Hi List, Okay, so now that Duncan has partially introduced me, I guess I ought to say hello properly. I've really enjoyed the energy of the group since I've subscribed - it feels like something important is developing, even if none of us quite knows what.
My primary interest for being here is to find ways to steer a project that I've been involved with to a form more amenable to subscription in the way that video-blogs are. I struggle with the canonical video-blog - defined, I suppose by the current crop of vlog clients. To a certain extent, a vlog 'is' what we as viewers experience of it. A little history: in 2002 I 'kicked' a football from England to the World Cup in Korea and Japan. We kept a blog during the journey consisting of equal parts text, image and video in any given post. The project homepage can be found here: http://www.spiritoffootball.com The 2002 blog is here: http://www.spiritoffootball.com/2002/blog/ The 2002 'film' is here: http://www.spiritoffootball.com/2002/video.php What attracts me to the vlog form is the prospect of using it for future trips and the episodic films that get made during the course of it. It would have been great if client apps like DTV, iTunes and FireANT had existed back then. What puts me off is that those client apps do not do justice to the variety of media that can be combined in any particular post - they concentrate 'too much' on the video. I realise that statement may sound paradoxical, but I don't really want a single medium to dominate the delivery of my digital stories. I tend to agree with the view that all 'traditional' media have become simply 'content' in the digital realm. Moreover, a story can make much more creative use of those media than the 'one-video-per-post' vlog form and RSS2.0 spec currently allows for. I look forward to taking the journey towards that important something with all you splendid folks... Best wishes, Christian -- Christian Wach Current Location: Bristol, UK Homepage: http://haystack.co.uk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
