by Brianna Austin

	Get Dresseed! book.

Crossdressers and Tranassexuals, although both under the transgender umbrella, are really very different things, which Gina Lance talks about in her new book entitled: Get Dressed!

Gina Lance, the Editor In Chief of TGLIFE.com, may be the most well known cross-dresser on the planet. After producing and co-hosting TV-TV for Century Cable in 1997, Gina went on to publish Hollywood TVs, a retro pin up girl calendar, and then in 1999 founded Girl Talk Magazine which became the Vogue of trans publications in ten countries.

In the last decade, Gina has been featured on MSNBC’s documentary “The Secret Closet,” ABC’s “Philly After Midnight,” MTV, Showtime, HBO, E Channel, FOX and NBC’s “To Tell The Truth,” along with hundreds of radio interviews from London to New Zealand and across North America discussing what it means to be a crossdresser. She has been keynote speaker at TG conventions such as Atlanta’s ‘Southern Comfort Conference, Arizona’s ‘Puttin’ On The Glitz’ and Arkansas’s ‘Eureka En Femme Getaway’ and also participated in the West Hollywood, California “Transgender’s in the Media” televised town hall event.

I first met Gina in 2001 when I became the New York columnist for Girl Talk Magazine and she and I hit it off right away. She was funny, honest, sincere and a true friend. Always candid and direct, she is — and has been — a positive voice in the crossdressing community. Gina doesn’t make excuses or apologize for who she is; she embraces it, and by doing so inspires others. But she wasn’t born that way. Like many trans people it took years, decades even, to come to grips with being transgender. In her new book Get Dressed! Gina provides insight to how she developed her positive view on cross-dressing, offers commentary on life in general and cross-dressing in particular.

This weekend we sat down and had a chat about her book

BRIANNA: So, what inspired you to write a book?

GINA LANCE: I first thought about writing it a few years back when I realized through the editorials I offered in GIRL TALK magazine that I was actually helping a great many people. I had never done anything in my life before where people actually walked up to me and said “You saved my life” or “You helped me explain crossdressing to my wife or S.O.” I was initially startled! I hadn’t realized at that point the power of my own keyboard and I was taken aback. I decided that from then on when I was doing television, radio and print interviews that I would do my best to show us all in a good light and try to change perceptions through example when I could.

BRIANNA: Well, let me be the first to congratulate you on completing it, which in of itself is an achievement.

GINA LANCE: Well thanks! It took a bit of time to get it together, but I’m really happy with the end result. I’ve been told it’s a good read and that certain people/groups will hate me for telling the truth and exposing them as bozos!

BRIANNA: You’ll have to elaborate on that!

GINA LANCE: I’m proud of who I am and I think every transgendered person should be proud of themselves too. Some in our community, and others in the mainstream, I believe show us in a bad or stupid light, and I wanted to counteract that, so I don’t hold back and I unload both barrels on them.

BRIANNA: So is this the start of the tranny wars?

GINA LANCE: [laughs], I wouldn’t go that far, but I’m sure that there will be some that are not going to be pleased with what I have to say.

BRIANNA: So what can one expect to find in GET DRESSED!?

GINA LANCE: Get Dressed! has some of my life story, what I’ve learned and how it can help other crossdressers. I made many mistakes breaking out of the TG closet and if I can help anyone else avoid those same mistakes, then I’m doing a good job. Many transgendered people are afraid to let most of the world know they are transgendered, and that’s fine. But there are others that are out of the TG closet and talking to the press, and I have my opinions about that. Part of my goal is that people in general need to know what we’re about.

BRIANNA: Did writing the book bring back any funny moments that you had forgotten?

GINA LANCE: Meeting you! Seriously, yes, there were incidents that I revisited when I was writing the book. I find it humorous that we all think we pass so well. One of the first times I was out dressed I was at the Southern Comfort Conference and I had to go to a grocery store to pick up a few items for Jin Bridges. I thought I was totally passable until I stepped out of the car. It was a wake up call because I was clocked by virtually every man, woman and child.

When I did the Roseanne Barr show I shared lunch with her. The guest before me made sandwiches with his feet, but I figured if she was going to eat one on national TV, so would I, and as it turned out, the sandwich was less disgusting than she was. Seriously though, eating the sandwich was easier than answering her insane questions.

BRIANNA: What was your favourite interview?

GINA LANCE: My favourite time being interviewed was when I subbed for a guest on a conservative radio talk show. How they found me, I’ll never know. They contacted me on short notice (about 5 minutes) and it was early evening and I had just had two martinis and I remember telling some irate caller that my personal hero was J. Edgar Hoover. There was stunned silence on the show.

The funniest interview I conducted was with actress Sally Kirkland — who did the whole interview lounging on her bed, eating shredded cheese, which continuously dropped on her ample bosom where her dog proceeded to nibble it off. And people wonder why I think life in general is hilarious

BRIANNA: Do you have any general advice for being a crossdresser?

GINA LANCE: Sure, just smile and be positive.

BRIANNA: When does Get Dressed! come out? And where can readers get a copy?

GINA LANCE: It ships Mid March this year. And I’ve learned through years of publishing that most TG’s would rather order online for books or products, and not try purchase something at say Border’s Books, so you can buy Get Dressed! right here. Orders are being taken right now and shipping as it comes off the press. It will also be available in the future at several other TG online websites.

For more information about Gina’s new book, check out Ginalance.com. LINK

by Vicki Secret, Safesextour.com writer

	Vicki Secret.

I am the one person that allot of people do not like. Very few people want to offer me jobs, opportunities, or bathroom use. I am the sex that is not listed on every government employment term. What am I you may ask? Sometimes I ask myself the same question.

My aunt once told that I will never truly be a woman no matter how much work I have and how many guys I date, I am still a boy by birth. I told her at least, I will never become a true man. This happen to me at the age of 18 going on 19.

I consider myself a pre op “transsexual”, sexually a “shemale”. Allot of girls like me hate the name “shemale”, they don’t even like the word “transgender”, but when it all comes down to it, allot of people call us, “it” or “that”. I hear those word all the time. I am a transsexual that pass 80 percent of the time depending on how I look. I can not walk out my house like normal women and go with the flow. To live this way cost allot of money because its not easy. I am not the prettiest, or the nicest, but I am me that for once I can say I am proud of.

I get in allot of fights because I call myself shemalesecret or shemalevicki. Its mostly with biological or born women and other transsexuals, post and pre-operational (pre-op). When people hear “shemale” that know what I am. Now in public, I am a woman majority of the time and I don’t tell people my personal business. I feel that a woman is not going to tell me hers, so why should I open up and tell her mine.

I don’t escort like allot of girls do, I was arrested 2007 of last year and that has taught me a lesson. I was very blessed that I had a good lawyer and a nice prosecuter that did not show hate on me the day of the trial. They referred to me as she and her, which is very odd, but I prepared myself for them.

You will see me on the net mostly nude. My everyday life is not like that. I live my life as a undercover nerd type. I am smart by many people, but they just don’t realize, I just be trying to survive and make it in society.

I am nicely endowed up to 7 inches and that is a problem when comes to finding a guy. Men think that because of my height of 5′ 9″ and I am black that I have a big something between my legs. I have a nice size something between my legs and I don’t care to use it really. I do use it at times, but that’s when I want to, not because it turns a guy on really.

I am not a pornstar, but more and activist, wanting to make change. My goal is to make that change. I pray that one day you will here that I am making a difference in the world.

You can call me a shemale, trannie, tgirl, transsexual, transvestite, cross dresser or whatever, but when it all comes down to it, I am just Vicki Secret.

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Are you a Transgendered or a cross-dresser who is seeking a free ‘online’ social network? Are you a Tgirl admirer. The Canadian announces the development of a new and totally free ‘online’ social network for primarily for Tgirls and admirers. However this sexual diversity oriented social network is not restricted. This new social network can be used for ‘online’ dating, community activism, or business networking.

It has been observed that traditional social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook are fine decisions for those who want to get in to the social networking scene. They have tens of millions of members and are constantly growing at a rapid pace. The websites also have tons of features and a variety of options. For some people, the immense size of a social network is actually a deterrent to joining, as huge social networks can be quite intimidating.

Also, there is no focus on the big social networks, as they target everyone who has a computer and Internet connection. Maybe you are interested in a smaller, more targeted social network, one that is not threatening in the least bit and is tailored to your specific needs.

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Throughout numerous online mediums, an individual has the power to communicate to an unseen audience from the privacy and sanctuary of their bedrooms.  In doing so, they are revealing themselves in a way that has never before been done.  With the aid of youtube and webcams, an individual is able to share parts of themselves that they might not normally think of.  They are able to convey messages that grow and inspire other individuals in a novel and powerful way.  This form of communication is a type of collaboration that can occur over a wide period of time and space.  There is no limit to who will see your post/video, but the point is that it is out there for people to see, share, and experience.  By creating these videos, people are uniting and receiving comfort from other people, which they do not know, because they have gone through or felt the same way at some point.  They are the extra boost that helps you get through a stressful day at work or the death of a loved one or just a difficult time.  Webcams allow you to change your personality, they are a form of self awareness and discovery and reflection.  An individual is able to experiment with their own understandings of their self.  They can tweak their identities and feel things differently so that they can better understand themselves.   

Individuals are able to break down boundaries within themselves as well as with those around them.  People can express strong values in a silent way; they are showing ways of accepting yourself as well as other people.  There is a video on youtube with a man carrying a sign labeled with:  “free hugs;” at first the crowd does not take to it, but gradually they start to give the man hugs.  Eventually other people from all over the world start using their own “free hugs” sign and they are able to connect with complete strangers on a very elemental level.  Another youtube video poster goes by the name of MadV, he wears the mask from the movie V for Vendetta so he can remain anonymous, and he has trademarked palm messages.  These hand messages depict strong values that may at times be forgotten, desired, taken for granted, or needed.  Some examples are:  love yourself, smile to strangers, be kind, forgive and forget, united, and one world, etc.  These messages are definitely breaking down boundaries in novel ways by non-verbalizing vital values that are needed today.  This is interesting because these values are felt or thought about in this powerful way, but they are not necessarily spoken about. 

It’s Her Thing: How a beautiful woman with a little something extra got that way — and why “straight” men are lining up to meet her

by Amy Sohn

	New York’s Allanah Starr.

Allanah Starr is a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual, which means she looks like a woman from head to toe except for one very prominent thing. Like many other transsexuals, she works as an escort, and she also has a burgeoning adult-film career (Shemale Strokers #3 was her most recent) and a website, shemaleexotica.com, that gets more than 3,000 hits a day. She lives alone in midtown, in a dimly lit minimalist apartment, and has a framed poster of Warhol’s Marilyn above her plush red couch. She is also unbelievably hot. Her boobs put mine to shame — 36DD — and she has a tiny sculpted nose and wide eyes, all a result of the 30 surgeries she’s had in the past six years.

She looks like a contemporary Raquel Welch — so hyperfeminine she makes me feel plain. As she tells me her story in her soft voice, wearing a snug Alexander McQueen jacket that highlights her cleavage, her legs curled up under her on the couch, I find myself thinking that maybe these days, the ideal woman doesn’t have to be a woman at all.

Allanah, who says she’s in her mid-twenties, was born in Cuba and grew up in Miami as a shy, effeminate boy, more interested in girls’ clothing than boys’. “I always saw myself as a girl in a way. I would play with my sister’s toys, but I had to stop playing with them when my father came home.”

She came out at 15, became involved in a gay-and-lesbian youth group, started taking drama, and got more confident, winning a school contest for her drag performance of Julie Brown’s “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun.” After high school, she attended a fashion college and began going to gay clubs at night. “I wasn’t going in drag,” she says, “but I was really androgynous — a lot of foundation that was the wrong color, mascara and lip gloss, my hair down to my shoulders. Most of the guys had no interest in me because I was so effeminate.”

Allanah Starr and Gia Darling who both Transsexuals at a night club.

But she was professionally driven and started dancing at clubs for money. “I was more interested in being shocking and bizarre than pretty,” Allanah says. When the club work started drying up, she got a job at tranny theme restaurant Lucky Cheng’s in Miami (in drag), where she met some transsexual waitresses. “I started thinking, When I get older, do I want to be a really effeminate old gay man, or do I want to be a girl and explore all these things that I always wanted to do?”

With help from a co-worker, she began taking hormones and getting electrolysis. She found a plastic surgeon and got a nose job, an ear pin, and breast implants. She assumed a female name, coming up with Allanah later, when she started doing porn.

	Allanah Starr

Those first surgeries were funded by a friend, an older man she met at Lucky Cheng’s: “He was helping me out quite a bit. We didn’t have sex. He said he was impotent. Then Viagra came out and I stopped seeing him.” Eventually he disappeared and the restaurant closed down, so she turned to escorting. “I’d never had a regular job, and I just couldn’t see myself working somewhere for $10 an hour. It’s an expensive lifestyle,” she says.

She moved to New York four years ago to work for an agency, and now she works for herself. The men who like transsexuals are a diverse bunch, she says. Almost all are interested in the thing that makes Allanah so special. “A lot of them are submissive,” she says. Some guys are turned on by it, but “they can’t deal with touching it.”

“Are there a lot of guys like that?” I ask.

“Very few,” she says.

The most annoying thing about being a transsexual is that guys always want to dish with her about that annoying topic called What It All Means. “Of course they all think they’re gay. I avoid that conversation. I can’t deal with people who have issues.”

Part of the problem is, there’s no language yet to describe men who are drawn to trannies — or, as a friend of mine puts it, “transgressives.” My own guess is that they fall into four subcategories: closeted gay men who need the T & A so they don’t freak out about the ‘D‘; bisexual men who can get both needs met at the same time; porn-addicted men who need to keep crossing new boundaries to get aroused; and straight guys who nonetheless have a narcissistic attraction to the penis.

	Graphic credit: Zohar Lazar.

Allanah’s sexuality is much more simple: She likes men and is okay with it. Though she’d like to be in a serious relationship, she doesn’t think it’s likely in the near future. For one thing, the guy would have to accept her work; for another, he’d have to accept his own attraction to her. For now she leads an independent lifestyle, doing movies to help with publicity and escorting to pay for her surgeries. “Surgery is kind of an obsession,” she says. “I’m totally addicted to altering my appearance, and I’m not really satisfied with anything. Transsexuals are very vain. Your whole life is your appearance.”

As for the surgical hole-y grail, she’s not sure. “There’s an assumption that a sex change is the final goal for everyone, and I don’t think it is,” she says. “If I do it, it’s going to be just for myself, not because I think it’s going to be a way of solving all the problems that I have now being pre-op.” And financially, as with any career, it helps to have a penis: In porn films, transsexuals start at about $1,000 to $1,500 per scene while women’s rates are about half that.

Still, sometimes she wishes she’d known more about her options earlier. “I think my life would have been different if I had started transitioning when I was younger and gotten a sex change. I could have had a regular career. And I probably would be able to find a serious relationship.” She pauses, and then we both grin, thinking the same thing. “I know,” she says. “I guess in New York, genetic women have a hard time finding relationships, too.”

This article first appeared in New York magazine. LINK

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by Brianna Austin

	Brianna Austin.

Faced with confrontation, what’s a TG girl to do?

I was walking down Broadway in Manhattan — a small group of friends in tow – when just as I crossed

West 22nd Street I heard a voice shout out, “Hey, beautiful, is that an Adam’s Apple you have”? I turned, with a grin upon my face and saw four or five guys in their late-20s, sitting in their compact car (no doubt part of the “bridge-and-tunnel-crowd” that descend upon Manhattan from New Jersey, Connecticut and the other New York boroughs each weekend) laughing as they waited for the light to change.

Honey, that’s the least of what I have,” I said with a giggle, prompting them to laugh once more. We then engaged in a playful banter for the next few moments. Were they initially laughing at me? Perhaps, though I wasn’t sure, but, now, they were laughing with me. As the light changed they pulled off with a parting, “you’re pretty cool, have a great night!” And so I did.

Since I had walked out of the closet so many years ago, encounters like these had become a regular occurrence for me. I don’t necessarily go looking for them; but it’s pretty hard not to find them when you’re walking down the street in a pink, spaghetti strap, Gucci mini-dress and matching spiked sandals. And though things don’t always go so smoothly, I have to say that most times they do.

For all the remarks that are aimed at me, I never took any of them too seriously. Several of my friends were offended at the Adam’s Apple remark, and given the chance would have opted for a simple, “Fuck you,” or some other aggressive response. But it seems to me that many of the guys who are arrogant with TG girls are often insecure within themselves to start with, making for a potentially explosive situation. So, when met with head on anger it is a breeding ground for physical confrontation. Leaving me to wonder why any TG would risk the possibility of physical harm as their first course of action? What purpose could such an action provide?

Even if I had taken an aggressive stance, met a physical confrontation head on, and emerged victorious, what is the prize? The odds are higher that I would have ruined my new shoes rather than changed anyone’s views about me. Not to mention that the rest of the evening I would have been all worked up emotionally, only to have me right back where it all started anyway.

That’s not to say that I take everything that comes along, because sometimes, you just have to stand your ground. But I at least try to give the antagonist a way out by trying to ease the tension first. If it doesn’t work, then sometimes you have to decide your next option. In fact later that same night, outside of Centro Fly, the club we were en route to, another fellow yelled out from his SUV, as he was waiting to park.

Again – with a smile – I found myself in a verbal banter; however, this time was different. This guy was hostile and arrogant. The more my remarks brought laughs from his friends, the angrier he became. But, I never downgraded him; I only made light of the situation. It is easy to keep a lighthearted mood if you don’t allow people under your skin.

By realizing that their words don’t define you, but only them, makes that easier to do. Someone calling me a freak, fairy or jerk doesn’t necessarily make me those things; but does define them for saying it. With every insult he threw, I tossed back something light and easy, until finally, when he had been verbally out jousted long enough, he screamed, “ I’m gonna kick your ass fagot!”

What was I to do? My friends were quite stunned when I reached down and took my shoes off, looked at him and quietly said, “OK, come on. How bad a beating I give you will depend on how dirty you get my dress.” He stood there a long minute, absorbing the words, and finally, cracked a smile and started to laugh. And that was that.

Maybe he realized how ridiculous the whole affair was, or perhaps he suddenly realized that had he lost his friends would never have let him live it down. Still, right until the very end I kept offering him a way out through humour, and just in time, he took it. Confronting someone is always a last resort however, and only if you’re confident you can handle the situation. Otherwise just walk away: use your head, not your ego. Believe me, I have walked away from many hostile situations where I felt that I was in danger.

For the most part I have found that being candidly transgender disarms people. Straight guys love to yell, “You’re a guy,” or something to that effect. But, when you shrug it off as though “Your point being,” what else is there really left for them to say? Their punch line came and went, and had no effect. When they then know that you know that they know, everyone is more comfortable. That doesn’t imply abusing yourself for their sake, but rather making light of the obvious.

There are times when being TG can be funny, and onlookers shouldn’t be expected to pretend that something out of “their” ordinary hasn’t occurred. When someone yells out, “Hey, you’re a guy,” that’s an observation not necessarily an insult. And even if it is first intended to be, most people chuckle when my friend Dahlia would counter, “Thanks for reminding me, I had almost forgotten.”

In the end, we are new to people in the mainstream, and many, especially young straight guys, are intimidated and insecure. So, to cover it up they try their hand at an insult for laughs. Our society breeds contempt and insult, just watch any of the late night talk shows. So I say, there is too much drama in the world already, why add to it. Does it make you feel better to be hostile in trying to make a statement? Get over it, and make your point by example: live and let live with a smile. Even if the other person is a little slow to grab the idea, usually they’ll realize how silly they are acting in time. Besides, wouldn’t you rather be trying on a new pair of shoes?

Until next time, be happy, be safe, and always think pretty.

About the writer:

Brianna Austin is co-author of “I’d Do It Again,” a free lance writer, and publisher of TG Life, LINK, a website by, for and about the transgender community.

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شاهد فديو, فيديو كليب انا بيه ورومانسى من فلم, فيلم البيه رومانسى – سعد الصغير 2009
تحمل وتنزيل فديو, فيديو كليب سعد الصغير من فلم, فيلم البيه رومانسى انا بيه ورومانسى

لمشاهدة وتحميل الفديو, فيديو كليب …

شاهد فديو, فيديو كليب اغنية سعد الصغير انا بيه ورومانسى من فلم, فيلم البيه رومانسى
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شاهد فديو, فيديو كليب انا بيه ورومانسى من فلم, فيلم البيه رومانسى – سعد الصغير 2009
تحمل وتنزيل فديو, فيديو كليب سعد الصغير من فلم, فيلم البيه رومانسى انا بيه ورومانسى

لمشاهدة وتحميل الفديو, فيديو كليب …

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Previously I introduced this series on selecting a webcam by briefly discussing Image Resolution, Motion, Features, Service Providers, and external vs. internal models. This second and final installment, built on the list of topics introduced previously in Part I, discusses webcam mounting types, microphones, unique properties of the Mac, conference room options, and sources to purchase your webcam. At the bottom is a list of recommended webcams based on our experiences at Vonei, and an online source where you can purchase them.

A friend of mine pointed out that internal webcams on laptops are convenient, but are usually lower quality and can break more frequently. Closing the laptop screen repeatedly could eventually result in a small crack in the lens or a sensor misalignment due to the shock. My friend’s daughter got a Lenovo for college and the camera was broken in 2-3 months. She uses her laptop quite a bit and opens and closes it frequently. She reported there is now a big black line right in the middle of the picture, a symptom of a cracked lens Having an external webcam is a good safety net as well as a means of getting a higher quality image and motion.

Mounting Types. Webcams are usually optimized for desktop computers or laptop computers. What’s the difference? Desktop computers are likely to need a webcam that accommodates sitting on a flat surface. Clip-on webcams are not as ideal for flat surfaces. Desktop computer CPUs are often placed on the floor. To plug in your USB webcam to the CPU, and have the webcam sitting in a position showing your face requires a long USB cable. If you have a desktop look for these two features. A laptop requires the opposite characteristics. A clip-on webcam is ideal, and the smaller the better for carrying the device while traveling. A laptop is ideal for a short USB cable. After all, who would want several feet of USB cable coiled on their desk when they only need a couple of feet length between the USB port and the top of the laptop screen?

Webcams with microphones. Webcams come with or without a microphone. After the past couple of years in testing webcams I’ve come to the conclusion that it is best to use a computer headset with microphone, and not the microphone in the webcam. Computers are inherently not good speaker phones, and sound from the computer speakers could enter the webcam microphone causing an echo effect. A headset places the “speakers” on the ears, and the microphone right in front of the mouth. A headset provides the best audio experience, making the webcam microphone a non-required feature.

Mac webcams have unique characteristics. Macs are optimized for use with Apple’s services such as iChat. While they do a great job, it is inconvenient for video conferencing with people on PCs or Linux computers. The Macs will not release the webcam to other service applications unless you turn off webcam access to iChat, Photo Booth, and Skype. Also, Mac users need to select the USB webcam when they use their service. This is true even if the webcam is built-in. Why one has to select USB when the webcam is built-in is puzzling, but trust me, unless you do this the Mac webcam may not work on your video service.

Conference Rooms. Webcams are great when the users are sitting right in front of their computer. But what do you do in a large conference room with multiple people? A little known fact is that you can use a video camera, and some digital cameras, as a webcam. You will need a video capture cable to connect your computer to the video camera (source provided below). With a video camera you can mount in on a tripod on the conference room table and show everyone in the room. If the computer is plugged into a large screen monitor, or plugged into a projector and shown on the wall, everyone in the conference room can see the other parties. Plug in a USB speaker phone and you have a very low cost solution, avoiding a large investment in traditional video conferencing equipment.

Final thoughts before the recommendations. Lighting can play a major factor in the quality of the webcam image. Never sit with a window behind you, as the background light source will place your face in shadows. Having a desk lamp is very helpful in shining light on your face, improving both the image contrast and color. Another recommendation is to ensure that the webcam you purchase has been tested with the service provider you plan to use, and that the webcam works on your operating system. No one wants to purchase a webcam with good specifications and then find out it doesn’t work on Vista or has an interoperability issue.

Webcam recommendations and sources. After the past couple of years of experience with webcams I recommend the following units:

Brand Model Online Source Recent Price

Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 www.newegg.com $75.99

Logitech QuickCam Communication MP www.newegg.com $44.99

Vonei V8019 www.videointerviewkits.com $19.99

WinBook WB-6185 www.microcenter.com $19.99

Video Capture Cable  www.videointerviewkits.com $39.99

I used to recommend the Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 ($26.99 at newegg.com) until we had several users complain of interoperability with Flash video. I believe Microsoft placed a software patch on their website to fix this, so if you’re game for downloading software patches the Microsoft webcam may work well for you. TigerDirect.com is another online source for webcams. Check them out and compare pricing, but I generally find the other sites listed above will provide lower pricing. And, one of my biases will show here…friends don’t let friends buy webcams at WalMart. This is only my opinion, but if you are going to purchase at a retail outlet I’d stick with BestBuy or other electronics specialty stores.

I hope that this series of articles on picking a good business webcam has been helpful. I welcome your comments/suggestions/feedback with your own experiences. Whatever webcam you choose I hope you have a high quality experience!

Alan Fitzpatrick is the Co-founder of Vonei LLC which provides live video conferencing service across PCs, Macs, and Linux computers. VideoInterviewKits is an affiliate of Vonei LLC. Additional information about Vonei can be found on http://www.vonei.com.

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I am a cyclist, and for a while now I have been thinking about the increasing numbers of my fellow cyclists in the UK who are filming their everyday rides to work, and often posting the results online on sites like youtube. This has become more obvious as something particular since i have moved to Canada where very few cyclists seem to do this. There are more and more discussions on online cycling forums and even dedicated areas for swapping videos, tips and camera stories. This practice seems to have started amongst mountain-bikers and other extreme sports enthusiasts, but the use of handlebar or helmet-mounted cameras on ordinary commuting rides has a very different purpose. For most it appears to originate in a desire for self-protection. Cyclists are more aware than most of bad driving and how vulnerable you can feel when people cocooned in large mobile chunks of metal and glass are doing stupid things around you at high speed.

But as a surveillance studies specialist as well as a cyclist, I have more mixed feelings. We’ve been studying the way in which surveillance has come to be perhaps the primary way in which the state organises itself, and how crucial it as become to capital, to the organisation of labour and materials. We have also identified the way in which increasingly ubiquitous surveillance affects social relations, how it is implicated both as a reaction to, and as a driver of, the decline of social assurance, of trust. We’ve talked about the dehumanising effects of surveillance: the loss of dignity, privacy, of how memory and the mollifying effects of forgetting are replaced by constant recording. We have predicted the decreasing size and cost of surveillance devices, of their growing mobility, independence and even ‘democratization’ (or at least wider spread), and seen those predictions happen at even greater speed than most had anticipated.

The surveillance society has spawned reactions: there has been anti-surveillance (smashing of cameras, protests, mapping of paths of least surveillance etc.), situationalism and play, there has been ’sousveillance’ with activists turning the gaze back on the watchers, and there has been guerilla and vigilante surveillance, with groups citizens using the increasingly cheap surveillance equipment for their own personal and political ends from the Texas Minutemen watching the US border for illegal immigrants to my cyclist friends.

My real concern, I suppose, is whether the use of surveillance by ordinary people is some kind of empowering self-protection, or whether it is simply another step further into a surveillance society. The answer, I think, is that it is both. Certainly the cyclists don’t see it as the latter, but people, even the most intelligent, rarely see themselves as part of a trend that many would regard as negative. Some do recognise the connection but have no problem with it. The same ‘nothing to hide. nothing to fear’ rhetoric is trotted out, but usually by people who are too naive to understand the implications of what they are saying, too self-centered to realise that it isn’t just about them, or too boring to be able to even imagine what they might ever do anything interesting enough to come to the attention of anyone watching. The use of helmet cams does however, have an in inherent and implied politics: it does make it very difficult to construct any coherent politics of state CCTV if you are yourself involved in surveillance on an everyday basis. How can you complain about the number of cameras in your high street, when you make videos of drivers who have annoyed you and put them online?

I’ll be posting more about this as I think of it.

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