I must say I’ve been very impressed by the creators over at ustream.tv. Ustream.tv is a wonderful Web2.0 startup that allows you to take any DV camera or webcam and broadcast yourself to the world. The features are rich and the price is right (right as in free). So what do you get when you sign up for an account at ustream.tv? Well first off you get an excellent and easy to use interface for creating your own shows. Secondly, the options seem endless in that you can customize the experience from having user moderated forums to password protected feeds. When the stream is up and running you embed the show into a website using there easy to use embed code or give a direct link to a website where people can watch. You can broadcast and record all at the same time as well as control a variety of features through the pop up interface. After you’re finished you can choose to leave the pre-recorded events up for later viewing as wells as transcode the video for download and later use. I don’t know how they did it but they’ve made personal broadcasting a breeze. Hopefully I can throw up some content in the near future to let you see what I’m talking about. I can already see a lot of potential for use at the University. I am hoping that we can begin broadcasting forum discussions, special presentations, and maybe even some classroom instruction.