Link to a Video of the Streaming Media East panel

hey - in case you have an extra 50 minutes of time to kill and you're interested in what kids are watching and downloading online - here's a link to a vid of the panel i participated in at the Streaming Media East conference that i talked about in my last post.

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Streaming Media East Conference

hey guys

on tuesday May 20th i was a panelist at the streaming media east conference in new york city. i was part of a panel of people in high school and college who were there to talk about how they use online media - video and music - and what young people are interested in. it was very cool. the moderator was peter cervieri who has a company you can check out at scribemedia.org. although a lot of us on the panel had different opinions on things like internet advertising and what we like to watch online, there were a few things we all agreed on:

we all own an "isomething" (an iPod, iPhone, etc)
we all use a mac instead of a PC (that one kinda surprised me)
and we all said we watch more media online than on tv.

so yeah - it was super fun and i got to have lunch with some really cool people - kipkay from metacafe, ben relles (creator of the "obama girl" videos), paul kontonis from foryourimagination.com , and nalts !

so how about you? do you agree with our panel? do you watch more media online than on tv? do you think it's shocking that all the young people on the panel use a mac? feel free to post your comments!

ttyl
dylan

baseball

hey there

so in my email newsletter that i sent out, i mentioned that i was busy with baseball, and a few people wrote back asking about that. yep. i play baseball. i started when i was really little (yay t-ball!) and right now i play JV at school. my position is 2nd base and my uniform number is 2. (coincidence??? hmmmm... ) so now when you're all annoyed because i haven't put a new episode up for a long time, you can think to yourself "he's probably at a baseball game!" and you might be right! 8)

ttyl
dylan

big blue button = mailing list

hey guys

some of you already know that i started doing an email newsletter thing. so that's why there's a big blue button (bbb) off to the right of the page. if you want to get an email newsletter about what's new with the Dylan's Couch show, when new episodes are coming up, contests (like the ipod contest) etc, hit the bbb and enter your email. i promise i won't sell your info. you'll just get cool emails from me. 8)

ttyl
dylan

wanna win an ipod shuffle?

hey, if you haven't noticed, i just put a new survey on www.DylansCouch.com. the original one was full (you're only allowed something like 5000 responses with the free Survey Monkey account...) so i decided to put up a new one. so just click on the link at the top of the page. If you fill out the survey and provide your email address or YouTube username, you could win an ipod shuffle! i'm gonna pick one person at random from all the survey responses. So go respond, ok?

ttyl
dylan

really - that was my FIRST lesson!

hey guys

i was reading thru the comments on my drivin' video last night and a ton of people seemed to think that wasn't really my first time driving. So to set the record straight:

1.) that was the first time my parents took me to a parking lot and let me drive out in the open. my mom has let me back the car out of the driveway a few times before. (and if you've learned on a manual, you know it's a little easier to learn the clutch in reverse than in 1st gear.)
2.) at times when it looked like i was driving really fast the vid was playing in fast motion. i drove really slowly in reality.
3.) i did stall one time. it was edited out because it was kinda boring.. i just restarted the engine and started back up again!

so that's the facts!

ttyl
dylan

drivin'!

hey guys!

yes, i had my first driving lesson over the weekend. and yes, i am too young to drive. see, both my parents drive stick shifts, so my mom said i could start learning early because she thinks it's gunna take me a lot longer to learn compared to kids who learn on automatics. so she let me have my first lesson even though i had just turned 15. sweeeeeet. but i didn't really go on the street, we stayed in the parking lot the whole time. still, it was awesome! maybe next time i'll be able to shift into 3rd gear LOL (i was lucky they let me shift into 2nd - my dad wanted me to stay in 1st the whole time!) so yeah, that was real, but no, i'm NOT old enough to get a license. or even a permit. not for another year, but by that time i should be able to drive better than my mom! (i'm pretty sure i do already...)

ttyl
dylan