It looks like I’m going to have a fun weekend exploring all of its new features!

Sometime this morning, we hit two million downloads!

When I think about that number, I’m amazed by what the internet and RSS do for media distribution. We have viewers all over the world, and we never could have done this using traditional distribution methods.

Thank you for all the support! And here’s to the next two million downloads!

If you’re on Facebook, please take a moment to add me as a friend.

I’ve been connecting with many other New Media folks inside Facebook. If you’re like me, and you have a large number of New Media personalities you like to follow, Facebook is an excellent way to do it.

What can you do with Facebook?

1. Add friends, and follow their updates.
2. Post and browse photos.
3. Send messages to other users.
4. Poke someone (This is one of my favorite features).
5. Find old friends from the past.
6. Join groups based on your interests.
7. Get to know people better than you do now.

Now that they’ve opened their platform to third-party developers, there will surely be more you can do.

Although Facebook is a social network, it’s very different from MySpace. There are some similarities, of course, but it has a completely different feel. I think it’s a zillion times better.

I received this interesting comment from Tracey:

I just wanted to post a video that I shot with the GL2 using incorrect white balancing in the camera. I balanced it to an orange card, then used a cheapie 100W light. THe only thing I did in post was add a widescreen matte, a bit more black, and framerate conversion. It is amazing what you can do with the white balance.

Check out his site at www.leetj.com.

Friends, I’m sorry, but because I’ve been working on another video-related project in my spare time, I’ve had to delay Izzy Video temporarily. It should return shortly, likely within the next week or two.

Sorry about the delay…

PodCamp AZ Logo
Originally uploaded by podcampaz.

I’m really excited about this! I’ve read and heard about so many other Podcamps, and I’ve been jealous that I couldn’t go. Well now, it appears that Brent Spore, along with others, are busy planning one for September November. I’m certainly going, and I’ll try to bring all the other Glimpster hosts with me.

I think I might volunteer to do a workshop on video podcasting if they don’t have that subject covered yet.

I know from Google analytics that I’ve got a large number of Izzy Video viewers in Arizona, so I’d like to invite you all to come to this event too.

This is a current list of PodcampAZ resources I’ve found so far:

• The PodcampAZ Official Website
• The PodcampAZ Google Group
• PodcampAZ Virb
• PodcampAZ Flickr Group

Note: Don’t you just love the PodcampAZ logo?

Glimpster Stats as of May 6, 2007,
originally uploaded by israelhyman.

We’re getting close to the 2 million download mark!

Izzy Video and Paperclipping are the only active Glimpster video podcasts right now, so it’s taking a little longer to get to 2 million downloads than I thought it would. But that’s okay. 1.9 million impressions is still pretty good.

I need all of your help with something. As you know, the Izzy Video website is more than just a place to post my video podcasts. It’s also a resource to discover additional video-related content online. This could be “how to” articles, viral videos, or a number of other things.

Where do you come in? When you see something online that I might be interested in featuring on Izzy Video, please tag it “izzyvideo” using del.icio.us. I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed for this tag and will be notified of your suggestions. Naturally I will credit you with the recommendations.

Thank you for helping me with this!