The history GorgeMedia.com video podcasting part 1.

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A little history here. Way back in the day of these new millenium technological light years- last October to be exact, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer gave a keynote address announcing the release of the Video Ipod. In addition he announced how ABC was making tv shows available for download through itunes to your video ipod. Subsequently, and without much specific notice to most, what I heard him announce was the possibility of video podcasting, or V-logging, or Vlog, WebCast, Net Cast- whatever…

Well, as one who has been creating both video and still images my whole life, and after moving from tape to tape editing, to Avid stations, to the emerging DV/DVCAM/Mini DV formats to my first G4 and Final Cut Pro 1.0 and the first compressed QT video’s for the web and the evolution of producing for DVD rather than tape… This was the promised land! The future…

Now, if I was to understand it correctly, we can shoot and edit digital video and distribute it through the internet and itunes and all the people millions of people who were buying and receiving these units for Christmas would be flooding to the itunes store searching for any and all available and free video podcast content. I was so excited and yet had no real insights to the true potentials, just a flood of excitment surrounding what I knew was the beginning… of Something?!

So that was in November or Decemeber that I saw that. I knew that I had to get involved somehow and began thinking about what I would video podcast about. At the time, I was shooting photo’s for Kiteworld Magazine with US Snowkiter Alex Peterson. Alex and I talked about doing a show on snowkiting. Our friend and The Kiteboarder Magazine Editor, Ryan Riccitelli had been doing a kiteboarding talk radio show for his ASNews.net action sports network for a while and was establishing a listener base, interested in action sports podcasting. After communicating, Ryan and I agreed that we needed to use this Video Podcast technology and put kiteboarding into the mix.

Our 1st Ever podcast was put on the ASNews.net podcast Newswire and released in itunes on January 1, 2006. We were pioneers.. (in our own minds)

This show is available Here ASNews.Net Presents Video Cast #1

Show Notes
It wouldn’t be good to start off without doing it right, so here’s a quick show notes for this video podcast. Filmed, and produced by Gregg ‘Tekko’ Gnecco this show was the first action sports listing for video podcasts on itunes and was released on the ASNews.net newswire and podcast feed. For this show we had Snowkiter Alex Peterson talking about the sport of snowkiting, flying off of mountains with his skiis and kite and the evolution of the sport. The show was illustrated with wonderful footage provided by Dan Gavere and was produced at the GorgeMedia.com / TekkoPhoto studio in The Gorge.

For more info on snowkiting, as per this show, check into the following links:
www.ussnowkite.com, Dakine.com, Slingshot Kiteboarding, Kiteforum.com

Oh the humble beginnings…