Actually the more I think about this ... the more I really think we as a community are cheating ourselves and folks like MeFeedia.
It's not like this is an event that lasts for 2 days and/or is a last minute thing. We have a freakin year. ** Imagine what could be done with that year. ** Mefeedia is more than capable of tracking and displaying these videos for us. They can let us comment there in one place (if we want that) or back at the vloggers site as we please. Further they are eager to build out a social network and the features *we want* ... with a lil mini-community forming around this year long and somewhat casual experiment ... we could help them immensely with that - and thus help ourselves. Why don't we use MeFeedia for this (and all the while offer to them our feedback/wish lists/suggestions for improvements/etc)? They have always proven to be eager to provide what the community wants, and this seems to be right up their ally. With a channel at mefeedia its already all gathered up in one place automatically, we can comment on the items there, get listings of user activity for related videos, get recent video widgets for the channel ... all sorts of stuff. (See NaVloPoMo for an example: http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/navlopomo/ ) And if there some lil whiz-bang thing that MeFeedia cant provide right now ... well we have a year ahead of us - lets use this chance to tell them all of the things like "oh this would be so much cooler if you'd add this feature" ... I mean we can't complain about feeling like we always have to look for ways to reinvent the wheel if we don't give those who are trying to provide the tools we want a chance to actually do so. As so many have pointed out in this thread - this isn't anything radically different than normal vlogging. Our Feeds and Aggregators can carry the weight, and we shouldn't need any REVOLUTIONARY functionality to make this work here at day 1. MeFeedia can already provide the gathering place right now today ... and we - in return - can use our experience with them to tell them how to do it even better in the near future. Lets all go get a mefeedia account (if you for some reason don't have one), make sure our feed is in the system (if for some reason it isn't already). I volunteer to create the channel at mefeedia. Thoughts? - Dave On Jan 3, 2008 12:16 PM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know a fuller solution is being worked on - and I know I kinda > complained about this for NaVloPoMo .... but please indulge my > offering some suggestions on how to post and track Semanal videos: > > 1) For Pete's sake I have a feed ... if, despite that, I have still > have to go to this ning site and link to my videos each time then > a) I simply wont remember to > b) I wont want to > c) I defeat the purpose of RSS in the first place > > I'm not sure if we're going to have a tag, but even if we don't > couldn't we just create a 'Channel' at MeFeedia containing the feeds > of participating vloggers or something? > > 2) One Blog to Rule them All -- Some talk has been made of a > super-blog that we would all contribute to. Does anyone think that > this might lead to comments happening there rather than the vloggers > site? Is that something that nobody really cares about? > > I'm just trying to figure out why we're reinventing the wheel as far > as how to gather up and collect videos when things like RSS and > Aggregators (not to mention web based ones like MeFeedia) have been > doing that for us for a while now. > > Do we have to come up with something nuts other than these tools and > drive traffic away from the participating vloggers' sites? > > - Dave > > > On Jan 3, 2008 12:03 PM, Frank Sinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really cool idea. What is the tag? "semanal" ? Mefeedia will do our > > usual hyper-aggregation / tag meme thing. > > > > Regards, > > -Frank > > > > http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "rudy.jahchan" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I agree with Paul. It's great this will motivate people to post more > > > and strongly encourage anyone to hit a weekly target (hell I dream of > > > going daily). And having a common location to post is grand to. But > > > none of this is anything new. > > > > > > So you have even less of an excuse if you don't do it ;-) > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight <paul.knight7@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hmm, isn't this what vloggers do anyway???? Or is it me? Most > > people > > > > can do 52 posts in a year, it's nothing new! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Howe" <rupert@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hey everybody > > > > > > > > > > Ze Nuno's had a great idea. > > > > > > > > > > Every week in 2008, we're posting videos. 52 videos by the end of > > > > the > > > > > year. > > > > > > > > > > Continuing the spirit of NaVloPoMo, but posting 52 videos over the > > > > > course of a whole year, instead of 30 in a month. > > > > > > > > > > Like NaVloPoMo, you can post on your blog, on Seesmic, Facebook, > > > > > YouTube, whatever, wherever and however. You can do anything you > > > > want. > > > > > As long as it moves. > > > > > > > > > > Whether you already post weekly or not, I think it'll be a great > > > > > challenge and network to be involved in. > > > > > > > > > > NaVloPoMo gave great inspiration, energy and exposure. And it was > > > > FUN :) > > > > > > > > > > Join us at: > > > > > http://semanal.ning.com/ > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.DavidMeade.com > -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
