Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-10 Thread Brook Hinton
To be fair, Wordpress, along with other blog and CMS solutions, is hyped all over the place as being easy and requiring no knowledge of much of anything. Unless you're happy with one of the simpler free templates and never upgrade, it isn't true, but there are reasons some of us less geek-smart

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-10 Thread Tim Street
I feel your pain. There are many things I love about WordPress but I don't have the time to learn CSS right now and I don't want to spend the money on customizing. For my blog I bought some templates. They work OK. For French Maid TV's web site I learned iWeb. I wish I could combine the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Watson
Very interesting article. Even more interesting discussion that flowed from it. I'm going to get around this by taking the open source route. The project that I'm working on is going to have a TON of free content and free community interaction. I'm going to be giving away foundational and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)

2009-02-10 Thread Jay dedman
The hitch, so far, is convincing professionals to give their stuff away, to essentially join the open source movement. It's been painful so far - not much interest from big heavy hitters. Seems like the bigger challenge is finding professionals who love your specific community (dog training)

[videoblogging] You Can¹t Sell News by the Slice

2009-02-10 Thread Kara Andrade
There¹s lots on the topic of micropayments out there today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10kinsley.html?_r=2themc=th http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/02/09/micro-economics?p age=full My take on this is that the more approaches we experiment with, including

[videoblogging] Live Chat with Bill Moyers happening NOW on PBS.org [started @ 2pm EST]

2009-02-10 Thread Joshua Kinberg
A live online chat with Bill Moyers is happening right NOW at: http://www.pbs.org/engage/live-chats/02-10-2009/bill-moyers There's some discussion relative to the Micropayment/Sustainability models thread ongoing in this list. Here's a sample: 2:48 pm EST *David Bean, Portland, Oregon:*

Re: [videoblogging] You Can¹t Sell News by the Slice

2009-02-10 Thread Rupert
I've moved to the same town as Michael Linton, who has some great thoughts about Open Money, which he explained at Gnomedex a in August 2007. As he says, it'll make your head hurt, but I think it'll make your head hurt less today than it would have done 18 months ago. A lot of us have

[videoblogging] iWeb and RSS feeds (WordPress)

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher Polack
It would be awesome if I could design sites in iWeb and make them work in WordPress but then I want an electric car for under $20K and Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny as well. Tim, The new iWeb '09 allows you to post the RSS feed from another site on your page. You have limited

[videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher Polack
I was wonder who among the video bloggers were attending SXSW. I was thinking of blowing my tax refund on going but didn't want to go out and not know anyone. Topher http://www.ChristopherPolack.com

Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread David King
I will be there! Hope to meet some fellow videobloggers, too. David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Polack ottorab...@gmail.comwrote: I was wonder who among the video bloggers were

Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Parent
Hi Christopher, I'll be attending SXSW Interactive. Hope to see you there! -Scott Parent On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Christopher Polack ottorab...@gmail.comwrote: I was wonder who among the video bloggers were attending SXSW. I was thinking of blowing my tax refund on going but

Re: [videoblogging] iWeb and RSS feeds (WordPress)

2009-02-10 Thread Tim Street
Thanks! Looks like I might be upgrading to the new iWeb for a test drive. I'll ask my legal team to look the other way. Doesn't seem to grab the embed though Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:37 PM,

Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread Tim Street
I will be there. Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Christopher Polack wrote: I was wonder who among the video bloggers were attending SXSW. I was thinking of blowing my tax refund on going but didn't

[videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Watkins
Indeed. Wordpress is a popular target for attack because it is widely installed, often by people who lack the resources to keep on top of maintenance. I think wordpress and others have tried to improve ease of updating, but if you customise your site there are often annoying complications. I

Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread Irina
eddie and i should be there with our Tech Cab! On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com wrote: I will be there. Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com 1timstreet%40gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:38 PM,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Watson
Thanks for the response, Jay! The hitch, so far, is convincing professionals to give their stuff away, to essentially join the open source movement. It's been painful so far - not much interest from big heavy hitters. Seems like the bigger challenge is finding professionals who love

Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?

2009-02-10 Thread David Terranova
I'll be there vjing for one of the music shows, I think on the 18th. -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | rebelrave.tv Quoting Irina irina...@gmail.com: eddie and i should be there with our Tech Cab! On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Tim Street

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)

2009-02-10 Thread Irina
this situation interests me greatly because i used to work for a newspaper as a reporter and i loved it i wrote about immigration issues in a small town in florida, a very conservative town that didnt like illegal immigrants but subsided on their labor, etc etc so the stories that i was able to