[videoblogging] Canon HV20 footage output settings on iMovie....
I'm seeing interlaced footage when I output from iMovie regardless of whether or not I click 'deinterlace source footage' in the output settings, when I set the output settings to 1280 x 720. Don't see the problem when I output at 640x360 Have been using these settings http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/mp4-h264.jpg Anyone experienced anything similar? Ping me offline? Cheers Mark [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] San Francisco YouTube gathering... um.... later today....
I coulda/shoulda posted this earlier, but I was busy. I also made you a cookie... but I ated it. There's an SF YouTube gathering today from noon till five, milling around at the front of gaudy tourist trap, Pier 39. This is, in fact, the return of last year's actually-kinda-fun 'As One' Gathering Although there will probably be less people, because the meet ups have become more frequent and regionalized, and consequently less of a big deal and... it's probably gonna rain. That said, for those of you who were at Pixelodeon, some of the same higher-profile users will be in attendance (I has lunch with floppy-fringed emo heartthrob Charles Trippy yesterday...), along with some who haven't been out to SF before (Zipster, if that means anything to you...) and some fresh faces and lesser known users and so on... In the interests of full disclosure, I've been the comedy content manager at YouTube for about a month now... which is why I've made a lot less videos this year. And no, I won't be posting a ton of insider gossip here.. sorry! ;) Cheers Mark Day [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Interesting Guardian article about Ze, Rocketboom et al
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/23/interviews.internet [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Repair shop for mini dv cameras? SF bay area.
Gassers on 2nd street, the repair department is in the basement. http://www.gassers.com/ I've had a couple of consumer-level-camera repairs there that were fine, but what Jay said... I've also had one repair estimate where it simply wasn't worth it. Lots of good deals on cameras this time of year Cheers MD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] A vote for me is like a vote for the Winnies...
Well, kinda Rating my new video is like sending a stealth-plug for the Winnies up the YouTube top rated list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9HaHoe1Bu0 Self serving? Nah... I did this because Irina told me to. Watch, rate see you at the Winnies... Mark http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Owning a television...
Following some heavy domestic lobbying, I have a 42 inch HD plasma screen that's awesome for Guitar Hero, DVDs, NFL and even, yes, the occasional TV show. I love it. I've watched Lost on my laptop from the ABC site and it's not really the same... Maybe it's a guy thing. I've yet to watch a lot of my own video on it, but I imagine that will be fun and/or mildly mortifying. MD http://www.markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy Me @ the Laughing Squid party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47y4NOF3kl0 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Loren Feldman = Technigga
As regards it would be OK if it was funny (or words to that effect...), as someone who dabbles in comedy, that can sometimes be shorthand for you get more leeway, we'll go along with your train of thought, we trust you're going somewhere if you're making a point that's fresh, vital, original, smart... Are you using a stereotype to make a point about stereotypes, or are you just wallowing in cheap white folks dance this way, black folks dance that way... shtick? I think the answer in this case is pretty obviously the later. MD http://www.markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] r.e. Youtube and video views...strange!!
Above a fairly low threshold, the YouTube view counter does not refresh in real time. My view counts update two to three times a day (early morning and early evening, typically...). According to the link I'm looking at your video's been viewed 919 times. So perhaps it finally registered your views - I'm not sure where you're getting a 'ten views' count from. Unfortunately, being featured in one of the categories does not result in quite the deluge of traffic that the coveted front page slots create (well, except maybe in 'animals'). In fact, they did away with categories a few weeks ago, then brought them back after a fair ammount of user revolt. For anyone moderately interested in YouTube (or just keen on wasting office bandwidth) it might be worth noting that they now have international editions, so that if you choose the country tab in the top right hand corner of the page, you can re-set the site to reflect what's most viewed in, say, the Netherlands, or Spain. Cheers MD http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv My new Harry Potter parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITS_y6JNz2Y [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] r.e: Myspace/Blip Connection
If your videos are cross posted from your Blip account to a MySpace bulletin, then anyone who is your MySpace friend and in the habit of checking their bulletins may see it - so they are 'circulated' in that sense. If you want to syndicate your videos (have them show up in the 'video' sections of a number of sharing sites with only one upload...), Veoh offers that option. I may be 100% wrong about this - as I have never used their syndication service - but I have a funny feeling they *might* insert a post-roll screen indicating that 'this video was uploaded at Veoh' or some such... Perhaps someone else can confirm this for you. Or you could syndicate a video there and see for yourself how it works. Of course, just because your video is on any given site does not necessarily mean that it's being seen. A lot depends on the luck of catching a content editor's eye, or having something timely and of general (or quite specific) interest, that people are already looking for. And there's always the option of participating in a community. Vimeo is a great example of a site where, for the low, low price of taking an interest in other people's work, people will typically extend the courtesy of checking out yours. Also true on YouTube, although perhaps not to the same extent. My experience with MySpace video is that, while the MySpace site is all about connecting, the video offering is the most novelty-focused (i.e. the highest ratio of skateboarding dog videos...). Depending on what you're putting out there, MySpace may or may not deliver for you. Cheers Mark Day http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv My new Harry Potter parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITS_y6JNz2Y I have been looking to move video to myspace from their location on blip.tv http://blip.tv/ While they do move, they seem to go into bulletin and/or blog. Not to video. I believe this means they will not be circulated and seen as videos, and lose their visibility there. Am I correct? All and all, this seems unsatisfactory. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] external mikes MacBook Pros
Me too on the RODE video mike/Canon HV20 combo. Although the first few times used the video mike I had to remember to TURN IT ON. Plugged into the mike input plus not turned on = no audio. Doh! Also, it's kinda conspicuous, in an I got asked to leave the hardware super store sort of way. So, with it, you're going to me more conspicuous if you like filming in places that sometimes don't want you filming. And yes, the Canon battery is annoyingly loose. I have/swear by a MacBook Pro (the smaller size). For something like Final Cut more screen size would be nice, but it's workable. Also, it's so beautifully designed (and I'm no Mac zealot at all) that once one of the fans on it started making an annoying, audible whirr, it was like hearing a supermodel fart. I've got used to it, and I suspect it may be a not-unusual-occurrence. Curse them for making me fall in love with it, then having it behave all mere-mortal on me. This just in, everybody poops. Even Steve Jobs. ALso, if you plan on editing HD footage, and don't want to lug an external drive about with you everywhere, get the biggest hard drive they offer and plan on putting a bigger one in later. I've yet to schedule that operation, but if you're ever likely to have more than some short vlog footage captured... you're going to need a bigger boat. Or am I wrong here? Cheers Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: July - My Month of Youtube
Just a few random thoughts 13,000 views of a video on YouTube is nothing to be sniffed at. Many of my favorite YouTubers get a lot less per video and it doesn't seem to put them off. Embrace the possibility that hardly anyone will watch your stuff and you'll probably have more fun. Yes, there is a lot of rude behavior, but it's like saying, I'd never want to live in New York, because I've heard the people are rude. There are plenty of little neighborhoods where people get along just fine Think of it as a rite of passage! Take advantage of the ability to leave response videos. Personally, I found it easier to set up a second account for that (so that my main channel has some degree of consistency) but if you don't already have a ton of content up there, or don't really mind mixing and matching, that's probably the single best way to engage in a dialogue (more so than just posting stuff to YouTube in addition to your usual haunts) Here's my tip - hit the videos tab (top left of the page) and on the left hand navigation of the video page there's a tab for most responded. Click that and you can see what people are responding to. Now, some of the most responded might be videos that have just decided to accept all response videos (and people do often post unrelated videos against high traffic videos in the hope of grabbing some views). But if you scroll down a little, or check the second and third page of most responded you can see what people are really talking about. You want to know what I like on YT? People doing slightly absurd comedy in character... it may not be citizen journalism, but it's every bit the potential for people creating their own media and having fun with it If you might enjoy a man in a pretend beard doing one-man Monty Pythonesque nonsense, check out Doc Rusty Wigwam. http://www.youtube.com/user/DocRusty I'm also a big fan of WebPundit http://www.youtube.com/user/WebPundit and sort of enjoy ranting, angry english kid in Canada, Warren25Smash http://www.youtube.com/user/warren25smash Doc Rusty WebPundit get, probably, a few hundred views per video. Warren (I must admit, a bit of an aquired taste...) is clearly not making the movie to MTV any time soon. Pixelodeon did put the spotlight on some of YouTube's more, ahem, marketable personalities. But it's often the people doing their own weird thing for a few hundred viewers that make my YouTube experience fun. I'm sure you'll find something/someone to like, Cheers Mark Day http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] San Francisco location needed (large, well lit bathroom...)
I'm looking for a large bathroom to film in. The filming will take not very long at all (10 minutes at most...). Needs to be enough room to pull back on someone sitting on the throne with laptop on lap. An office bathroom would be OK, but the less it looks like an office, the better (i.e. prefer no wall-bars or seat-cover dispensers...) Needed ASAP (like, for tomorrow sometime) Any assistance off-list would be appreciated. Public transport accessible preferred. Cheers Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: youtubers at Pixelodeon
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/538323076/ here you can see some of the nutty Youtubers who showed up to Pixelodeon saturday. after their screening, they were talking of getting several million viewers for their videos. it's nuts. Before anyone chokes on their milk and cookies, it's probably worth pointing out that several-million viewers tends to be a one (or, if you're lucky) two-time thing - but yes, you're looking at people who enjoy a baseline five-figure viewership per video. At Pixelodeon, Robert Boyle curated a very solid play-list reflecting the vibrant, conversational dynamics in YouTube, including the possibilities for pranksterism, and without shying away from the storm-clouds of negativity that can swirl around the shores of YT. I believe a links list will be online shortly. Worth checking out. Cheers, Mark Day http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube: This video has been removed due to terms of use violat From: Steve Garfie
YouTube 'Director' accounts used to offer the option of posting clips longer than ten minutes. At some point they removed that option, but did not retroactively apply it to people who already had 'director' accounts, just new sign-ups/applications (hence, perhaps, the confusion...). I'll be damned if I can think of what else a 'director' account actually gets you other than some personal branding next to your user name [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Canon HV20 Vs. Sony HDR-SR1 - opinions?
Seeing as the Canon HV20 HD camcorder is now below $1000, I'd love to hear from anyone who has it - or has tried it and has opinions on performance in low light (something CNet reviews flags up as an issue...) and/or the mike (which is oddly facing towards the sky and not what's in front of you) And likewise the Sony HDR-SR1 using the AVCHD file system (I'm uber-untechnical, I'm just concerned that that might not work with my not-entirely-registered copy of Final Cut...) As I'm itching to buy one or the other, opinions (off list or on) would be appreciated... Cheers mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv www.youtube.com/markday [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube / VBW - Thank you Mark Day!
Posted by: humancloner1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] humancloner1997 http://profiles.yahoo.com/humancloner1997My comment on MeFeedia didn't show up on YouTube. Comments posted on Mefeedia won't show up on a video posted on YouTube, the only way to post a comment on YouTube is on the YouTube interface itself. The technology to post U SUCK! remotely simply isn't in place yet And before anyone gives me a Vloggie for posting my intro to Videoblogging Week video, I should point out that I posted it on my markdayresponse account, which is not quite the ratings juggernaut that my markdaycomedy account is (I keep the comedy account for my show videos, and use the response account for response videos and more off the cuff things...) At the same time, if anyone wants to see me have a hot accent face-off with Irina Slutsky on the Vloggies show... http://vloggies.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/accent-throw-down-with-mark-day/ Your line, should you chose to accept it, is bloody foreigners, sneaking over our borders, stealing our vlogs... Cheers MD http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.yourtube.com/markdaycomedy and, yes http://www.youtube.com/markdayresponse [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube / VBW - Thank you Mark Day!
Well, don't thank me too much... I plugged it in passing at the end of a video about something else entirely. I'm at a wedding this weekend and am missing all the meet up fun - oh well. If anyone wants to make a note to self for '08 (cough, splutter, yes) I would say that, of the people on YouTube who post personal vlog-style content (and putting aside anyone's feelings about the people who post skateboarding dogs and or leave angry comments...) I suspect that few of them are particularly invested in the idea of pushing forward personal-video as a medium, so much as simply getting their personal opinons out there (compare, say, people who just get on with using their operating system versus people who actively advocate for Linux). There is, for example, a fairly robust back and forth on YouTube at the moment between aethists and - ahem - faith-based video makers. A much more lively video conversation than you might imagine if you can't see past the skateboarding dogs. That being the case, I'm not sure myself what the point of videobloggingweek is *to* someone on YouTube. And I'm not saying that in a negative way, just in a well, what's in it for them... thinking-out-loud sort of way... The best I can come up with off the top of my head is get your stuff seen by more people (which is, for sure, something a lot of YouTube users can relate to). Given that YouTube is an effective platform for the people who use it, what's the elevator pitch for '08? Just pondering... Cheers MD http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Digital editing, quality British snark and the aesthetics of reality shows
Charlie Brooker of ace British TV crit-show Screenwipe on the subject of digital editing and reality show aesthetics... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI Cheers Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: A question about viewership habits....
I've had stuff featured on a bunch of video sites, and the result varies from site to site. I've had at least three videos featured on Yahoo Video and it's made minimal difference to my other videos - but then, I don't think that Yahoo video browsers are as engaged as YouTube users are. Despite the notion that a lot of people are just randomly bouncing from video to video on YouTube, the people who subscribe on YouTube are sticking around for a while, if not indefinately. But certainly, people on YouTube are somewhat spoiled for choice and I'm sure there's a reasonable churn in viewership - if I'm lucky, I'm maybe gaining enough subscribers to replace the ones who've got bored with my shtick by now... I think an interesting question is when doing serial content is whether people forget you quickly when you're gone, or whether taking a break once in a while makes people excited for your return? At least TV shows get time off to regroup. Cheers Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markday www.myspace.com/markday [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] It's official, I came fourth. And VON.
Ninja shminja! I came fourth for best commentary in the YouTube Awards and now, as an acnoweldged expert in the field of commentating, will be replacing Joe Thisemann in the Monday Night Football booth. Take that, pyjama-wearing first-placers! The phone, so far, has not been ringingff the hook, so presumably the media have gone stealth. I also filed a VON report (austensibly for The Daily Reel's new-ish podcast) the (not that) long version of which features Bubbe from Feed Me Bubbe and me spouting some sexist shite about booth babes. And Chris Brogan's Best Start Up Idea Ever. Considering I have been a bit cheeky about videobloggers on this list in the past, I met a lot of nice videobloggers... http://blip.tv/file/177366 Cheers Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: blog vs youtube myspace
Q: Why are videobloggers like mainstream media executives? A: They both look down on people who post videos on YouTube. Actually, that's unfair. To mainstream media executives (ba - dum - bing!) It's funny, as we like to say in comedy, because it's true. Just some food for thought. Cheers Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://www.myspace.com/markday
[videoblogging] Re: blog vs youtube myspace From: sull
I was, of course, generalizing to make a point about generalization. And I do think it's true to say that the minute the subject of YouTube comes up, it seems to turn some people into the videoblogging equivalent of Republican senators talking about the internets. I will return to this topic and at least qualify my comments somewhat, but I got me a video to make before Dick Cheney drops dead and spoils it for me. MD http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markday etc etc
[videoblogging] YouTube meet up SF videos/ YouTube meet up NYC announced
For the few people who expressed some curiosity about the YouTube meet up in San Francisco, there are now any number of videos on YouTube chronicling the same people milling around on Pier39. The organizer's video is posted here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvoy_owET8 And beneath that, in comments and responses, over seventy response videos. Personally, I can recomment PimplyWimp's. If only because he's in character and mesing with people just a little. Whether or not he set out to send up the event, it's an amusing - and awkward - counter point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai3hPQ0Xs4 My own response video lives here. In which I fail to do much interacting with other people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiATJFBWO0 Meandering off on a tangent, Kevin Nalty from WillVideoForFood.com posted a video about a similar event in New York (and, perhaps, mildly sending up the original event) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGSRvexvFw So (for anyone still reading) there's a YouTube meet-up planned in NYC for 7/7/7 Not a lot of details on it at the moment, although I will mention that it's not organized by the same people who organized the SF event. I'll pass on more details as they emerge, although it's a straight-up meet up. And sadly, I won't be going... Mark Day, watching YouTube so you don't have to http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://www.youtube.com/markdayresponse http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://markdaycomedy.wordpress.com http://www.myspace.com/markday etc. etc. etc.
[videoblogging] r.e. Youtube event in SF
I went, it was fun. I almost melted in the sun. Schlomo and I arm wrestled best-of-three for videoblogging versus YouTubing and what can I tell you? All his videos will be appearing exclusively on YouTube from now on. All your bases are belong to us. As the kids used to say. Actually - and some of you may be dissapointed to hear this - no one put a dog on a skateboard and rammed it repeatedly into anyone's testicals. Although I did watch Mike Judge's new movie Idiocracy later and formulated my own hypothesis about slapstick as a disruptive media force. Too complicated to go into here. I met some kid running a Republican political campaign for a congressional district in San Diego on YouTube, some sketch comedy people, someone who vlogs about life in the Tenderloin, someone who wanted high profile vloggers to use their power get out environmental messages, and some people who may, or may not, have been in character the whole time. Ubiquitous San Francisco sign-carrier Frank Chu showed up eventually, as he is wont to (and have you *seen* his Wikipedia entry?) There were YouTubers in attendance from as far away as Australia, and everyone seemed to be having a good time just mingling. Some people definately enthuse about the YouTube community - a smaller, less vocal contingent view it as you might an operating system - most worthy of comment when it's not working the way it's supposed to (and, ironically, the site went cock-a-hoop for most of Sunday...) Cheers Mark Day www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv www.myspace.com/markday etc. etc.
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube event at Pier 39 in SF
Schlomo is correct, I am a) on this list b) also going to the YouTube meet up. It starts at Noon, and there will be a video scavenger hunt. I am guessing some of the participants may be too young to explore videoblogging through the medium of alcohol, but by all means lure them to your bar... the Hoegaarden beer is particularly excellent. The guy who is organizing it seems pretty jazzed that this is going to be a pretty big event. I'll be the bald Scottish guy... If anyone wants to get their YouTube on, I just posted my first video that actively solicits response videos. Tell me why you should call in sick to work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEHJNPhSmc Cheers Mark www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy www.myspace.com/markday http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com etc. etc. Re: YouTube event at Pier 39 in SF http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/56790;_ylc=X3oDMTJzbmpqNGM3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEyODA1NjY2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTU1NDAyMQRtc2dJZAM1Njc5MARzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMTcxNjE2ODY5 Posted by: schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] johngaltsjournal http://profiles.yahoo.com/johngaltsjournal Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:39 pm (PST) I am so going to this! I would love to hear about their experiences and what they feel they get from the site. And then ask why they are having the meetup there and not at my bar.:) I met Mark Day, who I think is on the list, but didn't get to talk to him long. Hopefully he's there. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MarkDayComedy Schlomo http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://webshots.com/is/spotlight http://hatfactory.net http://evilvlog.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Vloggies last year, Youtubeies this year?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is the sf youtube meetup? i'm going to ask them about the haters :) From the LA meet-up post (which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqN-3A9_QwA Another YouTube meet is being held on San Francisco's Pier 39 Saturday, Feb 17th at 12 noon. There'll be a VIDEO SCAVENGER HUNT and more, so don't forget your camera! Haters are requested to arrive 30 minutes early and be prepared to critique attendees on the basis of apperance, lameness, sexual preferences, dress-sense, waste-of-time-y-ness, wish I could have my three minutes back-iness, non-hater-iness, absence of mental faculties, and all round suckiness. Olympic ice-skating score-cards welcome. Videobloggers are invited to partipate in an RSS Feeds/Terms of Service scavenger hunt. The question what is/is not a videoblog? to be resolved by a who can chug a pint of peppermint shnapps the fastest contest. Best of three/first one to barf rules apply. I'll be the bald Scottish guy pretending to have nothing to do with any of this Cheers Mark http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://www.myspace.com/markday [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: MyHeavy.com Disregarding Vlogger CC Licenses
When I described Myheavy.com as privately help I got 'em mixed up with that other Maxim-esque site, Break.com. My bad.
[videoblogging] CALL TO ARMS! was Re:MyHeavy
I note with a small degree of amusement that Gmail is offering me heavy.com - funny taylor hicks cartoon! ads. While it would be wrong to click it a few times just to cost them some marketing pocket-change, if anyone's sooo frustrated they just need to let off some steam
[videoblogging] Re: MyHeavy.com Disregarding Vlogger CC Licenses
As someone who has, of his own violition, posted content on MyHeavy (and, probably, every other site that hosts stuff) I can only report that in my limited experience it's (mostly) a pseudo-user-generated cheesecake site. There is little visibility for anything other than the pseudo-vlogs of the 'MyHeavy Angels' contest and (although this may be of little consolation to anyone...) little to drive the typical user beyond that thick layer of cheesecake. So I doubt very much that anyone saw your vlog on it. No one saw my videos and I put them there, using fairly mercenary keywords. Ahem. I am sure the ad pitch is something along the lines of, It's YouTube meets MySpace and all the hard-to-reach young male demographic is spending all day there. Hence, BurgerKing et al. As I understand it they're privately funded, and don't have VC funding. However my best guess is that scraping feeds provides that all important, We host __ number of videos metric. It's a lot easier (and cheaper) to suck in content than have individual users post it (especially when, i suspect, no one will ever see it unless it has boobies). I have some experience in the field and those number of videos hosted metrics are important (as would be avoiding bad publicity if they're about to go looking for funding...). Just something to consider when building the case against... Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv www.myspace.com/markday www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy
[videoblogging] HD vanity
I can confirm the mesmerising power of the 42 plasma. I have enough ADD to make the watching of movies I've seen before problematic (even ones I like). With few exceptions, I just get fidgety. For the past few weeks, I've been watching movies I only have a passing interest in, just because, well, holy crap, the lush detail. I am sort of hoping this is a honeymoon period and I'll get over it, before I have to watch every movie in the Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer catalogue again, just to see exactly where Nicholas Cage's hair ends and movie magic begins. That said, having seen, say, Chris Berman on NFL Primetime in HD, I'm not sure I'd want an HD camera pointed at my mug. It's rather unforgiving, and unless Dove face-cream are going to make me a lushly pampered spokes-bloke, I think it's back to, he's got a great face for radio. If HD cameras were cheaper, and I hadn' t splurged on a big telly, I'd buy one... Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy
[videoblogging] A Christmas Miracle (with bacon)
(Not) The Queen's Christmas message http://blip.tv/file/121215 Featuring bacon, the most Jesus-y of all the breakfast foods Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy
[videoblogging] RE: The GETV Xmas Special
The GETV Xmas Special Posted by: Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] blahrina http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2006/12/23/xmas-special-music-video/ It is often said that children (and aren't all men, at the end of the day, children?) may spend more time playing with the packaging than the gift itself, on Christmas morning. This may, of course, take on special resonance in San Francisco. What did you get your boyfriend this year? Boobs in a box. Wow. And? Well, he spent a long time playing with the wrapping paper. I've always wondered about that boy…. Me too. I'm re-boxing them tomorrow and putting them on Craigslist… Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy The war on Christmas is, in fact, a war on eggnog (for Parody Purposes Only) : http://blip.tv/file/117202 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] Re: What do the Queen of England and the Ninja have in Common?
Posted by: Gary Short [EMAIL PROTECTED] garyshort1970 Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:15 pm (PST) Queen of England? Queen of England?! As a Scot, I can only direct you here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom As a Scot who grew up in a fiercely anti-royalist household, I can only say that the Queen will be no more welcome in my father's house this year via videoblog as she is unwelcome by more traditional routes (i.e. the telly) Fortunately, and living up to national stereotypes, my father's computer has never left the box he bought it in as he refuses to pay extra to connect to the internet. True. Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy The war on Christmas is, in fact, a war on eggnog (for Parody Purposes Only) : http://blip.tv/file/117202
[videoblogging] Starring Amanda Congdon
Before I go off on one, perhaps Amanda could clarify where Time should have drawn the line in their 'Person of the Year'? If someone has posted a video of themselves on YouTube, say, but they've never heard of an RSS feed, are they in, or out? Or a sparkle-infested MySpace page that they cluttered with every unicorn banner in the virtual stickerbox? In, or out? Inquiring minds in the People's Front of Judea want to know. Cheers. Mark Day http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy The war on Christmas (for Parody Purposes Only) : http://blip.tv/file/117202
[videoblogging] Re: Starring Amanda Congdon
Posted by: Amanda Congdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ctgirl812003 YouTubers, in my opinion, are independent media makers� so they fall into the us catagory. MySpace, as I believe Dave Winer once put it, is a blog on training wheels. I am not trying to say that they do not count. They do! They are part of all this as well! The People's Front of Judea appreciate that clarification in what we consider to be a fairly provocative post, and look forward to the blog entry which is to follow. As long as our YouTubeWayArmy and MySpaceCadets are in, we're golden. At the same time, let's not overlook the fact that the Judean People's Front are, in fact, splitters. And thus, out. All the best to you and yours at this special time of year, B. Cohen (Nazareth) Esq. http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy The war on Christmas is, in fact, a war on Birthdays (for Parody Purposes Only) : http://blip.tv/file/117202
[videoblogging] r.e. scriggity on the fizz
1a. scriggity on the fizz Posted by: bestdamntechshow [EMAIL PROTECTED] bestdamntechshow Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:27 pm (PST) dec. 22nd, scriggity will appear on DirecTV's Christmas Fizz on the 101. I'm pretty pumped about it, is anyone else involved in this project at all? I sent them a tape. I even put it in the mail the day they needed stuff in by. So, in other words, I sent it late. So. who knows? I also posted my own war on the holidays post/vlog/whatever... http://blip.tv/file/117202 I edited it in iMovie, letterboxed it (a.k.a. added vanity bars), and towards the end sped it up/slowed it down. In iMovie I got some nice quasi-comical fast/slow audio. But when I rendered it out as a Quicktime, those sections came out silent. I can't be arsed (quaint Scottish term) to re-render it, but for future reference, if anyone knows if there's any hierarchy of effects in iMovie (and specifically, will one result in silence on another...) please explain Also... does anyone on this list recieve it as an digest in GMail, use Firefox and find it at all easy to reply to, without resporting to cut n' paste? Or should I just suck it up and go individual-posts? Mark Day http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy
[videoblogging] Re: The YouTube debate is over..........
I enjoy a reasonable level of success (if by that you mean viewership...) on YouTube. (Modesty be damned, I'm the 45th most subscribed user on the site...) I have a more than passing interest on crossing over into proper videoblogging, as defined by the Geneva Convention on Videoblogging, circa the Treaty of Versailles) and I've found people to be incredibly helpful in that respect. That said, I mostly lurk on this list and find a lot of it goes flying over my head (I barely understand RSS feeds..). What I have noticed is a pervasive (though not universal) attitude towards the YouTubers that at best resembles a teenage boy with XBox trashing someone else's PlayStation (or vice versa) and at worst some aging Congressman having his page take a look at the internets. What are the YouTubers up to? Is it a series of tubes down which the videos come? Are they talking to each other, these YouTubers? I seem to have dropped a pencil. Can you bend over in your short shorts and pick it up for me? While it may pain your eyes to actually look at YouTube once in a while, I would suggest that viewing it as somewhere to toss a bone is not that dissimilar to old media going, the internets? well, it might be somewhere to toss trailers for our network shows, but the network is where it's at... While I can understand the pain of having to explain that your video blog is both a lot like what people do on YouTube, and yet not like that at all, putting airquotes around YouTube vlogs may be part of the problem, not part of the solution (not so much in a linguistic sense, more in the way it speaks to an attitude that that's not proper vlogging, and worse) Just ten of my many cents on the subject Mark www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: The other videoblogging community
On 12/1/06, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] steve%40dvmachine.com wrote: Are youtubers having 'video conversations' much these days, ie responding to a video with a video of their own rather than text comments? Is there anything built into the system, or any other system, that makes this sort of thing easy, easy to follow the conversation? Very much so, and not really. There is a real culture of response videos on YouTube, much of which only makes sense in context. At the same time, it doesn't organize itself into any neat and tidy forum/folder structure. I'm sure, however, it would make a very interesting three dimenasional map, if you had the kind of Bond villain technology that lends itself to that sort of thing. Mark Day www.myspace.com/markday www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv etc. etc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
