I had to laugh at the korean student from vietnam.....

Great job Chuck! Definitely one of the better stories.
That teacher seems so cool.
I checked out those sites, and they were really interesting.

I'd love to see some of those kids get more into videoblogging or see their sites materialize.
There aren't enough college age vloggers out there; I feel kinda lonely.

John is the man! Word of caution though, work on blogs, podcasts and videoblogs with this guy around and you may well become an addict. I sure did.

Linky love from the Walker. Great piece, Chuck: http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=238

thanks for the manual trackback Paul. :-)

and thanks again to John and the We Media peeps (hello Aleshia) for making this a good story.

and apple pie, my mom, and kittens, and God, and the Bible.

Sweet piece, Chuck! And I love the touches you made on the beginning and ending! And the transitions with Khanh and Tommy's videos worked really well. Nice flow in general. Congrats! And thanks for making it!

Btw, Who was that girl that you had all those stills of? She seemed really cool. She's probably a famous model or something. Yeah. Mostly likely.

your photos were super awesome Karina. thanks for taking them on short notice. the one of you pointing to the computer monitor cracks me up every time!

Awesome job Honey!

That was great!

Chuck...you missed your calling as a cheesy organ playing lounge lizard ;)

Who says? I'm going to do that when I retire. Maybe at the Italian Pie Shoppe in St. Paul. :-)

excellent segment, chuck. i wish there was a john schott where i went to college. i graduated 8 years ago, but as far as technology is concerned, i may as well have graduated in the '80s. i feel like i've missed out on so much. but the irony is that i'm sure the graduates of '06 will be saying the same thing when they,/i> look back in 8 years...

ps) what's a girl gotta do to get added to the mnspeak aggregator?

I love the last words...

"Web 2.0" he mocks...

Another winner, Chuck.

First let me say that I respect John immensely. I've met him a bunch of times and even had the pleasure of working with him long ago. I hope this will be taken as the affectionate dig it is meant to be.

John, John, John… This is 2006! How can you be so excited about buying a domain name? Is this really the first domain name you've ever bought? You're a media professor! And what's all this about blogs being life changing? I can understand how creating a blog would be a good exercise to learn about the technical process and how they function in the web community and society, but life changing? You must know that only a small number of blogs are successful. Most personal blogs start out slowly and then fizzle out altogether.

OK, here's my main gripe. I'm an old guy too, 54, and I'm tired of the myth that people in my generation are at some kind of disadvantage when it comes to grasping computer/web technology. Like the web is a mysterious, foreign thing that only young people can master. John, if you feel incapable of grasping computer/web technology (and from your attitude, it appears that you are), don't project that out on the rest of us. The best programmers and developers I know are my age.

chuckjr
- If you can't say anything nice, put it on the web.

hey chuck! too many chucks...

good points, but i have to call you on being critical of excitement. c'mon, don't be so jaded. i get that way too, absolutely. but i also get a little giddy when i get a new domain. i think John's story about Khanh Nguyen's excitement at creating media, after being in the U.S. just a few months, shows just how much we take it for granted.

i think younger folks have an advantage, having grown up in a digital world, it's more natural. BUT i agree it's a stereotype that older folks can't grasp web/tech. i think it ultimately has more to do with what kind of person you are, maybe how your brain is wired, than how old you are. you can always choose to be curious and learn.

An entertaining and informative piece, Chuck. Love the "Kuleshov-effect" style editing created by the conference call. Damn; I wish I had more time to mess around with personal media, to take courses like those offered by John Schott. He's a font of knowledge about new media history, theory, and practice.

Hi Chuck,
Great piece.

I'm going to now pass it along.