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Join Lorax In The Bahamas!

On Thursday, December 6, Lorax1515 (Garrett) arrives in the Bahamas with his selected friends for a tropical treat, courtesy of blogTV. Not only will he be touting a full-access directors pass to the The Bahamas International Film Festival events, but he will also be broadcasting from them and showing us all what we wouldn't want to miss! So Join the aviator wearing, bandanna rocking, ninja assassin in all his cinematic adventures!

If you don't know who this guy is yet, here's a preview:

~estelle~

I saw Santa on blogTV!

Record your Christmas Lists! Santa Claus has slid down the blogTV chimney, rosy cheeks and all! Maybe you can catch him LIVE in the action!

Win a webcam on Rockland USA Live! Join in the 12 Webcams of Christmas!

Rockland USA Live! will be giving away 12 web cams during the month of December during his live shows. Starting TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 9AM EST (2PM GMT), he will be giving out a web cam during each show to the winner of the daily game. The daily games include: music trivia, name that tune, hangman and the 12th caller on his show phone line.

The contest terms are as follows:
- Web cams will be shipped worldwide as permissible by US law.
- Due to the nature of the contests, participants and winners must be 18 years of age or older.
- Only one winner per household per month.
- Contest void where prohibited by law.

If you want a complete list of rules, send an email request to rocklandusa@gmail.com. 

NOTICE: This contest is not affiliated with BlogTV or it's partners. Rockland USA is solely responsible for the costs and operation of the contest.

~estelle~

Politics fire up on blogTV

Political action is starting to spread on blogTV, from whacked out bush bashing babble (baller-man) to general concerns about human values and equality (kashfields), to formal progressive conferences (baratunde).

Our fellow blogTVer, baratunde has posted a series of broadcasted talks from the Campus Progress Conference.  One of the speakers, a recent Iraqi war veteran, came home from the war with a new agenda - to fight against the war; "I would rather sit in jail than kill those poor people."

With debates for the next American presidential election already firing up, it's more important than ever that these thoughts are not only heard but also documented. We at blogTV are proud to be your platform!

Here is baratunde's blog:

Here is kashfields' blog:

And here is baller-man's blog:

~estelle~

Post Prison Blogging

A 37 year old man gets out of prison after being locked up for 18 years and sees a new strange world of cell phones and the Internet! First thing he tries is a live broadcast on blogtv.com!

Clad in typical post prison attire - a shaved head, bare chest and a huge tattoo, a man who calls himself Rowdy69 leans back on his black leather couch and talks to the world through his web cam about his time in prison and what it's like to get back on his feet in a changed world of the Internet: "When I got locked up, cell phones were big enough to knock a man out."

He calls his show Rowdy69-Hard Times. Here's a clip!:

You can subscribe to his show here

-by estelle-

the unconference is unveiled

The Online Community Unconference 2007 just whirled through Mountainview, CA and Kim Bayne or "mincedmedia," highly acclaimed and best selling author of "The Internet Marketing Plan" blogtv'd it for us. After she arrives at the Computer History Museum, where the "unconference" is being held, she spends a full day of traveling around with her webcam (someone should make her a hatcam) and shows us what a room full of online community professionals looks like. Everyone is seated for a full day of learning and blogging. A welcoming speech is given and small groups cluster out for the remainder of the day to gab about open space technology.

Kim has broken up the conference into 9 recorded broadcasts. Check out this sample:

-by estelle-

First Live Mobile Broadcast

Jeff Pulver and his accomplice, mysteriously known as just "Geo," broadcast live on the road! Geo, clad in pink framed glasses, mans the laptop webcam from the passenger seat, while Jeff tries to drive down the Long Island Expressway! While being live and chatting with their viewers, they attempt a discussion on their not so private addictions to "being connected" all the while Jeff is checking his blackberry. This is multimedia at its proudest moment!

You can subscribe to the PulverTV show here.

Here is the finely captured video on blogtv.com:

-by estelle-