[videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
Great resources. As the big networks and video web sites continue to develop better viewing experiences, I hope that we'll be able to implement similar solutions. Thinking about the casual user that doesn't want to code, I'd love to see video sites provide similar playlist players. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan sullele...@... wrote: blip's stuff is obviously convenient and great. but just a reminder that you can do this on your own with several free/cheap flash video players and even with html5/javascript. it would not take long to make a feed/playlist and add the same experience to your site. their are also other web services that focus on this. this is for people who dont use blip or want to try other alternatives to blip either for more flexibility or just to learn and experiment. some quick references: http://www.longtailvideo.com/ http://flowplayer.org/ http://embedr.com/ http://www.videoplaylist.org/ spend a few bucks and buy a flash player: http://flashden.net/searches?term=video+playlisttype=files On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Steve Garfield st...@...wrote: Thanks Mike! That was a great explanation. I posted a highlights playlist on my Blogger blog: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/09/steve-garfields-video-highlights.html This is something that I've wanted for a long time. Now I can put it other places and use it for lots of things. So cool. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I also had a tough time getting my head around this at first. At Blip, Dashboard, Players. Add a new player. Add whatever buttons etc. Save it. Now go back to the list of players and you'll see the Embed at the bottom. Click on embed, select Playlist, select your playlist and copy the embedded code. Paste away in WordPress or where ever. On the main page, I used the Video Sidebar Widget that works with Blip.tv videos (plus a slew of others). Ideally, I'd like for there to be no buttons on the bottom of the player for this one on the main page, but haven't got that figured out yet. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.com wrote: Thinking about the casual user that doesn't want to code, I'd love to see video sites provide similar playlist players. You don't have to be a casual user... The whole reason I started to play around with the blip stuff was because I'm sick of spending so much time messing with all the roll-your-own solutions. It's a complete pain in the ass and the end result is not worth it anymore for me. Blip.tv features have come a long way. I'd rather spend more time making work than doing make-work. - Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
[videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgm...@... wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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The blip playlist and player is very cool. I've been using blip for about a year now, and have only just begun to take advantage of the playlists and embeddable full show players. This has allowed me to keep all my content in one place in one account on blip, but to distribute it in playlists to different players for different viewers. As an example, my videoblog show player only highlights videos from my video blog http://libraryvoice.com/videos/show-player/ I have a separate blog for my interest in cycling, so I have a separate playlist for videos of bike rides. http://redneckinspandex.com/ride-videos/ Finally, as a business librarian for a university, I've just started creating specific playlists for business, company, and industry research. I had initially thought I would create an entirely separate blip account for this purpose, but multiple accounts seemed a little too hard to manage. Here's the business videos http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Biz_Research_Basics_Videos. The only drawback for this method is that if someone goes to my show page on blip, libraryvoice.blip.tv, they'll likely think I'm a bit schizophrenic. I doubt anyone is going to sit there on my blip page and watch all my videos in chronological order, as my all-over-the-place interests don't necessarily stick with a one common theme for an actual show. However, if you simply think of blip.tv as the repository for your content, the blip playlist and embeddable show player truly allow you to put your content wherever and however you want. Very cool. -- Chad F. Boeninger libraryvoice.com - blog libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog twitter.com/cfboeninger On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:52 AM, mgmoon mgm...@yahoo.com wrote: I also had a tough time getting my head around this at first. At Blip, Dashboard, Players. Add a new player. Add whatever buttons etc. Save it. Now go back to the list of players and you'll see the Embed at the bottom. Click on embed, select Playlist, select your playlist and copy the embedded code. Paste away in WordPress or where ever. On the main page, I used the Video Sidebar Widget that works with Blip.tv videos (plus a slew of others). Ideally, I'd like for there to be no buttons on the bottom of the player for this one on the main page, but haven't got that figured out yet. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield st...@... wrote: Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can
[videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
I also had a tough time getting my head around this at first. At Blip, Dashboard, Players. Add a new player. Add whatever buttons etc. Save it. Now go back to the list of players and you'll see the Embed at the bottom. Click on embed, select Playlist, select your playlist and copy the embedded code. Paste away in WordPress or where ever. On the main page, I used the Video Sidebar Widget that works with Blip.tv videos (plus a slew of others). Ideally, I'd like for there to be no buttons on the bottom of the player for this one on the main page, but haven't got that figured out yet. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield st...@... wrote: Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Thanks Mike! That was a great explanation. I posted a highlights playlist on my Blogger blog: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/09/steve-garfields-video-highlights.html This is something that I've wanted for a long time. Now I can put it other places and use it for lots of things. So cool. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgm...@... wrote: I also had a tough time getting my head around this at first. At Blip, Dashboard, Players. Add a new player. Add whatever buttons etc. Save it. Now go back to the list of players and you'll see the Embed at the bottom. Click on embed, select Playlist, select your playlist and copy the embedded code. Paste away in WordPress or where ever. On the main page, I used the Video Sidebar Widget that works with Blip.tv videos (plus a slew of others). Ideally, I'd like for there to be no buttons on the bottom of the player for this one on the main page, but haven't got that figured out yet. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com
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blip's stuff is obviously convenient and great. but just a reminder that you can do this on your own with several free/cheap flash video players and even with html5/javascript. it would not take long to make a feed/playlist and add the same experience to your site. their are also other web services that focus on this. this is for people who dont use blip or want to try other alternatives to blip either for more flexibility or just to learn and experiment. some quick references: http://www.longtailvideo.com/ http://flowplayer.org/ http://embedr.com/ http://www.videoplaylist.org/ spend a few bucks and buy a flash player: http://flashden.net/searches?term=video+playlisttype=files On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Steve Garfield st...@offonatangent.comwrote: Thanks Mike! That was a great explanation. I posted a highlights playlist on my Blogger blog: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/09/steve-garfields-video-highlights.html This is something that I've wanted for a long time. Now I can put it other places and use it for lots of things. So cool. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgm...@... wrote: I also had a tough time getting my head around this at first. At Blip, Dashboard, Players. Add a new player. Add whatever buttons etc. Save it. Now go back to the list of players and you'll see the Embed at the bottom. Click on embed, select Playlist, select your playlist and copy the embedded code. Paste away in WordPress or where ever. On the main page, I used the Video Sidebar Widget that works with Blip.tv videos (plus a slew of others). Ideally, I'd like for there to be no buttons on the bottom of the player for this one on the main page, but haven't got that figured out yet. Mike http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield steve@ wrote: Hi Mike, How do you select the player that displays the other episodes on the side, without making it your default player? I see you have the single video player on your main page. Thanks! This is great! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgmoon@ wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about
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They've been working on those download speeds and I've noticed an improvement. http://theblog.blip.tv/post/160704246/todays-release-is-out-the-door-this-affects-you http://theblog.blip.tv/post/167329020/more-changes-to-how-we-stream-videos http://theblog.blip.tv/post/184497576/player-start-time - Verdi On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Brook Hinton bhin...@gmail.com wrote: I need to look into blip again as I start up some new projects. I like many things about the showplayer, I love how supportive they are. Download speeds are the only thing that have kept me from using it more. And absolutely minimal site design can be a boon. When the moving image is the point, accompanying design needs to support, not compete. Brook _ 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 -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
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I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I have to add my vote for blip.tv as well. Although I'm new to video blogging I quickly tired of YouTube and started using vimeo for site embeds since they have the cleanest looking player and the hubnut is the best rendering for aggregating multiple videos on a site I've seen yet. Although when using vimeo's embed code for a single video it seems to have problems for people using IE7 and higher on an XP machine. This is what initially led me to blip.tv since their single video embeds use the embed/embed tags which IE seems to like much better. In addition their distribution system seem to work the best. Tried TubeMogul but it had issues pushing videos to vimeo. In fact I compared a direct upload to a vimeo pro account with a distribution push from blip.tv and the direct upload took 5 min. longer than blip.tv. So two thumbs up for blip.tv. Now just trying to find the best livestreaming solution. Using ustream now but quality is limited. Anybody tried livestream? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mgmoon mgm...@... wrote: I finally got around to creating my own Best Of as per the Blip Player. It works out quite well http://mikemoon.net/vlog/blip-list/ . With close to 700 videos, I can't expect people to go through all of them. :) Thanks. Mike Http://vlog.mikemoon.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rupert@ wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blip Show Player and Archive Pages
Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelve...@... wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Yea, Rupert, I love those best of video's that you do, and that is another great thing about Blip. Being able to showcase other vloggers via those playlists is just awesome. Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert Howe rup...@... wrote: Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera. I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as Verdi notes below use the blip player as a visual archive. I have also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was me I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are subscribed to me, etcit's the content that makes the site me I am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a showcase site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michaelverdi@ wrote: We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and playlists. Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and embeded a showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/. For a personal site you may not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and stick them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about page, etc. -Verdi -- Michael Verdi http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://michaelverdi.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I need to look into blip again as I start up some new projects. I like many things about the showplayer, I love how supportive they are. Download speeds are the only thing that have kept me from using it more. And absolutely minimal site design can be a boon. When the moving image is the point, accompanying design needs to support, not compete. Brook _ 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]
