Dave, I agree, the commenting thing is a minus of a centralised site.
Great points. These are important things in deciding how to set this up. I've been trying to consider them. A centralised site is a useful tool for people to quickly see what's happening within the project. And it won't be anything like as hassleful as posting to / checking the Ning site. People don't have to embed videos when they post to the central blog - they can just post a link. What we did a lot in Navlopomo - even using the evil Ning - was include the post's permalink below the embedded video so that people could click through and comment. And each participant can individually choose to off the comments in their posts at the Semanal.org blog if they want to further encourage people to go through to their own blogs to comment. And in Navlopomo we had a central page where everyone's RSS feed was listed, so it was easy to subscribe to everyone in the group. In summary, I agree that the idea must be to avoid taking away from your blog - to increase traffic to it. I'd love wherever possible to find ways to increase exposure for individual vloggers. R --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "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" > > > > <rudy.jahchan@> 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 >
