Re: [videoblogging] Semanal: completed
2008/12/17 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com: I want to give a big shout out to everyone who stuck with http://semanal.org/. A dedicated group of folks posted a video per week for a YEAR. Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Semanal: completed
Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( haha you still can. i may post some videos on weeks where I shot video, but never posted. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Re: Semanal: completed
I still have the final three weeks videos to post too. It was good fun. Everyone still good to go for 2009? Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.car...@... wrote: 2008/12/17 Jay dedman jay.ded...@...: I want to give a big shout out to everyone who stuck with http://semanal.org/. A dedicated group of folks posted a video per week for a YEAR. Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( Frank.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Semanal: completed
I don't think I'll do it for 2009, but I will still be posting video! Just probably at my slightly slower, whenever it tickles my fancy rate. David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Mike Moon mgm...@yahoo.com wrote: I still have the final three weeks videos to post too. It was good fun. Everyone still good to go for 2009? Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Frank Carver frank.car...@... wrote: 2008/12/17 Jay dedman jay.ded...@...: I want to give a big shout out to everyone who stuck with http://semanal.org/. A dedicated group of folks posted a video per week for a YEAR. Yikes! is it over? I thought we had until the end of the year, and I still have a few weeks of videos to catch up with. I was planning to do a bunch of videos over the next week or so and slide them in under the bar :( Frank. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh later
Hi all, So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More info here: http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ I hope this isn't spam. I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream and Seemic Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play with this stuff. Cheers Mike
RE: [videoblogging] Semanal: completed
I also uploaded 54 videos tagged with the Semanal08 in my youtube channel didnt know 52 was the end :0 JohnDkar http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh later
You forgot to mention Harrison Ford, Gordon Brown, etc. You are the celebrity videoblogger. I have questions: 1) I'm interested why after a)the success of The Fast Runner and b) Kapadia's own films in which he cast Indians as Indians, he cast Michelle Yeoh as an Inuit woman in Svalbard. Surely this was a great opportunity for an unknown Inuit actress? 2) Why did they change the name of the original short story from True North (a much better name) to Far North which doesn't mean anything? 3) Kapadia seems pretty cool - he started out making documentary shorts by himself about the world around him, then went to the Royal College of Art and made bigger shorts - and now he's still making shorts (though I haven't seen them) even though he's a working feature film director. Why does he do it? To keep practicing his art when he's not working on features? If so, why not use little cameras and work on his own like he used to, rather than spend lots of money on a crew - share the films online as part of an ongoing body of work, and have a direct connection with his audience? There's a whole new generation of filmmakers here who are making ongoing documentaries about the world around them and connecting directly. Or does he feel that as a well-known director, he doesn't have an interest in sharing his work this way? 4) Sean Bean. Why? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 5:20 AM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hi all, So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More info here: http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ I hope this isn't spam. I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream and Seemic Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play with this stuff. Cheers Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh later
Killer questions from both you and Jackson. I'll try and get screeners to you guys. Far North is a great movie :) Celebrity smeblity - I'm just a hack and you know it. Mike On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: You forgot to mention Harrison Ford, Gordon Brown, etc. You are the celebrity videoblogger. I have questions: 1) I'm interested why after a)the success of The Fast Runner and b) Kapadia's own films in which he cast Indians as Indians, he cast Michelle Yeoh as an Inuit woman in Svalbard. Surely this was a great opportunity for an unknown Inuit actress? 2) Why did they change the name of the original short story from True North (a much better name) to Far North which doesn't mean anything? 3) Kapadia seems pretty cool - he started out making documentary shorts by himself about the world around him, then went to the Royal College of Art and made bigger shorts - and now he's still making shorts (though I haven't seen them) even though he's a working feature film director. Why does he do it? To keep practicing his art when he's not working on features? If so, why not use little cameras and work on his own like he used to, rather than spend lots of money on a crew - share the films online as part of an ongoing body of work, and have a direct connection with his audience? There's a whole new generation of filmmakers here who are making ongoing documentaries about the world around them and connecting directly. Or does he feel that as a well-known director, he doesn't have an interest in sharing his work this way? 4) Sean Bean. Why? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 5:20 AM, mikeysizemore wrote: Hi all, So I mess around with pointing video cameras at interesting people from time to time (for my sins I was the idiot who got Spielberg Lucas on Seesmic earlier in the year). Later today I'm interviewing Michelle Yeoh and director Asif Kapadia - I'll be pointing my trusty HG10 at them, but we're sourcing questions via Twitter. As usual with these things it was all very last minute, but if anyone on this list wants to pose a question in the next three hours or so just ask it on Twitter and add the hashtag #FarN at the end so we can track it. More info here: http://www.farnorththefilm.com/2008/12/help-us-interview-michelle-asif/ I hope this isn't spam. I'm hoping to cut the footage with questions from the Twitter stream and Seemic Phreadz etc. No idea how it'll turn out, but fun to play with this stuff. Cheers Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Mike Atherton Saying the wrong thing since 1972 Writer | Tech Hipster | 9 Kinds of Wrong http://www.sizemore.co.uk http://twitter.com/sizemore
Re: [videoblogging] How can I make a .jpeg frame to illustrate what video is about?
Thanks Jay, just what I needed, Ed. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Ed edd666...@gmail.comedd66%40gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use window movie maker to prepare videos to post on youtube and other such sites. When I upload the videos, certain sites ask me to give them a jpeg frame to illustrate what the video is about. I would like to create a frame independent of the video that I could offer the site, or take a frame out of the finished video to use for this purpose. Can someone please tell me how to create a jpeg with text on it for this purpose and also to take a frame out of the movie file and make a jpeg out of it. OK, thanks in advance for all your help. Ed. go oldschool. here's how to take a screenshot on Windows: http://www.freevlog.org/2008/06/21/5-take-a-screenshot-of-your-video-windows/ Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Hi everyone: The achillies heel of not being able to sticky your favorite posts as if you the admin of a message board or mark them as a favorite has held true in ALL forms of blogging (Be it text, audio or video). Heck, I can still remember when I first posted my favorite personal rendition of Twas The Night Before Christmas. I've been reposting it EVERY YEAR ever since (And plan on doing it again this year on my AS MY WORLD TURNS blog). In fact, I may do something I hadn't even done with it before. That is to MAKE A VIDEO OF IT post it on my YouTube channel. That said (And basically put), about THE ONLY way to prevent your favorite posts from being forgotten is to REPOST them using the CURRENT date. That's THE ONLY way you can solve that problem. As for the lack of themes, well all I can say is that the creator of the theme needs to be compensated SOMEHOW (Especially during these economic hard times). It's just a fact of life. Hope this helps Just my opinion Cheers Pat From: Heath Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 08:56 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I have been doing a lot of thinking as I come close to my 3 year mark of vlogging. From the outset of vlogging almost everyone settled on the blog format for their site. And I think at that time it worked. However, now.I am not so sure. I mean every time you make a video and post, that video moves down the list and soon it's off your homepage in some cases, never to be seen again. Now for some, maybe that is no big deal, but.I think some of us all make a few videos that we are especially proud of, and in the current blog/vlog format, there is no easy way (I know we can sticky but if you sticky more than a couple no one will ever see your new content on your site) to show off those posts. It seems to me that there is a huge lack in the number of themes that take advatage of vlogging. I mean with the explosion of online video, you would think we would have more, but I only know of a small handfull and most of those you have to pay for. I am just curious as to what you all think? I just don't knowI mean part of me likes the blog/vlog format as it is, but I find myself longing for a different way to show off my video's moreso the ones that I want to showcase or ones that I am fond of...I mean I could revlog but So what do you all like and dislike about the current vlog format? What would you like to see? Just curious... Heath http://heathparks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Hello, Actually in wordpress you can make a post stick at the top of the list like a featured post. In wordpress 7.0 it's as simple as clicking 'quick edit' on your featured post of choice, then clicking 'make this post sticky'. After updating that will now be your first post seen on your homepage. Krystian http://KMOGVIDEO.net (redesign launching in less than a week). --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pat Cook patsbl...@... wrote: Hi everyone: The achillies heel of not being able to sticky your favorite posts as if you the admin of a message board or mark them as a favorite has held true in ALL forms of blogging (Be it text, audio or video). Heck, I can still remember when I first posted my favorite personal rendition of Twas The Night Before Christmas. I've been reposting it EVERY YEAR ever since (And plan on doing it again this year on my AS MY WORLD TURNS blog). In fact, I may do something I hadn't even done with it before. That is to MAKE A VIDEO OF IT post it on my YouTube channel. That said (And basically put), about THE ONLY way to prevent your favorite posts from being forgotten is to REPOST them using the CURRENT date. That's THE ONLY way you can solve that problem. As for the lack of themes, well all I can say is that the creator of the theme needs to be compensated SOMEHOW (Especially during these economic hard times). It's just a fact of life. Hope this helps Just my opinion Cheers Pat From: Heath Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 08:56 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I have been doing a lot of thinking as I come close to my 3 year mark of vlogging. From the outset of vlogging almost everyone settled on the blog format for their site. And I think at that time it worked. However, now.I am not so sure. I mean every time you make a video and post, that video moves down the list and soon it's off your homepage in some cases, never to be seen again. Now for some, maybe that is no big deal, but.I think some of us all make a few videos that we are especially proud of, and in the current blog/vlog format, there is no easy way (I know we can sticky but if you sticky more than a couple no one will ever see your new content on your site) to show off those posts. It seems to me that there is a huge lack in the number of themes that take advatage of vlogging. I mean with the explosion of online video, you would think we would have more, but I only know of a small handfull and most of those you have to pay for. I am just curious as to what you all think? I just don't knowI mean part of me likes the blog/vlog format as it is, but I find myself longing for a different way to show off my video's moreso the ones that I want to showcase or ones that I am fond of...I mean I could revlog but So what do you all like and dislike about the current vlog format? What would you like to see? Just curious... Heath http://heathparks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Hi everyone: A webring ia bout THE ONLY thing we haven't done (Dare I say YET?). Cheers Pat From: Jay dedman Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:50 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? it would be a webring which isnt a bad thing. jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
Hmm. Checking out Disk Warrior right now. Looks good. Thanks. Yup I have 3 drives and I am still spooked. Irene Duma Strange Duck Media Web Design and Creative Marketing Blogging easy computer tips http://www.strangeduck.com/blog and comedy at http://www.bittertonic.com St. John¹s Address: 12 Allan Square St. John's, NL A1C 4A8 T. 709-726-6178 C.709-699-8205 From: Michael Verdi michaelve...@gmail.com Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:16:03 -0600 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing Yeah, hard drives. Over the years I've lost a pretty good amount of things. A couple of weeks ago I had FCP just randomly freeze while capturing video and it messed my drive up. I had to use the special scavenge mode in Disk Warrior to fix it. So now I have a NewerTech mirrored raid so everything is written to two drives at once. Then if one drive fails you can replace it while still having access to everything on the other drive. But that still doesn't help if you have something happen like my FCP weirdness a couple of weeks ago. So I have yet another drive that backs up my computer and my raid using Time Machine. Now I'm covered unless something bad happens right here at my desk. But if that happens, I may have more to worry about than hard drives. - Verdi On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Irene Duma ir...@strangeduck.com mailto:irene%40strangeduck.com wrote: Argh. My kingdom for the perfect harddrive. I had had no problem with Lacie¹s until this 1TB beast. It hasn¹t died, but crashes my Finder all the time. Google searches showed that Lacie¹s cause many crashes. Not good. I keep it off till I do a major backup, then turn it off immediately after. I have 2 other drives, one 4 years old, that works flawlessly. Gtech had been recommended to me by someone else before. I will look at Drobo next... Thanks. FWIW at Smashface we had a G-Tech 160gb drive that died after only a few weeks - RMA'd for a replacement drive that ended up being flaky, too. They are good looking drives, but I'm not too keen on them. If you're looking for something a little more robust, flexible, etc take a look at Drobo: http://drobo.com/Products/drobo.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
One more thing to considernis off site archives as well. Have a friend store your old drives and you store old drives for a friend. That way you have backups physically in another location in case of a disaster. -Lan www.LanBui.com (Sent from my iPhone)
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
Hi everyone: The problem isn't with the blog format itself, but rather with the aggregation protocol used (RSS). I say this because for MONTHS now, I've been wanting to add 3GP versions of my videos so that people with cell phones and other 3G portable devices can subscribe to my videos just like people with iPods can since there are MANY more phones and other devices out there than there are iPods themselves (Mind you, this DOES NOT include the iPhone, which of course can just as easily play anything encoded/transcoded for the iPod itself), but with RSS 2.0 being as (For lack of a better word) archaic as it is, THE ONLY way I know of that this can be done is if a SEPARATE blog is created. It's time for RSS 3.0 to be rolled out (And the sooner THE BETTER). Just my opinion... Cheers Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturns.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | HAM MUSINGS - http://kb0oxd.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | SITE STATION NEWS - http://kb0oxdcybershacknews.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ **COMING NOVEMBER 21 - Pat's OTR Podcast - http://backtothefutureradio.blogspot.com/ **AND** THE RETURN OF Back To The Future TV | THE COMMERCIALS (BOTH the iPod Flash Versions) **COMING SOON - Back To The Future TV | THE SHOWS (In iPod Flash) From: schlomo rabinowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I've never been a fan of the blog format for video (even when putting together the last Vloggercon, I was against making the site in the blog format, but was alone in that thought). Though I ended up not using it for my own personal videoblog site (many hours of discussion with web/dev friends steered me away), I still believe using something like Sweetcron could be an interesting way of showing your work. http://www.sweetcron.com/ Especially when people are putting various sorts of videos on a variety of video hosts. For instance, some people put teasers on youtube and Behind The Scenes on Vimeo. But you want a site that will aggregate all of that content. Anyway, my two cents. Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic, Heath! I've been doing online video since 1998, and I was very excited with the explosion of digital video in 2005. It was awesome! I dabbled with wordpress and the blog format for a while, but it was obvious to me rather quickly that the long vertical videoblog (and blog, for that matter) was a dead end in terms of viability. It's daunting to scroll down a page and see an hour of video. It makes the small, short flicks and turns them into a day long endeavor. I think the traditional blog format is great for RSS feeds and for archival purposes, but as far as presentation of
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
Also, it's important to consider the type of storage. If you live in a major western city, you'd be crazy not to also backup onto optical disks and bury them at 4-5 feet, so that your data can survive the electromagnetic pulse that follows a nuclear explosion. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 12:52 PM, Lan Bui wrote: One more thing to considernis off site archives as well. Have a friend store your old drives and you store old drives for a friend. That way you have backups physically in another location in case of a disaster. -Lan www.LanBui.com (Sent from my iPhone) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing
Done. Can¹t call me crazy (no more.) Irene Duma Strange Duck Media Web Design and Creative Marketing Blogging easy computer tips http://www.strangeduck.com/blog and comedy at http://www.bittertonic.com St. John¹s Address: 12 Allan Square St. John's, NL A1C 4A8 T. 709-726-6178 C.709-699-8205 From: Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:10:40 -0800 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Macbook pro for video editing Also, it's important to consider the type of storage. If you live in a major western city, you'd be crazy not to also backup onto optical disks and bury them at 4-5 feet, so that your data can survive the electromagnetic pulse that follows a nuclear explosion. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 18-Dec-08, at 12:52 PM, Lan Bui wrote: One more thing to considernis off site archives as well. Have a friend store your old drives and you store old drives for a friend. That way you have backups physically in another location in case of a disaster. -Lan www.LanBui.com (Sent from my iPhone) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
pt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_RSS On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com wrote: Hi everyone: The problem isn't with the blog format itself, but rather with the aggregation protocol used (RSS). I say this because for MONTHS now, I've been wanting to add 3GP versions of my videos so that people with cell phones and other 3G portable devices can subscribe to my videos just like people with iPods can since there are MANY more phones and other devices out there than there are iPods themselves (Mind you, this DOES NOT include the iPhone, which of course can just as easily play anything encoded/transcoded for the iPod itself), but with RSS 2.0 being as (For lack of a better word) archaic as it is, THE ONLY way I know of that this can be done is if a SEPARATE blog is created. It's time for RSS 3.0 to be rolled out (And the sooner THE BETTER). Just my opinion... Cheers Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com patsblogs%40live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturns.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | HAM MUSINGS - http://kb0oxd.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | SITE STATION NEWS - http://kb0oxdcybershacknews.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ **COMING NOVEMBER 21 - Pat's OTR Podcast - http://backtothefutureradio.blogspot.com/ **AND** THE RETURN OF Back To The Future TV | THE COMMERCIALS (BOTH the iPod Flash Versions) **COMING SOON - Back To The Future TV | THE SHOWS (In iPod Flash) From: schlomo rabinowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I've never been a fan of the blog format for video (even when putting together the last Vloggercon, I was against making the site in the blog format, but was alone in that thought). Though I ended up not using it for my own personal videoblog site (many hours of discussion with web/dev friends steered me away), I still believe using something like Sweetcron could be an interesting way of showing your work. http://www.sweetcron.com/ Especially when people are putting various sorts of videos on a variety of video hosts. For instance, some people put teasers on youtube and Behind The Scenes on Vimeo. But you want a site that will aggregate all of that content. Anyway, my two cents. Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.orgrupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic, Heath! I've been doing online video since 1998, and I was very excited with the explosion of digital video in 2005. It was awesome! I dabbled with wordpress and the blog format for a while, but it was obvious to me rather quickly that the long vertical videoblog (and blog, for that matter) was a
Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
It's a great rant - but you can create your own individual feeds, using services like Feedburner or using the Show In A Box feed generator, that are format-specific. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com wrote: Hi everyone: The problem isn't with the blog format itself, but rather with the aggregation protocol used (RSS). I say this because for MONTHS now, I've been wanting to add 3GP versions of my videos so that people with cell phones and other 3G portable devices can subscribe to my videos just like people with iPods can since there are MANY more phones and other devices out there than there are iPods themselves (Mind you, this DOES NOT include the iPhone, which of course can just as easily play anything encoded/transcoded for the iPod itself), but with RSS 2.0 being as (For lack of a better word) archaic as it is, THE ONLY way I know of that this can be done is if a SEPARATE blog is created. It's time for RSS 3.0 to be rolled out (And the sooner THE BETTER). Just my opinion... Cheers Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com patsblogs%40live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturns.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | HAM MUSINGS - http://kb0oxd.blogspot.com/ KB0OXD CYBERSHACK | SITE STATION NEWS - http://kb0oxdcybershacknews.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ **COMING NOVEMBER 21 - Pat's OTR Podcast - http://backtothefutureradio.blogspot.com/ **AND** THE RETURN OF Back To The Future TV | THE COMMERCIALS (BOTH the iPod Flash Versions) **COMING SOON - Back To The Future TV | THE SHOWS (In iPod Flash) From: schlomo rabinowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:01 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore? I've never been a fan of the blog format for video (even when putting together the last Vloggercon, I was against making the site in the blog format, but was alone in that thought). Though I ended up not using it for my own personal videoblog site (many hours of discussion with web/dev friends steered me away), I still believe using something like Sweetcron could be an interesting way of showing your work. http://www.sweetcron.com/ Especially when people are putting various sorts of videos on a variety of video hosts. For instance, some people put teasers on youtube and Behind The Scenes on Vimeo. But you want a site that will aggregate all of that content. Anyway, my two cents. Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog. Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress http://hatfactory.net - relaxed coworking AIM:schlomochat On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.orgrupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: I did a video rant about this a couple of weeks ago. I've been thinking about different layouts and ways of presenting things since then. Great thoughts, Ron - particularly what you note how we're comfortable with line-by-line communication in a vertical format, but how it's limited the success of the traditional videoblog - and how daunting it is for a viewer to face a bunch of videos in a line down the page. I've seen this problem when watching people go to my videoblog. It's not just a problem for the viewer, it's a problem for the producer. Reading your post made me realise how much I've forced myself to like the blog format because that's what everyone uses - even though initially I thought it sucked. But when we started out, it was the easiest way to do publishing and podcasting. Now I've totally fallen out of love with the blog format. So much so that I can't seem to drum up the motivation to put any energy into making videos until I can feel good about how I publish them. I've been thinking about the successful shows you mentioned - FU, Ninja, Rocketboom. Wreck Salvage and LoFi St Louis have good new designs, too - which encourage people to browse more freely and don't force the reader to deal with this heirarchy of freshness/ relevance. For me, I think there may be an element of needing more interlinked networking between producers - to allow people to browse outside of your own videos. Jesus, that sounds like a web-ring. But isn't that the best thing about YouTube? That you can choose to see more videos by the same person or jump to something related but made by someone totally different? I don't know. I'm stuck. But it's good to read your thoughts on it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 10-Dec-08, at 10:05 AM, Ron Watson wrote: Great topic,
[videoblogging] Re: Does the Blog format work for Vlogging anymore?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Krystian Morgan k...@... wrote: Actually in wordpress you can make a post stick at the top of the list like a featured post. And in Blogger you have a couple of hacks you can use to the same effect: (1) You can pre date the post to a future date so that it sits atop of the rest chronologically.This is certainly cumbersome if you have prominant date headers. (2)On most templates, you can post your featured video into a gadget/widget and drag and drop it into the main column of you blog so that it appears to be a post. (3) I've searched for other hacks and while I prefer to feature my latest video post on my top page I deploy a few means to draw attention to more wares in the same way that the Ryan is Hungry http://ryanishungry.com/ does at the bottom of the page. You can use aggregators like Vodpod to do this and showcase your own stuff or I use a scroll bar to showcase thumbnails . EG: overflow-x and overflow-y div align=centerdiv style=overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; width: 75%; height: 100px;[PUT LINKED TO THUMBNAILS HERE] /div I'm very new to videoblogging but I have been hacking templates for podcasting for about three years (not thats' I'm any good) and I think there's a different requirement with video as many posters have flagged in this thread. And the Ryan is Hungry format solves a few problems as does the Hemingway designed by Warpspire I use: http://warpspire.com/hemingway/ which you can get both for Blogger and Wordpress. But it isn't very hackable if you want to tweak it some more.(Although hacks do exist). But here it is for Blogger: http://tabo.aurealsys.com/templates/hemingway-template-for-blogger/ dave riley http://ratbaggy.blogspot.com/
[videoblogging] Re: more sightings of the Canon Mark 5D in the wild
thx for the video: http://vimeo.com/2490809 I downloaded the full HD source .mov of it and it's amazing. I've always marveled at Canon still camera's video quality, specifically the tiny SD PowerShots, and dreamed of a mic port. ~ ~ Caleb J. Clark ~ Portfolio: http://www.calebjohnclark.com ~ The problem with communication is the assumption it has been accomplished. - G. B. Shaw. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
