Okay - if off Yahoo is what you desire - what are the feat you want? Ability to email each other on a mailing list? Community/moblogging? Threaded comments? Personal diaries? Forums with threads?
What are the features you desire? What is the problem you want to solve? I think of what blip.tv offers and what blubrry.com offers. What do you specifically want? --- Sanford Dickert Rawlings Atlantic Inc (954) 323 4450 Sent from my treo 650 -----Original Message----- From: Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vlogging about Vlogging - Vlogging about Life Date: Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:03 pm Size: 2K To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > What are the Yahoo groups core values and how do we transmit them to > > the newbies and other folks stepping up to the camcorder? While I love this group and find the information to be totally priceless, I find this juxtaposition that Steve puts up here to be quite interesting. We're doing all of our serious business at the Wal-Mart of the net, a Yahoo Group. It's pretty ironic, really. All the reliance that we have on the Open Source Community, all the talk of grassroots and content creator control, and here we are spending hours and hours on a Yahoo List. Talk about flushing stuff down the memory hole. These lists were not meant to be communities. They are dysfunctional on their face, and are really only suitable for announcements and such. What this Yahoo Group needs is a Scoop site. This Yahoo group should build the dailyKos of Videoblogging. That's what we need to do, and that's how we're going to be able to compete with all of the MyHeavy's that are going to be coming at us. We need a megaphone, and all we got here is a mailing list; we can't even embed images! Anyway, I'd be happy to pitch in wholeheartedly, although I don't have the DB/MYSQL knowledge to get Scoop configured, I'm sure I could help dial her in. I don't think any of the other CMS setups are as community organized as scoop, and don't think they would be as effective as scoop for a couple thousand users. Check out: http://boomantribune.com http://dailykos.com If you haven't seen a scoop site. Anyway, just shooting my mouth off again, but I think the disconnect I felt at Steve's quoted comment is something that we must deal with if we are to mold any sort of values for newbies and the public in general. I think the way to do that is to get our attention off this list and on building something. Cheers, Ron Watson On the Web: http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9disc.com http://k9disc.blip.tv On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Steve Garfield wrote: > At the public access station where I taught video blogging for a > number of sessions, they've done away with the stand alone video > blogging class and now have an 'Adding Multimedia to Your Web Page' > class because people want to know how to put pictures, audio and > video on the web to share... > > http://www.cctvcambridge.org/?q=node/94#html > > On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Gena wrote: > > > There are other folks "teaching" vlogging such as Videomaker > magazine > > who calls it "Vodcasting" They started a series of articles, have > some > > training videos and they are putting they thoughts and > interpretations > > on how to do it for their readers. Different views, different > agendas. --- message truncated ---
