Watching Some GeoTV

I confess, I’ve been slow to move beyond listening to podcasts to vidcasts and YouTube. Maybe it’s because I’m not a big TV watcher to begin with? In any case, today I broke down and watched a few online videos.

I started with a few of the now three VerySpatial TV episodes from the folks at Very Spatial. These are short and to the point. One (episode 2) had the crew of Sue, Jesse and Frank giving out prizes a recent conference. It’s pretty funny as two recipients needed prompting in response to “What’s the best geography podcast?” It’s also fun to have that flash of recognition when the voices you hear on the podcast don’t seem to match the people on the screen. The latest episode (3) is a video catalog of potential gifts for those with a geographic bent. Do bear in mind the files are large (7-14Mb) for a few minutes of video. For now, I believe, you need to download them and can’t stream them. I get that; bandwidth can be an issue!

I also ran into a post from GridSkipper titled: Cool Berlin Google Map Project, No One Cares. It’s a follow up to this still popular post on APB about an Iowa town with a proposed Google Maps “pointer” in its midst. The video from YouTube, linked at Gridskipper, shows an art student building such a pointer in Berlin and getting, well no reaction.

These are fun diversions in the holiday season but do remember to get back to work!