Once upon a time I wouldn't be caught dead without a notebook and pen. Yeah, writing was my fix. Still is, though rarely ink on paper anymore.
The main focus of this blog will be audio and video on the Web. Particularly in higher-ed.
I work at UC Berkeley as Product Manager for webcast.berkeley. I've been putting courses and events online as webcasts for about five years now, and as podcasts for over a year. This site is totally public and completely free.
The podcast trip has been incredible. I wish I was blogging about it from the outset. But there's still a lot more fun to be had.
You see, at heart I'm a publisher. Helping others to express themselves, to bring their voices to a larger audience. Now it's finally time to turn this on myself.
The main reason it's taken so long to start blogging is concern about wanting to write about anything and everything. Indulge me, willya? And be sure to drop me a line. Why bother open sourcing myself if no one contributes.
June 25, 2006 at 1:52 pm |
[...] A big shout-out here to Obadiah Tarzan Greenberg, product manager at Webcast.Berkeley. Obadiah’s just recently joined the blogosphere, as I learned when his link to my blog appeared on my WordPress dashboard under “incoming links.” It’s delightful to be linked to, of course (more of what Brian Lamb calls “the power of positive narcissicism”), but it’s even more delightful to know that Obadiah is blogging. In addition to being a swell chap he’s also a vital resource for all of us, as I learned over a year ago when I consulted him for advice on setting up our own UMW Webcast series. In fact, the whole idea of a UMW Webcast series was inspired by Obadiah’s work. Doing research for a paper I was writing on Errol Morris’s film The Fog of War, I had discovered Berkeley’s webcast of a public forum featuring both Morris and Robert McNamara, the subject of the film. I was enthralled both by the forum and by the idea of putting all those resources onto the web. I immediately went back to my faculty and staff colleagues and said, “we must do this, especially for our Great Lives series.” When I got widespread agreement, I was then faced with the question of how to make it all happen–so I simply emailed the contact person at the Berkeley site, who directed me to Obadiah. [...]