Re: [videoblogging] FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
That's cool, but, one thing is the article's author needs to do some checking and editing ... proposed by Democratic Commissioner Jay Alderstein ... it's John Adelstein ... Richard On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you cool kids see this? http://tinyurl.com/3c4lr4 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is the Bush appointee so usually lets business do whatever it wants. what's telling is that even he is fearful of having several companies being able to legally do whatever they want with the broadband network in secret. Good Regulation just means fair and clear rules. Given the anticompetitive nature of Comcast throttling traffic from a potential video competitor, Martin who in the past has been loathe to go beyond the FCC's current policy pushing open networks and other Republican lawmakers seemed galvanized to act. Indeed, an attack on the free markets might be too much for the FCC to ignore. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Pop17 Launches
Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show, Pop17 which launched today. The show is a a daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity. http://www.pop17.com You might think Im biased because Im close to Sarah but I truly think its an excellent show - neat topic matter, the production is really sweet and Sarah is exceptionally great on camera. Im expecting this show to become one of the biggest, most popular daily shows out there. Cross-posted to dembot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Stage6 flipped
I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen
...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] No Idea Which Camera to Get?
I've got an old Cannon ZR200 so I'm not exactly dead in the water, although it was damaged last year because of water... BUT I just mailed away my Xacti E1.. Very tramatic. I've been using it with a dead LCD screen for weeks. I'd like to buy another camera to use while I wait for the E1 to be returned. Hopefully with the same good fortune as Ryanne! But I'm not sure what I should get? I'm temped to buy another E1 and have two of them? We play alot in the water, rain, muck, etc. And my old camera had a water related accident. But the HD1000 is also tempting? Not sure what I should do. It would be nice to have the portability of the Xacti and the ability to have an external mic.. And 1080i ? Has anyone tried the Xacti HD1000? Thanks -Chris http://www.TheRamblingLoggerhead.com
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's cool, but, one thing is the article's author needs to do some checking and editing ... proposed by Democratic Commissioner Jay Alderstein ... it's John Adelstein hey Richard-- I know you have been following the FCC work its way through Net Neutrality issues, what is your take on the current big picture? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcasts Network Managment
Greetings, This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the internet remain roughly as it is now, in terms of people being able to compete 'fairly', and these should override the interests of a greedy minority. meanwhile in the UK the goverment has announced a review of UK broadband in the, to see who will be providing the necessary funding to provide extra bandwidth even faster connections to peoples homes. Still the issue gets a bit confused, because making the connection to peoples doors faster, is only going to increase bottlenecks elsewhere in the network, so they should probably stop salivating over things like fibre-optic cables straight to peoples computers 100MBit connections or whatever, and concentrate on there actually being enough capacity elsewherefor people to be able to use their current speeds at a sustained rate. Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you cool kids see this? http://tinyurl.com/3c4lr4 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is the Bush appointee so usually lets business do whatever it wants. what's telling is that even he is fearful of having several companies being able to legally do whatever they want with the broadband network in secret. Good Regulation just means fair and clear rules. Given the anticompetitive nature of Comcast throttling traffic from a potential video competitor, Martin who in the past has been loathe to go beyond the FCC's current policy pushing open networks and other Republican lawmakers seemed galvanized to act. Indeed, an attack on the free markets might be too much for the FCC to ignore. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen
Tell them I say Howdy and to please return my Kinks records! On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Unfortunate. Eggs in Baskets, people. Have redundant copies of your material on the net or at least on local storage. Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Recording users movements
I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how many sites have this kind of technology installed? i had no idea you could track user's movements like this. this is like crack for the stat whores. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Yeah. There are threads appearing on stage6 forums about where people are moving to, the scramble has begun. eg: http://www.stage6.com/forum/712/19420/ Things that would have been attractive about stage6 were quality, res filesize limits, existing familiarity with Divx format and/or having hardware that played it. Also as divx files are avi, and avi is still a popular format for certain sections of users, divx may have been favoured for offline playability on Windows. So there are opportunities for video hosts to win these sorts of potential content creator users over. If you are a video host who has been testing higher res h264-based flash playback privately, now might be a good time to whack it out as an alpha or beta whilst the world of 'who does high quality best' is in shift following the disappearance of stage6. Or highlighting any existing high-res, long clip, divx compatibility or other attractive features also makes sense. I guess a few sites support the uploading of divx, do any others make use of the divx stuff for embedded video playback of this stuff in browser? Unfortunately it sounds like some of stage6's features also made it a more attractive destination for people pirating material in full length at high quality in a format some really prefer, so they had quite a lot of problems with this. I also just read that there was some sort of server compromise earlier this year, some defacement and compromise of user account details. As usual I probably make the mistake of being a bit too net vlog centric when criticising DivX and writing them off. Stage6 ended up being a giant pain in the ass for them, and its unclear if the bad will generated by the closing of stage6 will mean the whole episode did more harm than good in the end. Meanwhile they make their mooney by doing things with hardware player companies. I still think h264 will squeeze them here over time, but as DivX playback support has recently been added to some games consoles, the brand is still alive enough for companies to fork out for certification, and so people will still create convert to that format, and it has a future. Plus if they are intending to do a new DivX that uses stuff from h264, they could survive longterm. I wonder if DivX will look to other areas to nurture legitimate uses for DivX as a format that people obtain video in, or whether they will just give up on that side of things. Before stage6 existed I used to say they needed more legit divx content, now we've come full circle and they dont want to pay the large costs to do that anymore, and I dont know how easy it will be for them to get many 3rd parties to use their format. Still despite all my years of hope regarding h264, theres a long way to go for simplifying the computer video format muddle, not so clearcut as the recently concluded blueray vs hd-dvd battle. I can make it sound like h264 is god by mentioning its use in both those formats, but from what I understand most HD titles on disc have used VC1 the Microsoft codec, rather than h264, although both are supported by blueray hddvd players. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunate. Eggs in Baskets, people. Have redundant copies of your material on the net or at least on local storage. Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt.
Re: [videoblogging] Recording users movements
A couple years ago I used a program that would make a heat overlay on the page to show what/where the visitor was doing. Basically, I found out that they pressed play alot. And pressed on my archive page second-most. I eventually took it off; I forget the name of the program/site, but could probably find it pretty easily if interested. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how many sites have this kind of technology installed? i had no idea you could track user's movements like this. this is like crack for the stat whores. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: sanyo xacti e1 LCD Screen issue
on the upside of their shop looking like it's 1973... the people there were super friendly, returned my phone calls, hell, the even remembered me it wasn't like some insane call center warehouse tech repair place. and then sanyo replaced my camera. so i give them props even though it took too long. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:16 PM, influxxmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the OFFICIAL repair shop? Wow, i'd say thats a good enough reason not to purchase equipment from Sanyo. No Xacti in my future thats for sure... adam By the way, the official Sanyo repair shop in the US is http://www.skokieservice.com/. one of our cameras is currently there being fixed. (isnt the picture crazy) by the way, here's a short video of the Xacti designer talking about the camera: -- http://RyanIsHungry.com 508.380.2211 -- Personal: http://RyanEdit.com Current: http://ShowInaBox.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/ryanne AIM: VideoRodeo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
I was just reading about a drupal module that works with ClickHeat library, sounds similar functionality, could it be that you used? http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html http://drupal.org/project/click_heatmap Its a shame it cant tell you if the user wanted to be in cotrol and press the play button, or if theyd rather it started automatically and saved them the trouble. Still I suppose it would be depressing to see a heatmap where people are rushing for the pause or stop button because an non-explicitly instigated noise started eminating from their machine, so aut- start off is a safer bet? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple years ago I used a program that would make a heat overlay on the page to show what/where the visitor was doing. Basically, I found out that they pressed play alot. And pressed on my archive page second-most. I eventually took it off; I forget the name of the program/site, but could probably find it pretty easily if interested. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how many sites have this kind of technology installed? i had no idea you could track user's movements like this. this is like crack for the stat whores. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
That looks like it! Maybe my site visitor was reaching for the pause/stop button, but the video controls are so close together that the heatmap made it look like they were pressing play:) On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading about a drupal module that works with ClickHeat library, sounds similar functionality, could it be that you used? http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html http://drupal.org/project/click_heatmap Its a shame it cant tell you if the user wanted to be in cotrol and press the play button, or if theyd rather it started automatically and saved them the trouble. Still I suppose it would be depressing to see a heatmap where people are rushing for the pause or stop button because an non-explicitly instigated noise started eminating from their machine, so aut- start off is a safer bet? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple years ago I used a program that would make a heat overlay on the page to show what/where the visitor was doing. Basically, I found out that they pressed play alot. And pressed on my archive page second-most. I eventually took it off; I forget the name of the program/site, but could probably find it pretty easily if interested. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how many sites have this kind of technology installed? i had no idea you could track user's movements like this. this is like crack for the stat whores. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. this is a good point. Comcast says their network management is about handling traffic, when it may just be a further attempt to stop file sharing. At the recent FCC hearing, one speaker had a good summary: http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-uses-hacker-techniques-080225/ One of the most succinct criticisms of Comcast's actions came from Prof. David Reed, of MIT's Media Lab, who suggested that any ISP that didn't follow the standard solutions evolved over the last 30 years should not advertise themselves as an Internet provider, but instead as a company offering selective access to portions of the net only, a description many of Comcast's customers will probably agree with. I would love to know what conversations the ISP's and media companies are having, but these are are behind closed doors in private companies. Remember that Time/Warner, one of the largest ISP's in the US, is also one of the biggest media companies (owning HBO, CNN, etc). It's hard to imagine that these mutual interests won't start crossing into each other. If halting file sharing of copyright infringement is the goal, then banning certain technologies isn't the answer. This is like banning certain cars on the highway because you think some people are using these cars to transport drugs. As we all know, media companies could go a long way to avoiding file sharing of copyright material if they just offered DRM-free media at a fair cost. It'd have to be easily available and play across platforms. if not, its just another war against drugs...an arms race where no one wins. Currently, the media companies are creating the environment for file sharing to thrive. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser
This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Do you remember how DIVX rental DVD's wanted to compete with retail DVD market? It was back in 1999 I believe. The premise was that you buy a DIVX DVD for like $5 and it expires in couple of days without having to return the disc. It required a special DIVX DVD player though. Whoever bought such players apparently lost, just like the ones who uploaded lots of videos to DIVX. So, it is, after all a trust thing. Seems like DIVX was cursed from the first day it was invented or something. It a shame, so much money wasted... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcasts Network Managment
Yes. I think the ISPs have so far targetted peer2peer for technical reasons - it is eating a large chunk of bandwidth. It also exposes the weaknesses in their networks, one of which is that generally they werent designed for people to be continuously uploading. Technical reasons and old-fashioned views about how much people would be consuming rather than creating or sharing were largely responsible, and we see ever larger gap between download and upload speeds on broadband. And the networks in general are oversold, there isnt the capacity for all users to be using their maximum theoretical upload download rates. So for this and a few otehr technical reasons, along with the quantity size of files being shared, and number of active connections, makes it an attractive target. If they are looking at the quality of service on their network, it is one of the things that will show up as a genuine cause of the problem, so they tackle it for that reason. But its true that its also an easier target because a huge proportion of that traffic is 'piracy'. However just when theyve started to 'traffic manage' it, there are legit uses of high-bandwidth peer2peer appearing, eg Joost and the BBCs iPlayer. Last year some ISPs complained to the BBC if I remember correctly, about what a large user of resources this BBC thing was going to be. I said at the time that they did have a point, if BBC are shifting cost of having large server farms for downloading via traditional means, by shifting to peer2peer, but this just passes the bandwidth problems onto ISPs and they pass it onto users, what sort of solution is that? I think I support peer2peer as a technology, especially if the world of tomorrow features more disruption to networks servers due to energy problems or whatever. So for me the real solution will be to improve the networks, whatever that takes, including government involvement of one sort or another. As for the war on piracy, it has been entering a new phase on the net in recent years. There is still not enough content available for legit consumption on the net, DRM is not dead yet, but there is at least now some content. Just as happened with music, this will probably lead to them ramping up the war a notch, targetting epople in new ways. They can never eliminate piracy but the aim is probably just to ensure their overall business model survives. This does not require a complete elimination of piracy, only that the piracy is too difficult or risky for the majority of people to do. I think they will achieve that. Whatever propaganda we hear, they know that a lot of the piracted material cannot be equated to lost revenue, because even if piracy options were unavailable,the person may not want the thing enough to pay for it. Price, yes, price is so very important. They will learn where to set the bar, do their sums to help them decide whether they want fewer customers paying more, or whether they can really scale things up and come to terms with the relative loss of profit margin per item. Ever since large artists first released albums on the net, I was unimpressed to see prices so similar to the physical goods, considering the radically lower cost of manufaturing distribution. Meanwhile at the other end of things, the vast majority of people creating stuff are still stuck with a price they have little control over - free. Ive seen no big conversations here about charging for content, the assumption that users wont want to pay, thaat there is so much competition at 0 price that you cant charge, seems well established for most. So we are stuck in a world of relying on adverts or donations, which both appear to take skills not everyone has, to make work. Stories with really huge $ numbers contrasting with the really low $ reality most seem to encounter. Micropayments, oh where art thou, I miss you but I lost hope in you, will you ever become a working reality? Old media is not dead. They get to catchup with the individuals who got a headstart. They can scale enough to make profit. So can individuals find a way to harness a collective scale, or will we continue to see indie content creators very much resembling other kinds of small business, where it can be posible to survive and do ok, with a lot of sustained hard work, and only a minority get a level of success that makes things more sustainable? The net is many nets, the physical one has some problems, it seems Im interested in whether the human net has other sorts of bottlenecks or barriers to progress to worry about? Personally I want to expand our collaborative bandwidth but I havent a clue how. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some
[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped
Confusingly, that was a completely different DIVX, unrelated in technology or company to the DivX format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you remember how DIVX rental DVD's wanted to compete with retail DVD market? It was back in 1999 I believe. The premise was that you buy a DIVX DVD for like $5 and it expires in couple of days without having to return the disc. It required a special DIVX DVD player though. Whoever bought such players apparently lost, just like the ones who uploaded lots of videos to DIVX. So, it is, after all a trust thing. Seems like DIVX was cursed from the first day it was invented or something. It a shame, so much money wasted... Renat --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last year, who make h264 encoder decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a waste! And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within 5 years. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It just seems so abrupt. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov innomind@ wrote: Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I stayed away from it. Renat . -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
While I can see why incredibly useful information could come from this, it creeps me out. It's still freaky to me that I can see where people came FROM when they come to my site. And even though it looks like this tool wouldn't really reveal anything private, it still gives me pause - and would probably be a negative in terms of my feelings about a site that I knew was using it. But then I'm obviously, by choice, not in the keep people from being bored business, so I'm not all that enticed by the benefits to begin with. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Recording users movements
Hey Jay, This is part of the reason that I was arguing before that the vPIP share code should be an iframe. And not a collection of script's and other kinds of code. For security and privacy reasons, alot of publishers have a policy of not allowing code from anyone unless it is an iframe. (Well, not unless you have some kind of legal agreement between you and them where you can be held legally liable.) The only reasons things like embed and object tags are popular as video share code right now, is because of YouTube. And the only reason YouTube uses that is because of MySpace. (MySpace blocked iframe's, but allowed embed's.) And, AFAIK, the only reason MySpace blocked usage of iframe's, but allowed embed's, was to prevent people from easily putting good advertising code on MySpace. IMO, using iframe's as share code is much better, and will make it more likely that you videos will get embedded on other sites especially the sites that are run by big companies. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how many sites have this kind of technology installed? i had no idea you could track user's movements like this. this is like crack for the stat whores. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
I've used tools like Crazy Egg -- http://crazyegg.com/ -- before to see the effectiveness of home pages before. And to help tweak the site in terms of usability. But It does do user tracking. But the info can be useful. BUT... As a personal policy just assume any site you go on it completely tracking you. If you don't trust them with something, then don't do anything that gives them that info. They can promise you the world... but in the end, they could always lie. Also... in a big company... there's thousands of people there. How is one person suppose to guarantee you the actions of others. For example I assume Google is reading all my e-mail in my GMail account and I don't use GMail for things I don't want Google to read. See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I can see why incredibly useful information could come from this, it creeps me out. It's still freaky to me that I can see where people came FROM when they come to my site. And even though it looks like this tool wouldn't really reveal anything private, it still gives me pause - and would probably be a negative in terms of my feelings about a site that I knew was using it. i agree. I wonder how many sites are actually tracking user's movements. and what kind of ethics are involved that encourage site owners to be transparent that this info is being captured. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Jay dedman wrote: i agree. I wonder how many sites are actually tracking user's movements. and what kind of ethics are involved that encourage site owners to be transparent that this info is being captured. makes me wonder i recorded a video comment live on blip the other day two takes. how do i really know they threw the first one away? maybe hudack keeps them in a secret vault ;) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Fwd: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stage6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM Subject: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] View this email in your web browser I'm Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I'm writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you'll be able to view and download videos until Thursday. I know this news will come as a shock and disappointment to many Stage6 users, and I'd like to take a few moments to explain the reasons behind our decision. We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Stage6 began as an experiment, and we always knew there was a chance that it might not succeed. In many ways, though, the service did succeed, beyond even our own initial expectations. Stage6 became very popular very quickly. We helped gain exposure for some talented filmmakers who brought great videos to the attention of an engaged community. We helped prove that it's possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet. And we helped broaden the Internet video experience by offering content that is compatible with DVD players, mobile devices and other products beyond the PC. So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it's really as simple as that. Now, why didn't we think of that before we decided to create Stage6 in the first place, you may ask? That's a good question. When we first created Stage6, there was a clear need for a service that would offer a true high-quality video experience online because other video destinations on the Internet simply weren't providing that to users. A gap existed, and Stage6 arrived to fill it. As Stage6 grew quickly and dramatically (accompanied by an explosion of other sites delivering high-quality video), it became clear that operating the service as a part of the larger DivX business no longer made sense. We couldn't continue to run Stage6 and focus on our broader strategy to make it possible for anyone to enjoy high-quality video on any device. So, in July of last year we announced that we were kicking off an effort to explore strategic alternatives for Stage6, which is a fancy way of saying we decided we would either have to sell it, spin it out into a private company or shut it down. I won't (and can't, really) go into too much detail on those first two options other than to say that we tried really hard to find a way to keep Stage6 alive, either as its own private entity or by selling it to another company. Ultimately neither of those two scenarios was possible, and we made the hard decision to turn the lights off and cease operation of the service. So that's where we are today. After February 28, Stage6 will cease to exist as an online destination. But the larger DivX universe will continue to thrive. Every day new DivX Certified devices arrive on the market making it easy to move video beyond the PC. Products powered by DivX Connected, our new initiative that lets users stream video, photos, music and Internet services from the PC to the TV, are hitting retail outlets. We remain committed to empowering content creators to deliver high-quality video to a wide audience, and we'll continue to offer services that will make it easy to find videos online in the DivX format. It's been a wild ride, and none of it would have been possible without the support of our users. Thank you for making Stage6 everything that it was. --Tom Unsubscribe | Profile Center You received this email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent by: DivX 4780 Eastgate Mall, San Diego, CA 92121, USA Copyright (c) 2008 DivX, Inc. All rights reserved. DivX(R), Stage6™, DivX Connected™ and related logos are registered trademarks of DivX, Inc -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST -
Re: [videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/ The site is down due to heavy usage. :( -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash)
[videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements
DISCLAIMER: Whilst you are reading this post, my computer is pretending it knows what you are thinking, and may use this data to sell you exclusive deserts in future. Well since the web existed most servers keep logs which offer a lot of detail about what users are looking at. There isnt a really large difference between the urls you visit being logged, and where you are clicking with the mouse, its the same sort of data. Personally I dont think site owners should need a disclaimer, any site you ever visit you should assume is logging your activity on that particular site. Or if there is a line to be drawn, Im not sure where it is. Are you going to ask for people who use google analytics to gather stats? What about video players that know how much of a video you've watched? Certainly if it is a site that you are contributing to, eg logging onto to post, then at some point you've accepted terms conditions they hopefully have a privacy policy. Assume the data they collect can be everything they can possibly ascertain from your interactions with the site, and worry instead about their policies for what they actually do with that data? There are good intentions behind many site users trying to learn more about their user behaviour, including trying to make the site a better experience. When data is used for certain sorts of marketing or whatever, and it annoys people, there is quite rightly often a big stink. Facebook had to back down over their beacon software, which amoungst other issues seemed to have unintended consequences of publically exposing peoples christmas shopping. So Im primarily worried about data that people or companies might do something dumb with, or exploit in unpleasant and intrusive ways. The heatmap doesnt scare me, whereas sometimes when trawling through server logs at work I am overcome with the scary picture it reveals about peoples lives interests. I am a computer techie and in general have access to scary amounts of data, without even trying. Once some idiot at work installed a keylogger on his own machine and then logged things that I had to end up reading and really wish I hadnt. My ultimate fear is if people who believe in purges ever get into power. We've all been born in an era where technology of one sort or another, has scary potential power. I still shake my head every day when I think about Nuclear bombs. I guess humans must be slightly saner than I give them credit for, to have avoided dropping lots of nukes for so long. Lets hope the same proves true of computers and their data-collecting analysing capabilities. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I can see why incredibly useful information could come from this, it creeps me out. It's still freaky to me that I can see where people came FROM when they come to my site. And even though it looks like this tool wouldn't really reveal anything private, it still gives me pause - and would probably be a negative in terms of my feelings about a site that I knew was using it. i agree. I wonder how many sites are actually tracking user's movements. and what kind of ethics are involved that encourage site owners to be transparent that this info is being captured. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the internet remain roughly as it is now, in terms of people being able to compete 'fairly', and these should override the interests of a greedy minority. Now if THE RIAA could just simply take the hint, life would be grand! Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. If ISPs here in the States were allowed this kind of power, that would be grounds for censorship, which would go against the very fabric of Free Speech (Among other things). The EFF would fight that vehemently (As they should). Just my opinion though Cheers -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash)
Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. this is a good point. Comcast says their network management is about handling traffic, when it may just be a further attempt to stop file sharing. At the recent FCC hearing, one speaker had a good summary: http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-uses-hacker-techniques-080225/ I went to the FCC hearing link given on the site above and have downloaded the text link to the source RealVideo file. When traffic improves on the Internet later on (And when I'm not busy doing anything) later tonight, I'll connect to the source download it with SUPER and see about posting it somewhere else more reliable than the FCC's own website. If someone beats me to it, lemme know. :) Cheers :) -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash)
Re: [videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser
I saw it. But that's been around for a while. I remember seeing it a number of years ago. Still funny though. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ 2008/2/26 Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/ The site is down due to heavy usage. :( -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash)
Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency
Disgusting. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/ There was huge turnout at today's public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens arrived to speak out on the importance of an open Internet. Many took the day off from work standing outside in the Boston cold to see the FCC Commissioners. But when they reach the door, they're told they couldn't come in. .. Comcast or someone who really, really likes Comcast evidently bused in its own crowd. These seat-warmers, were paid to fill the room, a move that kept others from taking part. It turns out that Comcast admits they paid people to fill seats: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/26/Comcast-FCC-Hearing-Strategy Comcast spokewoman Jennifer Khoury said the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing. Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: they filled many of the seats at the meeting, according to eyewitnesses. As a result, scores of Comcast critics and other members of the public were denied entry because the room filled up well before the beginning of the hearing. Can't these companies just be open about what they want and convince people honestly? One this is clear: Comcast wants http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/15/comcasts-closed-internet/the former to dictate which Web sites and services go fast, slow or don't load at all. And they're backed by the other would-be gatekeepers http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-cable-and-telcos-side-with-comcast-in-fcc-bittorrent-dispute.htmlat ATT, Verizon and Time Warner. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Not an example of transparency
lol. pretty smart. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disgusting. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/ There was huge turnout at today's public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens arrived to speak out on the importance of an open Internet. Many took the day off from work — standing outside in the Boston cold — to see the FCC Commissioners. But when they reach the door, they're told they couldn't come in. .. Comcast — or someone who really, really likes Comcast — evidently bused in its own crowd. These seat-warmers, were paid to fill the room, a move that kept others from taking part. It turns out that Comcast admits they paid people to fill seats: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/26/Comcast-FCC-Hearing-Strategy Comcast spokewoman Jennifer Khoury said the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing. Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: they filled many of the seats at the meeting, according to eyewitnesses. As a result, scores of Comcast critics and other members of the public were denied entry because the room filled up well before the beginning of the hearing. Can't these companies just be open about what they want and convince people honestly? One this is clear: Comcast wants http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/15/comcasts-closed-internet/the former — to dictate which Web sites and services go fast, slow or don't load at all. And they're backed by the other would-be gatekeepers http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-cable-and-telcos-side-with-comcast-in-fcc-bittorrent-dispute.htmlat ATT, Verizon and Time Warner. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Not an example of transparency
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol. pretty smart. so is rigging elections. i know the Kenyans have been laughing for over a month now. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Fwd: [j2000] Cameraman in Zurich
my alumnus from columbia -- Forwarded message -- From: jordan kronick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a great documentary cameraman for hire in Zurich? Thanks so much, Jordan Office: 212-456-5459 Mobile: 646-232-6485 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen
i'm so impressed to know such fancy pants! On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Not an example of transparency
Here's an audio clip of one of the guys paid by Comcast to fill up seats at the FCC hearing: http://www.freepress.net/docs/paid_to_hold_seat.mp3 (from http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/02/comcast-secretly-pays-people-to-fill-seats-at-fcc-hearing/) Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency
that's a lot of laughing On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol. pretty smart. so is rigging elections. i know the Kenyans have been laughing for over a month now. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28
Tsk, and I'd just started using as an extra outlet. http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:punkcast It wasn't a bad interface at all. Nice combination of browse/preview/download. It did seem they were well liable for some copyright suings over some of the content there, tho. They needed the big pockets, no doubt. I haven't a lot of takers for my DivX's but I think, as a music videocaster at least, it's def worth adding as a component of one's output - it's the lingua franca of video P2P and can be compiled on data dvd's which will back on many DVD players. Now hmm, where to shift them to? My site, archive.org, or blip? joly At 04:31 PM 2/26/2008, Patrick Cook wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Stage6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM Subject: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28 --- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
