Videos: 2003 at Zap Your PRAM

Zap Video: Kevin J. O'Brien

Steven Garrity — 2003-12-02T15:52:00-04:00

Kevin O'Brien, of Prince Edward Island's home-grown ISP, Island Services Network, told us a bit about himself while a slideshow of his impressive photos played behind him.

Kevin J. O'Brien speaks at Zap

15.6MB QuickTime - 5min - Kevin O'Brien of Island Services Network speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Kevin J. O'Brien - 886.7K MP3

Zap Video: Steve Regoczei

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-30T16:54:00-04:00

Steve Regoczei, Professor in Computer Studies at Trent University, talked about "stuff" (he called it "ephemera").

Steve Regoczei speaks at Zap

198MB QuickTime - 48min - Steve Regoczei of Trent University speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Steve Regoczei - 11.3MB MP3

Zap Video: Rob Paterson

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-30T16:46:00-04:00

Rob Paterson of Renewal Consulting spoke of organizational and cultural shifts in a talk rife with nautical metaphors.

Rob Paterson speaks at Zap

150MB QuickTime - 48min - Rob Paterson of Renewal consulting speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Rob Paterson - 8.6MB MP3

Zap Video: John Muir

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-12T15:43:00-04:00

John Muir of Trent Radio spoke about his great work to digitize the music collection (in Ogg Vorbis format) at Trent Radio.

John Muir speaks at Zap

167MB QuickTime - 52min - John Muir speaks at the Zap conference.

Zap Video: Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-11T13:15:00-04:00

Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy quickly became known as ‘the lovely librarians’. From Leddy Library at the University of Windsor, Lisa and Mita spoke about their role in the aggregation of diverse web news sources about the conflict in Iraq: Iraq 2003: Sources of News.

Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy speaks at Zap

188MB QuickTime - 59min - Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy speak at the Zap conference.

Audio of Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy - 10.6MB MP3

Zap Video: Peter Rukavina

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-10T12:10:00-04:00

One of the Zap great Zap oligarchy, Peter Rukavina of Reinvented Inc. shared his experience working on web tools behind Prince Edward Island’s provincial election.

Peter Rukavina speaks at Zap

198MB QuickTime - 1hr 2min - Peter Rukavina of Reinvented Inc speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Peter Rukavina - 11.3MB MP3

Zap Video: Buzz Bruggeman

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-07T10:18:00-04:00

First thing on Saturday morning (after the early morning architect’s tour of Avonlea) we were in the presence of Buzz.

Buzz Bruggeman speaks at Zap

198MB QuickTime - 1hr 2min - Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Buzz Bruggeman - 11.3MB MP3

Zap Video: Art Rhyno

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-06T15:01:00-04:00

While having been given the worst time-slot ever (starting at 10PM on Friday night after Dan’s talk), Art Rhyno made us all want to stay up even later. Art’s talk was also the first of many that turned librarians into the heros of the conference.

Art Rhyno speaks at Zap

198MB QuickTime - 1hr 2min - Art Rhyno, Systems Librarian at the Leddy Library at Windsor University speaks at the Zap conference.

Audio of Art Rhyno- 11.3MB MP3

Zap Video: Introduction and Dan James

Steven Garrity — 2003-11-03T10:57:00-04:00

We stuck a digital video camera and some borrow microphones in the conference room the Zap Your PRAM conference and captured most of the sessions. Peter Rukavina is hard at work digitizing the video and getting it web-ready.

We’ll be posting the session videos as we get them ready. They are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license and hosting and bandwidth is provided free of charge by the good people at the Internet Archive.

Our first two videos are a short introduction with Dan James and Peter Rukavina, and Dan James’ Friday night session.

Introduction & Housekeeping

36MB QuickTime - 11min - The opening night introduction and housekeeping notes with Dan James and Peter Rukavina.

Audio of Introduction - 1.4MB MP3

Zap Session: Dan James

159MB QuickTime - 50min - Dan James talks about silverorange and entertains a lively audience in the first session of the conference.

Audio of Dan James - 9.1MB MP3