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Magnify.net is taking Video Blogging to the masses with its new, free video publishing and hosting service. The new platform is much more than just another Webcam service as Magnify.net lets people build a dedicated online video channel featuring not just their own videos, but also content-specific video - regardless of where it is hosted.

Unlike other social networks and warehouses that host random videos, they let its users create and tailor their own programming based on their interests and that of their target community. The site owner and their viewers record, discover, upload, and add new videos to feature on their channel based on the unique flavor of each channel.

Fresh out of private beta, the new video blogger-in-a-box kit features an intuitive, plug-and-play Webcam capture tool that allows creators to build a Vlog (video blog) page and decorate their channel with their own graphics and design elements. With just a webcam, their Vlog can go live within minutes. Magnify.net also offers stylish and slick templates to make the graphic design process drag-and-drop simple.

Podcamp co-founder and online media guru Chris Brogan is currently hosting a daily video blog called Attention Upgrade, where he shares the most interesting things in tech and news media marketing that have his attention for the day. Jeff Hibbard has launched a new mobile weblog that follows him on his daily adventures around town.

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Some would say that blogging is an easy profession. Oh it’s easy alright, minus the long hours you spend looking for things to write about, or in the case of Josh Wolf; something to video blog about. It appears the government tried to squeeze something that didn’t exist out of him.

Here is a quote from his press conference following his release:

Wolf, 24, read a prepared statement to the small crowd of media and well-wishers. In it, he quoted a dissenting opinion from 1972’s U.S. v. Caldwell, a case concerning coercion of a journalist’s testimony, saying, “As the years pass the power of government becomes more and more pervasive. It is a power to suffocate both people and causes. Those in power, whatever their politics, want only to perpetuate it. Now that the fences of the law and the tradition that has protected the press are broken down, the people are the victims. The First Amendment, as I read it, was designed precisely to prevent that tragedy.”

Technically Speaking, the government seems to try to always control things it does not understand. The internet as a whole is a good example. The government in power is not in charge of the internet, but yet they keep trying to be. Trying to control something you do not understand can be a dangerous undertaking.

Sure why not. Everyone else has had a crack at it. Funny thing, the only one that has succeeded to grow and make some deals is MySpace. Facebook would have had the big time money, but I guess $1 Billion was just not enough. Facebook for the corporate set? Interesting way to put it, but I hear the real players don’t like the online world? What gives here? Is there really truth behind the lies of hate and disgust?

I’m game to give my spin on another social network. Do I believe it’s all over? Not hardly. Why not, I mean it seems to be what runs this version of the internet these days. Social Networks, Blogs, Videos, Podcasts, Wiki this, wiki that, search this, search that, mash this, mash that, widgets everywhere, TV online, IPTV (or however they want to call that one) and so on. If you haven’t figured it out by now, the internet even though getting more mature everyday has found corners of niche everywhere.

IBM launches a social network? It doesn’t surprise me one bit. Now, Technically Speaking, we move on to the next part or phase of this. What is that? Why don’t you tell me?

You may have already seen Robert Scoble interview of John Edwards already. Some of you have not seen it. Even though I’ve been busy with the launch, promotion, and tweaking of this blog, I feel that this deserves a full post. You can watch it, and also download the audio. Why is there audio? Well you will have to read the article above. Let us just say that technology still has it’s issues. That issue would be needing power!
If you haven’t noticed yet, I have dropped a ton of stuff off in the - Rex’s Link Blog - already this evening and this morning. The Link Blog works. I highly recommend all bloggers give it a go. It really is a nice time saver where you can weed through all the daily data you could blog on.

Back to the video. The only thing I wish was that the airplane noise wasn’t so overpowering. Other then that, it’s a great insight to the man John Edwards and why he wants to run for President. It also touches on the reasons he believes that the social media that is out there today as in blogs, vlogs, and podcasts are the way to go for getting his message out there. He also talks about how he blogs on the video.
Technically Speaking, I do not believe his staff would have agreed to invite all the bloggers that were able to go on the road with him last week. They were invited only because he truly believes in what we do. This is a person who is running for the President of the United States, and not student class president. John Edwards if nothing else has given the blogosphere credibility.