Finally, I have the recording of the press conference delivered a week in San Francisco and my contribution to the Cinecittà Studios event that took place this afternoon at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

Here is the recording. Audio + slides.
Duration: 57'

Last refinements and edits to the presentation to be given tomorrow at Cinecittà. In the afternoon I will be at the Studio 20 to test Internet connectivity and verify that everything is running as expected.

TheWeblogproject Sponsors iVocalize and Presenternet are providing a friendly and easy-to-use facility that will allow us to live-cast my presentation of TheWeblogProject tomorrow afternoon for up to 200 simultaneous viewers.

The presentation will be in English and the time should be around 3pm GMT+1 (9am EST)4pm equivalent to 10am EST, though being back in Rome, this is a bit harder to say :-)

Got a great video interview in the backyard of Howard Rheingold and some of the clearest definitions of what blogs really are.

It has been quite surprising to see how difficult it can be for some of the popular bloggers I have interviewed so far, to explain, in a few, simple words, what a blog is. Of course the less geeky ones have some advantage at this, as they are more trained at exemplifying and popularizing complex ideas to non-technical audiences. In this respect Howard and before him Jay Cross, gave me some very clear and easy to understand definition for blogs which I feel are right on the mark with the communication goals of this movie.

I am back in Rome.

Next up is the Cinecittà Studios event taking place this Thursday afternoon here in Rome. I will be delivering nearly the same presentation I have given in San Francisco last friday, and there should be confirmation soon of a live webcast as well.

Coming up: Official press release for the upcoming Cinecittà event.

When: 28 April '05 h. 09,30 –
Where: Stage 20 Cinecittà –
Via Tuscolana 1055
Rome, Italy

Title of the Event:
CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA SHARED PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

The production company Idea Produzioni, reached the first goal of the Scriptblog- ScrivoCinema project, dedicated to creating a concrete platform for the development, fund-raising, production and distribution of European cinema and New Media.

Got an interesting video interview with Marc Canter.

Before it, we talked a lot about ourmedia.org and Marc's vision for DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregators). According to him every "brand" worth of that name will own and distribute one in the next 5-10 years.

Marc was also kind enough to suggest talking further to Eli Chapman, which works for AVID and focuses on Web productions and applications, to start defining in more detail the digital video formats that will be used for making this project possible.

Today I am off to interview Howard Rheingold.

I have just finished preparing for the live press conference of this morning in San Francisco.

Once again, this will take place at 9:30am PST Friday April 22nd, and while happening physically at the CityClub in downtown San Francisco it will also be webcast live online at this URL:
http://tinyurl.com/c66hn

In Seattle I have completed the interviews with Loic LeMeur , Marc Orchant and Robert Scoble, the Microsoft geek blogger.

Today, on the Berkeley hills I shot a very good video interview with Jay Cross who recommended to interview Peter Merholz.

We are moving.

Today I have shot the first official interview for TheWeblogProject here in Seattle with Chris Pirillo.

Tomorrow it will be Loïc Le Meur and Robert Scoble.

I am about to take off for Seatlle and to join the Microsoft Search Champs 2 program Monday-Tuesday next week.

If you are a blogger with a unique story (about how to use and leverage a blog to do something unique), and leave in or near Seattle, let me hear from you while I am there. Post a comment here below and I will be in touch with you.

I'll be at the W Hotel in Seattle from Saturday evening until Tuesday, before moving on to San Francisco.

TheWeblogProject will be presented also at Cinecittà Studios in Rome on April 28th.

This innovative Cinema and New Media event that is targeted at giving exposure and relevance to new ways and approaches to produce and distribute films in Europe.

Finally confirmed the official press conference cum live webcast to take place in San Francisco next week. Everyone from the traditional press, bloggers universe and the film-making industry (Hollywood and indies) is welcome to come.

Friday April 22 - City Club, San Francisco - California
155 Sansome St.
9:30am

Robin Good presents:

"TheWeblogProject

New alternative approaches to
online grassroots movie production, delivery and distribution."

45 mins. presentation plus live Q&A

As promised here is a good update on the latest developments of TheWeblogProject.

Updated overall time plan:

Here you can find a link to a video reportage by the Italian National televison (RAI) which defines "revolutionary" TheWeblogProject. It's in italian language and is very interesting

Link.

ps: I'll add shortly to the right side menu a complete list of all the media talking about us.

Yes, no more top 20. The WeblogProject will not be using the votes submitted by bloggers to select a number of bloggers to be interviewed.

As of now we feel that our proposition for letting everyone vote and elect the most relevant bloggers to go and interview around the world does not work. We acknowledge our error and we gently steer to improve our direction.

This is what we think:

a) In the grassroots spirit of the movie, we agree and convene that nor A-list or any other individual group should be reserved preference exclusively due to past glories or simply to length of service.

b) The interest is not so much for having the popular A-lister rather than the unknown guy or vide-versa, but for having strong, impactful stories that can allow us to bridge to those who still balk at the word "blog" without understanding what the party is all about.