I agree about the content, and google reader and RSS, etc make things
very easy, but when people do come to my site, after maybe seeing a
video for the first timeI want it to look as visually appealing
as possible and to be able to showcase some of my best stuff and
other things/vlogs I
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/
This is pertaining to the admin page, but i like the talk of drag and drop:
Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable.
Let's say you never care about author on your post listings just click
Screen Options and
re Ron's link to
Community is the new capitalism:
Community is More than Dollars and Cents
I thought we already were a community - this mail list. when people
post links in their sigs others can check them out comment/continue
conversations there or reply to email privately. the vlomo type
I like the idea of never having to manually update again...thank
godI was a nervous wreck each time I upgraded.
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wrote:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/
This is pertaining to the admin page, but i
Video Vortex is looking for speakers for their event next year.
Win a trip to Croatia!
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/archives/108
I know there are some folks here who have a good take on these issues:
*Telepresence and Web Aesthetics*
Video meets Web aesthetics: how is the
Not sure I like the word Disposable, but interesting all the same.
http://disposablefilmfest.com/about/
The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic
potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices
such as one-time use video cameras, cell
this one is aimed at Heath:
http://www.redbucketfilms.com/
if you want to go back to coding html, people are still having fun building
visual websites.
probably not as helpful if you post often, but why not?
I remember when ZeFrank started, he was just building is site by hand.
Rick rey has an interesting take on youtube adding search box to embedded
videos.
http://blog.rickrey.com/post/63100432/regarding-the-new-youtube-search-box-in-embedded-videos
I don't like it. It's further proof that YouTube is a technology company,
not an entertainment company. They are
YouTube's focus has always been firstly on building themselves as a
network, then on the user, with creators coming in a poor third. You
can see this in everything - from their codec video quality to site
structure to the way their player embeds and the watermark.
On 11-Dec-08, at 8:04
One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP backend, and
having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots
leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture
that I could either draw scan make amendments to, or a collage
I'd make in
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the options I'm considering is still using my WP backend, and
having a front page which was big image map with various hotspots
leading to different videos, categories pages - either a picture
that I could either draw
Submissions already closed.
We're weirdly disorganised about these things in our community. Most
filmmaking communities are sharing information about festivals and
competitions all the time - and all other opportunities for getting
your films seen by a wider audience and getting useful
I've been part of many list based 'communities', and I really don't
see them as being communities.
This list is one of the best I've seen as far as avoiding flame wars
and such, but when people are afraid to post links because they don't
want to 'spam' the list, is that really a community?
Hi!
I had a project last year that actually didn't went forward enough to
go public, but i had started building the concept and tried the geeky
details of it.
What i ended up doing was:
1) The wordpress was used to create the content with the categories
and tags and from that i extracted
I set this up http://graymattergravy.com
It's the JW flash player running a playlist of my favorite videos.
- Verdi
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote:
One of the options I'm
Actually, since Google bought them I think Search has been added to
the top of that list, pushing creators down to number 4.
- Verdi
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote:
YouTube's focus has always been firstly on building themselves as a
network, then on the
I guess this one is my fault, Rupert, as I know these folks and have helped
them in the past.
I think I share a fair amount here, but some of it slips through the cracks!
One of the organizers shoots and edits all the video at chow.com He's one of
us!
Schlomo Rabinowitz
http://schlomo.tv -
Here's an article in today's NYT that probably doesnt tell you anything you
dont already know:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html?_r=2ref=todayspaper
I've met both of the subjects and they are really passionate about their
vids as well as very serious about doing
Well, I'm afraid we must now stone you to death. Sorry.
The thing is, I think we're all so used to getting our stuff
distributed, watched commented on, that we don't give the same
amount of thought to festivals, etc that other filmmakers do. (If
they didn't get their stuff shown at
back when i was playing with the showinabox people, one of my
propositions was to utilize your wordpress rss feed (or other xml
flavor) using the simplepie wordpress plugin (parser) and then build
templates however you want and inject whatever data from the feed that
you want. this was an
That gets me to thinking, I think what could be cool is if you could
have rotating themes like you have rotating headers for some
sitesor maybe you could specify a theme based on the tags for
your postthat would be cool wouldn't it!?!?
Heath
http://heathparks.com
--- In
That rocks, Sull.
Really nice presentation.
How'd you do it?
I'm going to take a look at it via firebug, but most of the time I
haven't a clue what I'm looking at.
What video display app is it based on? What's running it?
I'll take the answer privately if you think that's better.
peace,
It's wy too early on a workday to get stoned, Rupert. Even though I live
in San Francisco, I'll still get in trouble:)
Personally, I don't keep up with festivals much anymore because I don't
care. Videoblogging early on was a scream AGAINST the festival system,
where you spend a lot of
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com
wrote:
Here's an article in today's NYT that probably doesnt tell you anything
you
dont already know:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html?_r=2ref=todayspaper
funny, what jumped out at me had
I love the vlogwall. And not just because it's a wall of me.
On 11-Dec-08, at 9:56 AM, @sull wrote:
back when i was playing with the showinabox people, one of my
propositions was to utilize your wordpress rss feed (or other xml
flavor) using the simplepie wordpress plugin (parser) and then
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's an article in today's NYT that probably doesnt tell you anything you
dont already know:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html?_r=2ref=todayspaper
One creator profiled in this article
smpfilms/Williams was one of the first breakout stars as well as a
galvanizing force to bring other YouTubers together in real life. He
helped throw the first couple meatspace meetups.
He also takes promotional consideration every chance he gets. Even his
youtube channel of his cat is HUGE and
Oh, you are supposed to inflate your numbers?!?!?.well in that
case hundreds of people subsribe to me and I make nickels every
yearFTW!!!
Heath
http://heathparks.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz
schl...@... wrote:
smpfilms/Williams was one of the first
No, Heath, you don't inflate your numbers when talking to People, only when
talking to the MSM!
Schlomo Rabinowitz
http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress
http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking
AIM:schlomochat
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Heath heathpa...@msn.com wrote:
Oh,
If someone can watch all your videos on a site like Blip.TV, Vimeo or
even Youtube - which probably already has a great viewing experience -
Why should they come to your site? what's the compelling reason? I
think this is the main question that needs to be answered and thought
about before you
That should get another few hundred people putting videos on YouTube,
thinking it's going to make them rich and famous.
On 11-Dec-08, at 10:53 AM, Jay dedman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, schlomo rabinowitz
schl...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's an article in today's NYT that probably
Hi, does anyone know of a source that will take a video and post it to
many different sources such as youtube, etc, so that we avoid having
to visit multiple sites to post the video? Thanks, Ed.
Hello, group! Many of you many remember our project
www.homelessnation.org from our presentation at Vloggercon 2006.
We've been very happy with the results of the project - over 3700
homeless people have learned to use the Internet, blogs, videoblogs
and podcasts through the site. We even won
So it seems that by having an RSS feed we are actually taking away
from the communial side of blogging/vlogging?
I mean if there is no reason to ever go to a site because everyone is
reading through their reader, than why have a site at all then?
As far as having all of your video's on Blip
Tubemogul.com will rock yer world.
And they are really good people, which is always a nice plus.
On 12/11/08, Ed edd666...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, does anyone know of a source that will take a video and post it to
many different sources such as youtube, etc, so that we avoid having
to visit
http://heyspread.com/
Haven't used it, just heard of it.
Cheers,
MFM
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ed edd666...@... wrote:
Hi, does anyone know of a source that will take a video and post it to
many different sources such as youtube, etc, so that we avoid having
to visit multiple
Vidmetrics.com does what you are looking for.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Ed edd666...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, does anyone know of a source that will take a video and post it to
many different sources such as youtube, etc, so that we avoid having
to visit multiple sites to
So I go back to my first statement and ask, Is RSS in effect part of
the problem? Is it so easy now to just watch that we are becoming
passive? That we no longer care about the communication or the
connections that can develop?
I stopped using RSS for a long time.
no more feedreaders.
too
g through their reader, than why have a site at all then?
As far as having all of your video's on Blip etc, well I know for me,
that Blip's Showplayer does not show all of my stuff it only goes
back about a year, so you are missing anything older...but that is
neither here nor there...
I just wish the actual money wasn't all hush hush.
it is my understanding the youtube partners sign an nda and can't talk
about what they make.
is that still the case for ALL youtube partners? (hoping some on this list
might speak up)
it is also my understanding that, because no one can talk
Hi all,
I've tried to send this to several different emails in blip, but they
bounced back, so I sent it minus the attached file via the contact us
page in the blip dashboard.
Can anyone help me out here?
peace,
Ron Watson
http://k9disc.blip.tv
http://k9disc.com
http://discdogradio.com
I am a youtube partner http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx
we can not discuss our money in public, and yes there are different tiers of
partners.
I wonder why people are so fixated on the money. I think everyone should be
a little more supportive. We put a lot of effort into making videos and
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The list has always been like that, though I don't agree with it.
I think its partially because this list was around before youtube and
rebelled against youtube as a walled garden.
Personally, I'm happy if anyone can make a living on what they love. It
really doesn't matter to me.
Schlomo
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:58 PM, schlomo rabinowitz schl...@gmail.com wrote:
The list has always been like that, though I don't agree with it.
I think its partially because this list was around before youtube and
rebelled against youtube as a walled garden.
Nalts has a good posts on the
I think saying we don't need to talk about the money is a little like VC's
telling start up founders not to worry about the stock.
Why are we suddenly money grubbing bad individuals to even bring it up?
YouTube has structured things so they can be the only game in town, so
other companies can't
Hey folks,
I'm doing some research for a workshop on social media ROI/metrics and
wanted to include an overview of what's best practices and tools for video.
Would appreciate answers to the following:
* What metrics are typically tracked for social media video - either video
blogging or
Aha. Thanks for this!.
Big Difference if he's making that kind of money from implementing
several revenue models at once, rather than somehow making $17,000 a month
from youtube ads.
Also that's got to be on a good month. Seriously :)
again - i'm not trying to be a rally killer here. I just
Great discussion.
It takes me back to several different topics I used to rant on about here.
Several projects I
always wanted to do but, as usual, never really got started on.
I like to think about a CMS that can show its content through a variety of
flash front ends.
The useful bits of
Interesting stuff. I hadnt read this thread before posting on the other thread
about
alternatives to the blog style.
At this rate I may go back to a plan of several years ago to actually buy flash
so I can try to
add functionality to the existing flash players out there. There is sooo much
Hello Beth,
That's a great question on viewership metrics. I wish to know as well. :)
I'm not as experienced as the folks here, but as a budding
videoblogger (51 episodes), I use the no. of views from each video
service (Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv) as well as Feedburner counts as my
metric.
Hi all,
My company just put out a DIY video ad creation tool. In a nutshell
you sign up, put one line of javascript on your site, and enable
visitors to create video ads directly on your site with money coming
directly to you. You have complete control over the ad packages
offered (i.e.
Kevin:
Thanks for that. I did little searching and came up with these:
Video Metrics packages - probably not free
There's http://www.streametrics.tv/en/
There are some other third party video metrics/tracking/analytics company -
mentioned in this post
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Heath heathpa...@... wrote:
So I go back to my first statement and ask, Is RSS in effect part of
the problem? Is it so easy now to just watch that we are becoming
passive? That we no longer care about the communication or the
connections that can
It's also interesting to see all the negative feedback posted on the YouTube
blog in
response to the search box:
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=zLSoxZyhau8
Curiously, the search box itself doesn't drive traffic to YouTube.com or
promote featured
videos - so from a business standpoint I
count me in.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Josh Paul joshp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
My company just put out a DIY video ad creation tool. In a nutshell
you sign up, put one line of javascript on your site, and enable
visitors to create video ads directly on your site with money
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