On 8 Feb 2006, at 21:09, davecircumnavigator wrote: > In response to Christian's post I ask: Can't the videoblogger repost > a video to the RSS feed? I'm a little ignorant of the way all this > works -- just started and a partner is doing the technical matters -- > but can't the video "producer" just decide to rebroadcast and point > the RSS feed at an old piece of content, thus re-syndicating it?
Sure, you could republish the same content on the same feed, but that's not quite what I was pointing out - my videoblog from 2002 has been and gone. I'm fine with that, because it was meant to have a beginning, a middle and an end. If I were to continuously loop the content on the RSS feed, however, people would be jumping in at random times. They might unintentionally start to watch from the middle of the story... (Aside: yes, my videoblogs do have a narrative that spans the episodes. This alone sets them apart from the "canonical" form that Rocketboom et al represent.) I've got round this issue to a certain extent by offering feeds which have a timestamp that is generated by my feeds page. If people subscribe manually using this feed address, then I can indeed serve up a feed of the archived content, based on the subscription date. A problem arises, however, with portals such as iTMS etc. They only have the facility to register a single feed address, so that option becomes impossible. My only option is to register the complete feed so that people can choose the video episode they want to see. Again one runs into issues - apps like FireAnt will go ahead and download all 85 files unless instructed to do otherwise! The above only really scratches the surface of why the current canonical form of the videoblog raises problems for many content producers - there are many others I'm sure, but these are already enough to cause me concern about the assumptions implicit in it. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Wach Current Location: Bristol, UK Football: http://www.spiritoffootball.com Homepage: http://www.haystack.co.uk 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/
