[videoblogging] Re: PC Vlogger gets a Mac

2007-06-28 Thread Jarod
Only reason I still run a PC for 'fun' stuff is because I can build it to suit my needs (or my pocketbook). Mac's are awesome in my opinion - but just too price heavy. From the 12 powerbook (used for nofun), Jarod http://vlog.8bit-me.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread Ron Watson
Is there an itinerary anywhere? We will be over there at that time. We might be able to slide by Sunday evening... That'd be cool. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jun 28, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Jan McLaughlin

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Verdi
Any word on this yet? I'd love to hear PodTech say, yes, we made a mistake and are working on fixing it or we didn't do anything wrong and here's why or something at all. They've been pretty quiet about the whole thing. Which seems odd as I look up from what I'm typing and notice my copy of Naked

[videoblogging] Re: Rotating banner solution?

2007-06-28 Thread Chuck
I use AdRotator: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-adrotator- rotate-your-ads-including-adsense-dynamically/ Let me know what you think. Chuck -- Chuck Boyce President, Chuck Boyce Solutions, LLC chuckboycesolutions.com +1.201.918.6404 p +1.201.388.9147 m

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Lan Bui
I am trying to be patient. Maybe while I wait for them I can read Naked Conversations, the back cover alone has very interesting ideas on it. -Lan www.LanBui.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any word on this yet? I'd love to hear PodTech

[videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Rupert
So. I'm going to have a little experiment in July. I'm going to copy all new Twittervlog posts onto Youtube. I've never really made the effort to post on YouTube, and have complained here before about how I'm turned off by how nasty everyone is there, about the rating system, the visible

Re: [videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Verdi
I was thinking the same thing and last month I put my machinima pieces up there. And since I'm releasing all my work under creative commons attribution I guess I've don't have much to complain about TOSwise. I'm in. - Verdi On 6/28/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So. I'm going to have a

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Scoble
Lan, I saw the email that John sent to you. I thought it was fair - it's pretty obvious you're only presenting one side of the story to everyone. I wish I could be more transparent, but when it comes to legal issues I've learned that you've gotta be quiet and take whatever public abuse is

Re: [videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Stephanie Bryant
Eh. If I make any videos next month, I'll join you guys. On 6/28/07, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking the same thing and last month I put my machinima pieces up there. And since I'm releasing all my work under creative commons attribution I guess I've don't have much to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Rupert
Robert, Like I said before, I like Podtech and I think it's great that you're paying great people and spending (losing? is that what sponsorship is, now - a loss? ;) ) lots of money on the Vloggies. Which is why I'm amazed that Podtech hasn't communicated better here, to play nice with the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Oh my, Robert, you are not guilting this list with this are you? It's a business; if you didnt see some sort of value in paying these content providers, you guys wouldn't pay them! Don't turn it into altruism. Same with the Vloggies; if there wasn't some buzz for Podtech created around the

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread Rupert
STOP! You're breaking my heart! I'm in Canada from Aug 6th to Sept 6th, so I can't go. AGAIN. And I'll be at a campground on the west coast of Vancouver Island that weekend, so I won't even be able to attend virtually. :-( On 28 Jun 2007, at 10:36, Jan McLaughlin wrote: My flight's

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread Loiez D.
I will be in this meeting L Le 28 juin 07 à 15:53, Rupert a écrit : STOP! You're breaking my heart! I'm in Canada from Aug 6th to Sept 6th, so I can't go. AGAIN. And I'll be at a campground on the west coast of Vancouver Island that weekend, so I won't even be able to attend virtually.

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Lan Bui
Robert, Yes I am presenting one side of the story, the side I present is what happened. I would like to know the side you are talking about so I will be calling you. I think that it is very sad that his mother passed away. When a loved one dies we are under a lot of stress and need time to

Re: [videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Brook Hinton
I've been thinking about this too. My main hesitation has been the quality of their flash encoding, but I'm going to put all of Trace Garden up there in the next month or so (unless it looks like their h.264 option is coming REALLY soon and allows for direct uploads). It doesn't replace the kind

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread David Howell
I'll join you and see what happens. If history repeats itself, my videos will be viewed more on my own site than on youtube. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So. I'm going to have a little experiment in July. I'm

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Rice
I expect this kinda of nonsense from the Adam Curry/Podshow crowd, not from Podtech. Creative Commons licenses MUST be enforced. There is no 'well, yes but...' about it. ER --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh my, Robert, you are not

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Watkins
Heh maybe not Curry in this case, as he's the one who took a magazine to court for using a creative commons-licensed photo of his without permission. I am totally amazed podtech havent attempted to present their case, or a part of it, in public. Really crappy and unprofessional, I dont know what

[videoblogging] Blog about Twitter

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Cammack
Read how Twitter Has 'Ruined' My Life! :D http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/bcammack/2007/06/twitter _has_ruined_my_life.html or http://tinyurl.com/2u9vjf

Re: [videoblogging] July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 6/28/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So. I'm going to have a little experiment in July. I'm going to copy all new Twittervlog posts onto Youtube. I've never really made the effort to post on YouTube, and have complained here before about how I'm turned off by how

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Watkins
Although I could be wrong about the professional aspect and it is better/legally necessary to keep such discussions private, I suppose, like Scoble said. Its just frustrating to be presented with one side of a story and not to be able to find out if its being sorted amicably or the devilish

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Shawn Carpenter
I have been cross posting my videos over there from Veoh. They get less views then on Veoh. They get far less then my videos over on blip. I still use blip mainly because their encoding is second to none and I want the best quality possible for posting to my blogs and other places. Putting the

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Rice
It's a transparent world. Someone gets pissed off and talks about it and the customers, the market, the conversation, will rage on...the Cluetrain taught us that. Naked Conversations taught us something similar. Lack of communication and transparency in public is the fastest way for MORE noise to

[videoblogging] You're into voip and set up to do video?

2007-06-28 Thread randulo
You're into video, because you're on this list. Are you interested in voip? Have you heard of asterisk? Are you available for a couple of hours next week? I need someone who's ready to try to be co-host or at least correspondent for live video about voip, specifically asterisk, the open source

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Verdi
For me at least this has nothing to do with assessing where my videos get more views. I don't expect that just because the videos are there they'll get watched by a significant amount of people. You have to play - watch video, comment on them - engage people. Like Rupert said, I'm interested in

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread Deirdre Straughan
Dunno yet. Depends where in the world I am at the time. Any of several continents is possible. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other Countries Beginning with I) www.beginningwithi.com Check out my latest blog post: Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Rupert
Yay! Yeah. I'm interested in reaching out to a wider base of people... but Verdi's right. What really turns me on is finding out if I can connecting with these people the way I connect on my own Blog. It's a larger investment of time, but it's what I love, so it's worth it. I'm kind of

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Streeter
I've been thinking along the same lines. I was a regular user of YouTube a long time ago, I used to use it as my quick and easy way of converting stuff to flash so everyone could view it. I sorta stoped using it for the most part until recently. I decided to start posting some of my archives

[videoblogging] History?

2007-06-28 Thread Caleb J. Clark
Merry Vloggers. Caleb here, mostly a lurker. I'm building a learning center over at blip.tv this summer and a student at NYU's ITP program (BTW: I'll post a draft of the center here before we go live for your feedback). Anyway I was doing a little research on the history of video blogging and

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Schoneveld
Hey Rupert, I dig your sentiment about YouTube, but if you're looking for a quality community of video makers (other than Blip.tv, of course), you might want to check out Vimeo... I'm stunned by the amazing community of people there. Really. Comments, views. The lot. I think all of this

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread David Howell
I agree with you with regards to the quality. I really do care how my work looks and want it represented properly. Bad flash encoding doesnt help matters. Another thing is how they display my videos. I always shoot in 16:9 format. I dont want there to be black bars on my videos so they can

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Heath
If you are curious about the video in question that Bill refers too, you can see his true thoughts about the video here http://tinyurl.com/38eg4l It's a part of my trip to St. Louis to meet Bill And sure I will add my vids to youtube, but I don't expect much feedback, I will just upload my Mp4

[videoblogging] Number of videobloggers?

2007-06-28 Thread Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage
Does anyone have an educated guess as to the number of current videobloggers in the world? Youtube was around 500,000 users last spring. But I have no idea how many of those are actual posting videos. Google and Technorati have little to say on this topic. -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage

[videoblogging] Re: Number of videobloggers?

2007-06-28 Thread Frank Sinton
Mefeedia has a Quarterly State of the Vlogosphere and are finishing up our 2nd one as we speak. our database includes metadata about video blogs from around the World and it is as comprehensive (includes YouTube vloggers) as I've seen (part of the benefit of being founded back in 2004).

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Number of videobloggers?

2007-06-28 Thread Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage
That is excellent information. Thanks a ton. On 6/28/07, Frank Sinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mefeedia has a Quarterly State of the Vlogosphere and are finishing up our 2nd one as we speak. our database includes metadata about video blogs from around the World and it is as

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Day
Just a few random thoughts 13,000 views of a video on YouTube is nothing to be sniffed at. Many of my favorite YouTubers get a lot less per video and it doesn't seem to put them off. Embrace the possibility that hardly anyone will watch your stuff and you'll probably have more fun. Yes,

[videoblogging] Re: History?

2007-06-28 Thread Caleb J. Clark
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Caleb, Here's my take on the history of this... http://maketelevision.com/log/what_is_a_vlog_what_is_a_vodcast Nice, thx. I agree. It really all is Television in the end. We've added RSS, the 3-5

Re: [videoblogging] History?

2007-06-28 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hello Caleb, Here's my take on the history of this... http://maketelevision.com/log/what_is_a_vlog_what_is_a_vodcast -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ All the Vlogging News on One Page http://vlograzor.com/ On 6/28/07,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Rupert
Thanks for the tips, Mark. That's the stuff. Looking forward to getting stuck in. You said, But it's often the people doing their own weird thing for a few hundred viewers that make my YouTube experience fun. Yeah - that's true of most of the people who make my day in the non- yt vlog

[videoblogging] Feedcount chicklet trick

2007-06-28 Thread Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage
Just found this cool little tip in the Feedburner forums: If you don't want it to say readers but instead, something like subs or listeners, you can pass in another parameter to the URL: the label parameter. http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=216 -- Adam Quirk Wreck Salvage

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread trine bjørkmann berry
sadly, i can't make it (again) this year... Trine On 6/28/07, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dunno yet. Depends where in the world I am at the time. Any of several continents is possible. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan living travelling in Italy (and other

[videoblogging] Fwd: the josh kornbluth show

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Rhodes
While Josh isn't a vlogger, he has the style of one. And you can watch the show online or subscribe. -- Forwarded message -- From: Josh Kornbluth jkornbluth at earthlink.net Date: Jun 27, 2007 12:07 PM Subject: * Broadcast News * To: My Emailing List (6-27-07) Hi, Friends:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
Den 28.06.2007 kl. 23:06 skrev Roxanne Darling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To infer all sorts of legal complications only confuses things, and keeps PodTech in the one down position publicly speaking. I think your point about the Vloggies being cash-negative might be relevant internally but came

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Number of videobloggers?

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Verdi
It might be some number quite a bit different (lower?) than that. I have an independent website and there are 4 different versions of my feed in MeFeedia. Plus many of my videos are on Blip and the Internet Archive. So I could have been counted a number of times just for michaelverdi.com. Then

[videoblogging] Re: Number of videobloggers?

2007-06-28 Thread Frank Sinton
Ah, yes - dupes. In the report, we eliminate as many dupes as possible and then factor the number down. Our goal is to be +/- 3% in accuracy. This is the most technically challenging part of these numbers, as many vlogs change feed services / update feeds / change hosts / change titles /

[videoblogging] Check out new video blog -not getting much traffic

2007-06-28 Thread Daryl Urig
can I get a crit, not getting as much traffic as hoped. Am I doing everything correctly? See video Blog and RSS Feed Please try a post to blog, 0 so far? Here: http://www.darylurig.com/daryl-urig-video-blog.html Thanks, Daryl

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Rebecca
Ditto, thanks for the tips. We started submitting to YouTube on a regular basis about 3 months ago. One Sunday morning I woke up to an unusual number of YT comments...we had been featured. I wrote to the lady who was the subject of the story to check it out, but to take what some of the comments

[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Shawn Carpenter
I personally am watching about 20 videos a day, sometimes more sometimes less depending on what I have planned for that day. I don't comment on very mane personally, but I am always watching to see what is out there. If something is really cool or along the lines of what I am trying to do then

Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon Europe 2007?

2007-06-28 Thread Jan McLaughlin
My flight's booked to VlogEurope 07, yo. Jan On 6/27/07, RANDY MANN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b better go to vlog eurpe becuse there wont be a vloggercon in the usa this year On 6/27/07, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VlogEurope 2007: September 1-2 in Heidelberg,

Re: [videoblogging] Check out new video blog -not getting much traffic

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Darlow
Hi Daryl: I just watched your video and looked at your work. First, I really like your paintings-especially the color work. I didn't know why you were painted grey until I looked at your work after watching the video. The self-interview, in my opinion, is very entertaining, but also a

Re: [videoblogging] History?

2007-06-28 Thread Halcyon
Interesting! What is the date on those? 2000? When I lived in a webcam house in 2001, all housemates were required to do a weekly show live and archived. These ranged from cooking shows, to puppet shows, to a call-in talk show. (mine was called the 'Feel The Love' Show:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Roxanne Darling
I really like and respect you too Robert - you and Irina in my experience with PodTech can be counted on to respond, to engage, to get things done. What I find confusing is how long this has gone on, for such a small amount of money, on such a very simple issue. And why the CEO is the one tasked

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread ryanne hodson
yo i'm on youtube too. http://youtube.com/user/ryannehodson joined in Oct 2005 and never signed in until 3 weeks ago. let's be youtube friends. yeah their flash files of my nice QT files look like shite. but i thought i would try to see how different (or similar) it felt to vlogging on my own

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
finally decided to read this thread through. no comment except that i bet we could organize a little crowdfunding effort to pay lan before podtech does. care for some competition, podtech? lan, how much do we need to raise? in cc we hail, sull On 6/28/07, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen

[videoblogging] Re: Hey PodTech - What's up with Lan's image?

2007-06-28 Thread David Howell
I would donate to that. Lan deserves to be paid for his work as does anyone else. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: finally decided to read this thread through. no comment except that i bet we could

[videoblogging] planting a pink seed...

2007-06-28 Thread Halcyon
I'm planning on doing a HugNation west coast motorhome tour in October. And I would LOVE to get videobloggers to come out if we stop in your town for a big group hug. Obviously I'll be documenting from the inside, but Zadi brought up how cool it would be to get the perspectives of other people as

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Kary Rogers
For us, the average number of views per video is higher on blip.tv but there are the handful that get picked up on the larger community sites for whatever reason. We have more total views on YouTube and MySpace than our web page/blip.tv due to the few that do well. You'll definitely get

[videoblogging] Re: Check out new video blog -not getting much traffic

2007-06-28 Thread Daryl Urig
Andrew, those are all goood comments, I appreciate them all. I hope to impliment many of them. Does the bloging and rss feed look correct? I want to make sure I am not missing anything technical. What kind of flash player would you use? What would yu use on a non streaming server? Thanks,

[videoblogging] Re: Check out new video blog -not getting much traffic

2007-06-28 Thread Daryl Urig
Andrew, those are all goood comments, I appreciate them all. I hope to impliment many of them. Does the bloging and rss feed look correct? I want to make sure I am not missing anything technical. What kind of flash player would you use? What would yu use on a non streaming server? Does my

Re: [videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube

2007-06-28 Thread Brook Hinton
I'm: http://youtube.com/slowhello Add! subscribe! friend! me or whatever it is one does on YT! I'll look for y'all too. All I have up is one Trace Garden video, but I'm going into upload overdrive shortly. I'm also launching a personal vlog next week and will put those on YouTube as well - but

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Check out new video blog -not getting much traffic

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Darlow
Hi Daryl: I subscribed to your feed with iTunes and no movie was in the feed. I would defer to some of the other folks on this list about why that is. My guess is that it may be the format of your movie, or you may need to enable SmartCast in Feedburner's Optimize Control Panel and choose

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Rotating banner solution?

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Shea
cheers chuck, seems to work well mark Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use AdRotator: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-adrotator- rotate-your-ads-including-adsense-dynamically/ Let me know what you think. Chuck -- Chuck