Re: [videoblogging] Voting through watching videos
Hi everyone: On 4/7/07, Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Jay. > > I posted that over on TechPresident. > > http://www.techpresident.com/ > > On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > > > Here's a smart way to use video: > > http://www.expertvoter.org/ Thanks guys. I'll get links to these up on my political vlog and my LiveVideo page ASAP. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado WEBSITES - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ Pat's Health & Medical Wonders VideoCast - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ MY LIVE CAM - http://patscam.camstreams.com/ YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepatcookshow
Re: [videoblogging] Skype on Cell
Any windows mobile phone should work at least, others probably as well. Skype makes a WM client for sure, as I have it (and it works well, even with bluetooth) on my Treo 700w from Verizon. My phone doesn't have WiFi, but I pay $40/mo for unlimited data. Rex On 4/7/07, jean-marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A skilled pickpocket got my cellphone in the metro in Paris. Iwas half > hoping for this so now I can shop for a cell that would enable Skype. I > see there are some services like "Eqo" that allow you to use skype as > long as your computer is on, but I don't leave my computer on when I'm > away. I want my cell to be independent of my computer. I might be > vulnerable to wifi hotspots, but nothing's perfect. Any suggestions of > what to buy & set up so I can use Skype on a cell? > > > -- http://www.rexpechler.com/ Mobile: 650-207-1058 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: first post of video blog week is up
Unfortunately the flash support on N95 is flash lite 2.0, and from what Ive read we need to wait for flash lite 3.0 to get flash video support. h264 does indeed work, I think it will play ipod-compatible mp4's ok, though I need to do some further testing on that. (eg Ive had some issues with sound going out of sync). Real Player is used to playback these filetypes. Unfortunately many people still wrap their mp4/h264 stuff up as a mov file and those wont work. The phone rather annoyingly tells me that many mp4's may not work, when I click on them, but then they download and play fine. I dont now exactly what its looking at to decide whether to display that message. I havent tried any 3rd party symbian apps that may enable playback of more formats. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike, you asked about podcasting with the Nokias. I have N93 - which > has just been surpassed by the N95. As far as I know, the N95 has > better support for watching as well as making. > > The problem with watching videos on the N93 is that is has an Opera > browser which only takes up to Flash 7 (mad). So all Blip flash vids > are out, and it only has basic MP4, not H264, so a lot of the > downloads are out as well. > > However, the new N95 has H264. Not sure whether the browser will > stream flash above version 7. Steve Garfield (and now Steve > Watkins :) ) will be able to tell us. > > The editing system in-phone is cool. You can cut a lot of shots > together simply & effectively once you get the hang of it - like the > vids I shot in the coffee shop and at the Flashmob, for instance: > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-1pm-at-goodness- > chiswick.html > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-653pm-massive- > flashmob.html > > Would be great if Blip could auto top & tail clips with pre-set > idents - would take editing them in out of the process for all the > one-shot clips i send, and save me 1 or 2 minutes. > > Another thing that would be great is if Blip allowed us to tag our > videos when mobile uploading - some kind of code in the description > text that they auto recognize as tags. Also to specify type of > license. At the moment, I have to go in later and manually add tags > and cc license. Which I can do on my phone browser, but still... > > The in-phone podcasting and feedreading capabilities on N93 are there > but not brilliant, as far as I can tell. I'd love to watch and make, > all from the same device, but I guess i'll now have to wait until I > get an N95, where it all seems a bit better. Again, ask Steve G, > he's the man. He's also posting lots of nice passing moments from > his N95 at the moment, which otherwise would have gone undocumented. > You get a little subtle visual impression of his world as it happens. > > Writing in secret again - better go rejoin the family ;) > > Rupert > > Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 6 Apr 2007, at 02:36, Mike Meiser wrote: > > Wow, that's a complex chain of events Rupert, but once it's set up it > sounds very simple to use. > > I can't believe you run if through blogger on top of everything else. > I hope blip fixes whatever problem there was so you can go directly > from blip to twitter. > > I'm suprised that you're able to add the intro and outro right on the > phone. Supercool. I can't imagine how the editing process works, got > to get my hands on one of those n95's. > > I was hoping... actually thinking that blip had already implimented an > automated system whereby an intro and outro could automatically be > added to incoming videos via mail, and that blip already had twitter > cross posting. Maybe that's something in the near future at blip... > cross posting to twitter. I haven't checked into it but I wonder if > twitter has an API... might be great for cross posting photos to from > flickr so you can mobile photoblog through flickr to twitter as well. > > Then there's audioblogging. I don't think blogger does call in > audioblogging anymore, but I believe eric rices hipcast and a few > other services do. The idea being that it'd be like calling in and > leaving a voice mail, but once posted to twitter if can not only be > listened to by any friend via mobile but also the web. > > -Mike > > On 4/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Bill and Mike! And everyone else who has commented and got > > involved. It's SO MUCH FUN. > > > > I am suddenly out of time to reply as fully as I want to, sneaking > > time on the computer in the kitchen while pretending to make > > dinner... :) > > > > The frequency of my text and video twittering has been hit today by > > work and Kate returning from holiday... but hopefully I'll get back > > on song tom
Re: [videoblogging] Skype on Cell
I've used Skype on my mobile phone as well. My phone will use WiFi if available but I have unlimited data plan too so it doesnt really matter. Just be sure to check the processor that your phone has. I have the cingular 8125 (an HTC phone) and its a bit underpowered for Skype (even compared to other HTC phones). Most windows mobile phones will run skype fine. - Dave
Re: [videoblogging] first post of video blog week is up
Rupert, thanks for the feedback. This is a topic on which there can never be enough discussion as far as I'm concerned. FYI, we created a yahoo group for mobile media at the following url. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mobilemediaworkgroup/ Been meaning to cross post this thread there, but there hasn't been to much activity recently. More comments are below. On 4/6/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, you asked about podcasting with the Nokias. I have N93 - which > has just been surpassed by the N95. As far as I know, the N95 has > better support for watching as well as making. Been following and talking about the Nokia N series for awhile. I know 4 or 5 people vlogging with the N95. http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/10/ Even still I think your video blog with the N93 was the most effective mobile videoblog I've seen yet. > The problem with watching videos on the N93 is that is has an Opera > browser which only takes up to Flash 7 (mad). So all Blip flash vids > are out, and it only has basic MP4, not H264, so a lot of the > downloads are out as well. Good to know. The incompatibility reflects poorly on Adobe, Opera and Nokia. Why bother implimenting flash at all if they're not going to keep it up to date. I've been talking about server side transcoding for awhile. There have been tremendous advances in server side transcoding. It would now be possible to set up a scaleable solution using Amazon's elastic computing cloud to transcode pretty much any video in a compatible format on the fly. Nathan Frietas' Mux.am is a great example of this technology in action a sort of proof of concept. This would not only ensure that you'd be able to watch virtually ANYTHING on your Nokia, but it could also be used in delivering videos to all manner of hardware from set top boxes to other cell phones with more limited video playback than the Nokia. BTW, does the N93 support the Symbian based video and audio podcast aggregator? I'm wondering if you've tried it if so what you think of it. Last time I saw a demo it was still very primitive. > However, the new N95 has H264. Also good to know... I thought the N93 and N95 both supported the same codecs and flash... thought it was just a software issue. I guess it's to much to ask that such devices support a wide aray of video formats yet, but we're getting there. > Not sure whether the browser will > stream flash above version 7. Steve Garfield (and now Steve > Watkins :) ) will be able to tell us. I can't seem to find Steve's videoblog on google does he have a url? Is there some N93 or N95 mailing list, bboard or usergroup about this stuff? Perhaps I could invite you guys all over to the mobile media workgroup... to use it as your personal playground for discussing video and audio podcast issues with the N-series. That's pretty much what it's there for. BTW... I heard VOX and Nokia announced a partnership for mobile video blogging and podcasting, haven't heard nor met anyone who's used it. > The editing system in-phone is cool. You can cut a lot of shots > together simply & effectively once you get the hang of it - like the > vids I shot in the coffee shop and at the Flashmob, for instance: > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-1pm-at-goodness- > chiswick.html > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-653pm-massive- > flashmob.html Very cool. I can't imagine how it could be easy with a phone, but then again my $150 digital camera has some primitive editing features so I guess I could see that it's at least possible. I'll believe it though when I get my hands on one that is when nokia sends me one to demo. ;) > Would be great if Blip could auto top & tail clips with pre-set > idents - would take editing them in out of the process for all the > one-shot clips i send, and save me 1 or 2 minutes. Exactly. :) Been bugging them about the idea for awhile. :) Useful for more than mobile vlogging of course. I love that you call then "idenities". It's a great way to think about it. How I'd do it if I was blip ;) ... is I'd use email addy's as one of the upload mechanisms... and for each idenity give the user a unique email address to send the videos to. > Another thing that would be great is if Blip allowed us to tag our > videos when mobile uploading - some kind of code in the description > text that they auto recognize as tags. Also to specify type of > license. At the moment, I have to go in later and manually add tags > and cc license. Which I can do on my phone browser, but still... Why not make the licensce part of the idenity? As per the tags I must agree... if the tags aren't in the RSS when most aggregators and search engines first crawl the feed then they don't come back and get them later. Some sort of simple markup like following would work well. tags: tag1, tag2, tag3 It's basic comma delimination... the line break determines where the tags end. The bigger picture is that there needs to
[videoblogging] Re: Josh Wolf in the Hot Zone
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > On 4/4/07, Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting article > > > > http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs28294;_ylt=AjL7tlWL.cedgomrWP1 > > qsXOs0NUE > > It is HOWEVER. (Quotes from the article are below) > > > Wolf, who calls himself and activist and anarchist on another one of > > his sites, "The Revolution Will Be Televised," > > I just LOVE it when the mainstream media and press refer to what we do > as "anarchism" when in fact what we're REALLY doing is simply > excercising our rights to the press and free speech. > > If that's being an anarchist, well then it's NO WONDER why FOX News > loves to crtiticize the rest of the media and press and cry Liberal > bias. Then too, THEY ARE WORSE since they're CONSERVATIVELY biased. > > Besides, I don't think Josh has EVER referred to himself as an > "anarchist". Have you Josh? http://web.archive.org/web/2005123539/http://joshwolf.net/ "I live in San Francisco. I'm an artist, an activist, an anarchist and an archivist; this is my videoblog." > > > Debra Saunders, a conservative columnist for the San Francisco > > Chronicle, applauds Wolf's dedication, but doesn't believe he should > > be called a journalist. > > > > "I think that you can be a blogger and be a journalist," Saunders > > tells me from her office at the Chronicle. "There are people who fit > > that [description], but when you're an activist cavorting with the > > people you're chronicling, then you are not a journalist." > > Really? And just what are local TV people when they cover a rally or > protest for the evening news? Chopped liver? > > Talk about a clone of Ann Coulter! > > > Her own newspaper disagrees with that assessment and has supported > > Wolf on the Chronicle's opinion pages. > > As well as it should. > > > "The fact that Josh Wolf has strong political views does not > > disqualify him from being a journalist any more than the fact that I > > am an editorial page editor and have opinions disqualifies me from > > being a journalist," says John Diaz of the Chronicle. "The fact is, > > he was out at that rally, collecting information to disseminate to > > the public. I think that makes him a journalist." > > Exactly. > > > Ultimately, Saunders says, it won't be journalists and bloggers who > > decide the issue, but the government. > > But it will be journalists and us as bloggers who will ask the tough > questions OF the government though. > > > "The courts are going to end up deciding who journalists are, > > because, unfortunately, this administration is really pushing the > > envelope in jailing journalists, and it won't end with the Bush > > administration," Saunders says. "It will get bigger as people point > > fingers in many ways, and that means the courts are going to decide > > who journalists are. You may not like it, but that's the way it is." > > On this point, even I agree with her. > > Just my opinion :D > > Cheers :D > > -- > Pat Cook > Denver, Colorado > WEBSITES - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ > PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ > Pat's Health & Medical Wonders VideoCast - > http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ > MY LIVE CAM - http://patscam.camstreams.com/ > YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ > THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepatcookshow >
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Wolf in the Hot Zone
Hello, On 4/8/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Cook" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone: > > > > On 4/4/07, Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Interesting article > > > > > > > http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs28294;_ylt=AjL7tlWL.cedgomrWP1 > > > qsXOs0NUE > > > > It is HOWEVER. (Quotes from the article are below) > > > > > Wolf, who calls himself and activist and anarchist on another one of > > > his sites, "The Revolution Will Be Televised," > > > > I just LOVE it when the mainstream media and press refer to what we do > > as "anarchism" when in fact what we're REALLY doing is simply > > excercising our rights to the press and free speech. > > > > If that's being an anarchist, well then it's NO WONDER why FOX News > > loves to crtiticize the rest of the media and press and cry Liberal > > bias. Then too, THEY ARE WORSE since they're CONSERVATIVELY biased. > > > > Besides, I don't think Josh has EVER referred to himself as an > > "anarchist". Have you Josh? > > http://web.archive.org/web/2005123539/http://joshwolf.net/ > > "I live in San Francisco. I'm an artist, an activist, an anarchist and > an archivist; this is my videoblog." To all those who think the word "anarchy" is a bad word When this whole Josh Wolf thing started happening, I started wondering what "anarchy" actually meant. I'd always heard it used in a derogatory sense. I did some research, and I was surprised to find out what it actually meant. I found that "anarchy" is a synonym for a word which most people (in our cultures) claim to be a virtue. The difference between the two words seems to be similar to the words "AND" and "BUT"... i.e., logically they have the exact same definition... but the connotations people attach to them are different, and in some senses opposites. I'd encourage you to research it yourself too. (You'll probably be as surprise as I was.) See ya > > > > > Debra Saunders, a conservative columnist for the San Francisco > > > Chronicle, applauds Wolf's dedication, but doesn't believe he should > > > be called a journalist. > > > > > > "I think that you can be a blogger and be a journalist," Saunders > > > tells me from her office at the Chronicle. "There are people who fit > > > that [description], but when you're an activist cavorting with the > > > people you're chronicling, then you are not a journalist." > > > > Really? And just what are local TV people when they cover a rally or > > protest for the evening news? Chopped liver? > > > > Talk about a clone of Ann Coulter! > > > > > Her own newspaper disagrees with that assessment and has supported > > > Wolf on the Chronicle's opinion pages. > > > > As well as it should. > > > > > "The fact that Josh Wolf has strong political views does not > > > disqualify him from being a journalist any more than the fact that I > > > am an editorial page editor and have opinions disqualifies me from > > > being a journalist," says John Diaz of the Chronicle. "The fact is, > > > he was out at that rally, collecting information to disseminate to > > > the public. I think that makes him a journalist." > > > > Exactly. > > > > > Ultimately, Saunders says, it won't be journalists and bloggers who > > > decide the issue, but the government. > > > > But it will be journalists and us as bloggers who will ask the tough > > questions OF the government though. > > > > > "The courts are going to end up deciding who journalists are, > > > because, unfortunately, this administration is really pushing the > > > envelope in jailing journalists, and it won't end with the Bush > > > administration," Saunders says. "It will get bigger as people point > > > fingers in many ways, and that means the courts are going to decide > > > who journalists are. You may not like it, but that's the way it is." > > > > On this point, even I agree with her. > > > > Just my opinion :D > > > > Cheers :D > > > > -- > > Pat Cook > > Denver, Colorado > > WEBSITES - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - > http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ > > PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ > > Pat's Health & Medical Wonders VideoCast - > > http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ > > MY LIVE CAM - http://patscam.camstreams.com/ > > YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ > > THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepatcookshow -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. charles @ reptile.ca supercanadian @ gmail.com developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ ___ Make Televisionhttp://maketelevision.com/ ___ Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks, and Racing... http://tirebit
[videoblogging] Re: Josh Wolf in the Hot Zone
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On 4/8/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Cook" > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone: > > > > > > On 4/4/07, Heath wrote: > > > > > > > > Interesting article > > > > > > > > > > http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs28294;_ylt=AjL7tlWL.cedgomrWP1 > > > > qsXOs0NUE > > > > > > It is HOWEVER. (Quotes from the article are below) > > > > > > > Wolf, who calls himself and activist and anarchist on another one of > > > > his sites, "The Revolution Will Be Televised," > > > > > > I just LOVE it when the mainstream media and press refer to what we do > > > as "anarchism" when in fact what we're REALLY doing is simply > > > excercising our rights to the press and free speech. > > > > > > If that's being an anarchist, well then it's NO WONDER why FOX News > > > loves to crtiticize the rest of the media and press and cry Liberal > > > bias. Then too, THEY ARE WORSE since they're CONSERVATIVELY biased. > > > > > > Besides, I don't think Josh has EVER referred to himself as an > > > "anarchist". Have you Josh? > > > > http://web.archive.org/web/2005123539/http://joshwolf.net/ > > > > "I live in San Francisco. I'm an artist, an activist, an anarchist and > > an archivist; this is my videoblog." > > To all those who think the word "anarchy" is a bad word > > When this whole Josh Wolf thing started happening, I started wondering > what "anarchy" actually meant. > > I'd always heard it used in a derogatory sense. > > I did some research, and I was surprised to find out what it actually meant. > > I found that "anarchy" is a synonym for a word which most people (in > our cultures) claim to be a virtue. The difference between the two > words seems to be similar to the words "AND" and "BUT"... i.e., > logically they have the exact same definition... but the connotations > people attach to them are different, and in some senses opposites. > > I'd encourage you to research it yourself too. (You'll probably be as > surprise as I was.) > > > See ya > Research and facts are good. Objectivity. -- Enric > > > > > > > Debra Saunders, a conservative columnist for the San Francisco > > > > Chronicle, applauds Wolf's dedication, but doesn't believe he should > > > > be called a journalist. > > > > > > > > "I think that you can be a blogger and be a journalist," Saunders > > > > tells me from her office at the Chronicle. "There are people who fit > > > > that [description], but when you're an activist cavorting with the > > > > people you're chronicling, then you are not a journalist." > > > > > > Really? And just what are local TV people when they cover a rally or > > > protest for the evening news? Chopped liver? > > > > > > Talk about a clone of Ann Coulter! > > > > > > > Her own newspaper disagrees with that assessment and has supported > > > > Wolf on the Chronicle's opinion pages. > > > > > > As well as it should. > > > > > > > "The fact that Josh Wolf has strong political views does not > > > > disqualify him from being a journalist any more than the fact that I > > > > am an editorial page editor and have opinions disqualifies me from > > > > being a journalist," says John Diaz of the Chronicle. "The fact is, > > > > he was out at that rally, collecting information to disseminate to > > > > the public. I think that makes him a journalist." > > > > > > Exactly. > > > > > > > Ultimately, Saunders says, it won't be journalists and bloggers who > > > > decide the issue, but the government. > > > > > > But it will be journalists and us as bloggers who will ask the tough > > > questions OF the government though. > > > > > > > "The courts are going to end up deciding who journalists are, > > > > because, unfortunately, this administration is really pushing the > > > > envelope in jailing journalists, and it won't end with the Bush > > > > administration," Saunders says. "It will get bigger as people point > > > > fingers in many ways, and that means the courts are going to decide > > > > who journalists are. You may not like it, but that's the way it is." > > > > > > On this point, even I agree with her. > > > > > > Just my opinion :D > > > > > > Cheers :D > > > > > > -- > > > Pat Cook > > > Denver, Colorado > > > WEBSITES - AS MY WACKED OUT WORLD TURNS - > > http://pchamster.livejournal.com/ > > > PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ > > > Pat's Health & Medical Wonders VideoCast - > > > http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ > > > MY LIVE CAM - http://patscam.camstreams.com/ > > > YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ > > > THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepatcookshow > > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > charles @ reptile.ca > s
Re: [videoblogging] first post of video blog week is up
Cool! I didn't know about that group. AIR MOBILE! Reminds me of that quote from Apocalypse Now: "Well, Air Mobile... those boys just couldn't stay put. Mobilemediaworkgroup was an old videoblogging division that had cashed in its camcorders for phones and gone tear-assing around Nam looking for the shit. They'd given Charlie a few surprises in their time here. What they were remotely uploading and crossposting now hadn't even happened yet an hour ago..." Rupert Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 8 Apr 2007, at 19:57, Mike Meiser wrote: Rupert, thanks for the feedback. This is a topic on which there can never be enough discussion as far as I'm concerned. FYI, we created a yahoo group for mobile media at the following url. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mobilemediaworkgroup/ Been meaning to cross post this thread there, but there hasn't been to much activity recently. More comments are below. On 4/6/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, you asked about podcasting with the Nokias. I have N93 - which > has just been surpassed by the N95. As far as I know, the N95 has > better support for watching as well as making. Been following and talking about the Nokia N series for awhile. I know 4 or 5 people vlogging with the N95. http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/10/ Even still I think your video blog with the N93 was the most effective mobile videoblog I've seen yet. > The problem with watching videos on the N93 is that is has an Opera > browser which only takes up to Flash 7 (mad). So all Blip flash vids > are out, and it only has basic MP4, not H264, so a lot of the > downloads are out as well. Good to know. The incompatibility reflects poorly on Adobe, Opera and Nokia. Why bother implimenting flash at all if they're not going to keep it up to date. I've been talking about server side transcoding for awhile. There have been tremendous advances in server side transcoding. It would now be possible to set up a scaleable solution using Amazon's elastic computing cloud to transcode pretty much any video in a compatible format on the fly. Nathan Frietas' Mux.am is a great example of this technology in action a sort of proof of concept. This would not only ensure that you'd be able to watch virtually ANYTHING on your Nokia, but it could also be used in delivering videos to all manner of hardware from set top boxes to other cell phones with more limited video playback than the Nokia. BTW, does the N93 support the Symbian based video and audio podcast aggregator? I'm wondering if you've tried it if so what you think of it. Last time I saw a demo it was still very primitive. > However, the new N95 has H264. Also good to know... I thought the N93 and N95 both supported the same codecs and flash... thought it was just a software issue. I guess it's to much to ask that such devices support a wide aray of video formats yet, but we're getting there. > Not sure whether the browser will > stream flash above version 7. Steve Garfield (and now Steve > Watkins :) ) will be able to tell us. I can't seem to find Steve's videoblog on google does he have a url? Is there some N93 or N95 mailing list, bboard or usergroup about this stuff? Perhaps I could invite you guys all over to the mobile media workgroup... to use it as your personal playground for discussing video and audio podcast issues with the N-series. That's pretty much what it's there for. BTW... I heard VOX and Nokia announced a partnership for mobile video blogging and podcasting, haven't heard nor met anyone who's used it. > The editing system in-phone is cool. You can cut a lot of shots > together simply & effectively once you get the hang of it - like the > vids I shot in the coffee shop and at the Flashmob, for instance: > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-1pm-at-goodness- > chiswick.html > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/2007/04/twittervlog-653pm-massive- > flashmob.html Very cool. I can't imagine how it could be easy with a phone, but then again my $150 digital camera has some primitive editing features so I guess I could see that it's at least possible. I'll believe it though when I get my hands on one that is when nokia sends me one to demo. ;) > Would be great if Blip could auto top & tail clips with pre-set > idents - would take editing them in out of the process for all the > one-shot clips i send, and save me 1 or 2 minutes. Exactly. :) Been bugging them about the idea for awhile. :) Useful for more than mobile vlogging of course. I love that you call then "idenities". It's a great way to think about it. How I'd do it if I was blip ;) ... is I'd use email addy's as one of the upload mechanisms... and for each idenity give the user a unique email address to send the videos to. > Another thing that would be great is if Blip allowed us to tag our >
[videoblogging] Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein Rocked the House at Nonprofit Tech Conference!
Hi all, Andy Carvin and Jonny Goldstein did a session and drop in skills coaching clinic at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, DC. They did a fabulous job! I've already heard from a number of people who were at the session that they are going to go out and video blog on behalf of their nonprofit or social change organization ... Some videos they made: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2007/04/project_hope_international.html Demo video we made during session http://www.jonnygoldstein.com/2007/04/06/ntc-videogeekout-demo-video/ Session wiki http://ntcvideogeekout.pbwiki.com/ Beth Kanter PS I have my videos done for video blogging week, but didn't have Internet in my room - so couldn't post - is it too late to get them all up now ..
[videoblogging] twittering posts
hi all, i just wanted to share what i thought was an interesting occurrence. a few days ago, i started to getting some comments on one of my older apperceptions posts i figured that something was up that was making people to do that, but I did not know what not sure why, but i guessed that it was something ryanne had done turned out i was right. unknown to me at the time, she had twittered the post thanks ryanne! and thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts and asked about buddy. i'm sad to say he has yet to return home. but i am also happy to see him in that video, to recall the magic of that hummingbird and for all the great comments from friends. i've never been twitter-dotted before. have others had this happen? markus -- http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy
Re: [videoblogging] twittering posts
Yes Twitter. Ryanne and I were looking at the hummingbirds outside the window here and she remembered your post. Those of you not on twitter you might want to consider it. To me it's kind of like a big 24/7 irc chat (but much easier to use + works on your phone). I looked at the Yahoo group stats and it seems like the number of messages over the last week are down about 50%. My guess is that much of the social/not-strictly-videoblogging messages have moved over to Twitter. - Verdi http://twitter.com/michaelverdi On 4/8/07, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > i just wanted to share what i thought was an interesting occurrence. > > a few days ago, i started to getting some comments on one of my older > apperceptions posts > > i figured that something was up that was making people to do that, but > I did not know what > > not sure why, but i guessed that it was something ryanne had done > > turned out i was right. > > unknown to me at the time, she had twittered the post > > thanks ryanne! > > and thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts and asked about > buddy. > > i'm sad to say he has yet to return home. > > but i am also happy to see him in that video, to recall the magic of > that hummingbird and for all the great comments from friends. > > i've never been twitter-dotted before. > > have others had this happen? > > markus > > -- > http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy > http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy > > > -- 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]
Re: [videoblogging] twittering posts
I noticed the drop in posts here, too. Half twitter, half videoblogging week time crisis, I reckon. One of the cool things about Twitter (imho) is that it lies somewhere in between the real time synchronous IRC thing and the asynchronous blogging thing. You can chat back & forth right now, or you can leave your thought droppings for people to read later. And so people are more open and willing to leave notes about things that they wouldn't blog or vlog about. And these things can be very interesting, human, real moments. All aided by the 140 character limit, which makes it hard to be boring and easy to scan down the list of entries. My hope is that as our mobile phones let us shoot and watch more easily on the same little box, we will be able to have a more fluent and twitterish kind of synchronous/asynchronous discourse with video (with faces, voices, surroundings)... and that this will be something that grows to complement the more crafted videos that people upload once a week or however often for their subscribers. I'm going to carry on my Twitter vlog and try to develop it to have more back & forth communication. There are enough of us now who are vlogging in real time! In fact, I've just vlogged about all this at the end videoblogging week here in the UK (we're so avant garde here in GMT). Happy Videoblogging Week! So much stuff to watch, it'll keep me happy for a year. Though I wish I could have watched more of it as it happened. Rupert Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 9 Apr 2007, at 00:28, Michael Verdi wrote: Yes Twitter. Ryanne and I were looking at the hummingbirds outside the window here and she remembered your post. Those of you not on twitter you might want to consider it. To me it's kind of like a big 24/7 irc chat (but much easier to use + works on your phone). I looked at the Yahoo group stats and it seems like the number of messages over the last week are down about 50%. My guess is that much of the social/not-strictly-videoblogging messages have moved over to Twitter. - Verdi http://twitter.com/michaelverdi On 4/8/07, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > i just wanted to share what i thought was an interesting occurrence. > > a few days ago, i started to getting some comments on one of my older > apperceptions posts > > i figured that something was up that was making people to do that, but > I did not know what > > not sure why, but i guessed that it was something ryanne had done > > turned out i was right. > > unknown to me at the time, she had twittered the post > > thanks ryanne! > > and thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts and asked about > buddy. > > i'm sad to say he has yet to return home. > > but i am also happy to see him in that video, to recall the magic of > that hummingbird and for all the great comments from friends. > > i've never been twitter-dotted before. > > have others had this happen? > > markus > > -- > http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy > http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy > > > -- 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]
[videoblogging] ClickTV Vlog, now I need RSS.
I've reorganized my vlog with the ClickTV player. See it at: http://historichomeworks.com/hhw/video/rftf.htm This has the ClickTV players laid out on an ordinary web page, not the usual blog service type pages. How can I set up an RSS feed for this ordinary web page? John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
Re: [videoblogging] ClickTV Vlog, now I need RSS.
well assuming your publishing process doesnt have a built in process to create a feed for you. you can always use a separate tool to create one. The idea would be to use such a tool to update your rss feed xml file and then upload that new file to your web site. When people request your feed they'll get that new version (assuming you've been updating it) which would have all the new episodes listed. There a several tools to do that. A quick google search pointed me at: http://www.rss-info.com/en_rsseditor.html The downside is you have to manually update the RSS file each time you add a new episode to your website. Not a big deal really I guess, but a big advantage to some of the blogging / content management tools out there is that they do that for you. - Dave On 4/8/07, johnleeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've reorganized my vlog with the ClickTV player. See it at: > > http://historichomeworks.com/hhw/video/rftf.htm > > This has the ClickTV players laid out on an ordinary web page, not the > usual blog service type pages. > > How can I set up an RSS feed for this ordinary web page? > > John > www.HistoricHomeWorks.com > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
[videoblogging] Couple retiring from NYC to Arizona... and taking cab.
I'm sorry, but this story SCREAMS for a video blogger to go with them, with a simple camera, laptop, and broadband card. They are retiring--think of the stories of their lives, things that happened to them in New York, thoughts of their children and grandchildren... and, of course, the cabbie's side. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/08/taxi.move.ap/index.html Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com
[videoblogging] Re: twittering posts
You know what I think is interesting about twitter? It's like the techie version of "myspace friends". Now some of you are probably going "What?!?!"but think about it, part of the appeal from what I hear anyway, is the number of people "following" you, much like the number of friends people try and get over in myspace Maybe it's good for people on the coast's or in cities where there is a bunch of activity, but in Cincinnati here, who wants to know that I am currently working on billing, or that today for lunch I got comic books?.I don't know, I probably will get on because everyone else is doing it. But if history repeats, me getting on twitter will be the death kneel for it ;-) Heath I got scared shitless today, if you wanna know why check my blog http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Verdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes Twitter. Ryanne and I were looking at the hummingbirds outside the > window here and she remembered your post. Those of you not on twitter you > might want to consider it. To me it's kind of like a big 24/7 irc chat (but > much easier to use + works on your phone). I looked at the Yahoo group stats > and it seems like the number of messages over the last week are down about > 50%. My guess is that much of the social/not-strictly-videoblogging messages > have moved over to Twitter. > > - Verdi > http://twitter.com/michaelverdi > > On 4/8/07, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hi all, > > > > i just wanted to share what i thought was an interesting occurrence. > > > > a few days ago, i started to getting some comments on one of my older > > apperceptions posts > > > > i figured that something was up that was making people to do that, but > > I did not know what > > > > not sure why, but i guessed that it was something ryanne had done > > > > turned out i was right. > > > > unknown to me at the time, she had twittered the post > > > > thanks ryanne! > > > > and thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts and asked about > > buddy. > > > > i'm sad to say he has yet to return home. > > > > but i am also happy to see him in that video, to recall the magic of > > that hummingbird and for all the great comments from friends. > > > > i've never been twitter-dotted before. > > > > have others had this happen? > > > > markus > > > > -- > > http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy > > http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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] >
Re: [videoblogging] Skype on Cell
On 4/8/07, Rex Pechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any windows mobile phone should work at least, others probably as well. > Skype makes a WM client for sure, as I have it (and it works well, even with > bluetooth) on my Treo 700w from Verizon. My phone doesn't have WiFi, but I > pay $40/mo for unlimited data. Rex, that $40/mo for unlimited data, can you use it with your laptop too? And is that 3G data? If so what sort of actual data rates do you get through it. I'm using Sprint Vision... but they don't let me use it with my laptop (I do anyway when I need it), I haven't used it with my laptop in a while, but over the years it has increased quite a bit in speed. Last time I used it I was getting about 15k a second. The big problem of course is latency. Anyway... I'm sick of Sprint... never liked them... pay them way to much... and still I have to "steal" data... I'm always looking for an opportunity to ditch them. Haven't heard very good things about Verizon either. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com > Rex > > On 4/7/07, jean-marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A skilled pickpocket got my cellphone in the metro in Paris. Iwas half > > hoping for this so now I can shop for a cell that would enable Skype. I > > see there are some services like "Eqo" that allow you to use skype as > > long as your computer is on, but I don't leave my computer on when I'm > > away. I want my cell to be independent of my computer. I might be > > vulnerable to wifi hotspots, but nothing's perfect. Any suggestions of > > what to buy & set up so I can use Skype on a cell? > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.rexpechler.com/ > Mobile: 650-207-1058 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hyperlinks in Video
I'm still hoping vPIP from Enric keeps evolving... there should be a way to make put a "wrapper" such as SMIL around pretty much any video file... or use flash to wrap flash... so you can pass vPIP info.. like a url... or even more advanced... specify and RSS feed when you call vPIP, and have vpip display the last three posts from that RSS feed (maybe even their thumbnails) and link directly to them. Ultimately if I understand the larger issues with this discussion we need some sort of distributed and transparent means for independant videobloggers to compete with youtube's recommendation engine. Which is to say when a video ends some sort of dynamicly generated screen should come up recommending like videos or other videos from your videoblog. I think vPIP could do this. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 4/7/07, Kath O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nick, sorry to hear you're having problems with the tutorials. the one > posted in the link below is a bit disjointed as I haven't uploaded the > images to go with them so it's harder to follow. maybe the word doc in the > zip file might be better as it has examples (this & an rtf version are > attached to the post/link below). these are for quicktime. basically it's > creating a text file/text track using the correct codes and reinserting it > back into the qt movie. once u've done it a couple of times it's pretty > straightforward but is fiddly the first couple of times as it's not a > one-step action. so using the other software mentioned in this thread is > probably a more straightforward method. I found Andreas' linkubator very > good also. (& for smil examples). but if u do perservere with the tutorial & > have problems let me know and I'll see if I can help out (others here would > be able to also) > > http://www.aliak.com/files/hyperlinks-doc.zip > > cheers > kath > > > On 4/4/07, Nick Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks I will try to reach Andreas... > > > > I tried working on these tutorials last night: > > > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html > > > > http://www.aliak.com/node/2439 > > > > and I couldn't get it to work.. Maybe, I'm just not that skilled yet. > > > > Nick > > > > > > > -- > http://www.aliak.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Wolf in the Hot Zone
While I do find the conversation about journalism interesting I find the most important point to be something entirely different. What rights do we have to be secure in our property... particularly our videos and other intellectual property. If the police can sopena Josh's video footage anytime they like like he was a survelience camera... then why not his computer... We could just go around and make a grand jury on "domestic terrorism"... and make anyone we think who we've suspected has talked to the ELF (environmental liberation front) or any group... and send them a sopoena for all their video, their computers, and any audio recordings... basically we can turn any individual in the U.S. into a tool of survielence for the CIA, FBI or any other government group and without due process. The governement was not looking for info specific to one crime, they wanted Josh's footage so they could identify people in it... basic survielence. Josh even offered to let them review the tapes in the presence of the court... but they obviously wanted his footage for purposes unrelated. Furthermore... on a state level Josh Wolf would have been protected by shield laws... the fact that this was a federal grand jury trumped his rights under the state. Basically it's a big issue of due process. I'm not even going to say wether Josh was right or wrong... but I both respect him and am tremendously grateful to him that he's driving the discussion and pressing the point. The bottom line is this... there has been plenty of understanding of due process when it comes to physical property. Our right to be secure in our physical property... say a diary... our mail. But as we move into intellectual property it gets stickier and stickier. Phone tapping was one thing... but now that our means of communication also become self archiving like email, video, photos, and audio... we have very important NEW considerations because now the governent can sopoena not just records of meta information like who you called... but increasingly records of what was said... in email, audio recordings, video footage, photos. The funny thing is more of this information is public on our blogs, video and photosharing sites, twiter... and all over. This alone gives the institutions of law enforcement and intelligence tremendous new powers and tools... I'm not so convinced... well... I'm downright opposed to the idea that they also need new liberties and are cutting through the "red tape" of due process to get at our personal data. In a world where the last two years of communications and even IM transcripts are in my gmail account... I'm VERY VERY concerned about how easy legislation is making it to dig into my personal information and for what reason. To me what josh wolf's case screams is we the citizens cannot be turned into survielence tools of the state. There has to be a much more well define and rigorous due process of how they can gain access to our private communications histories and for what reasons. If the police are given a warrant for your home it's given for a specific purpose... i.e. they can't be given a warrant to search for a gun and confiscate your entire computer... this is essentially what they did to josh wolf... they claimed they wanted his footage to look for information specifically related to a crime... he testified as to the content of that footage and he offered to let them review it in the presence of the court for said content. In refusing to comply they gave away their true and unspecified intentions. It's an extremely slippery slope. Peace, -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On 4/5/07, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an interesting area of discussion. While Josh says that the > idea of objectivity in journalism is the problem. He also states his > supreme interest is in the truth. I haven't seen these highly > abstract ideas thoroughly explained which leads people to different > conclusions on what Josh and others mean. > > I don't see journalism fulfilling objectivity -- having a faulty claim > to that idea. Objectivity requires peer review of source data. The > information gathered from news organizations is held mostly in secrecy > in the businesses which guarantees a significant lack of objectivity, > since the data can't be independently evaluated. There is a problem > of protecting sources -- but that can to a large extent be solved by > disguising names. It's more the need of news businesses to scoop each > other gain a edge by holding information secretive that's the problem. > > The problem is not objectivity in itself, but not adequately > fulfilling it's requirements. The danger I fear is a false > objectivity is attacked and thrown out, rather than corrected to offer > transparent information that can corrected toward objectivity. > > -- Enric > Cirne > http://cirne.com > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting artic
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hyperlinks in Video
regarding vpip, smil, rss and hyperlinks that recipe was tried last year on a prototype site i had tossed up for experimenting. http://vlogwall.com/vodcasts doesnt work great though. I have been trying to get Jeroen to have his flash player understand SMIL in addition to RSS and XSPF. that would be splendicious ;) sull On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still hoping vPIP from Enric keeps evolving... there should be a > way to make put a "wrapper" such as SMIL around pretty much any video > file... or use flash to wrap flash... so you can pass vPIP info.. > like a url... or even more advanced... specify and RSS feed when you > call vPIP, and have vpip display the last three posts from that RSS > feed (maybe even their thumbnails) and link directly to them. > > Ultimately if I understand the larger issues with this discussion we > need some sort of distributed and transparent means for independant > videobloggers to compete with youtube's recommendation engine. Which > is to say when a video ends some sort of dynamicly generated screen > should come up recommending like videos or other videos from your > videoblog. I think vPIP could do this. > > -Mike > mmeiser.com/blog > mefeedia.com > > > On 4/7/07, Kath O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi Nick, sorry to hear you're having problems with the tutorials. the > one > > posted in the link below is a bit disjointed as I haven't uploaded the > > images to go with them so it's harder to follow. maybe the word doc in > the > > zip file might be better as it has examples (this & an rtf version are > > attached to the post/link below). these are for quicktime. basically > it's > > creating a text file/text track using the correct codes and reinserting > it > > back into the qt movie. once u've done it a couple of times it's pretty > > straightforward but is fiddly the first couple of times as it's not a > > one-step action. so using the other software mentioned in this thread is > > probably a more straightforward method. I found Andreas' linkubator very > > good also. (& for smil examples). but if u do perservere with the > tutorial & > > have problems let me know and I'll see if I can help out (others here > would > > be able to also) > > > > http://www.aliak.com/files/hyperlinks-doc.zip > > > > cheers > > kath > > > > > > On 4/4/07, Nick Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks I will try to reach Andreas... > > > > > > I tried working on these tutorials last night: > > > > > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html > > > > > > http://www.aliak.com/node/2439 > > > > > > and I couldn't get it to work.. Maybe, I'm just not that skilled yet. > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.aliak.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] twittering posts
Den 09.04.2007 kl. 01:28 skrev Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > much easier to use + works on your phone). I looked at the Yahoo group > stats > and it seems like the number of messages over the last week are down > about > 50%. My guess is that much of the social/not-strictly-videoblogging > messages > have moved over to Twitter. Or it's been an Easter holiday week. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen http://www.solitude.dk/ >
