Here's Hugh's first point:

1. I'm not here to tell you about your business. You already know it's a jungle out there. You already how hard it is to fight out there, just to earn a few pennies on the dollar. You don't need me reminding you of that. What I would like to do, however, is pass along what I've learned from blogging, and explain where I think it can help your cause.

Enclosed is MacLeod's HughTrain Manifesto in .pdf

If you've more time to reflect on where and how you're going, check out the first chapter of ClueTrain - free - HERE online, or buy the book, HERE.

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Wburg Concierge Focus :: Turn Here Films

TurnHere is geocentric, and uses local film makers to feature local stuff of interest to the traveler and local alike.

I've been an email subscriber to their films for a while now and they turn out about one a day from all over the world, including Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This is just one of the web sites we plan to use to feature Concierge video content.

Check it out.

Download mp4 version HERE.

Wburg Tech Scout :: Movable Feast :: Meeting Who's New

One of the things I enjoyed most about living in Williamsburg was hanging out with the amazing Breuk Iversen. Breuk knows everyone. Everyone and everything.

Back in the Wburg to tech scout for some Concierge videoblogging work, I prevailed upon Breuk to join me, to introduce me around town.

The plan is to do 3 or 4 video commercials for Wburg Concierge, and Breuk introduced me to three of the four entrepreneurs with whom I plan to work.

Sweet how things work out sometimes: I was ravenous all day, and two of the four businesses we visited were restaurants. I got lucky.

Movable feasts are among my favorite distractions, and our day together was therefore perfect.

Dan owns and operates The Lodge at 318 Grand Street (@ Havemeyer) where we had a splendid meal (grilled trout and babyback ribs) for a little more than $30. (NOTE: Their free delivery menu is awesome.)

Before that, we appetized at San Loco Mexican food, just East off Bedford on N. 4th. Their Guaco Loco with Chipotle Chicken had me making those kinds of swooning noises usually reserved for other activities.

If your menu is hosted online in PDF format - and you have a blog - linking to the PDF menu in a blog post automatically sends it down your RSS feed to your customer subscribers. I'm sending you my own menu by linking to it, HERE.

Life is good.

Concierge Focus :: Composer Andrew Shapiro

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As I get to know who's been playing with 11211 Magazine by visiting all their sites, find the level of quality of the Williamsburg business site to be impressive.

I was especially favorably impressed with composer Andrew Shapiro's music site for lots of reasons, not least of which is his ongoing Sunday-noon-to-four concerts at the 160 Broadway McDonald's in Manhattan.

You heard it right. AND it's classical music, to boot.

You may download a PDF coupon / information sheet (gets you a second large sandwich free) HERE.

Clever.

Shapiro operates an online store where you may purchase his CD's. Sure. That's easy. But he also offers free, downloadable mp3 hor's d'ourves as well, one of which is enclosed with this post. It's lovely and varied stuff.

Occurs to me that this music (particularly the solo pianoworks) would play well in a retail store or restaurant.

Collected in the Wburg Concierge sidebar are loads of Wburg businesses with whom other businesses might partner to lift the community up, to spin the vortex of success.

What's surprising is how few businesses feature blogs.

Why's that do you suppose?

Automating Website Content with Tagging, RSS, and Javascript

Automating the listing of businesses and their links to place in our new multi-media blog.

In order to do that, one first tags sites using Del.icio.us tagging. Delicious creates RSS feeds for single tags or even combinations of tags. You find the RSS feed at the bottom of any page you've called up by means of a search.

You may then run that Del.icio.us RSS feed URL through an online service that creates a javascript that formats the feed of tagged entries and plops 'em on any page in which you've placed the script.

Then, when anyone at Concierge tags a new site, it automatically shows up wherever we've placed the javascript. Typically, you can choose how to sort the entries (by date or alphanumerically) and the style in which it's displayed.

Have used FeedDigest to do this conversion since mid-2005 to collect and share the latest news about the vlogosphere (see the sidebar there), but FeedDigest's gone all pro and is too restrictive in the number of items you may show in a feed (10 max in the free account) or what we have in mind here (we need 600+ to fit everyone in), so I'm testing some new services.

What you see in the sidebar was created with a Delicious tagroll. Let's see how that works out.

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POST NOTE: The tag roll javascipt tool a wee bit long to load, so we've used the Delicious tagroll on a separate blog post page, and harvest the html from that. Seems to work well all around.