Re: [videoblogging] external hard drives for editing?
To get the best of both worlds, I use one of these: http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/docking_stations/sata_quickport_pro/index_en.html?id=2 It allows me to hot-plug any SATA drive, and provides both USB2 and SATA connections. They even make one with USB3. I have a stack of regular internal 1TB and 2TB hard drives beside my editing PC and just plug and play. Best of all, my data is not held hostage to their hardware. If this adapter dies, I can always put the same hard drive in a standard USB drive enclosure available from any PC store and carry on with no change. Anyone else do anything like this? Frank. On 16 April 2010 19:12, Robert Millis mil...@hudsonstreetmedia.com wrote: I should add that Western Digital *internal* drives have always performed very well for me. On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Robert Millis wrote: The MyBook drives seem to be a good option for archival use, but I have to say ghat I've never had them perform well for use when editing. The Fantom drives and some Lacies have been best on my system. So if you think you might push some of the editing to an external, I recommend those options. - Rob Sent from my Robphone On Apr 16, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark Villaseñor videoblogyahoogr...@tailtrex.t v wrote: David Lee King: I'd like to move to doing more editing of videos and music off of an external hard drive... Hi David: Well, for whatever its worth, I'd suggest NOT editing directly from an external but rather using one (or more) for archival purposes. Lots of reasons for this yet suffice it to say; unless you utilize Firewire or perhaps USB 3.0 cutting speed flow may be affected (depending on your system, of course). Although Western Digital has been poo-poo'd on the Net, it's worth noting that EVERY hard drive manufacture has failures. WD's, however, are by and large dependable drives used by mainstream industry players for this reason. That said; the Western Digital 1TB/2TB My Book Essential drives are fine for archrivals. We use the 1TB model (RAD emulated in quad - split, 2 2) because XP only recognizes up to 1-Terabyte, but one could theoretically partition the 2TB unit to overcome this XP issue. These units can be had for as little as $99/$149 US, respectively, via online sources. Even so one may be able to find lower pricing by shopping around. Hope this helps. Mark Villaseñor, http://www.TailTrex.tv Canine Adventures For Charity - sm http://www.SOAR508.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On 4 February 2010 21:46, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! Good to hear that you resolved this. Interestingly, video blogs should be particulatly good at preventing things like this. Scraping and subsituting text is relatively easy, but dynamically altering the content of a video/audio stream is _much_ harder. Maybe what we should all learn from this is to include a bit more personal placement in the videos themselves. I'm not talking in your face here, but (for example) if you were to hand-write your eevblog url on a piece of card and stand it somewhere on an often-visible bench or shelf in your lab, it would be virtually impossible to remove from your videos, especially if you occasionally change the colour, shape, or handwriting. That, together with the occasional mention of your site while you are speaking to the camera should pretty much ensure that attempts to scrape your site will be pointless. Let's use the tools we have, and spare a moment of pity for poor text bloggers who have no such defences :( Frank. http://www.makevideo.org.uk/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Day 30: 30 Day 30 People 30 Videos
2009/11/30 Rupert rup...@twittervlog.tv: I'm psyched to see this. Today is my last day at my job. I've been saving the last two weeks worth of videos to watch in one go to celebrate. Congrats to everybody for making their video and making this happen. I'm really impressed, too. Well done everyone! What I'd really like, though, is to edit together the whole thing into one video as was suggested at the start. I tried earlier in the month, but was unable to download several of the entries from their various video hosting sites. Does anyone have the requisite download-fu to grab all of the videos and place them into a single sequence? I realize that the interactive and looping entries would need to be dumbed down for this sort of presentation, but I'd still love to bable to watch the whole game from start to finish. Any thoughts? Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
Thanks Michael! 2009/11/25 Michael Verdi michaelve...@gmail.com I posted it to the miro site. It just made a text link at the top of the thumbnail that links to the video file. Also there is a button that takes you to the original blog post. - Verdi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.com frank.carver%40googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Kath, Maybe its time I finally looked into how to post videos to a sharing service such as blip.tv. Up until now I have never needed anything more than placing the video on my server and linking to it in a blog post, so I have happily avoided all of the blips and vimeos and youtubes of the world. Sigh. 2009/11/24 Kath O'Donnell alia...@gmail.com aliak77%40gmail.com hi Frank, sorry I can't recall seeing the embed field in previous uploads, but I tried it now with another blip video using the othe other url in the blip dashboard list. eg if I use the permalink for url= http://blip.tv/file/id I don't see the embed field it fills in all the video details from my blip post. if I use the episode details url=http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/id then it does see the embed I have to fill in all the details - it looks like this page hasn't recognized it's a video you u might have to paste the blip embed code?? I haven't tried a .wmv file so not sure if that's related? also, if I use the direct link .flv file as the url then it uses that nice player which keeps a snapshot of the video as the background, but you need to enter all the description/tags etc manually (just paste from blip). can't recall having to enter embed code using this method though.. hth kath 2009/11/25 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.comfrank.carver%40googlemail.com frank.carver%40googlemail.com However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Michael Verdi http://michaelverdi.com http://talkbot.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Navlopomo day 24 now available
I have not had time to put it in a blog post, yet. That will have to come later. For now, here's a direct link: http://makevideo.org.uk/video/2009-11-24-change.wmv I was intrigued by all the chopping and changing in recent videos from Mike Moon and David Lee King, but I wanted to pick that up and show that change is a vital part of survival. And I wanted to celebrate Darwin, today at least. Phew! Good luck Trine. Frank.
[videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
2009/11/24 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.com: I have not had time to put it in a blog post, yet. That will have to come later. Later is now. Blog post available at: http://www.makevideo.org.uk/2009/11/24/navlopomo-2009-day-24/ However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? Thanks, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Navlopomo day 24 now available
Thanks Kath, Maybe its time I finally looked into how to post videos to a sharing service such as blip.tv. Up until now I have never needed anything more than placing the video on my server and linking to it in a blog post, so I have happily avoided all of the blips and vimeos and youtubes of the world. Sigh. 2009/11/24 Kath O'Donnell alia...@gmail.com hi Frank, sorry I can't recall seeing the embed field in previous uploads, but I tried it now with another blip video using the othe other url in the blip dashboard list. eg if I use the permalink for url= http://blip.tv/file/id I don't see the embed field it fills in all the video details from my blip post. if I use the episode details url=http://blip.tv/dashboard/episode/id then it does see the embed I have to fill in all the details - it looks like this page hasn't recognized it's a video you u might have to paste the blip embed code?? I haven't tried a .wmv file so not sure if that's related? also, if I use the direct link .flv file as the url then it uses that nice player which keeps a snapshot of the video as the background, but you need to enter all the description/tags etc manually (just paste from blip). can't recall having to enter embed code using this method though.. hth kath 2009/11/25 Frank Carver frank.car...@googlemail.comfrank.carver%40googlemail.com However, I am having trouble with the form to add a video to the 30 days videobloggers miro community. The form insists I put something in a field named embed, but I have no idea what to put there. Can anyone who has done this already give any hints? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: OMG I'm so excited to be here + feedback much appreciated
Listening to your video again there seems to be two basic sound problems. The most annoying (to me, at least) is the machine noise. This is typical of on-board microphones on tape camcorders, particularly where the camera is some distance from the talent and has turned up its gain to get a reasonable level of voice. As several people have already suggested, the solution to this is to separate the microphone from the camera, and get it closer to your voice so it does not need so much gain. You can do this by using a clip-on lavalier microphone, but be careful to put it where it does not rub or brush against clothing, hair or jewellery, so that you do not just replace machine noise with a different sort of noise. You could also use a directional shotgun microphone either mounted on the camcorder or (generally better) mounted on a separate stand or boom so you can get it as close as possible without being in shot. Given that you seem to like presenting in a head and shoulders close up, you could even try a desk microphone at waist level. The second sound problem seems to be the echo (reverb). This usually occurs in hard spaces where the sound bounces off walls, floor and ceiling as well as coming direct from the mouth of the speaker. Bringing the microphone closer to the voice should help this a bit, but you may also want to consider making the room more soft when recording. It is possible to buy special sound-absorbing foam from recording studio suppliers, but almost any form of fabric or soft furnishing can help reduce echoes. Experiment with your space, trying things such as a few towels or blankets draped over drying racks behind the microphone/camera, placing cushions, pillows or bean bags in corners, and recording in a room with a carpet, curtains and some soft seating. We have some much better sound engineers on this list than me, and I'm sure they will have other suggestions. The most important thing to do though is to learn to listen for this sort of thing. Get a reasonable set of closed cup headphones and listen to your recordings without looking at the pictures. Try and ignore what's being said and listen to the background and the way it sounds. After a while you will find it very easy to spot potential sound problems. I hope this helps, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] 2nd Navlopomo chain...?
2009/10/22 Rupert Howe rup...@twittervlog.tv wrote: It's just been suggested to me that since some people have missed out, maybe we should start a 2nd calendar - have a second 'competing' chain. I reckon it could already be half filled with people who have missed out - maybe we'd have to seek out people to fill the remaining spaces. Or maybe not. The first one filled up in less than a day. What do you think? I have been mulling this over for a while now, and I have come to the conclusion that I don't like the idea of separate chains (much as I don't like the idea of imposing extra rules on length, format, content or whatever.) Surely the point of this exercise is to inspire and empower creators to share and work together rather than to constrain, limit and separate. Just because someone happened to check their email in time to get an original slot should not mean that they become part of some sort of founding clique, and that people with other time zones or email practices are relegated to a B team. If we are not all of equal value here then it is not the community I thought it was. My suggestion is simple. Rather than one video from one person each day the game should be _at_least_ one video from one person each day. Now that we have one name in each slot, we have great freedom. Newcomers should be free to add their name to any slot they like, or even just wait for inspiration to strike during the process itself. This is the real world, and it's very likely that a few of the original slots will not result in a video, or at least not in enough time to keep the flow moving. More participants means more flexibility and more chance of achieving something great. During the semanal project I part-built some software to allow people to individually curate and publish paths through the hundreds of videos which accumulated during the year. Something like that could add an extra dimension of interest to this project too. Please don't tie down vital creativity with rules to suit some imagined and (probably non-existent) viewer. Let something beautiful emerge! Thanks, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo 2009
I'll take the 24th. Thanks, Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Keeping tapes
2009/10/5 Pete Prodoehl ras...@gmail.com I put my 20+ year old box of audio cassettes to good use... And you can see some of the results here: http://www.mkepunk.com/ That's really cool, Pete. Any idea on license terms for these MP3s, though? By implication they are free to listen, but is it OK to use them in derived works? Or commercial projects? Do you (or the original artists) want attribution? etc. Thanks, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Magma
2009/8/5 Andrew Baron and...@rocketboom.com: I wanted to for sure return to my roots to get the word out and get your sincere feedback before we go live in the next couple of weeks. Well, one thing struck me immediately. In with all the freely-available media there's a bunch of stuff from the restricted Hulu, un-watchable outside North America. While I can see why you have included it, I would *really* appreciate some way of telling from a thumbnail whether I might actually be able to watch the video, rather than having to play a guessing game and click through to the magma page for each video. IMHO an ethical aggregator should highlight unrestricted, community-sourced video, and at least warn viewers of potentially restricted sources. Otherwise it certainly looks interesting. Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] David Lynch's Interview Project
2009/5/15 Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org: Here's a sample of one 5 minute film from David Lynch's new 121 part videoblog Interview Project I can see why you like it Rupert. Reminds me of some of your work. A very interesting project indeed. Frank
[videoblogging] Re: videobloggingweek aggregation?
Hi Schlomo, We just had a massive release (soft launch) yesterday. I already asked our development team to look into that videobloggingweek search issue. In the meantime, you may find this useful (even has some classic VBW videos featured at top): http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek RSS w/ enclosures for iTunes or Miro: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek/rss2.xml Regards, Frank http://twitter.com/mefeedia P.S. - We would appreciate any and all feedback on the new MeFeedia - just email fr...@mefeedia.com thanks. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@... wrote: Hey all I may have missed this, but how are the videos for videoblogging week being aggregated? Usually its through mefeedia.com but when I searched videobloggingweek nothing came up...even though I'm using that tag on my blizog. I just want an rss feed that I can use to go through all the posts. Just one big engorgement of the weeks videos. For passover. Anyway, I actually have a day2 video and, of course, it involves me eating again: http://schlomo.tv/2009/04/local-food-in-austin-texas-at-sxsw09/ Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] (slightly off topic) viewing stored videoblogs and other audio/video on a mac
Recently, my sprawling collection of computer hardware has expanded to include my first mac, a shiny new white macbook. After playing with most the installed software and adding a bunch of free sttuff (including, in this case, VLC, Perian and flip4Mac) I decided to explore enjoying some of my huge archive of video and audio. I have of the order of a terabyte of stored media which resides on several network-accessible drives. If I connect to server in the Finder and browse around, I am able to play any of the files simply by clicking on them. One of Quicktime, iTunes, or VLC opens up and everything works. This is a bit clumsy, though, so I thought I'd look for a more pleasant interface. First I gave FrontRow a try. Despite my best efforts all I could find were a bunch of internet trailers for movies I am not interested in. I could not even find a way to tell it where to look for media. So I gave up. Then I tried boxee, which I had seen mention of during the videos for VloMo last year. This also initially gave a load of unwanted movie trailers, but I did find some sort of setting which allowed me to browse to some stored media and set it as a source, but whenever I tried to access it I just got a baffling Error 2: share not available. So I uninstalled that one. I then tried a bunch of google searching for terms such as mac media center and found a bunch of possibilities, all of which seemed to imply that they do largely the same as FrontRow. On may various Windows boxes I have easily been able to use MediaMonkey (which is my current preference), RealPlayer and even Windows Media Player to index my media across multiple network drives and provide easy searching and browsing. I'm surprised that this seems so hard to find on my otherwise easy-to-operate mac. Can any of you experienced Mac users help me out? I'm sure there must be some fundamental mac-ness which I am missing here. Thanks, Frank
Re: [videoblogging] Semanal: completed
2008/12/17 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com: I want to give a big shout out to everyone who stuck with http://semanal.org/. A dedicated group of folks posted a video per week for a YEAR. Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] weird request for XP users
From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com I have windows xp, and today I tried to download a video file from the web onto my desktop as a shortcut. The file went through a synchronization process, which to me, should have meant that the video file would have been viewable offline if I clicked a desktop shortcut. However, the video simply became embedded on my desktop without a shortcut, so that it wants to play everytime I come out of sleep or hibernate or restart my computer. There's no way to delete it, and I can't find the file anywhere on my computer. It's not as if it's listed under desktop files, it's just part of my desktop now. It's an mp4 file, if that helps. What to do? Personally, I'd rather offer help than stoke the Mac/PC flames. My guess is that your friend actually downloaded some sort of HTML wrapper rather than the video itself, and it is this web page which has been set as the desktop background using active desktop (one of Microsoft's sillier ideas). It should be possible to right click on the desktop, select the properties menu item, then the Desktop tab, and browse for some other background image. Let us know how she gets on, Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] VloMo08
On 05/12/2008, Mike Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to give a big shout out to those that were able to complete VloMo08 (a video per day for the month of November). It certainly wasn't easy, but if you completed it, wear it like a badge of honor. Wo0T! Complete agreement!. I have now watched all the videos which appeared on the VloMo08 mefeedia feed, and it has been a great journey. The feeling of being a part of that and making my own videos to share every day was even better. Well done everyone! Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Introduction: newbie -- being intimate
I always wanted to see podcasters record stories with people. Shorter snippets. Maybe audio diaries. Maybe just a bunch of natural sounds? Give me a good 10 minutes of something I cant hear on the radio. Fuck the radio format. There was a little bit of this, but the podcasting swell didnt seem to go in that direction. And don't forget the fragmented nature of many people's time. I simply don't have the time to dedicate to even a half-hour podcast show, let alone a feed-catcher full of long-format stuff, but grabbing a minute or two of videoblog here and there is much more easily achievable. Back in 2004 or so I subscribed to a whole bunch of interesting short-format audio stuff: people reading short stories; sound effects; jokes; quizzes; soundscapes; short language lessons and so on. Most of them have long since faded away, but some of that sort still exist. My daughter is enjoying Coffee Break Spanish http://coffeebreakspanish.libsyn.com/, and I notice that PodQuiz http://www.podquiz.com/ is still going strong. Anyone else got any recommendations?
[videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
Hi all, We have a Mefeedia users group and can field all questions there: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mefeedia-users/ In short, feeds are usually updated once per day. We do have a way to manually spider a feed for Admin users. Perhaps we could open this up for logged in users who have claimed a feed in their profile. Let's talk about it more over at the mefeedia users group. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm at a loss here and not sure who to contact - the mefeedia pages have no help links and info I can find for support. For some reason the videoblog I'm going to use for vlomo08, Temporalab, has two feeds in mefeedia. The one now on the vlomo08 channel is feed 7602. It comes from feedburner, and even though the feedburner feed is up to date, it's not up to date in mefeedia - the most recent post, which is now six days old, is in the feedburner feed but doesn't show up on the http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/7602/temporalab. I remember this being a problem long ago with mefeedia - is there someway to manually force it to re-read the feed? The other feed, which is up to date but which comes from a feed generated by the wordpress blog itself, is 26340. This one is up to date. Is it possible to do something so that feed 7602 is up to date (and will it keep updating during vlomo08)? And can I move my whopping two subscribers from 26340 to 7602 and somehow get rid of 26340 so there's only one feed? Or maybe its 26340 that should stay? I have no idea whether feedburner is reliable these days and maybe that's why there's an updating problem. Thanks and sorry to post this to the list, just wasn't sure where else to go.. Brook -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
Hi all - we just had a complete relaunch, and are working through a bunch of issues, mainly to do with the logged in version of the site. We should have all issues resolved by EOD tomorrow. Apologies for those who are trying to join and can't. Also, we did switch over from username to email for login. Both should work, though, so am checking into that too. On the plus side - the channel now has Twitter integration, so it will show any Tweets with vlomo08 in it. Since a lot of discussions are happening at Twitter, we thought it would be more useful to leverage this instead of launching another, closed discussion board... Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mefeedia won't even let me log in. I've only ever logged in with my username. Now it insists on an email address. OK. So I tried all three email addresses I might possibly have signed up with. I know my password. Nothing. It doesn't accept any of them. Yes I could create a new account. But the old one already has my feeds associated with it, and I already have friends assigned. Really, I'm trying to participate, honest. Mefeedia isn't letting me. Maybe by November it will let me in? Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: VloMo-istas, please join the fun now by adding your feed to the channel here: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 Note the Twitter integration and cool Watch in Theater View option. Further developments coming, particularly the limiting of posts to just those published during November. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 29-Oct-08, at 11:08 AM, Rupert wrote: All right, then. 24 hours later and a massive 21 votes have been cast. The most popular shorthand name / tag - though with only 33% - is: VloMo08 A suitably brief tag for our Twitterholic world. So it's VloMo - or Videoblogging Month. Or Vlogging Month, if you can bring yourself to say that. Whatever, call it what you want when you describe it. But the tag and the channel and all official things will be in the form VloMo08. As I've already said, we will *not* be using Ning this year. We'll be using Mefeedia, which will be much better for watching, aggregating, commenting and archiving. We'll have a channel at http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 And you'll be able to put the feed for that channel into Miro or iTunes or whatever reader or aggregator you choose. Mefeedia are sorting this, adding some extra features just for us. For free, in the middle of a busy time for them (they've just relaunched the site), so please be patient. In the next couple of days, you'll be able to go to the channel and add your feed. I'll post here and on Twitter as soon as it's fully up and running. Hurray! If you're thinking about joining in and worried about the commitment, don't fret it. Allow yourself half an hour per day and just post some video - any video, however small, on any account. Doesn't have to be what you usually do, or up to any high production standards. Join in, it'll make the watching more fun, too. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
2008/10/30 Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank.
[videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating... Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank.
[videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008
http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08 Original URL from Rupert was wrong. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Cardenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTP 404 Not Found The page you requested could not be found. --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: VloMo08 - Videoblogging Month 2008 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 2:24 PM All sorted. I just added 20 feeds of all the people who have said Yes so far on this list. You can see them all at http://www.mefeedia .com/channel/ vlomo08 Try out the Theater View (link at top of latest videos), and check out the Twitter panel and the Activities/Comments panel. Rupert http://twittervlog. tv/ On 30-Oct-08, at 11:43 AM, Rupert wrote: I just had another wee problem that I emailed Frank about because I was just going through adding the feeds of all the people who have said here that they're going to participate. There was a slight error with an Add to Channel link. If you have the same problem, please be patient, it's been reported :) Rupert http://twittervlog. tv On 30-Oct-08, at 11:35 AM, Frank Sinton wrote: Hi all, The issues Mefeedia.com was having with sessions / login are fixed now. You are now able to join the channel and add your feeds: http://www.mefeedia .com/channels/ vlomo08 We added a Find a Feed search box at the bottom of Feeds in this Channel - if you are unsure if your feed is in Mefeedia yet. In terms of including videos, as long as the publishdate in your MRSS is between Nov 1, 2008 and Nov 30, 2008, it will show up in this channel! Feeds are read at least once a day - hope to speed this up for the event. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia .com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Cheryl cheryl.colan@ ... wrote: It doesn't have to be shot same-day. There really aren't a lot of restrictions. If you can't post every day, then you post when you can, no one will say you're not participating. .. Just post as often as you can! Cheryl --- In videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com, Frank Carver frank.carver@ wrote: 2008/10/30 Susan kitykity@: does it have to be video shot that day? I have such a huge backlog of videos... especially after Budapest... and I'm going to be on vacation for a week out of this month where I won't have Internet access... I hope it doesn't have to be shot that day. I'm planning on having a go but the only way I can make it is if I don't have to spend time actually shooting every day. As far as I understand it, none of the other such challenges (videoblogging week, semanal, etc.) have required same day shoot and post. Anyone else? Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:10:26 PM, Josh Paul wrote: Also nice, in that we can find fellow videobloggers on twitter. Just look at who follows 'videoblogging'. Um. I would like to add videoblogging to my follows list, but it's a while since I last did anything with twitter and I can't work out how to just add another user by name. Can anyone who has done this give any hints on how? Thanks Frank (efficacy on twitter) -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: twitter.com/videoblogging shows messages from this group
Thanks everyone who answered. The bit I was missing was the need to hand-craft a URL. I tried the various search options but nothing seemed appropriate. 2008/10/29 Pat Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just go http://www.twitter.com/ and sign in. If you don't have an account or have completely lost the info. to it, you can sign up for a new one. Once you've done this, just go to http://twitter.com/videoblogging and click the FOLLOW button. It's really a simple process.
[videoblogging] Re: Fw: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30
Hi all, I'm really excited about this year's Navlopomo! Site is working - was just on. We re-launched about 3 hours ago, as Rupert said, and are working through various issues. It was a complete revamp of both most of the frontend and backend. The good news is nothing too bad - one site slowdown which has not been fixed, but otherwise pretty smooth (knock on wood). Rupert has sent me a few requests for features, so we are working on that in preparation for Oct 31st launch (probably incremental releases between now and then). Please feel free to reach out to me directly - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - thanks! Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yay! They're relaunching the site today, so there'll be problems no doubt today as things get shifted around. On 24-Oct-08, at 4:37 PM, Sull wrote: been having some problems getting mefeedia to load. i'll try to get some vids out to the channel. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people hated Ning last year, and it made it a real pain in the ass to view and archive things. So this year we're doing it at http://Mefeedia.com Frank is working on tweaking some things for us. They just launched a new site. Go check it out. Our channel will be: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/navlopomo2008 Everybody adds their feed to that channel, and any videos on those feeds will show up in the channel. It's more reliable than using Tags. (tag your videos anyway - navlopomo2008) Mefeedia are going to set it up so that only videos shot in November show up, and so that we can filter by day. I think we'll have a cool Theater View as well, for a lean back big screen experience. At the bottom of the channel you can see all comments (those on Mefeedia) and activity. So we can comment and discuss there. On each video page there's a link back to the original post on your blog. There's a feed for the channel, so you can subscribe to all Navlopomo videos in Miro, FireAnt, iTunes, AppleTV, whatever you like. Low maintenance, maximum features. The only thing it doesn't have is a discussion forum, but almost all the discussion happens in the comments and in the videos themselves anyway. And I like it better that way. I think it's going to rock. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 24-Oct-08, at 2:24 PM, Mike Moon wrote: Rupert, how are things looking for NaVloPoMo message forum? I will be participating in NaVloPoMo again this year. Should be a hoot. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Thanks, Pat - I was going to post about NaVloPoMo later today, but you've pre-empted and prompted me. Hope you're up for it! On 24-Oct-08, at 12:15 PM, Pat Cook wrote: From: Jen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] podcasters%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [podcasters] NaPodPoMo: National Podcast Post Month Nov. 1-30 Greetings Fellow Podcasters, It's that time of year again. No, not Fall, NaPodPoMo! From November 1-30th we'll be participating in the annual event which is the National Podcast Post Month. Last year was the first time a month long daily podcasting marathon had ever been attempted on such a large scale. By the time it was all said and done there were 50 ambitious podcasters who participated in NaPodPoMo. The conversations are already happening on the NaPoPoMo Ning site so swing on by to add your voice. http://napodpomo.ning.com The rules for the November 1-30th NaPodPoMo are simple: .Post audio in any form every day That's it! Feel free to be creative. You can post a traditional podcast or use Utterli, BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, etc... Some folks have even incorporated video into their posts. There is no time limit. Got a one minute tip show or an hour long diatribe? As long as you post audio every day, it all counts. The site is open for new registrations. Tell your friends and start training now for the podcast marathon that is NaPodPoMo. http://napodpomo.ning.com Remember, hydration is key ;-D Cheers, Jennifer Navarrete http://twitter.com/epodcaster -- Morning BrewCast http://morningbrewcast.com/blog -- Living the Dream http://jennifernavarrete.com Visit National Podcast Post Month at: http://napodpomo.ning.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been
[videoblogging] Re: who are the Green Video Bloggers?
Hi Rox, Thanks for the link - that Green Channels is one of our most popular! Good question Right now, the Channels are meant to be a Guide to Feeds, with each channel focusing on feeds dedicated to that subject (BTW - yes, we are changing the name back from shows to feeds soon!). We've talked about also adding a tag to a channel in the past, and I think that is what you are suggesting? That is a good idea. We may be able to pick that one back up, as it just makes a ton of sense. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Media Search Discovery --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are not all green all the time but we do have green/environmental topics from time to time. Mefeedia has a green channel: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/green/ Speaking of which, Frank - if I tag episodes of Beach Walks which we usually categorize under travel, will the green channel pick them up? What can I do to connect there when it is relevant? Our shows just cover so much territory - hard to know where to put us most days, so we default to the pretty scenery. :-) Aloha, Rox On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Eric Rochow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'd be interested in who else out there is dealing with green issues as a videoblog, podcast, or web video show, whatever one calls it. if there is a list somewhere, please point me to it . thx, eric. www.realworldgreen.com .. -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian Join us at the reef! Mermaid videos, geeks talking, and lots more http://reef.beachwalks.tv 808-384-5554 Video -- http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- http://www.barefeetstudios.com Twitter-- http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Indecision - an interactive hyper-videoblog post
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 10:50:54 AM, Rupert wrote: I just used YouTube's new Annotations tool to create a little interactive videoblog story, created very quickly with my phone. Exciting that this kind of thing is possible so easily. You can only see it on YouTube - here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQg_LCq_T8fmt=18 Thoroughly delightful. An interactive Rupert Rant! -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] A bit of help?
Saturday, July 19, 2008, 11:21:58 PM, Ron Watson wrote: I'd like to get some off list advice on cleaning up a pitch for a broadcast TV show. I'm getting ready to make the pitch via a conference call after a chance personal meeting at dinner a few weeks ago. I sat down next to a TV producer who deals in our kind of stuff and the conversation was magic. It kind of blind sided me. I'd like to follow up on that with her co-workers, and have created a website as a presentation to supplement the conference call. I need some advice on language and presentation. I've gotten some good advice already from a friend, but could use some more eyes. Alex Epstein at http://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/ has written a lot of useful stuff about pitches. I guess it works, because he has had a fair amount of success. Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Hey!Spread - TubeMogul - Blip - Social Poster - RSS
On the flip side of hyper-distribution: Mefeedia.com aggregates from almost all of these sites, and we have spent a LOT of time and resources removing duplicates. I can't tell you how many times we see the same videos coming in from YouTube, DailyMotion, Metacafe, Veoh, etc. etc... We have also seen a dramatic increase in SPAM video polluting many different video sites through various distribution strategies. Gives me some ideas for our next State of the Vlogosphere - been almost a year... For those of you interested in generating revenue from your videos - have people seen an increase in revenue with the increased distribution? The TubeMogul approach is much different than, say, Hulu, which is all about syndicating Hulu content in Hulu's Player, with Hulu's ads (Blip's distribution strategy to date seems more in line with this approach as well...). The reason I ask is that I've seen numbers vary wildly in terms of quality of revenue depending on who is controlling the content and player - for example: one creator i know receives a $30 CPM for video ads using their player (and syndicating that player to Mefeedia.com) vs. $1 CPM for ads on YouTube. I'd like to see some analysis on this. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my uninformed opinion, they're two very different things. At least for me, they are. I host my videos on Blip (plus do a little distribution). I upload to Tubemogul - which lets me send the videos to blip and youtube at the same time. I haven't yet decided if that's really saving me any time - I still have to get into blip to change the video's copyright to a cc license and then send the videos to delicious, twitter, and my blog. So maybe I should just do a second upload to youtube and skip tubemogul? Not sure... but that's what I've been playing with for awhile, anyway :-) David King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Sheila English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I missing anything? lol This is what I use for primary delivery of our videos. Lately I've seen a lot of media attention regarding many of the sites. I saw an article recently that talks about TubeMogul vs. Blip- http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/06/online_video_competitors_still.php I use TubeMogul and send my videos to Blip, so I'm sure I'm just missing the issue here. Am I not getting both? I do love Blip's distribution and I use it to the fullest extent. Now Hey!Spread has come up with some pretty cool stuff! I am going to try out their cloning tool. That tool takes your YouTube videos and sends them all to another site with a click of a button. Here's something on that- http://particle-s.com/2008/07/01/heyspread-v3-released-mass-distribute-trackn-stat-youclone-design-pricing-and-updated-api/ I don't know if those long URLs work here or not, but you can go to www.heyspread.com and check out their blog to get this info as well. I love Social Poster and use it all the time. I have seen a marked increase in views after using this software, so I highly recommend it. www.socialposter.com And of course I use RSS anywhere and everywhere I can! My TubeMogul uploads go out to 12 places, but then from there I use RSS and get another 15-20 sites with that one upload. Anyone else doing the same? Or, am I missing anything? Sheila [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: my favorite vlog template of the week
I'm excited about these new interfaces! We've been playing with various theater view interfaces. We just launched this for your personal queue (if you use Mefeedia to subscribe to vlogs, feeds, TV shows, etc). Also, you can do any search on mefeedia.com and click the watch this page on the top of the results - it will launch in full screen mode, Flickr-style. We couldn't implement a fancy Flash interface, though, due to the many formats and players we have to support. The pro of not having this, though, is that we can easily include a link back to the original post so you can leave a comment, etc. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking at the Viewzi site for a while. I really like the idea of the full browser window video with an interface that comes up when you mouse over it. I started playing with it here (with some machinima stuff) http://dev.graymattergravy.com/fullwindow.html but haven't gotten too far. How I imagine it working is having a wordpress blog behind it and David Meade's XSPF playlist plugin to create the playlist that is running the player on the front page. So this becomes just another way (less blog like) of looking at your blog. - Verdi On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do. Though I really LIKE the combination of text and video - to me its part of the form. But the text is as difficult as the video, and it would be nice to be able to JUST post video without sacrificing search/index functionality. brook On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's funny you mentioned the text portion of your vlog. I stuggle myself with what to write down sometime...well actually most times. Sometimes I write to help the viewer gain an understanding of why, sometimes I write because I just want it have something for the search engines to index. I find my tastes changing, I find I no longer want to write a long post, heck half the time, I just want to put a video up and be done with it. It's weird. Does anyone else stuggle with this stuff or am I just on an island again ;) Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: Ha!:) Of course you are right, that's why my mom would love it! There is a fine line between channel surfing and choosing. The thumbnail strip does have text to tell you what it is... I like how its not bogged-down in text, which is a direction I may start to move toward as I find that my writing is not really much of an extension of my video... though its the text that gets indexed in search engines at the moment. So though it does have a tv slant, I definitely think its a web interface... if that makes any sense. And it definitely has pro-theater setting to me though its a theater that proabaly only has one person sitting in it. What would a pro-theater/anti-tv interface look like on the web? Not a blog, to be sure. I'd love to see an example of what you are thinking, Brook. Enquiring minds want to know!:) On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Brook Hinton bhinton@ wrote: I HATE that scroll-through-thumbnail-strip navigation. Ugh. It's like channel surfing, not choosing.This feels like TV. (disclaimer: personal anti-tv / pro-theater / pro-net-video bias). Nice that this defaults to full screen though (assuming that's what your stuff calls for) -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://graymattergravy.com http://reportsfromthefuture.com http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Re: Any video sharing sites still worth the bother?
I remember back in the mid-90s, people were asking should i build my website on Geocities or Tripod?. This feels like another one of those discussions. Not sure why these sites aren't trying harder to solve a core issue: how to find video that interests me - particularly Google, since this is core to their business. Fine with me though, as we keep humming along with our media search engine and user-curated channels. Nowadays, I find new video feeds that I like through my friends' subscriptions on Mefeedia. :) When I want to interact, I usually go directly to the producer's vlog. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure that they will adapt, but the question still remains can Google make money off of YT, because let's face it, they have to or sooner or later, it will go away. I still think Hulu is the closest to getting it right from a Ad perspective, if YT can someone offer both the professional content with ads and the user gen content for viral purposesthen look out... Heath Parks Media Made Easy http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Oh. Immediately after sending that last message, I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=233yWq7rslI A Youtube blog entry talking about how they're already making great strides towards Youtube consumption in home entertainment systems. I realise I'm naive in thinking that because they don't do what I want them to do, they must adapt. Instead it's us who have to adapt to their monopolistic position find other ways of encouraging and enabling the traction that Bill I were talking about in previous posts on this thread. We've heard many users say, YouTube is the new TV!. Well, the YouTube Syndication team is excited to now offer a number of options to actually consume YouTube on your television sets. We're also proud to have helped many leaders in the consumer electronics space create YouTube experiences on TV. Getting YouTube right on TV is extremely challenging from both a design and technology perspective. Each of our partners' engineering and design teams had similar questions: - What would users, accustomed to a simple remote control interface for their TVs, expect given their typically much richer interaction options when surfing youtube.com? - How could the YouTube experience be personalized for TV? - How could the extra computing power and memory often required to make this work on their devices be added effectively? - What were the most important YouTube features to retain, and how would they translate to a 10-feet user experience? All these partners used the YouTube APIs to build their products. One partner's summary of their experience with the APIs: The YouTube API was very simple, but powerful. It enabled us to develop our user interface flexibly and quickly. Music to our ears! Here's a quick overview of some products that enable you to access YouTube from your living room...or anywhere else you may have your television(s)! AppleTV: In June 2007 this became the first product to offer a way to watch YouTube on your TV. Sony Bravia Internet Video Link: Last week, Sony announced the general availability of YouTube content on their Bravia TVs via the Internet Video Link. Some clips from the YouTube team at the event are linked below. Nice tie, Brent! HP MediaSmart: HP announced availability of YouTube as part of the HP MediaSmart platform. Panasonic: At CES 2008, Panasonic announced VieraCast, which allows you to access YouTube directly from your TV. The device will be available later this month. Samsung: Samsung launched their IPTV device which supports YouTube (currently only available in South Korea) in early May. TiVo: Announced that YouTube would be available on their devices. Verismo: A startup in the IPTV space, has announced availability of a YouTube-enabled device. We're excited that the YouTube APIs have enabled these products and look forward to sharing information about even more products, upgrades and innovations from our partners. We're determined to see more devices and applications Powered by YouTube so that our vision of YouTube Everywhere feels even more real to our users. Head over to the API Blog to read more about where you can expect to see YouTube other than youtube.com! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Any video sharing sites still worth the bother?
Thank you, Heath! What would mean 1000x more than publicity, though, is seeing little +mefeedia subscribe buttons next to those +youtube buttons that are popping up everywhere. :) Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know Frank brings up a good point here, the fact that Mefeedia has been doing a great job of video search lately. I know I am guilty of not thinking about Mefeedia as much as I should. But everytime David Meade shows me something that Mefeedia is doing or has done, I always go man that is coolWe gotta get them guys a publicist or something! ;) Heath Parks Media Made Easy http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Sinton frank@ wrote: I remember back in the mid-90s, people were asking should i build my website on Geocities or Tripod?. This feels like another one of those discussions. Not sure why these sites aren't trying harder to solve a core issue: how to find video that interests me - particularly Google, since this is core to their business. Fine with me though, as we keep humming along with our media search engine and user-curated channels. Nowadays, I find new video feeds that I like through my friends' subscriptions on Mefeedia. :) When I want to interact, I usually go directly to the producer's vlog. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath heathparks@ wrote: I am sure that they will adapt, but the question still remains can Google make money off of YT, because let's face it, they have to or sooner or later, it will go away. I still think Hulu is the closest to getting it right from a Ad perspective, if YT can someone offer both the professional content with ads and the user gen content for viral purposesthen look out... Heath Parks Media Made Easy http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Oh. Immediately after sending that last message, I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=233yWq7rslI A Youtube blog entry talking about how they're already making great strides towards Youtube consumption in home entertainment systems. I realise I'm naive in thinking that because they don't do what I want them to do, they must adapt. Instead it's us who have to adapt to their monopolistic position find other ways of encouraging and enabling the traction that Bill I were talking about in previous posts on this thread. We've heard many users say, YouTube is the new TV!. Well, the YouTube Syndication team is excited to now offer a number of options to actually consume YouTube on your television sets. We're also proud to have helped many leaders in the consumer electronics space create YouTube experiences on TV. Getting YouTube right on TV is extremely challenging from both a design and technology perspective. Each of our partners' engineering and design teams had similar questions: - What would users, accustomed to a simple remote control interface for their TVs, expect given their typically much richer interaction options when surfing youtube.com? - How could the YouTube experience be personalized for TV? - How could the extra computing power and memory often required to make this work on their devices be added effectively? - What were the most important YouTube features to retain, and how would they translate to a 10-feet user experience? All these partners used the YouTube APIs to build their products. One partner's summary of their experience with the APIs: The YouTube API was very simple, but powerful. It enabled us to develop our user interface flexibly and quickly. Music to our ears! Here's a quick overview of some products that enable you to access YouTube from your living room...or anywhere else you may have your television(s)! AppleTV: In June 2007 this became the first product to offer a way to watch YouTube on your TV. Sony Bravia Internet Video Link: Last week, Sony announced the general availability of YouTube content on their Bravia TVs via the Internet Video Link. Some clips from the YouTube team at the event are linked below. Nice tie, Brent! HP MediaSmart: HP announced availability of YouTube as part of the HP MediaSmart platform. Panasonic: At CES 2008, Panasonic announced VieraCast, which allows you to access YouTube directly from your TV. The device will be available
[videoblogging] Re: New VideobloggingWeek2008 Viewing Experience
Mike - the UI was designed as a different viewing experience that supports as many players and formats as possible. As David mentioned, it is also a great way to watch and then visit the original vlog if you wish to comment and interact (just click on the link link), but still keep the user within the context of the series of videos they are watching. Sull - Wish we had a bigger engineering team. :( An RSS feed with 1,000+ items would probably kill the servers. Will have to check out David's video. I've been using this interface to keep up and it is a huge improvement than having to click back and forth between the tag and videos and original vlog post. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thats the feed i used. is their a way to get it filled with all videos instead of the default 25? this has been discussed before too. any opml of all feeds that have posts with videobloggingweek2008 tags? would be useful web service features unless the api has been updated. thanks, sull On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED]sulleleven%40gmail.com wrote: but its limited to the mefeedia rss feed. can you provide an opml or a complete feed of all videos mefeedia has discovered with this tag? http://mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/rss2.xml Is that what you're looking for (MeFeedia generated RSS feed for videos tagged videobloggingweek2008)? - Dave -- http://www.DavidMeade.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] New video podcast member
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 12:15:46 AM, jjonasz wrote: My video podcast is called Tea Tips with Dr. Tea, check it out at: www.teatips.tv Your videos look interesting, but when I went to look for a feed to add to my feed reader I could not find it. You seem to have plenty of special buttons for different services, and I could even find two feeds of text blog articles available from the top of your site. However I can't see a link to a regular feed of video enclosures. Do you have such a thing? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: Where my travel bloggers/videobloggers at?
Tons of great stuff here: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/travel/ (vlogs on the right) Also check out the location-specific channels linked to there. You could also check out the How-To sites: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/nyt_lotsa_how_to_sites_out_there Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Amanda Congdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a question for this group: do you know any bloggers/videobloggers that are really solid in the travel space? Things like airline tricks of the trade, travel gear, rental car insight, how to get upgraded perks at hotels, etc. Trying to help out my friend with a project... could be a really great opportunity for the right person. Please contact me directly if you've any suggestions. Thanks! Amanda
[videoblogging] New VideobloggingWeek2008 Viewing Experience
All, We just launched a new viewing experience for Videoblogging Week 2008: http://www.mefeedia.com/videobloggingweek2008 Back to Basics - no extra stuff, no fancy flash - just focus on watching videos. Our plan is to extend this to other parts of the site over the coming weeks - for example, watch your Queue or watch a playlist. Many, many thanks go to David Meade and Rupert for their feedback as we developed this (and testing on Mac). Any additional feedback is more than welcome! Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008
Hi Steve, The vPIP Quicktime feed worked fine. It is here: http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/37130 The Wordpress feed didn't contain media elements, so won't work in Mefeedia or iTunes (well, you can add it to iTunes, but won't play any episodes). Also, we have a users group here in case anyone else is experiencing issues: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mefeedia-users/ Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christian Wach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, On 22 Apr 2008, at 18:50, Steve Watkins wrote: Could someone help me with a feed issue? I setup my site in a hurry, using wordpress vPip, and mefeedia gives me errors when I try to add the feed. This one is the vPip feed for quicktime: http://www.mutantquartz.com/wp-content/plugins/widgets/vPIPFeed.php? blogURL=http%3A//www.mutantquartz.commedia=vs-title%3A%2BQuickTime This is the standard wordpress rss2 feed: http://www.mutantquartz.com/?feed=rss2 Haylpe! Im not sure whether I should be trying to get a solution from wordpress, vPip, showinabox, or mefeedia. The vpip feed validates but with a few recommendations, the wordpress feed fails validation. Neither Wordpress nor vPIP are being kind to you. Neither is giving you a safe feed. By safe, it's generally meant (quoting Mark Pilgrim from way back in 2003) safe to consume with a browser-based RSS reader. Here are his recommendations: * Strip script tags. This almost goes without saying. Script tags can be used by unscrupulous publishers to insert pop-up ads onto your news page. Think it won't happen? Some larger commercial publishers are already inserting text ads and banner ads into their feeds. * Strip embed tags. * Strip object tags. * Strip frameset tags. * Strip frame tags. * Strip iframe tags. * Strip meta tags, which can be used to hijack a page and redirect it to a remote URL. * Strip link tags, which can be used to import additional style definitions. * Strip style tags, for the same reason. * Strip style attributes from every single remaining tag. My platypus prank was based entirely on a single rogue style attribute. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/06/12/how_to_consume_rss_safely Of course, few feeds do actually stay within these guidelines. If I were you, I'd dive into the vPIP code and strip out the onclick attributes because the vPIP script is not included - and as a result they are redundant. It shouldn't be too hard to alter the atom:link href either, although I've not looked at vPIP's code for oooh a long time. I'm surprised that Mefeedia aren't parsing feeds to strip (at least some of) these tags out, but FWIW, the vPIP feed works fine in iTunes and NetNewsWire here on my Mac. Cheers, Christian
[videoblogging] Re: Cozmo TV
Looks cool - will have to give it a try. thanks! The main problem I have had with these type of things is that they support Flash-only. At Mefeedia, we even created a basic experience like this ourselves, but canned it because of the non-Flash support. I'd be interested to see what they provide... Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Feed Me Media --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have any of you played with this?: http://cozmo.tv/ Seems like it could make a nice viewing experience to aggregate all of the Videoblogging Week videos. Just put in an rss feed (like the one Mefeedia makes) and sit back and watch. It also has a button on the lower right that brings you to the original sites page. Pretty cool. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008
I just tried it and it worked. Yes, in iTunes: Advanced - Subscribe to Podcast and there you go! We are working on an alternative interface too, but running into IE issues. Will let you all know! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It worked for me; I even got your video! On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried it on iTunes 7 on a power book and, I got the dreaded exclamation point meaning the feed is broken (in my world anyway). To clarify, the feed is: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/rss2.xml I should be able to select advanced/subscribe to podcast, enter that and away I go? ... thanks ... Richard On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]frank%40mefeedia.com wrote: Hi Markus, That RSS should work in iTunes now. I just tried it in iTunes 7.x and it worked. You might notice a small discrepancy of entries between the web page and the RSS feed. We've recently implemented extensive caching, which has made the tags quite zippy, but causes a delay of a few hours to completely update both web page and RSS feed. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.comvideoblogging% 40yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy markus.sandy@ wrote: On Apr 20, 2008, at 1:04 PM, David Meade wrote: ( http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/rss2.xml ) is there a feed that works in iTunes? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008
http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/ You can also grab the tag widget, and RSS from that page. Also, you can do a search videobloggingweek2008 and that should pick up videos that perhaps weren't even tagged and only had it in the description. The tag and search updates throughout the day. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anywhere good to track this years videos? Am looking forward to watching as many as possible :) Heres mine: http://www.mutantquartz.com/?p=10 Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Bring It! http://twittervlog.tv/?p=242 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 On 20 Apr 2008, at 15:15, Heath wrote: Yes! http://heathparks.com/blog1/?p=264 Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Leo joshleo@ wrote: It all starts tomorrow... Are you Ready? On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Josh Leo joshleo@ wrote: and here is the wiki: http://videobloggingweek.pbwiki.com/ On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: Just to let you know, http://videobloggingweek2008.blogspot.com/ April 20-26 Begin the discussion whew! Im glad we got a couple weeks notice this year. banners here: http://videobloggingweek2008.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-begins.html Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.ultrakawaii.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.ultrakawaii.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008
Hi Markus, That RSS should work in iTunes now. I just tried it in iTunes 7.x and it worked. You might notice a small discrepancy of entries between the web page and the RSS feed. We've recently implemented extensive caching, which has made the tags quite zippy, but causes a delay of a few hours to completely update both web page and RSS feed. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 20, 2008, at 1:04 PM, David Meade wrote: ( http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/rss2.xml ) is there a feed that works in iTunes? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Videoblogging Week 2008
Excellent! Mefeedia will be doing our typical tag aggregation: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/ (no promo videos yet??) Tag stream widget here: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/videobloggingweek2008/videostream_widgets/ Working on some enhancements for this year (event date filtering, better viewing experience, possibly others). Email me if you have any requests. Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to let you know, http://videobloggingweek2008.blogspot.com/ April 20-26 Begin the discussion -- Josh Leo www.JoshLeo.com www.ultrakawaii.com www.WanderingWestMichigan.com www.SlowLorisMedia.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: wow, totally missed this / Mefeedia Video Search
Thanks!!! Launched Video Search too, check our blog: http://mefeedia.com/blog/ Been really busy - will try to keep everyone here updated. Kind Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: congrats! MeFeedia Raises $250k For Video Searchhttp://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mefeedia-raises-250k-for-video-search/ *By Joseph Weisenthal http://www.paidcontent.org/contact/1566/* - Wed 19 Mar 2008 07:08 PM PST MeFeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/, a provider of video search and discovery, has raised a $250k angel round from unidentified investors. The funding announcement coincides with the official launch of its service, which spans 15,000 video sites, including platforms like YouTube, as well as the video sites run by the TV networks. In addition to the pure search aspect, Burbank, CA-based MeFeedia offers social networking tools like peer-based discovery. CEO Frank Sinton was previously at Sony (NYSE: SNEhttp://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE) Pictures Entertainment. Other companies exploring similar things include VodPod and http://www.vodpod.com/Mesmo http://www.mesmo.com/. -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Two New Versions of Miro: Sliced by Genre
Why not just market bundles after someone first installs Miro? So, what happens when Mom also wants Gardening videos? http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/gardening/ using the concepts of player themes. would be slick if groups of people could make mashup themes and let other download their channel mix. Curation with style. Reminds me of my early nudges to Fireant We have this on mefeedia - you can create a channel. Our channels allow a group to collaborate on organizing feeds around a theme. http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/ I'd be interested to see what else we can do in this area - collaborative curation is a very interesting area. Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do see that they have a convenient way to subscribe to multiple channels via the miro website so i can subscribe to the food channel and not download a new player. Still, it could be simplified and enhanced with better co-branding by using the concepts of player themes. would be slick if groups of people could make mashup themes and let other download their channel mix. Curation with style. Reminds me of my early nudges to Fireant team about letting the feed dictate the look and feel of Fireant. Then again, maybe this is possible and just not being exposed yet I believe Adobe Media Player is doing this. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:52 AM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand what you are saying, Sull, but I think this is a great gateway drug for newbies in the world of RSS. I think about my mom who will love the food channel; but does Miro cime preloaded with a video to teach how to find more feeds? 5/08, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would make more sense if Miro could load a Theme that contained pre-poulated channels. A Video Network Theme. Seperate Downloads of Miro? That doesnt feel smart at all. Though I will say that its a good approach to marketing miro and niche content. It's just the technical approach that I dont agree with. Sull On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/03/two-new-versions-of-miro-sliced-by-genre/ Really interesting. It would be cool if there was a way for people to somehow configure these download all by themselves. For example� a community could maintain their own list of video blogs. (Using XOXO, OPML, or something.) So� for example, if a community had a list of video blogs at: http://example.com/thelist/ Then you could configure the download using: http://getmiro.com/download?href=http://example.com/thelist/ (Or something like that.) That would be really cool! -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: Two New Versions of Miro: Sliced by Genre
Yes - that is why i love it. We looked into extending Miro, but it ended up being just too time-consuming. Their co-branded service is nice too, but the thought of offering a separate Mefeedia/Miro version just didn't feel right from a technical perspective. It would be great if they had a plug-in architecture, like Firefox. I believe this is what they are planning to do for version 2.0, maybe even offer a Firefox plug-in version. Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You know what the great thing about Miro is.. it is open source software. So.. if it really comes down to it... we could even make Miro do all this (if the Miro guys don't add these features themselves). -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just market bundles after someone first installs Miro? So, what happens when Mom also wants Gardening videos? http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/gardening/ using the concepts of player themes. would be slick if groups of people could make mashup themes and let other download their channel mix. Curation with style. Reminds me of my early nudges to Fireant We have this on mefeedia - you can create a channel. Our channels allow a group to collaborate on organizing feeds around a theme. http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/ I'd be interested to see what else we can do in this area - collaborative curation is a very interesting area. Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull sulleleven@ wrote: I do see that they have a convenient way to subscribe to multiple channels via the miro website so i can subscribe to the food channel and not download a new player. Still, it could be simplified and enhanced with better co-branding by using the concepts of player themes. would be slick if groups of people could make mashup themes and let other download their channel mix. Curation with style. Reminds me of my early nudges to Fireant team about letting the feed dictate the look and feel of Fireant. Then again, maybe this is possible and just not being exposed yet I believe Adobe Media Player is doing this. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:52 AM, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I understand what you are saying, Sull, but I think this is a great gateway drug for newbies in the world of RSS. I think about my mom who will love the food channel; but does Miro cime preloaded with a video to teach how to find more feeds? 5/08, Sull sulleleven@ wrote: Would make more sense if Miro could load a Theme that contained pre-poulated channels. A Video Network Theme. Seperate Downloads of Miro? That doesnt feel smart at all. Though I will say that its a good approach to marketing miro and niche content. It's just the technical approach that I dont agree with. Sull On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux supercanadian@ wrote: http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/03/two-new-versions-of-miro-sliced-by-genre/ Really interesting. It would be cool if there was a way for people to somehow configure these download all by themselves. For example� a community could maintain their own list of video blogs. (Using XOXO, OPML, or something.) So� for example, if a community had a list of video blogs at: http://example.com/thelist/ Then you could configure the download using: http://getmiro.com/download?href=http://example.com/thelist/ (Or something like that.) That would be really cool! -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat
[videoblogging] Re: Miro Not Working Well for Me
I have used Miro in the past, but have used it less and less lately - unless I need offline viewing. (Disclaimer - i head up Mefeedia) Lately, I have been using iGoogle + Mefeedia. Mefeedia handles all of my video subscriptions (including my YouTube subscriptions, Hulu TV Shows, and podcasts from iTunes). I then put my personal Queue - the RSS feed that Mefeedia gives you when you sign up - and plug that into iGoogle. iGoogle handles all of my text-based subscriptions. iGoogle was mainly designed for text applications, whereas Mefeedia was designed for video. (Plus, of course - shameless plug - we have social discovery/the meeps network, video search, tag aggregation, and a great directory). Hope that helps. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rob Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tim! If I don't get any good ideas on fixing Miro its great to know there is a good alternative. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Tim D timdawks@ wrote: I also had problems enough with Miro that I have switched full-on to Netvibes. I used Miro for about a month, and found that it didn't always update feeds when it was supposed to, and no matter how many times I would attempt to remove a file from the list once I had watched it, it would always be there when I opened up the program the next day. Netvibes has been working great for me. I love the way it is set-up, and I like that I can organize more than just my RSS feeds. I can view my e-mail, Flickr photos, ebay, craigslist, and the weather all in one place (among many other possibile combinations). It updates feeds when it is supposed to, and I can easily toggle between the feed view in Netvibes and the vloggers actual website. Really liking it. Anyway, my two cents. Tim realitysandwich.wordpress.com On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rob Parrish hoppervideo@ wrote: Hey all, Background - I'm running Miro 1.1 on an oldish pre-intel mac laptop. My laptop hd is nearly full, so I'm writing the videos to an external firewire drive. Problem - Miro is very buggy. It often takes a long time to switch between feeds, and the playback is very choppy for some videos. Lots of time spent looking at the spinning rainbow of death. No crashes though. I miss my Fireant!!! I also, oddly enough, had problems using the Miro forums. So, how's Miro working for you? Rob
[videoblogging] problems with my wordpress blog
I don't suppose there are hundreds of people desperate to interact with my video blog at makevideo.org.uk, but just in case ... I have had some sort of problem with my Wordpress installation which started giving 500 errors. To keep the site working, I have now switched off all the plugins and themes I was using while I look into upgrading and fixing the problem. This has two main effects. The first is that the look of my blog has changed back to the original bland Wordpress blue theme. The second is that I had to turn off the anti-spam plugin - last night I was deluged with spam comments, so I have now switcedh comments to full moderation. I'd still love anyone to leave a comment, but please be aware that they will all be hand-checked by me before appearing in public. I hope normal service will be resumed as soon as I get a few more hours to properly upgrade the installation. Sigh. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)
We can expose our data via API if anyone wanted any easy way to find the data for this project. I've been doing some tests recently (based on this thread), and it is looking like a lot of the data is there (some issues are more human-based, such as the habit to link to a vlog's homepage rather than the post URL for some video responses). Regards, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure... http://groups.google.com/group/keeptrackofit/browse_thread/thread/dff99253473ae6e/8e8d7fda8b14180e?lnk=gstq=sioc#8e8d7fda8b14180e :) On Feb 17, 2008 10:53 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Returning to the tech side of this topic, this seems relevant? http://sioc-project.org/ 'SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other' Cheers Steve Elbows
[videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
Mike is correct in that Mefeedia does have a lot of the data that could make video conversation tracking possible. I hope we can do something with this soon. We are working on putting the search technology in place that should be making setting up these memes possible for any user, we hope. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/08, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, at 4:33 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: Are you farmilliar with the Ted Nelson Exanadu project and it's MANY MANY ill fated inspired projects? It's truely fascinating. A sort of wikipedia for media concept. EVERYTHING is interefernceable. A sort of mythic beast / grail quest project with a slippery slope. on the way home but can't resist a quick boast. I'm the recipient of the 2001 3rd Ted Nelson Award for Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection (annual hypertext conference that year in Aarhus - nod to Andreas). Ted was there, intertwingling is my mantra :-) Haha! Mike roles on floor laughing. You freak! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity Maybe I should drop the terms recontext, intermediation singularity and just start addopting intertwingling, intertwingularity, intertwingledness and many other great derivatives. You realize you're scaring everyone right? Incredibly mundane is the term I think most would use to describe the majority of this conversation. -Mike cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
Theoretically, aggregating comments RSS should be easier than aggregating mediaRSS - the RSS is typically following RSS 1.0 or 2.0 standards, whereas MediaRSS is all over the place. YouTube actually has a great API for asking for all comments, including video comments, for a video. It uses GData. Does anyone know if Blip has a similar API? I have seen that Blip offers comments RSS for each post, but most of the time the conversations are happening at the vlogs, which have varying support for Comments RSS. It is quite a large engineering effort. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blogger just recently allowed commentors to check a box fo follow comments via email. Havent any idea what you guys' are taling about, but... I love it when the coders get all excited. :) Jan On Jan 31, 2008 7:22 AM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's included in wordpress feeds already. - but I dont think it is in blogger feeds On Jan 31, 2008 1:12 AM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Example of a comment feed reference from sull's blip feed: http://sull.blip.tv/rss item guid isPermaLink=false9856168E-BE0C-11DC-A000-B09E966E5011/guid linkhttp://blip.tv/file/586535/link titleWhat is it that's driving this?/title [...] wfw:commentRss http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post592232amp;skin=rss /wfw:commentRss commentshttp://blip.tv/file/586535/comments /item wfw, as in wfw:comments, stands for well formatted web spec is as mentioned here: http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/ comments being part of the original RSS 2.0 spec. It appears to be the url to the page where you can make a comment. So... Basically we have the start of a potential working ecosystem. The next question is who else supports this? Wordpress? Blogger? Moveable type? Feedburner? If not already a part of Wordpress could it be implimented with a plugin or added to an existing plugin from SIAB or that which david meade just created? Will have to do more research. -Mike On Jan 31, 2008 12:16 AM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and i just checked blip feeds and... good on them ;) it's in there. On Jan 31, 2008 12:10 AM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For starters, their should be wide adoption of WFW - Well-Formed Web wfw:commentRss namespace element. http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/ http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/default.aspx?content=archive.htm#exposingRssComments On Jan 30, 2008 10:56 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not that complex though to track comments. You follow the permalink. You parse the page one time... you look for the comment RSS most platforms have them now. You display all or part of the comments in the aggregator... maybe as trackbacks, you just take them into account in the aggregator as ranking info, display them with the other comments and on site activity... maybe you simply say 8 more comments at joevlog.com. This last idea in particular is a personal favorite of mine because it simultaneously drives traffic back to the vlog while adding value to the aggregator. There in fact may be packages / API's out by now on for tracking blog comments... there are certainly meta standards, at least one documented micoformat for comments. There are of course potential partners. I've chatted with the guys at co.mments.com. They're huge potential for them to licensce their technology. It actually makes much more sense then running a single webservice for them... because obviously mefeedia and other specialized aggregatory communities don't compete directly or even indirectly. But... partnership is probably not necessary... because like i said... comments are very widely standardized around blogging packages these days. Of course there's still cooler things... there's tracking... which posts/ blogs are linking in the content to which posts. It's meme tracking... like techmeme.com and megit.com. Tracking the conversations in the vlogosphere. All that data is already in mefeedia's DB... all that need be done is to process it. The combination of these two types of tracking could light a fire under the vlogosphere and of course it's implied that it'd light a fire under the webservice that did such a thing just like it's done for companies like techmeme and dozens of others. What's more... it's organic unlike digg... and embraces an open ecosystem unlike youtube
[videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments
We're working on putting technology in place - a new Video Search Engine - that will hopefully enable the tracking of video responses across vlogs. The problem is extremely complex as there are many variations on formatting, blog post URLs, embedding, etc. It will be interesting to do some small experiments such as apply the technology to a hot conversation that becomes threaded / moves in many different directions. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sweet work David, Jay and everyone who worked on it. Now all we need is 3rd party services, i.e. aggregators and meme trackers to start tracking video comments as well as simply RSS feeds. This has long been one of the biggest failings of aggregators. it' not just about the RSS... it's about the conversations at the end of the permalinks... AND it's about other bloggers and their blog posts referencing each other. As people such as David, Jay and the Show in the box team build more value into the comments hopefully others will stand up and take notice. Conversation tracking, meme tracking, or social aggregation. There are many names and many approaches to exploring what is I personally think is a whole new frontier beyond the diggs, facebooks, twitters and myspaces into a much more organic and natural social space. These aggregators will make 1.0 versions of aggregators look one dimensional. And they are. Examples of 1.0 aggregators - bloglines - google newsreader - various software aggregators: itunes, fireant, miro, newsgator, netnewswire, vienna Examples of experiments in conversation tracking are - co.comments.com - cocomment.com - Megatite - Commentful, commentful.blogflux.com And a couple of Meme trackers - megite.com - techmeme.com There' probably a bunch I don't know about or am forgetting about. I have yet to see a RSS / blog aggregator that also tracks users comments well. But there are a few out there who's names I can't remember yet. I think the one web-service in this space that is best positioned to start tracking video comments and memes across the vlogosphere is mefeedia, but sadly though i've pushed and pushed it hasn't happened yet. Consider this another suggestion. (Disclaimer: I'm not longer a part of mefeedia.) -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Jan 30, 2008 1:46 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for those of you using Wordpress, Davod Meade craeted a whole new plugin for video comments: http://www.davidmeade.com/wordpress-plugins#videoComments It seems works much better than what we were using Semanal: http://semanal.org/2008/01/27/week-5-2008-video-commenting-is-live/ The plugin adds some extra fields to the comment area. The video comment then shows up as a clickable thumbnail and lays inline if you also have vPIP installed. This is a good example of old fashioned team work. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: Controlling Your Feed
Hi Tim, Every major video hosting site gives you a MediaRSS feed when you create an account (some advertise it more than others). YouTube and Blip have great feeds. I know a lot of people on this list prefer their Feedburner feed. Unfortunately, Feedburner feeds have lagged behind for video (the feeds use MediaRSS poorly, often have problems with thumbnails, etc.). Media RSS feeds have gotten a lot more robust and Feedburner has lagged behind in this area (probably due to the fact that they focus on bloggers). That said, I can understand that Feedburner provides statistics and more control over what and how posts are syndicated (including advertising / ways to make money). We've thought about providing an alternative to Feedburner, but it is a much different focus than what we are currently working on (Video Search). I wonder what others think? Are you happy with Feedburner? Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, michael_aivaliotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Tim Street tim@ wrote: So I've noticed that Revver now has a subscription/podcast button on the French Maid TV page at Revver http://revver.com/u/frenchmaidtv/ and when you click on it it subscribes you to a Revver feed - not the French Maid TV feed from Feedburner. Do other video hosting sites create new feeds or do they link to the content creator's feed? Yes, pretty much every video site has their own feeds. This is commonplace.
[videoblogging] Alternatives to ning? (Was Re: Video a week, evolved)
Hi Chris, cross my fingers? :) You may want to try: http://mefeedia.com/tags/semanal08/videostream_widgets/ (this is available for any tag) We are working on developing something even better in this area, and have taken the wish list posted by Rupert on the Ning site as a starting point. Anyone can add to that wish list, or feel free to post your wishes here, or our user group, or email me directly: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mefeedia-users/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discovery the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh, I'll probably just use mefeedia and cross my fingers... Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: The only other easy solution I can think of is the tagging thing - ie., everyone upload to Blip and use the same tag. Then subscribe to the rss feed for that search. But that breaks down if people are using YouTube or other non-blip places to upload their videos. Just some thoughts... David On Jan 18, 2008 1:43 PM, Chris cjburdick@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.dedman@ wrote: i dont think there are any plug and play systems you can install for group projects. Ning certainly does make it easy and they do let you customize. they own the content as far as i can see. I've no aversion to stitching together my own Frankenstein community using Blogger, Pbwiki, etc. for the individual pages. My question now is what to use to aggregate the videos in the challenge. I had thought mefeedia was the way to go, but I just did a test search for tagged videos of my own that have been sitting up on blip since the beginning of January, and found only one video of three bearing the same tag. Chris -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Comparing Flash encoding across different sites
Thanks for the link - excellent reading! We have found that the abandonment rate goes up exponentially when the user has to wait more than 3 seconds for a video to load. YouTube consistently delivers on this playback experience - partially because of their philosophy on bitrate and partially because of the $$$ they have put into CDN. Blip has gotten a lot better in this area recently too. Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles HOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is very interesting research comparing different ways that various sites (blip.tv, Veoh, Vimeo, Google Video and YouTube) encode Flash video. http://hastalavistavista.wordpress.com/category/video-datasheets/
Re: [videoblogging] Brighton NaVloPoMo screening
Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 8:09:43 PM, beth_tilston wrote: If there is anyone within throwing distance of Brighton (UK) who hasn't heard of the screening we are holding here on Saturday, please have a look at http://navlopomo.pbwiki.com/Brighton+NaVloPoMo+Screening+Details. You can sign up to attend the event here - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/388676/ Rupert, Robert Croma, Jay, Ryan and myself will all be there, so it'll be a real vlog love-in. Come and join us. I'm hoping to turn up for this. Does anyone know if there is anything (meetups, lunch, whatever) planned for before the actual showing? I will be driving down that morning and would hate to find that I have missed a chance to chat with videoblogging folks in the flesh. If there is not yet anything planned, should we arrange something? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: marketing and distributing videos
Hi Andrew, Been reading in on this conversation and had a few thoughts: 1) RSS enables you to have one point of distribution and ad insertion. The views on your video count as views on the original source, and makes managing the ads much easier as it gives you one place to manage them. It also has the added benefit of ads being delivered on the download too - for example, in iTunes and Miro (if you have put the ad/promo in the video itself). 2) Uploading to multiple sites, for most people, is for branding and distribution. Most video hosting sites don't offer a revenue program until you have reached a certain critical mass in terms of views. Even then, the CPMs aren't at a high enough level yet to make much for the individual producer. Congrats on the great growth! I know Rocketboom has been doing RSS for a while - although, I must say, the quality of the RSS is much better now that it is being run through Blip (video thumbnails, better metadata, etc). How much of the growth would you attribute to the Blip dashboard/distribution vs. uploading to YouTube, etc.? Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, its funny how licensing revenue isn't really leading to much online. Everyone wants to distribute your content for free in exchange for the distribution reach. But I have found this free off-site distribution model to be the most lucrative potential yet. This is because free distribution = 100% rights to ad sales. So when when we sell an advertisement and stick it on our show, it goes everywhere and we get 100% of the revenue. Not just in our RSS feeds but accross all of the websites that have Rocketboom. With a partner like YouTube for instance, we are enjoying being a part of the party as people discover us (we have only just recently started to gain a bit of an audience there but it adds to our count), and when we add an advertisement into the video, we can report that count back to the advertiser. Therefore, the result of distributing on other websites leads to an increase in off-site distribution, an increase in on-site distribution, and in both case, an increase in ad revenue. Let me know if Im missing something with your approach for in my mind, there really is no other way of looking at it unless you are in an exclusive relationship with someone that would prevent you from engaging in off-site distribution. Andrew On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Kent Nichols wrote: Meh. RSS is offsite distribution. We get about 90% of our views through the feeds. Putting your stuff up on sites is good for promotion, but less good for making money, unless you wrangle licensing deals. We've done some stuff putting old episodes on YouTube and Veoh, etc. Exposes us to new audiences and drives us some traffic. Congrats on the explosive growth Andrew. -K --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron andrew@ wrote: Kent, I'd like to get you comments on this. The $, Im not so concerned about. It sounds like a fair and positive amount for a gross figure. Its the issue of distributing nly on your site that Im curious about. In the second half of 2007, we underwent major growth to our web site traffic as a result of expanding off-site distribution. Up until just several months ago, we have not been on YouTube, Blip or any other flash sites, for instance. As a result of being on YouTube and the various other sites like Yahoo, Blip, Dailymotion, etc. we obviously increased our traffic off site, but that also caused our on-site traffic to grow tremendously, as expressed in at least one way here on this compete graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/rocketboom.com+askaninja.com/? metric=uv While Rocketboom appears to be in a lesser position than AskaNinja in terms of traffic, even with our recent increase in onsite traffic, we still get the greater percentage of our traffic off-site. Thus the data does not represent our site as well as a site like yours where you have purposefully tried to corral your audience onto your site. Taking that into consideration, according to the graph then (which is at least relevant to itself), in terms of annual growth, the data suggests that the Askaninja site has grown 15.3% over the last year compared to 537% growth for Rocketboom over the last year. Our offsite growth has been even greater, obviously. So my first conclusion is to suggest that one good way to increase your numbers and drive traffic to your website is to distribute off- site. If you can provide a better experience on your site then anywhere else, it can work more to your advantage. Anyway, these graphs are always screwy and its not a lot of info to go on, but I wanted to get your take
[videoblogging] Re: SEMANAL
Really cool idea. What is the tag? semanal ? Mefeedia will do our usual hyper-aggregation / tag meme thing. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Paul. It's great this will motivate people to post more and strongly encourage anyone to hit a weekly target (hell I dream of going daily). And having a common location to post is grand to. But none of this is anything new. So you have even less of an excuse if you don't do it ;-) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight paul.knight7@ wrote: Hmm, isn't this what vloggers do anyway Or is it me? Most people can do 52 posts in a year, it's nothing new! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Hey everybody Ze Nuno's had a great idea. Every week in 2008, we're posting videos. 52 videos by the end of the year. Continuing the spirit of NaVloPoMo, but posting 52 videos over the course of a whole year, instead of 30 in a month. Like NaVloPoMo, you can post on your blog, on Seesmic, Facebook, YouTube, whatever, wherever and however. You can do anything you want. As long as it moves. Whether you already post weekly or not, I think it'll be a great challenge and network to be involved in. NaVloPoMo gave great inspiration, energy and exposure. And it was FUN :) Join us at: http://semanal.ning.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: SEMANAL
We'd be willing to syndicate the aggregated tag or channel to a blog, if someone would like us to do that. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yay! We're going to use a Wordpress blog with Show In A Box to collect the videos - make it easy to post and browse and search and archive. We'll keep Ning for discussions and ideas and other fun stuff. The Wordpress blog is being set up by Ze Nuno right now, and it'll be at http://semanal.org/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull sulleleven@ wrote: i'll look at this as the underlying motivating nudge. we can all use a lil of that. i'd like to suggest using tumblr http://tumblr.com/disqushttp://disqus.cominstead of ning. but either way, i'll follow the lead and participate to the video pool that is SEMANAL. thx- sull.outputs.it On Jan 2, 2008 11:36 AM, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Hey everybody Ze Nuno's had a great idea. Every week in 2008, we're posting videos. 52 videos by the end of the year. Continuing the spirit of NaVloPoMo, but posting 52 videos over the course of a whole year, instead of 30 in a month. Like NaVloPoMo, you can post on your blog, on Seesmic, Facebook, YouTube, whatever, wherever and however. You can do anything you want. As long as it moves. Whether you already post weekly or not, I think it'll be a great challenge and network to be involved in. NaVloPoMo gave great inspiration, energy and exposure. And it was FUN :) Join us at: http://semanal.ning.com/ We're setting up a Wordpress blog, with all participants as editors. We can all post videos there, and crosspost there from the Blip Upload page. It'll be easier to archive, search and browse by author, date and keyword than at Ning. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: SEMANAL
Just let us know what you want, and we will accomadate. One thought: One thing that we've always imagined is to decentralize the centralization. What if I was on DavidMeade.com and could see that Mike Moon just posted a Semanal video, clicked on that and went to http://vlog.mikemoon.net, etc, etc.. Then, when i commented on someone's vlog, this too would be something that would be syndicated and viewed across vlogs. Not only would this be a really cool decentralized tag meme, but this would also give viewers a sense of cohesiveness that attracts them to central sites like YouTube. IMO, it is the best of both worlds - i would personally be cruising across the vlogosphere for hours. :) Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seconding the opinion of our delegate from the grand state of Hawaii: for something as simple as doing a video a week, some of the infrastructure feels slike its just going to add to my video workflow without enhancing my videoblogging/community experience. If we make the main depository Mefeedia, can't we just tag our videos and have them show up there? Maybe someone can make a pretty skin for the page to make it feel special and highlight whatever its about. And the thought of having actual content/meme assignments always leave me in the dust as I just dont keep up with them. Heck, I havent even put up my Rampaging Santas video as I havent had time to finish it. Maybe it will be my Valentine vid.. On Jan 3, 2008 12:21 PM, Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more I read this thread, the more I like David's Mefeedia solution. Ning for discussion, support, our own blogs for featured posting so to speak and majority of comments, and mefeedia for the channel aggregation aspects. It's less work, no need to set up another site, and we use the technology in place. To those of us who post a lot, having to manage one more place is a challenge to participation. And no reason why we can't cross post occasionally to ning or to each others' sites when an episode strikes our fancy. Ning could be used to stimulate memes (though I am meme-resistant in many instances!) and/or let's all try this technique for next weeks contribution. Respectfully submitted from the 2 cents department, Rox -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SEMANAL
All - Rupert has started a wish list over at http://semanal.ning.com - it already includes a lot of the comments / suggestions here. Re: Cheryl's post - we are willing to devote developer resources for looking into specific issues with some posts not being picked up. We are here to work with you all. I am also available via email or phone for questions / issues / suggestions - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 310.927.7841 (mobile). We have a small team (4) compared to a Ning or Facebook, but we are here, focused, and willing to spend the time to get it right. Jay - David Meade doesn't work for us, but I'd sure be willing to hire him to help on this project if he has time available. :) Schlomo - great idea. I know some people that plugged this feed into Miro for that experience: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/navlopomo/rss2.xml I'd love to hear other ideas on creating this experience - either here or you can email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Nintendo Wii comes to mind. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web On Jan 3, 2008 4:52 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kinda a tangent: What about having a page that just constantly scrolls through the videos? A lean back experience, as they say in the biz. How would that be made? By having our videos going through the same feed? If I could watch the NaVloPoMo vids this way, I would be able to see the interaction/communication/elaboration that was happening during that month (like the little memes that happened... showing the work environment, various topics, whatever) just a thought -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Movies v TV (was...My Amends...)
Friday, December 28, 2007, 7:39:14 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: WHAT good tv? As an aside, I have been watching episodes of the old Max Headroom drama series from the 1980s over the last few days and they are so much part of this discussion of old vs new media and advertsing-driven content that it's scary. Once you get past the 80's haircuts and the grunge-punk sets it's fascinating and thoughtful stuff. A world where turning a TV off is illegal, ad minutes are traded instead of stocks and shares, and death is just another way to stop channel-hopping. I don't know if the episodes are available to buy, but I found two full series available via bittorrent. See also: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maxheadroom/maxheadroom.htm http://www.theora.org/faq/#15 -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: My Amends To Robert Scoble
Hi Jan, One big reason big media rings so false: advertisers control content. I have to disagree with that. Viewers control the content. Meaning, studios only fund productions they think audiences will watch, buy a movie ticket, purchase a DVD, etc. It is the masses controlling what gets produced by big media... Listening to your audience (both through metrics and comments) and being responsive should always be #1 priority. The real power of new media is that direct access to your audience. Regards, -Frank http://mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why advertising is a dangerous way to go if you're interested in true things. One big reason big media rings so false: advertisers control content. Jan On Dec 27, 2007 10:37 PM, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hint: eventually sponsors and employees get the message and move money away from a company that isn't getting community support. And, worse, it definitely demoralizes the employees and makes them far less willing to take risks on behalf of the community. I think this is BS too. If you think that's BS, you've never made your living solely from advertising. Advertisers do turn away when they perceive they are associating their brand with something negative or failing. If the advertisers turn away, the employees stop getting paid, lose their jobs, etc. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Forget Apple TV - What about the Nintendo Wii ??
I was mostly worried about watching video and if this was an easy path to the TV. There are 17+ million Wii owners out there, which is way higher than Apple TV or even the iPhone. The other interesting factor is that the Wii is opening up a whole different demographic that is buying game consoles. It is cool to have a Wii at your 30-something cocktail parties... I did some research and found this: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2007/04/13/wii-browser-out-but-why-flash-7-and-not-8-or-9 The only complaint I have is that Flash doesn't garbage collect correctly causing memory leaks, eventually resulting in a lockup of the entire system. It's more noticable on video streams. Now i am wishing Adobe would upgrade their Flash SDK for Opera browsers from v7 to v9. Maybe this problem will be fixed in newer versions. Still very optimistic and maybe Flash Lite can be used with Opera. I am determined to make this path to the TV as easy as possible. I've been dreaming of using Mefeedia.com as a Web-based TiVo for Web Video, combined with the Wii which has a built-in Opera browser and WiFi support. XBox and PS3 show some promise as well. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Eric Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be testing Vimeo on these consoles, only since I don't personally want to move backwards in production quality. I'm on the TV, maybe on a home theater, I want HIGHER rez and prod quality, not less. That's my preference for the living room (and why I hate the Apple TV)... I want to make those HDMI cables SING, baby, SING. Qik's also not available to the world, it's marketed like 'hey phone people look!' and it's the same mono-sell that we're so plagued with, hehe. ER --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jake Ludington jake@ wrote: It's funny. I'm using http://www.qik.com http://www.qik.com/ now and it doesn't need ANY local storage. Just throws all the bits up to a server. Why couldn't that be used with the Wii? Doesn't qik.com proxy from a video camera (cell phones being their primary camera)? The recipient still has to cache a file on the other side, I believe, which doesn't solve the Wii problem, which is a problem of needing somewhere to temporarily cache the video you are watching. Wii has no problem with short videos, but runs into trouble when it's attempting to download minute 8 and you're watching minute 4 and there's no more room. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
[videoblogging] Re: the inevitable conversation about what we're doing
I've been a part of this community for over a year, having taken over from Peter at Mefeedia.com one year ago. Since then, this community has been nothing but supportive. I've learned and grown from being a part of this community. I hope that I've been able to contribute both on this group and over at Mefeedia. The artists here are amazing - in my 7 years living in LA, i have never seen such a large amount of collaboration and giving back as i have seen here. Sure, criticism happens - but 99% of the time, it is constructive / great conversation and the non-constructive ones are typically ignored. At the end of the day, the work people are producing speaks for itself - and those videos continue to get better and better. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I find there's a nugget of truth in the cliche that you get from a community what you put into it, both in quality and kind. A cooperative spirit and an open mind will generaly yield a more positive experience than an attitude of Help me! Help me! Validate me! Love me! FUCK YOU! Or so I hear. ;) Chris
[videoblogging] Forget Apple TV - What about the Nintendo Wii ??
I just saw this chart - makes me think the path to the TV will not be through the Apple TV, but rather through the Wii (or PS3 or XBox360): http://www.vgchartz.com Has anyone experimented with online video on the Nintendo Wii? Looks like i will have a Wii in a few days. :) Building a Wii interface for Mefeedia may be a pet project over the holidays. Anyone else have one and watch online video? Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web
[videoblogging] NaVloPoMo07 Wrap-up
All, I haven't heard much regarding the completion of (Inter)National Videoblog Posting Month. Perhaps everyone is just worn out. :) It was an unbelievable effort to post a video a day for a month - just wanted to say i really enjoyed watching. Quick wrap-up here: http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/12/05/international-video-blog-posting-month-wrap-up-navlopomo-2007/ but will let the videos do most of the talking: http://mefeedia.com/tags/navlopomo07/ - over 1,000 videos! Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching?
Re: [videoblogging] USB Microphone Preamp (24-Bit/96kHz) with 48V Phantom Power for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12:56:36 PM, David King wrote: Hmm.. that's true - it's basically a fancy volume knob. Cool idea! On Dec 2, 2007 5:05 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CEntrance Inc. MicPort Pro - Compact USB Microphone Preamp (24-Bit/96kHz) with 48V Phantom Power for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista This seems like a pretty cool device for those of us who have or want to use condenser mics that require 48V power. While it is designed to be used between the condenser mic and a computer, based on my reading of its specs, you could use this to interface a pro condenser mic with your video camera, and obviate the need to put a more expensive mixer in the signal chain in order to power the mic. Maybe I'm mistaken, but this doesn't look at all suitable for on-camera use (unless you have a camera with a powered USB input - something I have never encountered myself). Essentially this device seems to be a standard USB bus-powered preamp, just in a cylindrical casing with an XLR on the end. The giveaway is that the phantom power must come from somewhere, and this device has no battery. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: QuickTime Embeds on iPhone
I've been browsing Mefeedia and playing videos for some time on my iPhone and all works great (except the ATT network - really need WiFi for video playback). Actually, i can browse and play videos in my channel really nicely by just entering the url http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ and i'm on my way. We've been using a custom PHP embed script for some time - will have to check the jQuery plugin. Thanks for the plugin link. There is another plugin too that also does Flash and other formats (we currently support Quicktime, Flash, Real, Windows Media, and others). Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and of course grab the stuff needed here: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/embedquicktime/ It is basically a re-implementation of the blip.tv thumbnail flipper with a much smaller footprint or a version of vPIP with all the fluff removed, depending on how you look at it. I just needed something lean for embedding quicktimes and I especially wanted a really simple code generator. There will be a Drupal module in the near future (I'm already using the Drupal module on solitude.dk but I need to touch it up a bit before I release the code). - Andreas Den 28.11.2007 kl. 15:33 skrev schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's a pretty simple embed code made by Andreas; you can read his writeup of it here:http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20071112-0410/ On Nov 28, 2007 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday Schlomo Twittered about the Evil Vlog QT Embed test http:// www.evilvlog.com/?p=1866 I went there and got the videos to play on my iPhone. Has anyone else experimented with Quicktime Embeds? Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How To's by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/
[videoblogging] Disgusting article about viral video marketing
I was hesitant to give this guy more attention than he already has, but thought it would be very relevant to see what is happening out there: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/ Many of us knew that the Top Viewed Videos on YouTube was 90% crap already honestly, i wasn't at all surprised - except that this guy is a TA at Stanford! Is this what our Nation's Best are being taught nowadays? Why doesn't Mefeedia have a Videos tab with Most Viewed Videos? It is not a popularity contest - we want it to be about REAL people having REAL conversations. This reinforces that belief. Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 5:42:27 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Fan noise seems about the same for both. I cant really hear the fan when on low speed and recording with the built-in mic, let alone an external one, though your mileage may vary depending on what sort of mic it is. That sounds encouraging. Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 6:45:04 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: Time to get the video effects ableton live out and try to recover the weird me that used to exist more before I started ranting on the net. Ah. Do you use Ableton Live on the Mac, too? I'd not really thought about that. I have been spending some time using a Lite version (which came free with my external preamp) on my Windows XP box and find it great fun. I guess stocking it up with virtual instruments and effects does count as heavy CPU load, though. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: Counting views in Facebook?
Wow. Thanks for the link (and thanks for the summary, Steve). Has anyone played with putting their MediaRSS feed directly into Facebook? I wonder if this would be useful? Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mattfeldman78 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be careful uploading video directly to Facebook-their terms of use are horrible. You might want to consider using another app, like YouTube so u don't do a direct upload of the video and deal with their terms. I think Steve Garfield addressed this on this list and he blogged about it here: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/10/facebook-terms-of-use.html --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: Personally, I love that the Facebooks doesn't show stats. Once the site started being open to anyone, I loved that I could easily put up a personal video that would only be seen by my friends (or by the friends of who I tag in the video). Most of the videos I post on there are of me and my girlfriend talking about our day right when we wake up; which is a much more personal construct than Mahalo Daily. You want the world to see those, which originally, is not what the Facebooks were all about. Sometimes I game the system by tagging my popular friends so that 1. they notice and watch the video, and 2. so it shows up in their friends timeline. You know, tag Scoble and have 5000 more potential viewers. If you want to have more control of your stats, I dont think that site is the place to be posting your videos. -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com AIM:schlomochat
[videoblogging] Re: Embed from Hulu beta
Yep. Some major limitations: * TV shows will become available after they have aired on regular broadcast television. The new ones will only be the last five episodes (i.e. at the 6th episode, embeds of the 1st episode will no longer work). * U.S. only. * No download of material. MSM has come a long way, but not far enough IMO. (Of course, the biggest limitation is it is a walled garden for only those MSM companies who do content deals with Hulu.) Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedina.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I guess thats another advantage that indy vlogging etc has over the traditional media world, TV networks have themselves all tied up when it comes to international licensing. Like other DRM issues, it may get sane eventually, but its gonna take years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytaylor@ wrote: Same thing. On 20/11/2007, Bill Cammack billcammack@ wrote: Phil Campbell http://me.dm said he got the same message in the UK. I'm trying again with a 30 Rock clip because Phil suggested it might have something to do with the rating of the first video I embedded. http://billcammack.com/2007/11/20/trying-hulu-embed-again/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack billcammack@ wrote: Really? How interesting. There's only a generic embed code they produce. The only way it seems you can alter it is with the slider they provide that marks your in and out points. How much sense does THAT make? I'll have to ask Phil Campbell if he can see it in the UK. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytaylor@ wrote: Unfortunately this video is not available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience. On 20/11/2007, Bill Cammack billcammack@ wrote: For those of you not on the beta, you can see how an embed looks from Hulu.com Dick In A Box SNL Short embedded from hulu.com = http://billcammack.com/2007/11/20/dick-in-a-box-from-hulu-com/ or http://tinyurl.com/22mq2f -- Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: thejeffreytaylor@ http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: thejeffreytaylor@ http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: ARTICLE - Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs
Thanks for the article... And I guess no one is going to read blogs anymore since we have Business Week on the Web. If anything, the shift of TV shows moving to the Web will INCREASE the amount of viewers for ALL video. It means that Mainstream Mom will start feeling comfortable watching video online. That is great! It opens up an even bigger audience beyond the 18-25 year-olds that currently dominate online video viewing. Regards, -Frank -- Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sharing this. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of âHow Toâsâ by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Kenya Allmond wrote: Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs As more professionally produced content finds a home online, user-generated video becomes less alluring to viewersÂand advertisers http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/ tc20071119_701831.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top +stories http://tinyurl.com/2mac2l Has anyone ever heard of VideoEgg and ManiaTV? Did BusinessWeek try to interview executives from known online video outlets? . . . Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog VM/F 202-478-0490 To thine own self be true. __ __ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3:37:24 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: I got a Mac Mini when Tiger came out. I was impressed by it, and it was indeed very very quiet compared to all the PC's Id had. I then went on to get a Macbook, and it was the same, almost silent in normal operation. They are far from silent when under heavy CPU load though, so for example when you are encoding video, the fans will turn it up a notch or two and will be quite audible. I also liked the fact that Apple doesnt put fans on the bottom of their laptops, unlike many PC laptops of the time, so I could put it on my lap or bed etc, without worrying about blocking the fans. Thanks Steve, that's helpful. Do you think that something such as recording a USB or firewire signal from an external audio input using a multi-track audio application (Garageband?) would also count as heavy CPU load? That's probably the case where the noise would be most significant/ -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 3:46:49 PM, RANDY MANN wrote: i use a mac book for every thing. Thanks Randy. Do you find that it is effectively silent in normal use for recording and playing audio and video? Or do you ever hear any fan noise on voiceovers/podcasts and stuff? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Sunday, November 18, 2007, 5:52:24 PM, Sull wrote: Whatever you buy new today, will be fine for quality audio/video production. A desktop is usually a better option... but if you like the advantage of mobility, then i'd go with a Toshiba or Macbook Pro. I'm intrigued by the suggestion of a MacBook Pro. Maybe I'm missing something, but the apparent advantages (10% more CPU, 20% more screen pixels, a bit more RAM and drive space) don't seem to justify the roughly doubling in price, especially given the reduced portability and battery life of the pro. As for macbook fan noise and temperature... I installed this and it has made a huge difference: http://www.lobotomo.com/products/FanControl/ By implication, therefore: before you started using this software your MacBook was noisy. Was it noisy enough that you could hear it on a recording from a nearby (good quality) microphone? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
Monday, November 19, 2007, 6:33:22 PM, Stormy Knight wrote: I have used a Mac exclusively since mid '84. I've done some video and audio work and the video/audio specs stuff you requested it will do and lots. That's good to hear. I was a bit worried about L cuts and editing the ASF files from my camera - I have several Windows editing programs which can't handle those, and it's very hard to tell what formats software will read. However, you will get sound noise, both from the Mac itself and from anything less than using a professional mic. I have got a good mic. In fact, it was buying a decent large diaphragm condenser mic that prompted this exercise in the first place. It's so much more sensitive than my old mics that it picks up every noise in the room. If you are just thinking of buying a Mac to eliminate noise, buy the freestanding soundsoap at http://xserve1.bias-inc.com:16080/products/soundsoap2/ for roughly $129 USD and save yourself a couple of thousand dollars. I guess that's roughly similar to what I do now. I use the noise removal tool in Audacity and a few VST plugins for gating, equalising and compressing. Using these tools has a noticeable effect on the signal, though. I was hoping that by eliminating/reducing the majority of noise in the first place, I would be able to use much less aggressive noise removal settings. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Mac for videoblogging and podcasting?
I hope this is not too off-topic, but I can't seem to find answers after several attempts at searching, and I know that a bunch of people on this list use Macs for their video and audio work. I have never used a Mac of any sort. In fact, I have never even seen one running up close. We have no apple stores around here, and I don't know anyone locally who has a Mac which I could play with. I have seen plenty of touch-feely ads, and read a lot of subjective discussions and rants, but I am completely unfamiliar with the unspoken and unwritten assumptions about Apple products which are probably pretty obvious if you use one for a while. I have plenty of computers, running a variety of Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems, but they are all noisy. Whenever I try to record any sound or video here in my office there is always the hum and rush of fans in the background. With this in mind I am considering getting another computer, probably something portable, so I can use it in quieter places. I don't really want to risk a lot of money on this exercise, so I want to take a no bells and whistles approach and use a bottom of the range model if at all possible. So my puzzlement boils down to a few questions: 1. Is the current lowest-priced MacBook (2GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB RAM) and the included software suitable for my videoblogging and podcasting needs? I don't tend to use a lot of fancy features ... For video: straight and L cuts, occasionally a dissolve, mixing of location sound, music and voice, import of JPEG images, and some sort of lower-third titling would do the job. I record either on a Mini-DV camcorder or on a flash-memory camera which produces ASF files. For audio: mainly just assemblng a selection of alternate takes into a sequence, and linking them together over a substrate of music or background sound. Source material is either MP3 or WAV recordings from a generic MP3 player/recorder, or direct into the computer through a mic preamp. 2. Are the current generation of MacBooks silent/cool in use? This is the bit that's really hard to find out. I've been all over the apple web site and found lots of stuff about how intuitive and arty the whole experience is, but nothing about whether or not you can hear cooling fans running when recording and editing, or whether if you use a laptop actually on your lap it is comfortable or too hot. 3. Alternatively, can anyone recommend a low-cost, easily portable, silent/cool brand of ordinary PC which I can use with the software I already have? Many thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th
Hi Susan, I know a few people using our video tag aggregation service (some are also using Miro to just download the videos they want from this tag by putting the tag RSS in Miro): http://mefeedia.com/tags/NaVloPoMo07/ We've also created this page where you can subscribe, track comments and other activities: http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/26445/ We're working on better ways to track the conversations too and would love your feedback. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the concept, I just hope next year we use something other than Ning... How about technorati, or blip, or other tagging services? Is anyone viewing videos just by looking for the navlopomo tag? Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Hey Susan, Hurray! Great you're in, too. It's been amazing, so far. Sorry you found it confusing, but I think it will get pretty confusing and fragmented if we post here. Just go to: http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers There are discussion threads that say: Navlopomo Day 12 Videos or Navlopomo Day 11 Videos or Navlopomo Day 10 etc Click on those and post your video for that day in that thread. You'll see that everyone else has just posted their videos for that day there in a big scrolling list. Use the Blip share code for Myspace to embed your video into your message, and give your post link so that people can comment. Can't wait to see - but am already so far behind in my viewing... Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 12 Nov 2007, at 21:25, Susan wrote: Hi folks, long time no talk! I'm still around. Made a new video each of the past 3 days, in fact... you've got to check out the one called SAT, I've been wanting to do that for a long time. http://vlog.kitykity.com Anyways, I know this is NaBloPoMo, and I know this Ning site has been set up... http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers ...and forgive me if I'm dense, but that site is SUPER confusing to me. Has anyone thought of posting their videos here? Maybe just reply to this post today, and give us a direct link to your video for this day, the 12th... Here's mine... http://www.kitykity.com/vlog/?p=412 Susan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th
We are working on a threaded view based on activity. Initial looks at it are pretty cool. We also have a new search in the works which will track video responses / trackbacks right in the mefeedia video page. Third, i'd love to have widget tools (similar to what Flickr does for images) to be able to syndicate the tracking to your blog/vlog. We are in middle of development now (hopefully some will be ready for the 2nd half of NaVloPoMo), so if you have suggestions, we will try to incorporate as much as we can. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susan, Sorry, I meant to say in my last email but got distracted by Kate looking over my shoulder saying, Who's SUSAN? The easiest and best way to get ALL the videos is to go to: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/navlopomo07/ That's the tag you should use for your vids: navlopomo07 There are almost 500 videos there already. In 12 days. And you can scan easily and watch randomly. As Cheryl said to me, though - don't try and catch up yet - just start watching from here on in. We've got another 18 days to go. The main reason we used the NaBloPoMo Ning group this year rather than setting up something separate was that it was already set up and ready to go by Eden Kennedy for the text Nablopomo, so we just piggybacked on it, after deciding to do it a couple of days before. And we thought it might help introduce other NaBloPoMo people to video blogging. I'm not too confused by it, so I don't mind using it in conjunction with Mefeedia - but it would be good to think of better ways to do it in future. If anybody has any ideas...? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I love the concept, I just hope next year we use something other than Ning... How about technorati, or blip, or other tagging services? Is anyone viewing videos just by looking for the navlopomo tag? Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: Hey Susan, Hurray! Great you're in, too. It's been amazing, so far. Sorry you found it confusing, but I think it will get pretty confusing and fragmented if we post here. Just go to: http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers There are discussion threads that say: Navlopomo Day 12 Videos or Navlopomo Day 11 Videos or Navlopomo Day 10 etc Click on those and post your video for that day in that thread. You'll see that everyone else has just posted their videos for that day there in a big scrolling list. Use the Blip share code for Myspace to embed your video into your message, and give your post link so that people can comment. Can't wait to see - but am already so far behind in my viewing... Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 12 Nov 2007, at 21:25, Susan wrote: Hi folks, long time no talk! I'm still around. Made a new video each of the past 3 days, in fact... you've got to check out the one called SAT, I've been wanting to do that for a long time. http://vlog.kitykity.com Anyways, I know this is NaBloPoMo, and I know this Ning site has been set up... http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers ...and forgive me if I'm dense, but that site is SUPER confusing to me. Has anyone thought of posting their videos here? Maybe just reply to this post today, and give us a direct link to your video for this day, the 12th... Here's mine... http://www.kitykity.com/vlog/?p=412 Susan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 1:34:37 PM, Rupert wrote: People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? I think it might be useful to distinguish between watching on a computer, and watching on-line. I hardly ever watch anything on-line. There's something about the in-web-page experience that simply does not work for me. On the other hand, I watch quite a lot on my computer screen. There are a several reasons for this; here are a few I can think of right now: * The rest of my family would prefer to watch other stuff on the TV in the lounge. Likewise I am not at all interested in watching kids shows, soap operas and medical dramas. So we agree to differ, and I get the PC. * The stuff I want to watch is not available on regular TV. No, it's not *that* sort of stuff. Mostly what I am interested in is either independent internet video or old TV from the 1960s onwards - I have been having great fun watching *all* the available episodes of Doctor Who ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_who ), for example. I'm currently part way through Tom Baker ... To show that I'm not a complete cheapskate I did buy a boxed set of The Tomorrow People ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomorrow_People ) * I have become mildly addicted to the extra meta information you can get when watching something in a PC media player. I get twitchy if I can't glance at a progress indicator to see how far through I am, and love the ability to pause and look up on the web something which occurs to me while watching. For these sorts of reasons, I'm not especially interested in a set top box. We don't even have cable, satellite, or digital TV, so we only get the regular five channels. -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th
Hi Kath, Yes, Mefeedia does pick up tags from YouTube videos. Since we don't spider/crawl (mefeedia is 100% user-submitted), your YouTube user feed or a YouTube tag feed needs to be submitted to Mefeedia first (YouTube does supply RSS feeds for each user, although they don't publicize it - http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[your YouTube username]/videos.rss - and YouTube also has tag feeds - http://youtube.com/rss/tag/[tag here].rss). I just added the Navlopomo07 YouTube tag feed to mefeedia: http://mefeedia.com/feeds/26786/ (one annoying thing about YouTube feeds - they only go back 20 entries) These are now part of the tag and tag feed. Thanks! Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just out of interest, does meefeedia pickup the navlopomo07 tags from the youtube videos also? or just the rss feeds? I tried to find some from there the other day but maybe I did something wrong. all the blip ones were there ok. sorry if it's a dumb question - I can't d/l all the videos usually due to b/w limitations so usually just view a few via web. all I've seen have been great, but yes, it's hard to keep up with watching them all! kath --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: The easiest and best way to get ALL the videos is to go to: http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/navlopomo07/ That's the tag you should use for your vids: navlopomo07 There are almost 500 videos there already. In 12 days. -- http://www.aliak.com
[videoblogging] Re: TV as we know it is dying (no shit)
Hi Jay, Thanks for the link - great to see the writers writing about the situation. I pass by both NBC and Disney on my way to the office, and there are even more people picketing this week than last week. Does anyone know of any advertisers who have pulled their campaigns because of the strike? If this starts happening, we will surely see more movement on the studio side. Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a good op-ed by one of the writers of LOST. http://tinyurl.com/3xevtc This group knew that the traditional concept of TV was obsolete several years ago. With the Writer's Strike (http://twitter.com/writersstrike), entertainment workers are discussing all the economics of how it'd going to play out. Now that money is involved, everything we are doing is very for real now. If you are able to make quality video, you will be wanted. Question we got to ask ourselves is: do we want to become employees again? or can we do it differently this time? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video: http://ryanishungry.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?
Hi Jason, The show is looking great - congrats. You are doing everything right so far. A few tips: 1) Subscribe - make it more obvious on how to subscribe to your show. Right now, it is buried at the bottom of your vlog. Bring it up and put it right smack next to your video of the day. Views are cheap, subscribers are pure gold. 2) Be sure to promote your website URL on your videos. pre and post the video, of course. 3) YouTube - i assume this is u: http://www.youtube.com/user/mahalodotcom Thumbnails and titles are hugely important on YT. I think Jan and Tim already covered this area on the thumbs, if you choose to go there if you don't, Epic-Fu has a good example channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jetsetshow 4) Metadata is very important for video. Title + thumbnail + tags - these are by far the most important. Use the same basic principles as websites - good keywords in your titles and tags. 5) RSS - in your feedburner rss: (a) be sure to have a media:thumbnail (b) turn off autoplay in the RSS! I went to the feed and 5 videos started trying to play. (c) can you use your Blip RSS and put it into FeedBurner? Blip has great RSS - they do the hard work so you don't have to. Hope that helps. BTW, your RSS is in Mefeedia - i subscribed. Looking forward to watching future episodes. http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/26422/ Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin jannie.jan@ wrote: I don't know Veronica from sunshine, but I'm guessing she's got a good rack. You don't need much more than that and some low-cut, tight blouses and a bevy of good writers and guests to make the numbers you describe. Yeah, ultimately, that's the formula. Veronica *is* the show. You have an already popular, attractive female as the front, you have people ghost-write her material and you have other people research and do graphics for the show, and it's a wrap. Also, like Rupert said, get featured everywhere you can, especially YouTube, where they have infinite idiots that just so happen to watch a lot of videos, especially the ones placed before their eyes on the first page they land on. They're absolutely worthless, unless you're in the partnership program, but the numbers look good when you're ready to sell, get sponsors or investors. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com Lots of writers out of work this week. Jan [Who's kinda sorry for the flip if true response] On 11/11/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis jason@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rupert@ wrote: This might not be the right place to ask those questions. Most (not all) of the producers here are working organically and personally with much smaller audiences and are creating uncommercial content. Got it. Thought that discussions about distribution channels might be in the mandate since I've seen them here before, but if not please do delete! But here's my two cents: You want regular six figure viewing figures, I'd say the only guaranteed way to do it from a standing start is to get featured on Youtube every time. I would imagine, given your YouTube has come up a lot so I guess we should talk to them about distribution. I agree about the value of those viewers and the horrible behavior. In some ways I guess it's like getting on the front page of digg: you get some traffic but you also get abusive comments from the kiddie/anonymous coward contingent. My feeling is that to get any value or meaningful response from your viewers, you need to build audience and loyalty organically. All the social network/social media groups you've set up are a good start. Agreed. We're getting a great response from Ning (http://mahalodaily.ning.com), Facebook (600 or so memebers), and Twitter. But they're not a quick fix. Or a road to instant viewer riches. Agreed again. I think they are good at creating a space for your existing users to get together. I advise you to look at EpicFu (formerly Jetset) - Zadi and Steve have done it about as right as possible, I think. They've been developing their show and their fans for a long time, and are now getting 1m views per week. They cover a lot of ground, screen on multiple networks as well as their own site and work very hard at it. They have their own social network, which is integral to their show. Seems to work well for them. Will do... those guys certainly know what they're doing and have been at it for a long time. I also advise you not pay any attention to my advice. I'm a videoblogger. I'm happy with a two or three figure audience, not six. I want to keep personal contact with my viewers. I
[videoblogging] Re: everyday video in November
Really cool videos for NaVloPoMo07! I just featured NaVloPoMo07 on the Mefeedia homepage: http://www.mefeedia.com I had to hack a solution to get it on the homepage - see the first how shows this week entry. Be sure to visit the tag, though, - all of the entries are there - and it is a far better playback experience and RSS solution (again, the show was so that i could quickly put it on the homepage): http://mefeedia.com/tags/NaVloPoMo07/ If you see a video that SHOULD be a part of this, and it is in mefeedia, login, go to the video page, and click Add a tag, then add the NaVloPoMo07 tag (of course, you could always change it at the source and we will pick it up too, but just in case you want instant gratification...). Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn my typing. You asked me if that was all I was going to say about what you wrote and I said yes. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell taoofdavid@ wrote: What? In everything you wrote, you asked me one question. I removed what wasnt pertainent to the question and answered that question. You asked me if that was all I was going to say about what you wrote and I said no. Go play games with someone else. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell taoofdavid@ wrote: Your opinion is your opinion. Admittedly coming from a biased viewpoint and not objective. So, I am rather nonplussed with what you've written and have nothing to add or continue discussing with you. You didn't DISCUSS anything in the first place. You selected the very end of my post and deleted EVERYTHING ELSE I said. Yes. Admittedly biased, which was in the [disclosure], which you ALSO deleted for your own purposes. I am not naming the site as if it doesnt pan out and they dont promote the NaVloPoMo videos, I dont want to see people disappointed. Oh. Ok. -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Why don't you name the site then? Also, is that ALL you had to say about my entire rebuttal? :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell taoofdavid@ wrote: Actually Bill, I was sent an email this morning after I posted this by a hosting site asking for a list of NaVloPoMo videos that they could promote. I didnt have to approach them. They had the ambition to approach me when they saw that there was a need to fill. Apparently, you dont *think* correctly. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: BTW... Is there anywhere else besides blip.tv where you would have the slightest, most miniscule, REMOTE chance of sending an email and MAYBE being featured on the front page of that host? I don't think so. :D -- Bill Cammack http://CammackMediaGroup.com
[videoblogging] new mefeedia
Hi all, We've done a big upgrade to Mefeedia (released over the past several months) that you may enjoy. :) http://www.mefeedia.com Some highlights (check out the mefeedia blog and users group for more details - links at the bottom of our home page): ⢠New feed/show page that highlights recent activity, a fan wall, and a myvloglog-type widget. It should be really easy now to see your show's and video's activity that is happening on Mefeedia.com (will soon be extended to beyond just what is happening on mefeedia too). ⢠Meeps / Social Discovery â the goal is to answer the one question: What are you watching?. This is a complete revamp of the social network, now called the Meeps Network (for media peeps). It is now much easier to filter out just what your friends are watching â most recent and most popular. (this is my favorite new part of mefeedia, as i am addicted to going through the activity feeds of my friends). ⢠Channels are ad-hoc social networks (groups) that anyone can start and anyone can join and start adding shows, comments, etc.. ⢠New backend aggregation â huge upgrade, we can now pick up and aggregate even more video from more sites. Hope you enjoy the new experience and stay tuned for even bigger things on the way. Please contact me directly if you have any question - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 310.927.7841 (cell). Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching?
[videoblogging] Re: video blog, the term of choice
When I am explaining mefeedia to people, they don't really get it when i explain it terms of video blogs or vlogs. They DO understand it when i explained it as like YouTube, but much more focused on indie content creators - user-generated, semi-professional, and professional content. Then, there is an aha!. The other distinguishing factor is age: 30 - Takes a lot of explaining 30 - Gets it right away Most investors i talk to are over 40 and they don't even understand social networking and think it is a fad (but, of course, they want in now that Facebook is valued at $347 per user). Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Shawn Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Video blog would seem like the obvious term of choice especially since it is become more popular among the masses and new people are launching video blogs every day. I would venture to guess that the main reason why this term is so popular is because the two terms blog and vlog resemble one another two much. The also sound very much alike (for obvious reasons.) So when a new vlogger tells someone to go and check out my vlog they get a different response then if they were to tell someone to go and check out their video blog. If you say the term vlog the light goes on for a few of us, but if you say the term video blog the light goes on for everyone. Podcasts originally started as audio only so that is what most people will view them as. Their first impression just sticks. Podcasts will always be audio only to some people. People may still be thinking youtube when they hear the term video blog, but only be cause they were the first real giant in the industry. I know that I only thought youtube when I first started vlogging (video blogging!) I would also venture to say that most people not in the know about video blogs would thnk that they are just like real blogs only primarily spoken. To get a true feel on what people think, maybe we should all try putting a poll up on our blogs and see what kind of response we get, then compare the results here. Shawn Carpenter http://spcbrass.wordpress.com http://spcbrass.blogspot.com http://loudtourtv.blip.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C+videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that video blog is THE clear term of choice, which makes me quite happy. The masses have pretty much spoken at this point. I think it's safe to say the dust is starting to settle and can't forsee anything changing the picture anytime soon. In fact the only thing more popular then video blog is simply podcast, with an order of magnitude. http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast On a side note it's interesting to note that while popularity the term podcast has obviously peaked the term videoblog continues to rise very steadily. Most interesting. I would think that podcast is the prefered term for audio specific media, but I could well be wrong, which brings me to my next point. **Google can't tell us what people thing these terms mean.** Do people think of podcasts as generally audio only? What percentage of these articles that are refering to podcasts are actually referring to video specific podcasts? When people here video blog what do they think? When people here video blog do they think simple youtube? or do they think like a blog but instead of text primarily video? Is blog itself yet a household term, or do people still think it means to throw up? And finally and most importantly... what is the state of RSS in all this? My guess is the vast majority will never know the term, RSS. Nor do they necissarily need to. They may understand two things: 1) subscribing, 2) syndication (if they make media). RSS is undisputeably and undeniably integral to this space. As 1) a subscription mechanism, 2) a serch mechanism, and 3) a syndication mechanism even though the vast majority of the public may not know it or even need to know it. What interests me though, is how far have we come in loosening media from the confines of the web page so it may flow freely beyond the boundries of the traditional web to set top boxes, portable devices, cell phones and such. How far have we really gotten in that big picture? What percentage of web originating video is viewed on a web page? What percentage is viewed on the web page it originated on, as opposed to through a syndication, reblog, or search site? Just some late night
[videoblogging] Re: video blog, the term of choice
RSS as a term isn't used in mainstream, but it has become a standard backend mechanism to share information and media. A good analogy: people used to have to use the http when letting someone know about your website - now, it is has become a standard protocol that is just used. RSS has been heading in the same direction too, fortunately. Feed seems to have regained in popularity, mainly due to Facebook using the term news feed. We like that. :) Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO, Mefeedia http://mefeedia.com/user/franks - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very interesting topic. I ran a similar vlog/video blog/videoblog regular google search after someone suggested renaming the WP article from vlog to video blog. After Youtube added a video blog genre the term exploded and vlog began to plateau. There was suddenly very strong reasoning to rename it. As for podcasts. I would assume those who publish videos still refer to their feeds as simply podcasts. I also found that it was very difficult to explain a podcast to people. I think people do think of youtube and of someone sitting in front of a webcam when you mention video blog but i think that's a good thing. It's understandable since it's still the most common type of video blog and it gives you a simple base from which you can begin to explain how yours differs. As for RSS, I agree that most will probably never know term but I'm still not sure it's the future. In my opinion as an adult educator, RSS is just plain old not user friendly. The term is obscure, having to copy and paste links is a lot to expect of people, (i wish i were exaggerating on that one) and, in regards to aggregators, people rarely download third party apps anymore and having to visit an additional web site is counter intuitive to reducing the amount of sites you need to constantly check. The solution has to be web based and it has to be something people are already using. Right now, that's facebook, youtube, and email. If people aren't exposed to your content through one of those three ...series of tubes(? :)... it will be significantly harder to reach them. So how far have we come in making video work fluidly on different mediums? Quite far I'd say but unfortunately it hasn't been through an open standard such as RSS. As for blog, I'm pretty sure it's a household word. I'll have to ask my mom if she's ever heard of it and report back. :) On 11/1/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C+videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that video blog is THE clear term of choice, which makes me quite happy. The masses have pretty much spoken at this point. I think it's safe to say the dust is starting to settle and can't forsee anything changing the picture anytime soon. In fact the only thing more popular then video blog is simply podcast, with an order of magnitude. http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+blog%2C+podcast On a side note it's interesting to note that while popularity the term podcast has obviously peaked the term videoblog continues to rise very steadily. Most interesting. I would think that podcast is the prefered term for audio specific media, but I could well be wrong, which brings me to my next point. **Google can't tell us what people thing these terms mean.** Do people think of podcasts as generally audio only? What percentage of these articles that are refering to podcasts are actually referring to video specific podcasts? When people here video blog what do they think? When people here video blog do they think simple youtube? or do they think like a blog but instead of text primarily video? Is blog itself yet a household term, or do people still think it means to throw up? And finally and most importantly... what is the state of RSS in all this? My guess is the vast majority will never know the term, RSS. Nor do they necissarily need to. They may understand two things: 1) subscribing, 2) syndication (if they make media). RSS is undisputeably and undeniably integral to this space. As 1) a subscription mechanism, 2) a serch mechanism, and 3) a syndication mechanism even though the vast majority of the public may not know it or even need to know it. What interests me though, is how far have we come in loosening media from the confines of the web page so it may flow freely beyond the boundries of the traditional web to set top boxes, portable devices, cell phones and such. How far have we really gotten in that big picture? What percentage of web originating video
Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:02:50 PM, Jay dedman wrote: I do agree that it's trubling to read for financial gain or livelihood. does this mean you must get paid by a commercial company? can you just get donations from the community? can you have a day job and blog at night? In some ways this is the flip side of all the discussions we have had here about non commercial vs commercial use of creative commons liceneced resouces. Note that the finacial gain clause specifically does not say as a livelihood or for financial gain AND livelihood. The conjunction is or, which implies that mere financial gain on its own is enough. If showing content on an ad-laden web page counts as commercial use of material for licensing purposes, it's certainly reasonable to think that any site which earns from ads, sponsorship, or whatever would count as financial gain. Maybe those odd nickels and dimes from Google adsense count for something, after all ... -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
[videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?
Yes, this happens a lot. I think the term is splog (spam blog). Mark as spam! We've also been seeing a rise of comments that look like comments, but aren't (i.e. will say I really liked your article [article name], but i am not sure I 100% agree - or something similar to that). Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) part by Google Ads, we did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our spam for us. I've gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's spam, but I came across something I haven't seen before. It looks like someone's trying to spam via a trackback. The person or thing in question seems to have set up a blog that does nothing but scrape the subject line and an except of the body from other blogs, then link to them. The blog is covered with ads, so I'm guessing the idea is that people will approve the trackbacks and then there will be lots of inbound links to the ad-laden blog. The blog in question is at http://apartment.wpbloggers.com/ Has anyone else seen this sort of thing before? -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
[videoblogging] Re: NTV Live Free to Those Carrying Cameras
Hi Jackson, Thanks for the invite, a couple of questions: 1) Other than Kent from Ask a Ninja and Ben from Barely Political, why isn't NTV including people actually creating video in the sessions? There should be a session of just creators bringing their perspective. 2) How did you guys come up with your list for Search and Discovery Face Off? CastTV and Taboola haven't even launched yet. Regards, -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jackson West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the suits are paying a pretty penny to catch the action at NewTeeVee Live on November 14th, don't think we've forgotten about the grassroots mediamakers out there -- passes have been set aside at free or nearly so for folks who'd like to blog or vlog the event. Just email Liz explaining your interest in attending (liz at gigaom dot com). http://newteevee.com/2007/10/12/announcing-the-newteevee-live-schedule/ Sadly, I can't make it as that's the week I'll be shooting a short film in New York. And stay tuned for more details as the date approaches... Best, Jackson West
Re: [videoblogging] Ryanne Jay on teevee!
Excellent! Congrats! I'm glad that i-Caught is finally featuring some videoblogging stories that are off YT. :-) -Frank Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web On 9/11/07, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holy Toledo! I just turned on channel 7 (ABC) and saw Ryanne's face! They're about to do a story on Ryanne and Jay's romance. Tune in quick! Harold -- Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Documentary Feature Film Looking for Vloggers
Sunday, September 9, 2007, 7:34:20 PM, sankaprods wrote: When making a feature film (for theatrical release) you need full resolution video, not web video. Now I'm puzzled. Your manifesto communique page at http://www.manifestotv.com/communique/?page_id=27 explicitly states: Do not alter the format of the video, send it in it’s original resolution. and makes no mention of any requirement for full resolution video (whatever you may mean by that) Does your response to Jay imply that you are simply not interested in footage from the many of us who shoot and edit at sizes more useful for digital distribution? I set my camera to record at 320x240. Would you reject my efforts out of hand? Jay's point is still valid. The future of TV is not one size fits all, and if you are interested in videoblogger footage, why not allow for direct digital transfer? -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [videoblogging] Owning a television...
Very interested in how the Wii accesses online video. Any links to info on that? My wife just bought one and I'd like to start viewing my personal Mefeedia channel on it, which gives me one consolidated feed to the 67 videoblogs that I am watching. Devices such as the Wii are exactly why a personal channel works. I can manage all of my subscriptions on the Web and maybe even enjoy a few videos on my computer - but when I am ready to really relax, lay back with a beer, and sit in front of the TV, I want to just watch this personal channel of everything that is new from the 67 videoblogs that I like. I am infinitely excited to start using this. The path to the TV is becoming much clearer. Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mefeedia.com/user/franks/ http://mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Share video blogs _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:49 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Owning a television... I have three televisions, one of which is HD. I sometimes (very rarely) use the HDTV as a monitor for my laptop, but that's a minimal use case. I watch TV a pretty fair amount and own a TiVO. In fact, it was via my TiVO that I found Rocketboom and got inspired to videoblog. I have also converted one of our older videoblog entries to a DVD format to submit to more traditional film and video festivals. Additionally, it's pretty common for me to watch YouTube or flash videos on my TV using my Nintendo Wii. It's the easiest way to see them on a large screen without having to fiddle with cables. TV is one screen of many, and it's not to be ignored, in my estimation. It's so iconic of the bad old days that, when people speak of media convergence or new media, they throw out the TV, but I think there's an unexplored country in ways to bring new media and better options for media convergence to the TV. Given how many households will continue to use it as their first screen, it's still an essential part of the mix. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherl http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime ight.com/freetime http://www.weatherl http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime ight.com/greentime I wanted to conduct a quick straw poll to see how many people here don't own a/don't watch 'normal' tv. I was just reading a message from MissB where she comments on the fact that she doesn't have a tv. I know Tanja from Freshtopia doesn't, I don't either. It would be interesting to find out whether this is true of lots of people here, or just a few. Is there any correlation between turning off your television and making the content yourself? Just thought I would throw that question to the group. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] Re: the ugly truth about online video
The shift will be faster than people think b/c of the demographics of online video (the coveted 18-34 year-old crowd). It is common sense really - when was the last time you heard a 20-something year-old talk about a TV show? The buzz and chatter is all about online video, social networks, etc.. On a related note, the LonelyGirl announcement today was huge for indie video producers. I know it is a hit, but regardless, it signals a shift b/c it appears that LG licensed their content to MySpaceTV w/out having to sign an exclusive or hand over creative control. Big shift for old media player Fox (although sometimes the devil is in the details, so it is hard to say how good of a deal it actually was). -Frank Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mefeedia.com/user/franks/ http://mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Share video blogs _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:29 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: the ugly truth about online video This made me recall what Bill Gates said back in January: http://newteevee. http://newteevee.com/2007/01/29/gates-tv-is-doomed/ com/2007/01/29/gates-tv-is-doomed/ Ad dollars to video is not going to change from TV overnight, but there WILL be a change over time and a significant one at that. Chuck --- In videoblogging@ mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com yahoogroups.com, caminofilm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: interesting article about predictions for online video advertising http://mediabiz. http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/07/27/the-ugly-truth-about- blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/07/27/the-ugly-truth-about- online-video/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [videoblogging] new ways to distribute your shows
These multi-site uploaders remind me of the multi-site submit companies (submit your site to over 10,000 search engines!). Never really worked for me... For syndication of video, Media RSS is the solution. Manage once, publish everywhere. It provides ONE place to manage videos, metadata, and all metrics can be consolidated into one place. It provides better control (at least as good as you are going to get nowadays) - if you want a video removed, just remove it from your RSS file. Media RSS is also a great solution to allow people to watch your video in any player they want. Unfortunately, most of these video companies require you to upload your video (and agree to their TOS), so we are still stuck with the upload your video and agree to my TOS problem until these sites become more open networks and accept video feeds. Just my 2 cents. :) -Frank Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mefeedia.com/user/franks/ http://mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Share video blogs -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rupert Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:41 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] new ways to distribute your shows I'm really excited by the multi-site uploaders. I've been waiting for someone to do this properly. It's important for a lot of reasons. Most of all because most people haven't got time to spend their lives uploading every video to a dozen different sites, entering Titles, Descriptions, tags, etc on each one. So you end up missing out on all the people who frequent sites you haven't uploaded to. I'd far rather spend that time finding other people's videos, watching them and connecting. To reply to J Rhett Aultman: Obviously, it's just the ease of use and range of sites they offer that will make them attractive or not. As far as I'm concerned, progress is all about automation of all the things that have traditionally taken a very long time in making and publishing a videoblog. Blip has great crossposting options, but doesn't let you upload to competitors like youtube - except your myspace blog (not to Myspace Video). Veoh has a more limited range of sites you can cross-post to than those listed by Eric today - and they slap a logo on the front of your video. Plus they screwed up all my audio - put it out of sync, but Halcyon said a couple of weeks ago that it works well for him. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 31 Jul 2007, at 17:19, J. Rhett Aultman wrote: What makes these sites a preferable choice to other places offering similar features? Places like Veoh have offered these kinds of syndication, and Blip.tv also has similar features. Why would I want to use these sites over others? -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime just read this on Shelly Palmer's Media 3.0 site. you can sign up for a daily email from him. i find it very useful and concise. thx, eric. VIDMETRIX has launched its own multi-site video uploader. The tool will allow video publishers to automatically distribute their content to seven video-sharing sites: YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Yahoo, Revver, and Veoh. Tubemogul, which announced a multi-site uploader last week, is adding 3 new distribution sites to its service today, bringing its total reach to 9 video-sharing sites. MY DAMN CHANNEL is a new online video destination launching this morning. The site will emphasize professional, episodic content, and promises to disrupt media by giving content creators artistic freedom. The early roster of professionals includes comedian Harry Shearer, producer Don Was, actor Paul Reiser, and Web phenom Andy Milonakis. MDC will syndicate its content across video-sharing sites, and collect advertising revenue. The site has signed a distribution deal with YouTube. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Anyone using OpenAds?
OpenAds sounds quite interesting - was wondering if anyone was using them with any success? http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9750880-7.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1023_3-0-5 Like Doubleclick without the lock-in or fees. It seems to fit in well with the whole open movement of open source, open media, now open ads. Regards, -Frank Frank Sinton CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mefeedia.com/user/franks/ http://mefeedia.com - Discover, Collect, and Share video blogs
[videoblogging] Re: I compiled a list of PodTech's latest meltdowns
Looks like Podtech is looking for a new CEO now? This is the second pod related company THIS WEEK that i've heard about looking for a CEO. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/whats-really-going-on-with-podtech/ --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Nick Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Enric! Corrected. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric enric@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Nick Douglas nick@ wrote: Just 'cause some people keep begging for it: PodTech: The meltdown of the Valley's worst video network http://valleywag.com/tech/podtech/the-meltdown-of-the-valleys-worst-vid\ eo-network-282475.php I don't believe in writing purely negative forum posts. So: In other news, I'm addicted to pancake sandwiches. They are so tasty and eggy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] You may want to correct your facts about Loren's media on PodTech: http://www.podtech.net/home/category/entertainment/1938-media/ -- Enric
