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 files, those usueally look pretty good transcoded Heath http://batmangeek.com http://aroundcincinnati.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Streeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 there. There are things that I really > dig about it. Although I do get the feeling that some of the really > popular people there have figured out how to game it in some way > that I haven't quite cracked yet. I think that some people use bots > etc to post bulletins etc to get a lot of views. > > YouTube is beta testing a new layout that seems like it should > encourage people to explore more of a particular users movies. I > noticed that I can have one very popular movie on there and it will > have little or no effect on how many views the rest of my videos > get. One video in particular has gotten over 300,000 views there > (because it's been featured) but I have several that have gotten > less than 1000 views, and almost everything I have there has been up > for over a year. > > So anyway if this experiment is to go forward what are everyones > user names or URLS there? I'm rabid and my URL is > http://www.youtube.com/lofistl add me as a friend there and I'll add > you back. > > Bill Streeter > LO-FI SAINT LOUIS > http://lofistl.com > http://billstreeter.net > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rupert@> wrote: > > > > 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 interested in the stats thing at a basic level - the > same > > level that I was with starting Twittervlog a couple of months > ago. > > Every viewer that's not my mum is a bonus. But if you play - > find > > other people whose stuff you like and really make some friends - > you > > give and and you get on a more rewarding level than just number > of > > views. The thing that's grown most at Twittervlog is not the > video > > views - it's the comments. And the friends I've made. > > So. > > Glad I'm in good company as I start at big boys' school :) > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > > > On 28 Jun 2007, at 19:37, Michael Verdi wrote: > > > > 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 > > "explore[ing] the communities there, make a few friends, find > like > > minded > > people and cool videos and have FUN." > > > > - Verdi > > > > On 6/28/07, Shawn Carpenter <spcbrass@> wrote: > > > > > > 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 show out on YT and the others is just to get a few > more > > > viewers that I would not otherwise get by just posting to blip > alone. > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging% > > 40yahoogroups.com>, > > > Rupert <rupert@> 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 nasty > > everyone > > > > is there, about the rating system, the visible number of > views and > > > > how ugly and uncustomisable it is. It's always seemed to me > to have > > > > very little friendmaking and social networking going on > there. Just > > > > a lot of people shouting LOOK AT *ME*! > > > > > > > > I'm not very interested in making money, being famous or > getting > > > > millions of views. I just want to have fun making films, > connect > > > > with the kind of people who will like my stuff, get to know > > people - > > > > and maybe evangelise a little about videoblogging & online > video. > > > > > > > > These have always been my justifications for not bothering > with > > YouTube. > > > > > > > > But actually, since YouTube is where pretty much everybody > else in > > > > the world watches videos online (see stats at > http://tinyurl.com/ > > > > 28vec7), I figure that I *should* be able to connect with a > lot > > more > > > > people by using it. And my interest has been piqued by > YouTube's > > new > > > > regional sites - including a UK site - announced last week. > > > > > > > > Plus, frankly, it feels a little odd when i enthuse to > ordinary > > > > people about online video and then have to admit that I > don't > > really > > > > use YouTube. I think it probably makes me seem like a snob > and a > > nerd. > > > > > > > > I have one video on Youtube at the moment - of the Flash Mob > at > > > > Victoria Station - and it's had as many views (13,000 - not > many by > > > > YT standards) as all my 80+ videos on my blog & at Blip > combined. > > > > And, you know, I've had not one nasty comment. > > > > > > > > So. My aim is to really try to explore the communities > there, > > make a > > > > few friends, find like minded people and cool videos and have > FUN. > > > > > > > > Any other non-tubers want to join me? > > > > > > > > Rupert > > > > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > > > > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://michaelverdi.com > > http://spinxpress.com > > http://freevlog.org > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
