--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "andydragt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I just ask a clarifying question... > > It's seems like conventional wisdom has recommended against using a > seperate blip account for each vlog. However, with the new show > player, it makes sense to have your content in seperate accounts. > Otherwise it's pretty much useless.
Do you have a link to this conventional wisdom? I have four blip shows because they have nothing to do with each other. To post everything to one show would be completely disruptive. With the new blip player, I have all four shows on one page... each show having its own episode guide. If someone wants to see something larger, they click "fullscreen" in any of the players. > Heres the question: Is this "two weeks" comment about a solution to > this problem or should I begin to seperate my content into different > accounts so I have the option of using the player on one of my sites? > > Am I right in understanding the "best practice" has been to have only > one account and cross-post to different blogs? > > thanks all, > > Andy Dragt > > www.developinggr.com - a vlog about development in GR, MI > www.developinggr.com/house - a vlog about my home renovation... Unless all of your videoblogs are about the same topic, the way blip has been in the past, I think it's better to have one show for each of your topics. If people "tune in" to your show about development, they won't necessarily be interested in videos now and then about home renovation. OTOH, it depends how you're using blip as a host. If you never direct people to your blip pages, then it makes sense to only have one blip account and let your blog handle separating them into categories and feeds. I'd be interested to hear why someone thinks it's better to have one blip account with four unrelated topics in it than to have four focused blip accounts. -- Bill C. http://BillCammack.com (all four players) http://reelsolid.blip.tv http://ems.blip.tv http://thelab.blip.tv http://masamibillshow.blip.tv > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Hudack" <mike@> wrote: > > > > Two weeks. :) > > > > Yours, > > > > Mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattfeldman78 > > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:36 PM > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone found a way to control the order of the episodes within the > > player? Is this something that Blip is planning on offering? > > > > > > -Matt > > http://neovids.tv > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Verdi" <michael@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Yes - point taken about it not being a replacement. It's also good for > > > things like user profiles on various social networks. > > > - Verdi > > > > > > On 4/16/07, Bill Cammack <BillCammack@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Offering both makes a lot of sense to me. I dream of this stuff > > being > > > > > pushed to the extreme and for it to be possible for a blog like > > > > > experience to be completely available from within a flash player. > > > > > Complexities quickly arise when the people providing the player > > are > > > > > hosting your videos, but are not responsible for the rest of your > > > > > blog, it leads to an understandable focus on the video hosting > > page > > > > > rather than your blog page. This may not be considered a probem > > > > > because the expectation may be that you embed their player in your > > > > > site, and your site provides all the other bloggy stuff you > > want. But > > > > > this doesnt cover scenarios where our show player may be embedded > > on > > > > > another site or used as a widget. > > > > > > > > > > I see the guide button is optional, and its easy to rebrand the > > player > > > > > so that its got your own site in the bottom right hand corner, > > which > > > > > is a clickable link pointing to the URL of your choice. > > > > > > > > Thanks for mentioning that. I had those pointing to the blip shows, > > > > basically by default, but I've switched them now so that they point > > to > > > > the blogs for the shows instead of the blip pages. > > > > > > > > This helps out the permalink situation A LITTLE BIT, but it still > > > > takes the viewer to the most recent post in the blog. The only thing > > > > that seems to update with the individual video is if you click > > "guide" > > > > and then "read more about this on blip.tv", which takes you to the > > > > individual video's page on blip. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bill C. > > > > BillCammack.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > Id love to see the creative commons stuff thats been requested > > in the > > > > > past, be rolled out into this show player in the future, whether > > it be > > > > > through a little cc icon on the bottom bar of the player, or the > > > > > inclusion of this info in the popup 'about this episode' tab. > > > > > > > > > > I agree about the font size, hmm this stuff starts to get a bit > > > > > tricky, a big decision to break away from the player being > > 320x240. I > > > > > see that Veoh's player is rather large now, but this makes it look > > > > > quite good and leaves more room for additional info overlays to be > > > > > displayed in a larger font. Some other services have really wide > > > > > players with separate episode bars to one side of the video. > > > > > > > > > > Personally Im fascinated by the idea of a flash player for > > wordpress > > > > > that can display the entire blog, text video etc, in the flash > > player. > > > > > I was looking at WPF/E but I think I'll ignore that technology for > > > > > now, and go buymyself a copy of flash and join the fun. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > "Mike Hudack" <mike@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > > > > > > > For some people the blog format is really important. > > Cross-posting, > > > > > > copy & paste and everything else we've built to support the blog > > > > format > > > > > > aren't going away. We're going to keep those features, and we're > > > > going > > > > > > to keep improving them. It's just that the blog format isn't > > > > right for > > > > > > everyone. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > > > [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>] > > > > On Behalf Of Michael Verdi > > > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:09 PM > > > > > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] New blip.tv show player > > > > > > > > > > > > Aaron & Steve - you bring up some good points. I do think > > options for > > > > > > people > > > > > > are important and I do like the ability to look through an > > archive but > > > > > > the > > > > > > price is that you loose all the other benefits of a blog - > > permalinks, > > > > > > comments, context, choice of video size and formats. That > > player is > > > > > > really > > > > > > built on the idea that your blip.tv blog is your blog. So it > > only > > > > shows > > > > > > and > > > > > > links back to your blog posts on blip. Comments? They have to go > > > > on the > > > > > > blip > > > > > > blog (as long as the viewer know to click through to the blip > > blog to > > > > > > leave > > > > > > a comment). Plus you have to have the blip hot shows menu. > > That thing > > > > > > pulls > > > > > > in stuff completely out of context that you have no control > > over. Of > > > > > > course > > > > > > you do have control in that you certainly don't have to use > > the show > > > > > > player > > > > > > at all. I just think the blog part of videoblogging is > > important and > > > > > > desirable and I feel a little sad when people are so excited > > about > > > > > > dropping > > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > - Verdi > > > > > > > > > > > > On 4/15/07, Steve Garfield <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I put the new blip.tv player on my 'homepage' this morning. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.stevegarfield.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I blogged about it here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/04/blip-video-player.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In the blog post I say, "vlogs are dead. ;-)" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's a joke, but also ironic since the reason for initially > > using > > > > > > > blogs to post video in the first place was a technical one. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There wasn't any easy way to post video to the web. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Once I figured out that I could put video in a blog post, I > > got a > > > > > > > very easy way to publish videos, along with the added > > benefits of > > > > > > > that video being included in a blog post. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But that method, over time, introduced the problems of old > > videos > > > > > > > getting lost in archives, and not having an easy way to browse > > > > > > > through videos. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are a lot of companies now bringing to the market ways > > to make > > > > > > > it easy to surf videos and I'm glad that blip.tv has given > > me a way > > > > > > > to allow people to browse my archives that are hosted with > > blip.tv. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Steve Garfield > > > > > > > http://SteveGarfield.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > http://michaelverdi.com > > > > > > http://spinxpress.com > > > > > > http://freevlog.org > > > > > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://michaelverdi.com > > > http://spinxpress.com > > > http://freevlog.org > > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
