Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Saying sex sells is only a small part of a longstanding and more comprehensive theory in advertising that creating a somewhat realistic aspirational arrival point for an audience is what sells. This is why we have women presenting on many of these shows that are good looking, but more within reach

Re: [videoblogging] ffmpeg for audio

2007-11-13 Thread Benjamin Green
I hope you're perfectly aware that ffmpeg can easily convert between audio formats as it does video? ffmpeg -i something.mp3 -acodec vorbis something.ogg for example, you can research the other options available for audio.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Jan McLaughlin
As usual, Mr. Taylor, you bring up the proper questions. Who in this space deals with Boomer women? Nobody. Yet. We Boomer chicks got time and money and talent ripe for pickin'. Automakers begin to get *that point. Katie Couric and The View type hosts don't suck me and my generation in. What

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Thanks for the reply. I am guilty of always failing to state the positive aspects of my beliefs, so for example I do think Andrew Baron has some great ideas, some vision, the ability to make some good stuff etc etc. And I like dreamers, I guess I just get annoyed by certain dreams, or the

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Im still waiting for anybody at my job to have even heard of rocketboom, or any other net video show. So this, coupled with the excitement advertisers have shown in recent decades for targeting a young demographic, may be responsible for the lack of attention to completely different

Re: [videoblogging] Re: writer's strike - what can we do?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert
I wonder if ANYBODY believes the 'there's no money in it yet' line. Disgusting lies to avoid having to pay people their dues. Roll on the end of the strike and the inevitable deal that the studios are going to have to cut with the writers over online revenues. The writers will probably get

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Baron
On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: So whilst I admired the fact that rocketboom didn't seem to be selling out in the usual sense, for money, I became disturbed by some possible signs that Mr Baron was seeking to achieve a different sort of power. AH YES!!! Its all about

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Baron
BTW, Rocketboom is in it's 4th year now and for awhile I felt as though I was falling behind do to getting stuck in the lawsuit with Amanda (just ended 2 months ago), and not being able to get a network up and running like the other shows did such as Adam Curry's, Diggnation and

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Bill Cammack
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saying sex sells is only a small part of a longstanding and more comprehensive theory in advertising that creating a somewhat realistic aspirational arrival point for an audience is what sells. This is why we have

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Bill Cammack
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual, Mr. Taylor, you bring up the proper questions. Who in this space deals with Boomer women? Nobody. Yet. We Boomer chicks got time and money and talent ripe for pickin'. Automakers begin to get *that

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Could you rephrase that so I understand the challenge? Am I supposed to be responding to no threads at all, or just one thread? I dont join in with every thread you know, and whilst my posts are clearly long enough to annoy many, I doubt many get close to 5000 words. As for power, well Id

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert
On 13 Nov 2007, at 11:38, Bill Cammack wrote: I wondered how to drag all of those people, aimlessly streaming past me, into viewing an online show. --- Set top box. That's the only way you'll get people watching online shows. I don't know if you use the term 'set top box' in the

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Bill Cammack
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Nov 2007, at 11:38, Bill Cammack wrote: I wondered how to drag all of those people, aimlessly streaming past me, into viewing an online show. --- Set top box. That's the only way you'll get people

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Kary Rogers
On Nov 13, 2007 7:34 AM, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? Personally, I don't watch shows on a computer (except for online-only shows, then it's Miro), I prefer sitting on my couch and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I watched last week's HEROS on a computer and last night's HEROS on a TiVO. 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:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread John Coffey
Wow, Andrew comes out bitch slapping! Let's book this on Jerry Springer! Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: 1. Stealing the idea and the people from Gizmodo to make the identical knock off- Engagdget 2. Not paying employees fair wages. 3. Trying to steal Amanda from Rocketboom

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Richard Amirault
- Original Message - From: Rupert (snip) People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? (snip) Yes .. ME .. I watch most of my TV on my computer. I have a TV tuner for my computer. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Heath
I have just realized a fasinating behavior on threads in this groupno it does not apply to all threads, but just about any thread that gets people going, there is a commen rhythem and pace to how it plays out. This thread itself is a perfect example of that rhythem. I'm curious if anyone

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Susan
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Susan,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Baron
Ive cross posted some more on this topic: Why Mahalo is Fundementally Flawed http://dembot.com/post/19305296 On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, John Coffey wrote: Wow, Andrew comes out bitch slapping! Let's book this on Jerry Springer! Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: 1. Stealing

[videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread John Coffey
I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers.

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Sinton
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

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread David Howell
My assumption is that we are using the Ning site because NaBloPoMo is using it. People are already tagging their videos with navlopomo and navlopomo07. It's on technorati, blip and mefeedia. If you Google navlopomo or navlopomo07, you are going to get a crapload of hits back. I am having

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Jason McCabe Calacanis
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: Oh boy... I probably shouldn't even respond to something so libelous. However, this is so false I've got to correct it. 1. Stealing the idea and the people from Gizmodo to make

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
Yeah I'm NOT a fan of ning either. It really kinda frustrates me to have another step (manually cross posting to ning) especially this month. To me this is exactly what we're not supposed to have to do thanks to our RSS Feeds. For this reason I've been using MeFeedia, which aggregates all

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric Rice
One current project I haven't talked too much about has to do with delivering audio and video content to set-top boxes, not those novelty ones like slingboxes and such, but more of the XBOX, Playstation and Wii (two of which have Opera-based browsing with Flash support, two have hard drives and

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Dennis Poulette
Hi. Sorry to say this, but I can’t see how this conversation belongs on the list now. It’s got little to do with videoblogging. _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason McCabe Calacanis Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:51 AM To:

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
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

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Brook Hinton
There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive, sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other brands. Laptop users remember! TURN ON THE COMPUTER BEFORE CONNECTING THE DRIVE TURN ON THE DRIVE (if that's an option) BEFORE CONNECTING CONNECT AND WAIT FOR

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
OK, take it outside now please... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: 1. Stealing the idea and the people from Gizmodo to make the identical knock off- Engagdget 2. Not paying employees fair wages. 3. Trying

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage
So what we should really be asking is, How do I get on TV? BRB...loading pistol. I agree with most of this though. When I started doing this a few years ago, that question would have sounded like the antithesis of what everyone was trying to accomplish, trying to break into a walled garden.

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Baron
I am seeing the posts rolling in now about taking this off list as I am just about to publish the below. I'd like to go ahead and publish it, I think its relevant. It has to do with videoblogging, blogging, history of the space and people who are involved: On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:50 AM,

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric Rice
Besides, how ever did we get along with major blockbuster motion pictures and indie films? How did college radio kick ass in the abyss of Clear Channel. Do numbers actually matter? ER --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk, Wreck Salvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what we should

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
I totally agree. And whatever we think about TV content here, the must-have gadget for rich Westerners is a huge flat wide HD TV. And I think that, uh, 'indiepunk' content can be in HD. I'd love my N93 to have HD resolution instead of 640x480. I want to shoot daily Twittervlog anarchy in HD.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread John Coffey
Jason. do I read this correctly? Somebody left a $1,200 job for you? I'm hoping this wasn't a full time job because that is so poverty level. Bring him up to say $1,400 per month? --- Jason McCabe Calacanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
Yeah. I've lost 3 Lacie Drives. Just bought another. Needed one in a hurry. It was all they had. I am an idiot. Don't buy Lacie. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's funny. I was just saying to myself the other day how well this group has been getting along and how we have really been sharing ideas. Now it's back to this tit for tat stuff. Oh well, conflict does build interest and this public display of venom is entertaining. I just hope it does

Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Brook Hinton
I can also confirm that so far G-Technology's drives have a pretty good record with my clients and others I know who use them. Probably the only company making externals that I haven't heard complaints about. -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
Looking into swirling tea leaves, I see the future of this discussion... on a blog! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing the posts rolling in now about taking this off list as I am just about to publish the below. I'd like to go ahead and

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread John Coffey
Thanks Brook and I must say, I rarely did any of the precautions you posted. --- Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive, sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other brands. Laptop users remember!

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread John Coffey
Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread RANDY MANN
they all suck ive done in maxtors,wd lacis they all will fiail. back up your data folks On Nov 13, 2007 12:04 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can also confirm that so far G-Technology's drives have a pretty good record with my clients and others I know who use them.

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. 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

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Sinton
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

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Lisa Rein
i've had bad luck with western digital, consistently, personally. we also had trouble with them at widehive records a few years ago (like 3 times in a row) and stopped using anything but LaCie. Haven't seen g-raid before...will consider...but i've had good luck with lacies i guess (knock on

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Scott McNulty
You do have to keep in mind that hard drives, at least ones most people can afford at the moment, have lots of moving parts. Those moving parts are all... well.. moving whenever you access data off those drives. No matter what manufacturer you get your drives from it isn't a matter of if the

RE: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Scoble
If you had bought Seagate drives I could have gotten you help. Sorry. Robert Scoble _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Rein Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:28 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] bad

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Roxanne Darling
In the good news bad news department: Good news: this thread has brought out some discussion Bad news: it ends up being about personal/business disagreements. In the FWIW Department: Beach Walks with Rox has a 60% male 40% female audience, over 95% of whom have completed some college. Our

[videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Knight
I love my Lacie's and ould never buy anything else, I swear by them. Luv and Peace Paul Knight

Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread John Oeffinger
The only one I have found that works well with Video and doesn't fail on a Mac is OWC's drives.I have several and they are solid. With Leopard's Time Machine, the back up is a breeze. On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:20 AM, RANDY MANN wrote: they all suck ive done in maxtors,wd lacis they all will

[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread Heath
Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any

Re: [videoblogging] Re: bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Brook Hinton
It's so random. OWC has the worst track record in my studio and with my clients, though I haven't used their most recent enclosures. The message is THEY WILL ALL FAIL eventually. All of them. For pretty much every brand, someone will have had one stay up for 6 years while another person will have

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Brook Hinton
When I hear the phrase the industry I reach for my Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
On Nov 13, 2007 9:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's funny. I was just saying to myself the other day how well this group has been getting along and how we have really been sharing ideas. Now it's back to this tit for tat stuff. Oh well, conflict does build interest and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
Personally, this is the most exciting thing I've seen since the Wikipedia Storm of '07. Heath, it's definitely a pattern I know and enjoy and Dennis, you may be right that it has very little to do with Videoblogging but it is very much the videoblogging group. :) I always found it interesting to

[videoblogging] Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
Yeah, Jay, discussions are one thing, but I'm bored of watching interesting discussions turn into personal slanging matches. It poisons threads and kills discussion. I know some of us seem to like it, and some of us just can't stop watching. There's a familiar discussion on Twitter - people

[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread Heath
D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your drive in question is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Kath O'Donnell
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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
yeah. :( Re-formatting it to NTFS will erase the stuff on there, so you'll have to copy the good stuff elsewhere first. I should also point out that there are apps out there to allow you to access an NTFS drive on a Mac if push comes to shove. (So don't feel like NTFS means you'll never be able

[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread David Howell
Heath Before you format, try using WinZip to zip the files up and split them up into smaller files. Take them off the USB stick/drive/whatever you are using then format the drive. Hope that helps. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In

[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
You can do a conversion to NTFS that doesnt destroy data: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php But theres a small but real risk of something going wrong with the conversion, so its wise to backup everything, but this sort of defeats the advantage of converting. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
yeah it picks up youtube tags as well. I've been following shelbinatorTV (a youtube poster) via mefeedia for example. Here's an example: http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/navlopomo-9-sleep-1-insomnia-0/4319118/ On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just out of

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
That wikipedia debate appeared to kill what little goodwill and tolerance people showed towards me in the past. I was used to getting few replies to my posts, but since then I get virtually none, and my posts havent changed in length. I talk too much in the flesh too, its a part of me, Im

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
To go a bit more in depth with your question ... If its got an RSS feed, MeFeedia can index it. If I were a youtuber, I'd put my youtube rss feed into mefeedia just like I would put my blip feed there if I were a blip user. Some stuff just happens automagically, but if you've got a feed why

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Kath O'Donnell
great! thanks I'll try it when I get home tonight. thanks for the explanation also. (I hadn't even noticed youtube had an rss feed to be honest - I should pay more attention to these things ;) On Nov 13, 2007 9:10 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To go a bit more in depth with your

[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues

2007-11-13 Thread Heath
D'oh, again.sometimes you just can't see the forrest for the treesthanks! Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heath Before you format, try using WinZip to zip the files up and split them up into smaller files.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Carver
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

Re: [videoblogging] Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
We all get heated about issues - fine - but if people have got something negative to say about another person, about their motivations or anything that's likely to lead to a personal slanging match, perhaps they could show us the courtesy of having their open and frank discussion on a

[videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Sinton
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 -

Re: [videoblogging] Re: NaVloPoMo - the 12th

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
yeah they make it so hard to find. But here's their low-down on rss feeds: http://www.youtube.com/rssls -- http://www.DavidMeade.com

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread David Howell
It's a real shame that this group never went the way of a forum. Would could have all those things you listed in different sections on the forum and then people could post in the respective areas. Those looking for help wouldnt have to be inundated with things they have no interest in and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
It's a real shame that this group never went the way of a forum. Would could have all those things you listed in different sections on the forum and then people could post in the respective areas. yeah...we had these discussion over the years. we all agreed that messages need to be in our

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread David Meade
the forum idea has been passed around several times over the years ... for some reason there was always resistance to it. (I like the idea too). There are forum apps out there that have RSS feeds and can email you new posts ... there'd be very little impact for anyone who wanted to keep their

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
Well, it was pretty awful and I too unsubscribed afterward. ...but there's just something about it that draws you in... as I'm sure many participants in this thread can attest to. but boy is it nice to be on the sidelines. which is why i'm going to shut up now. On Nov 13, 2007 1:51 PM, Rupert

Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?

2007-11-13 Thread Kenya Allmond
As you have seen in the replies, it's pretty much a crap shoot regarding hard drives. At work we handle hundreds, if not thousands, of hard drives regularly. The ones that fail most of the time are LaCie and Seagate even though we buy primarily Western Digital internal and Maxtor externals.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
I dont think Im any sort of voice of reason. I have ideas about what a discussion should involve, what the boundaries word count are, that do not appear to be the norm, which, along with various other social deformities, make me a general failure at being human, as my genital cobwebs

[videoblogging] vidblog from IGF in Rio

2007-11-13 Thread WWWhatsup
[a nice effort] http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2007.xhtml Internet Governance Forum in Rio - November 2007 The world's second Internet Governance Forum, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 12-15, 2007. The Rio IGF is the second of five annual

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
Great list of purposes for this group. Really well thought out. The last item is gossip fight. Gossip can be positive, more often than fighting, and can lead to interesting discussions. And gossip is generally done here in a friendly spirit. Since the fighting is the last item, and when it

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert Howe
Yeah, a lot of us read in threads anyway, in gmail or whatever. Even if each discussion was in its own 'room', with space to continue a discussion for longer than this list allows, those rooms/threads would still be poisoned and killed by personal slanging matches and shouting. I need my emails,

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Thanks Jay. Lets not indulge my occasional forays into self-hate and self-pity showers too much though eh, these are the times I probably should be ignored. Or this is an example of where I go wrong, always focus on the negative Theres a lot of people here who are a help and inspiration to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
Since the fighting is the last item, and when it happens it gets in the way of (and devalues) all the other 5/6 more important items, I think it's something we could encourage people to take to their blogs. And not duplicate it here, just link. agreed. this is a great suggestion. if a

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Unsurprisingly I dont subscribe to the idea that arguments like these get in the way of other discussions or devalue them. If that happens, its because people choose to let it distract them. Its fair enough that when things get nasty/ugly, some peoples reactions is to get the negative poop

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Rupert
I think a lot of people stopped posting so much for a while, and discussing things at length. I'm sure there wasn't any backing away from you. On 13 Nov 2007, at 19:09, Steve Watkins wrote: That wikipedia debate appeared to kill what little goodwill and tolerance people showed towards me

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
As much as people don't like seeing a thread derailed, I think people also don't like seeing comments like take it to your blog. I'd rather see a message that expresses please, no personal attacks than those that express go back to where you came from. I guess what I'm saying is that if you see

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread David Howell
Rather sad when a group that tries to push new media subscribes and restricts itself to old technology like email. If this was a forum, there would be post and threads. If there were personal attacks and such, a moderator could delete the post or simply close the thread. That's the beauty of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Charles HOPE
Rupert wrote: People will not watch shows on a computer. Do you know anybody who watches anything on a computer? Other than the odd bored moment surfing old TV shows on Youtube? ... I firmly believe it's just a matter of someone bringing internet video to the couch. I watch

[videoblogging] Critique of new MySpace video series

2007-11-13 Thread Jay dedman
Rick Rey twittered about this review: http://current.com/items/87240791_myspace_gets_original pretty smart. you got to wait till the end for all the goodies. The show seems to be everything bad with TV but more poorly done. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Video:

[videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-13 Thread Bill Cammack
Interestingly enough, to both aspects of this conversation, A) Mahalo, and B) formula... Veronica posted today that Mahalo Daily was featured on iTunes today: http://www.veronicabelmont.com/2007/11/mahalo-daily-featured-on-itunes/ along with WallStrip, Daily Feed, Epic-Fu, Crave, Alive in

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
I'm definitely not a regular contributor but I agree with David. This format just doesn't seem to be working as people keep unsubscribing and whenever there *is* an interesting discussion, it ends in bitterness. A forum would probably work much much better. In order to properly make the switch

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread eric gunnar rochow
it looks like people aren't into the idea of a forum type group, but i've been working on a Ning.com site for Gardenfork and RealWorldGreen and it can send emails when new items are posted, and has some integration with Facebook and Twitter. and you can post videos. eric. .

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Charles HOPE
Patrick Delongchamp wrote: I'm definitely not a regular contributor but I agree with David. This format just doesn't seem to be working as people keep unsubscribing and whenever there *is* an interesting discussion, it ends in bitterness. Perhaps people could use e-mail clients that

[videoblogging] Question about Other Video posting Sites

2007-11-13 Thread Jill H
Hey Everyone, My name is Jill. I am on youtube, my link is http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx i recently started vloging for a company that deals with nudity. I started a new channel on youtube called http://www.youtube.com/icnakedpeople Because I am somewhat popular on my xgobobeanx channel, I

[videoblogging] Online Video Posting Sites, HELP NEEDED please! :)

2007-11-13 Thread jt_hanner
Hey Everyone, My name is Jill. I am on youtube, my link is http://www.youtube.com/xgobobeanx i recently started vloging for a company that deals with nudity. I started a new channel on youtube called http://www.youtube.com/icnakedpeople Because I am somewhat popular on my xgobobeanx

[videoblogging] ripping a small portion of a DVD?

2007-11-13 Thread jonny goldstein
Anyone know of a free program for OSX that I can use rip just a 3 minute segment from a long chunk of video on a DVD?

[videoblogging] Re: Bored

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Ive never used email to read or write to this group. The yahoo web interface is not as good as a forum, but its gradually moved closer, eg you can view messages by thread. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/messages There were attempts to setup forums some years ago, but there

Re: [videoblogging] Online Video Posting Sites, HELP NEEDED please! :)

2007-11-13 Thread RANDY MANN
nice grapix blip should host that for ya no problim just put explicative content on the up load page but then agagin i could be wrong just rember blip is great all hail blip blip,blip huraray On Nov 13, 2007 5:34 PM, jt_hanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everyone, My name is Jill.

Re: [videoblogging] ripping a small portion of a DVD?

2007-11-13 Thread RANDY MANN
handbreak On Nov 13, 2007 5:46 PM, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a free program for OSX that I can use rip just a 3 minute segment from a long chunk of video on a DVD?

[videoblogging] Miro Media Player Epic-Fu still shot in TechCrunch

2007-11-13 Thread Bill Cammack
Miro Media Player Released; Billed as Open Joost Competitor by Mark Hendrickson Version 1.0 of the open-source video player Miro was released earlier today http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/13/miro-media-player-released-billed-as-open-joost-competitor/ or http://tinyurl.com/yqmh6h

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