[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
I'm not getting burned out--I just don't have a camcorder at the moment to film with!! lol ;) Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See, that's the thing--I really love it--but I am having trouble making it consume my time right now. ;) Does that even make sense? If you're having trouble being motivated to vlog, then you're getting burned out. Avoiding something is a good sign that you're burning out on it. TAKE A BREAK. The only people you'll disappoint by taking a break are your subscribers. You can either rerun past episode for them, let them know you're going on a short hiatus, or have someone guest host for you for a short time while you recharge your batteries. To hang out with other passionate vloggers, I have to drive five hours away... that involves making sure the kids and daddy are all right (though next time I'm hoping to bring daddy with me), making sure someone can cover for me at work (I'm a Unix admin, and always on call)... would be so nice if I had a buddy or six a town away I could hang with once in a while. Make sense? :) Absolutely! It sounds like you're an in-person kind of person. Some folks are all online, all the time, and they don't know anybody in meatspace who they don't also know electronically. For people like my husband, there's no point in knowing someone solely online if you never meet them in person. It's very hard to get a group of vloggers together in one geographic location. Even when you live where there are a ton of vloggers around, it's difficult to find a time and venue for everyone to meet. --Stephanie -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
No, I don't--that's the one I just sold on ebay. Don't fret, though--if I can get a cam that actually works, the five second increment videos--or maybe ten seconds this time--will continue. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it helps to know, three of us put on a presentation about two months back and only one person showed. The next time it was eight and the next time it was even more. Working with apple is tricky even when you have and like their products - for me, it's the way they teach people that sharing music and video on an ipod is just a polite word for stealing. Ask them for a new mac with ilife and camera to try out and promote (as a friend of mine once said honey, if I don't get two no's each day, i figure I'm not asking for enough) markus Do you still have the camera that takes the 5 second shots? Susan wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me--she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a-month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com http://node101.org http://spinflow.org http://wearethemedia.com http://xpressionvlog.blogspot.com aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: msandy spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Awww, Susan. All those events sound really frustrating. Keep on going, things will come up roses later. -- Enric --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me--she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a-month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
See, that's the thing--I really love it--but I am having trouble making it consume my time right now. ;) Does that even make sense? To hang out with other passionate vloggers, I have to drive five hours away... that involves making sure the kids and daddy are all right (though next time I'm hoping to bring daddy with me), making sure someone can cover for me at work (I'm a Unix admin, and always on call)... would be so nice if I had a buddy or six a town away I could hang with once in a while. Make sense? :) Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you can't rant here about the setbacks, I don't think you'd find anywhere else as understanding. I took about four months off from videoblogging this Fall. Work burnout, stress, stress, and stress all contributed to making me just not want to do it for a while. I'm back, but not planning to post daily as I used to, and I decided to open up to a less restricted format. Sometimes, you just need a break. Take the break. Do a rerun show or two, if you really feel like you're letting your viewers down. When you come back, don't be afraid to get away from your standard tools, too. Maybe do a screencast vlog while you get the camera fixed. Or just a stills-video of photos you've taken. Anyway, just enjoy yourself. I just wrote this line in the Dummies book, and I think it's good advice: Whatever your reasons for videoblogging, make sure you get some personal enjoyment out of doing it. There's not much point in taking up a time-consuming hobby if you don't really love it. --Stephanie On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Wow... I guess I didn't know that. Is your primary computer a PC, then? Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with white lines and ceased to work. Today my husband's bringing the thing back to the store for a refund. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See, that's the thing--I really love it--but I am having trouble making it consume my time right now. ;) Does that even make sense? If you're having trouble being motivated to vlog, then you're getting burned out. Avoiding something is a good sign that you're burning out on it. TAKE A BREAK. The only people you'll disappoint by taking a break are your subscribers. You can either rerun past episode for them, let them know you're going on a short hiatus, or have someone guest host for you for a short time while you recharge your batteries. To hang out with other passionate vloggers, I have to drive five hours away... that involves making sure the kids and daddy are all right (though next time I'm hoping to bring daddy with me), making sure someone can cover for me at work (I'm a Unix admin, and always on call)... would be so nice if I had a buddy or six a town away I could hang with once in a while. Make sense? :) Absolutely! It sounds like you're an in-person kind of person. Some folks are all online, all the time, and they don't know anybody in meatspace who they don't also know electronically. For people like my husband, there's no point in knowing someone solely online if you never meet them in person. It's very hard to get a group of vloggers together in one geographic location. Even when you live where there are a ton of vloggers around, it's difficult to find a time and venue for everyone to meet. --Stephanie -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Word. Everyone keeps telling me that I should buy a Mac... as if working on a superpowerful Dell PC is a bad thing. Apparently, Robert Rodriguez works on a PC, so that makes me feel a little less like an outcast. The reason I hate .m4v files so much is for the sole reason that the default settings opens it in iTunes. For the last time, Mr. Jobs, I DON'T WANT TO USE iTUNES TO WATCH VIDEO CONTENT!!! Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon ZR600, which at first glance was a great improvement... until my PC crashed, and crashed, and crashed. From reformatting my hard drive and rebuilding windows, to swapping out firewire cards and hard drives, we'd tried just about everything... then last night, my three-day-old camcorder's screen turned black with
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A chronic lack of suitable public spaces that are not controlled by entities with their own agendas, is one thing that upsets me in todays world. I was hoping that virtual spaces on the net would be a good alternative, but its going slow and there are a multitude of reasons why physical space and physically meeting people still dominates. As someone who believes in peak oil serious energy crisis is the theme of our times, I was hoping videoblogging would be a good part of the solution. So I get a little phased when I think that videoblogging has actually increased peoples desire to travel around for hours in cars. Well I guess I was thinking wrong, people are only going to reduce travel and use virtual meetings more when they are compelled to by circumstance. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my
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When it comes to meeting other vloggers, I think I've met a total of one, Brett from Etherworks. What I want to do, though, is everytime I go on vacation to a major city, try and set up some kind of metup (preferably karaoke with the vloggers or something about as fun... I put on a hell of an air guitar show). I'll probably go to New York, LA and perhaps Edinburgh this year, so I'll post a notice probably a month before just to see if anyone else is interested. I also hope to attend conferences this year (something I totally missed out on last year since I was/am a newbie). Don't worry, Susan, you'll meet us all someday. Have you tried to build a community in your area? Why not put an ad out saying you'll help anyone out who is interested in starting to vlog? Yours, Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A chronic lack of suitable public spaces that are not controlled by entities with their own agendas, is one thing that upsets me in todays world. I was hoping that virtual spaces on the net would be a good alternative, but its going slow and there are a multitude of reasons why physical space and physically meeting people still dominates. As someone who believes in peak oil serious energy crisis is the theme of our times, I was hoping videoblogging would be a good part of the solution. So I get a little phased when I think that videoblogging has actually increased peoples desire to travel around for hours in cars. Well I guess I was thinking wrong, people are only going to reduce travel and use virtual meetings more when they are compelled to by circumstance. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg jkinberg@ wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan kitykity@ wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just
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Susan wrote: See, that's the thing--I really love it--but I am having trouble making it consume my time right now. ;) Does that even make sense? To hang out with other passionate vloggers, I have to drive five hours away... that involves making sure the kids and daddy are all right (though next time I'm hoping to bring daddy with me), making sure someone can cover for me at work (I'm a Unix admin, and always on call)... would be so nice if I had a buddy or six a town away I could hang with once in a while. Make sense? :) I never actually met another videoblogger. There is a good chance you are all just figments of my imagination. Or some elaborate hoax. except for Richard, somehow, I know he's for real. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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yes, now that i think about it, i've traveled more this year than most and mainly because of vlogging on the other hand, i telecommute and virtual meet a lot more than ever FWIW, i had similar misgivings when the so-called paperless office hype started. about the time laser printers and 'desktop publishing' came out, i think. it seemed like we were printing more than ever. that seems to have passed and now i don't print so much. i don't know what that means - TGIF Steve Watkins wrote: A chronic lack of suitable public spaces that are not controlled by entities with their own agendas, is one thing that upsets me in todays world. I was hoping that virtual spaces on the net would be a good alternative, but its going slow and there are a multitude of reasons why physical space and physically meeting people still dominates. As someone who believes in peak oil serious energy crisis is the theme of our times, I was hoping videoblogging would be a good part of the solution. So I get a little phased when I think that videoblogging has actually increased peoples desire to travel around for hours in cars. Well I guess I was thinking wrong, people are only going to reduce travel and use virtual meetings more when they are compelled to by circumstance. Steve of Elbows -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com http://node101.org http://spinflow.org http://wearethemedia.com http://xpressionvlog.blogspot.com aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: msandy spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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I use both. I've been an Apple person my entire life, but bought a very cheap HP laptop (under $800 after rebate) when I began testing FireAnt for Windows last year. Since then I find I use the HP much much more than my Apple iBook. PCs are great. I have nothing against them. Windows Media is great too (its much better on Windows than it is on Mac), so nothing against that either. I really believe it is important to be format and platform agnostic when it comes to open media. -Josh http://FireAnt.tv On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow... I guess I didn't know that. Is your primary computer a PC, then? Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago saying the manager wanted to make my class half iLife--fine, I can learn that, or someone else can teach it. Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I haven't replied to their email, and don't think I will either. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Then I decided to sell my Sony M1 camera on ebay. I upgrade my camera about once a year--but this was the first time I ever decided to take the leap into the miniDV realm. My cam sold for about $100 less than I hoped--which is pretty much my fault, I guess--and I bought a Canon
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Ms. Kitka wrote: Word. Everyone keeps telling me that I should buy a Mac... as if working on a superpowerful Dell PC is a bad thing. Apparently, Robert Rodriguez works on a PC, so that makes me feel a little less like an outcast. The reason I hate .m4v files so much is for the sole reason that the default settings opens it in iTunes. For the last time, Mr. Jobs, I DON'T WANT TO USE iTUNES TO WATCH VIDEO CONTENT!!! Isn't this easy to change in Windows... It's pretty simple on a Mac. ;) Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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If I right-click on it I can select Open with and then select Quicktime... but not everyone in the world knows about right-clicking (at least, I know my parents don't!). Either way, it's evil of them to code it so that it automatically opens in iTunes. In Windows, iTunes is MUCH different... it's like a hyperactive child that forces you to pay attention to him (ie. it's difficult to use any other programs while iTunes is running). The reason being that iTunes for Windows is programmed so that it has a whole bunch of redundant code to make it LOOK like it's being played on a Mac... This is why I hate the fact that the default program to open .m4v files is iTunes. Time to go home and edit. Y'all have a great weekend! Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ms. Kitka wrote: Word. Everyone keeps telling me that I should buy a Mac... as if working on a superpowerful Dell PC is a bad thing. Apparently, Robert Rodriguez works on a PC, so that makes me feel a little less like an outcast. The reason I hate .m4v files so much is for the sole reason that the default settings opens it in iTunes. For the last time, Mr. Jobs, I DON'T WANT TO USE iTUNES TO WATCH VIDEO CONTENT!!! Isn't this easy to change in Windows... It's pretty simple on a Mac. ;) Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I right-click on it I can select Open with and then select Quicktime... but not everyone in the world knows about right-clicking (at least, I know my parents don't!). You can change the default application for a file: 1) Right-click and select Properties. 2) For Opens with: click the [Change...] button 3) Look for Quicktime Player (or whichever application you prefer.) 4) Make sure Always use the selected to open this kind of file is checked. 5) Click OK buttons out. You can do that on your parents machine and it will keep that default (until possibly a new or reinstall of iTunes.) -- Enric -==- http://www.cirne.com Determine Media Either way, it's evil of them to code it so that it automatically opens in iTunes. In Windows, iTunes is MUCH different... it's like a hyperactive child that forces you to pay attention to him (ie. it's difficult to use any other programs while iTunes is running). The reason being that iTunes for Windows is programmed so that it has a whole bunch of redundant code to make it LOOK like it's being played on a Mac... This is why I hate the fact that the default program to open .m4v files is iTunes. Time to go home and edit. Y'all have a great weekend! Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl raster@ wrote: Ms. Kitka wrote: Word. Everyone keeps telling me that I should buy a Mac... as if working on a superpowerful Dell PC is a bad thing. Apparently, Robert Rodriguez works on a PC, so that makes me feel a little less like an outcast. The reason I hate .m4v files so much is for the sole reason that the default settings opens it in iTunes. For the last time, Mr. Jobs, I DON'T WANT TO USE iTUNES TO WATCH VIDEO CONTENT!!! Isn't this easy to change in Windows... It's pretty simple on a Mac. ;) Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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My sister, I feel your pain! I too had a system crash and just now getting slowly getting back up to speed. We can vlog a PC but unless things are working as they should it is dang hard. It should not be this hard. I need comfort not strife. My nickel of driftwood: It seems as though the Apple store doesn't want to continue this with you. But you should maybe send one more email to confirm that they want to stop doing this. No fault, no blame if they do then thanks and bye bye. If they do want to continue then you might have to get (within your time you have/don't have available) to make sure that there is a good crowd when you do presentations. You might have to post on Craigslist,the local freebie paper or maybe find a women's group or men's tech group to introduce yourself to and just talk about what it is you are doing and why they should know about vlogging. I do think we should not get too use to Apple store presentations - we have to step out beyond the comfort zone. Toastmasters? Boy/Girl Scouts? Libraries for sure would understand what it is you are doing. (I'm learning to be a library para-professional and trust me, libraries are much more than shush joints.) You will get a replacement camera - that is not the issue. But finding like souls, well you might have to create them. You might have to find a way to communicate what you do to others. Or find out where the video/artist/poets/outlanders folks in your area hang out. Or you can move to California. If you got a spare million or so for housing. Ok, never mind the housing but definitely start saving up for BlogHer so we can meet up. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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If it weren't for my dad living in Rolla too... I may not have become a vlogger much less had one locally to hang out with... (does it still count even if the vlogger is your dad?) I LOVE the idea of a meetup when we travel. I may be going to Colorado (Denver area for Opus Fest) and Ohio, and I'm definitely headed out to LA area (Torrance) In September of this year We really should try and do something like that to increase some closer relationships amongst and betwixt our fellow vloggers... Very cool indeed! Too bad nobody ever wants to travel to the midwest though Rolla would be a very cool place to have a Meet the Vloggers Vlog On!! Lisa --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When it comes to meeting other vloggers, I think I've met a total of one, Brett from Etherworks. What I want to do, though, is everytime I go on vacation to a major city, try and set up some kind of metup (preferably karaoke with the vloggers or something about as fun... I put on a hell of an air guitar show). I'll probably go to New York, LA and perhaps Edinburgh this year, so I'll post a notice probably a month before just to see if anyone else is interested. I also hope to attend conferences this year (something I totally missed out on last year since I was/am a newbie). Don't worry, Susan, you'll meet us all someday. Have you tried to build a community in your area? Why not put an ad out saying you'll help anyone out who is interested in starting to vlog? Yours, Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: A chronic lack of suitable public spaces that are not controlled by entities with their own agendas, is one thing that upsets me in todays world. I was hoping that virtual spaces on the net would be a good alternative, but its going slow and there are a multitude of reasons why physical space and physically meeting people still dominates. As someone who believes in peak oil serious energy crisis is the theme of our times, I was hoping videoblogging would be a good part of the solution. So I get a little phased when I think that videoblogging has actually increased peoples desire to travel around for hours in cars. Well I guess I was thinking wrong, people are only going to reduce travel and use virtual meetings more when they are compelled to by circumstance. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg jkinberg@ wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan kitykity@ wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Karaoke! I'm so there. :D Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ms. Kitka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When it comes to meeting other vloggers, I think I've met a total of one, Brett from Etherworks. What I want to do, though, is everytime I go on vacation to a major city, try and set up some kind of metup (preferably karaoke with the vloggers or something about as fun... I put on a hell of an air guitar show). I'll probably go to New York, LA and perhaps Edinburgh this year, so I'll post a notice probably a month before just to see if anyone else is interested. I also hope to attend conferences this year (something I totally missed out on last year since I was/am a newbie). Don't worry, Susan, you'll meet us all someday. Have you tried to build a community in your area? Why not put an ad out saying you'll help anyone out who is interested in starting to vlog? Yours, Kitka --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: A chronic lack of suitable public spaces that are not controlled by entities with their own agendas, is one thing that upsets me in todays world. I was hoping that virtual spaces on the net would be a good alternative, but its going slow and there are a multitude of reasons why physical space and physically meeting people still dominates. As someone who believes in peak oil serious energy crisis is the theme of our times, I was hoping videoblogging would be a good part of the solution. So I get a little phased when I think that videoblogging has actually increased peoples desire to travel around for hours in cars. Well I guess I was thinking wrong, people are only going to reduce travel and use virtual meetings more when they are compelled to by circumstance. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg jkinberg@ wrote: I tend to find Mac bias in the world of podcasting/vlogging is a little frustrating too. I don't appreciate being used as a marketing tool for Apple. I use their products sometimes, but I also use a PC a lot and I don't really think that open media should be owned by a single hardware platform. Of course, the Apple Store events provide a nice venue for presentations, I just wish there was a more agnostic alternative. -Josh On 2/3/06, Susan kitykity@ wrote: Actually, I was presenting on a mac physically--I would burn my powerpoint presentation onto a CD and bring it there to show on their desktop mac--but I don't have the mac-specific knowledge I guess they want. A recharge sounds nice... Susan --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter bill@ wrote: Damn Susan, that really sucks. I can see Apple getting a little weird about you presenting on a PC and the whole new iLife thing they have is kinda geared towards personal media publishing and I can see how they might want to start pushing that. They're trying to sell their stuff not necessarily get people publishing. So maybe you can seek out some other places to do presentations. Coffee shops? Libraries? I dunno there are other places to do meet-ups and stuff. And there are other orgs that are interested in teaching media literacy and vlogging fits right in with this. I hope you get your camera/fixed replaced soon. Maybe take some time for a break and recharge creatively until you can get vlogging again. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan kitykity@ wrote: I've been meaning to make this post for a week or two, I suppose, and I'm not even sure who cares... but I wanted to post a paragraph or two about what's been up with me lately in relation to videoblogging. My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. The girl before me teaches iTunes, and last time they gave me a pretty good lead-in... she had about twenty people standing around listening to her, and instead of a lead-in, when she was done she said thanks for coming and basically walked away. Everyone left. After that, I suppose I wasn't interesting enough to attract more than one or two random people that were walking through the store. Afterwards she apologized to me-- she said she didn't realize I was up next--but it didn't matter. For some stupid reason, I let that day crush me almost to the point of tears. They had said they wanted to videoblogging thing to be a once-a- month gig--great, no problem. Then I got an email saying that February was pushed away from me because of some special presentation on my Saturday. Then I got an email a couple weeks ago
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
I think it's the plumber's crack that gives it away in his case. ;) Well, it does make me feel a little better (I guess?) to know I'm not the only one who doesn't live near anyone else, as far as known vloggers go... Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susan wrote: See, that's the thing--I really love it--but I am having trouble making it consume my time right now. ;) Does that even make sense? To hang out with other passionate vloggers, I have to drive five hours away... that involves making sure the kids and daddy are all right (though next time I'm hoping to bring daddy with me), making sure someone can cover for me at work (I'm a Unix admin, and always on call)... would be so nice if I had a buddy or six a town away I could hang with once in a while. Make sense? :) I never actually met another videoblogger. There is a good chance you are all just figments of my imagination. Or some elaborate hoax. except for Richard, somehow, I know he's for real. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Create like souls... I think that's the best way I've heard it put all day. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sister, I feel your pain! I too had a system crash and just now getting slowly getting back up to speed. We can vlog a PC but unless things are working as they should it is dang hard. It should not be this hard. I need comfort not strife. My nickel of driftwood: It seems as though the Apple store doesn't want to continue this with you. But you should maybe send one more email to confirm that they want to stop doing this. No fault, no blame if they do then thanks and bye bye. If they do want to continue then you might have to get (within your time you have/don't have available) to make sure that there is a good crowd when you do presentations. You might have to post on Craigslist,the local freebie paper or maybe find a women's group or men's tech group to introduce yourself to and just talk about what it is you are doing and why they should know about vlogging. I do think we should not get too use to Apple store presentations - we have to step out beyond the comfort zone. Toastmasters? Boy/Girl Scouts? Libraries for sure would understand what it is you are doing. (I'm learning to be a library para-professional and trust me, libraries are much more than shush joints.) You will get a replacement camera - that is not the issue. But finding like souls, well you might have to create them. You might have to find a way to communicate what you do to others. Or find out where the video/artist/poets/outlanders folks in your area hang out. Or you can move to California. If you got a spare million or so for housing. Ok, never mind the housing but definitely start saving up for BlogHer so we can meet up. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
Thanks so much, Frank. :) The camera I just sold on ebay sounds similar to yours, though admittedly a little better in quality... it was a Sony M1 with memory stick pro duo, 1GB for about 45 minutes of 640x480 mp4s. I got that upgrade itch and sold it, and then purchased this POC Canon that is sitting in our toy room now... tomorrow we are going to return it and get a much better Panasonic, hopefully. The quality of my vlogs will be incredibly better...and perhaps even still in five second increments. In fact, for my fan club if you will, my first miniDV movie might be just that. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, February 3, 2006, 8:23:39 PM, Susan wrote: My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. ...Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I must admit I have always been surprised by how so many people have got involved with Apple stores. Maybe it's because I've never been in one (the only one I have ever seen, in Amsterdam, was closed when I went past), but it just seems plain strange to sit in the pocket of a particular company with particular products to market. It may not reassure you but I can't see the odd alliance with Apple Stores lasting very long. There's not enough in it for them. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. I'm sure this describes most of us. Don't be put off by the loud voices from a few large metro areas. Most vloggers have never met another vlogger, and those that did, probably made a big journey to do it. I met a few last October at Vlog Europe, but I've never met any here in the UK. It's a lonely hobby, but we kind of make up for it by sharing our videos. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Well, maybe I'm lucky then. I don't know anyone with a Mac so at leats I don't have that problem. I have a bunch of PCs with various operating systems, but I've never used a Mac. Everywhere I have worked or studied has been exclusively Windows, Linux or Unix. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Still got any editing software installed? Why not try a few remixes? They can be great fun, and a really good workout for your editing skills, and best of all, no camera required! As an aside, I don't know how much you would consider spending on videoblogging, but I have done almost all my vlogs using a small, cheap camera which records MP4 to little flash memory cards. Even the lowest price Firewire DV cameras around here are at least 200 pounds (roughly 350 USD), but my little solid state camera was only about 45 pounds (admittedly, plus the cost of an SD card), so I could get three of them for the same money and still have change. To me that's cheap enough to just chuck in my pocket and not worry too much about all the problems that can happen with the complicated mechanics of a modern tape camera. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. *virtual hug* -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where I've been...
...at least, not until they shove their own money-making personal agendas down your throat. It only took two presentations, in my case. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've never been in an Apple Store, the really great thing about them is that they have an open Theater with seating and a large projection screen for presentations. They have regular open classes and workshops and often hosts special events such as Meet the Vloggers. It is a good environment for teaching and presenting so I can't really knock that. -Josh http://FireAnt.tv On 2/3/06, Frank Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, February 3, 2006, 8:23:39 PM, Susan wrote: My downward slide started with my most recent videoblogging presentation at the apple store. ...Then I got another email this week saying they want me to run my presentation pretty much just on the Mac platform. My fault, I guess, for thinking I belonged in an Apple store. I must admit I have always been surprised by how so many people have got involved with Apple stores. Maybe it's because I've never been in one (the only one I have ever seen, in Amsterdam, was closed when I went past), but it just seems plain strange to sit in the pocket of a particular company with particular products to market. It may not reassure you but I can't see the odd alliance with Apple Stores lasting very long. There's not enough in it for them. Videoblogging has been a love-hate thing with me. I love to do it, but I hate the fact that it's hard to find people in my area that I can hang out with, that I can discuss videoblogging with. They're just not here. I'm sure this describes most of us. Don't be put off by the loud voices from a few large metro areas. Most vloggers have never met another vlogger, and those that did, probably made a big journey to do it. I met a few last October at Vlog Europe, but I've never met any here in the UK. It's a lonely hobby, but we kind of make up for it by sharing our videos. Sure--I have my new friend Greta--and she's having fun with it, making maybe a post a week--but the passions not there, know what I mean? Plus--she's on a Mac. It's like Spain Spanish and Mexican Spanish. We share a similar interest, but not a similar platform. Well, maybe I'm lucky then. I don't know anyone with a Mac so at leats I don't have that problem. I have a bunch of PCs with various operating systems, but I've never used a Mac. Everywhere I have worked or studied has been exclusively Windows, Linux or Unix. So that leaves me where I am today--a little crushed inside, without a camcorder to vlog with at all, and with a vlog that I truly love but don't have the means to update, not counting old home movies I have. Still got any editing software installed? Why not try a few remixes? They can be great fun, and a really good workout for your editing skills, and best of all, no camera required! As an aside, I don't know how much you would consider spending on videoblogging, but I have done almost all my vlogs using a small, cheap camera which records MP4 to little flash memory cards. Even the lowest price Firewire DV cameras around here are at least 200 pounds (roughly 350 USD), but my little solid state camera was only about 45 pounds (admittedly, plus the cost of an SD card), so I could get three of them for the same money and still have change. To me that's cheap enough to just chuck in my pocket and not worry too much about all the problems that can happen with the complicated mechanics of a modern tape camera. Thanks for letting me rant, guys... I just seriously need some kind of pick-me-up right now. *virtual hug* -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
