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Zap Your PRAM Conference 2003

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Zap Video: Kevin J. O'Brien

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.

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

Zap Video: Steve Regoczei

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

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

Zap Video: Rob Paterson

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

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

Zap Video: John Muir

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

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

Zap Video: Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy

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.

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

Zap Video: Peter Rukavina

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.

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

Zap Video: Buzz Bruggeman

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

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

Zap Video: Art Rhyno

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.

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

Zap Video: Introduction and Dan James

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.

Zap Intro VideoIntroduction & Housekeeping

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

Dan James’ Zap SessionZap Session: Dan James

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

Zap French Juice

Zap gets French-language attention from Paris.