Steve Garfield (Boston, MA) is one of the leading edge experts in online video and blogging. An early adopter of live streaming over the web and on cell phones, he launched his own regular video blog on January 1, 2004. 

A recognized video blogging expert, Garfield has been featured in Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Boston Globe and on CNN, BBC, and BusinessWeek.com. He blogs regularly at Off on a Tangent, which has received over 1 million visitors, posts videos at Steve Garfield’s Video Blog, (http://SteveGarfield.blogs.com), and can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/stevegarfield where he has over 18,000 followers.

Garfield has advised many of the web's early video startups on user interface, including Seesmic, Livestream, Qik, TubeMogul, and blip.tv. He is the founder of Boston Media Makers and has helped the group to spread to other cities including New York and Washington, DC.  

He was chosen as the Boston correspondent for the pioneering video podcast, Rocketboom, and he also provides citizen journalism reports for CNN iReport, The Uptake, and techPresident. Garfield lectures at Boston University, Northeastern and Emerson College.