I've been too busy to make or watch anything for a few months, and I've spent the last few days catching up.
I've been surprised by how many people have either slowed down their output or stopped completely over the last few months. So it doesn't surprise me that input to this list has dropped (though not the quality, I'm happy to see) It didn't depress me, though, because I didn't get the impression that anybody was stopping forever. I myself have had a couple of periods where I've stopped posting for extended periods (a whole year, once) and then started again when I'd got past a busy work or family period. Perhaps it's that for us personal videobloggers - those not doing a 'show' - there was a time when this was a huge new exciting toy that took priority over a lot of other things - but now it's a more regular part of our lives, subject to the same time pressures as everything else. The great thing is that people stay subscribed, so you don't *need* to be pumping stuff out regularly to keep it going. I posted a video for the first time in a while and I got the same number of views as usual, and loads of comments and emails in the first couple of days. From my browsing and chatting with people, I got the sense that people will be coming back online as the summer progresses and everybody emerges from under our work stones to have fun. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ On 18-Jun-08, at 9:34 PM, B Yen wrote: On Jun 18, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Robert Scoble wrote: > For me, a few reasons: > > > > 1. Videoblogging has changed. Many of the practitioners have > gone to cell > phones, or streaming video. I came into this group, as a practitioner/specialist in PDA/cellphone videos. Can you give examples of people doing streaming video? I played with it a bit, but never got into it. Because, quick uploads of videos after a "live act" did the job. Downloadable videos work pretty good. I might be trying some streaming video at the upcoming Aug. 1 solar eclipse in China. > > 2. The idea of videoblogging never culturally caught on the way > text > blogging did. I addressed 2 markets in my project. 1) xxxx (extremely tech-challenged market) they are using BBS (bulletin boards) as a mechanism to do LIVE coverage from auto races. A bunch of idiots copying phone transactions (satellite phone or cellphone). "hey, that guy is just left the starting line"..followed by "thanks for the info!"..like 110 pages of this worthless nonsense. It sounds like a transcript of a 100 member party-line conversation. Pretty dumb. As everyone knows, a blog (text, picture, video) is a solution for a LiveWebCast. Especially, if the video-blog has an iTunes RSS feed: http://corracing.blip.tv http://score-international.blip.tv http://bestinthedesert.blip.tv 2) Physics conferences (High Energy Physics) This market was where Tim Berners Lee (of CERN, who created HTTP) did his pioneering work, where he was trying to help large teams of physicists at CERN to communicate with each other. This market has me baffled. I demonstrated - Textamerica.com mobile-blogs as a LiveWebCast delivery (pictures & videos) http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/1.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/2.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/3.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/4.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/5.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/6.jpg http://www.jumplive.com/susy06/7.jpg [ unfortunately, Textamerica.com "went away" Dec 1/2007, the above are just screen shots ] - Blogger video-blogs at a same-day delivery of videos (over iTunes) http://susy06.blogspot.com http://strings07.blogspot.com I was working with 1 of the organizers of Strings '07 (they were really tech-savvy, they were using QTSS to deliver lecture videos with 1-hr turnaround), they let me transcode their QT .mov to iPod compatible .m4v http://strings07thu.blip.tv They went as far as to send a followup email to conference attendees (many are famous physicists from Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, et al)..& get a LOAD OF THIS. I got ZERO, I mean ZERO, responses!! You would think some of them would have said something. We were shooting for an online article with Apple, about how Technology (e.g., video-blogging over iTunes) is changing how Physics conferences is delivering content (Research or Public Outreach). We got a response from Apple, but I haven't followed up. I recently made a query to a theoretical physicist, & they are saying "we are reflective (book nerdy), & don't like seeing pictures of ourselves". But, many physicists I approached (at conferences) for pics/interviews were very receptive/friendly. So, I just don't get it. I agree with the statement, that "video-blogging has not caught on like text blogging". The Physics blogosphere is primarily text- blogging (very difficult to read, very technical), many of them have rejected my public encouragement to do video-blogging. However, a few have embedded Blip.tv Flash video player, & most use Youtube embedded videos. I was watching that 4-part episode on Science Channel "Internet Wars"/"Browser Wars", et al. They covered Youtube, Facebook, etc. The guy was saying: "until the Technology becomes TRANSPARENT, it will not be accepted by the masses (& therefore make a ton of $$ for the entrepeneur)" I think this is why video-blogging has not caught on on a _Massive scale_ (& why the mobile-media videos R. Scoble has mentioned is beginning to, via Twitter). But, Blip.tv has a deal with CNN for iReport (citizen journalism via cellphone), so...aren't they getting it done? I've delivered a LiveWebCast using cellphone videos sent to Blip.tv (& crossposted to Blogger blogs): http://07baja1000.blogspot.com http://07baja1000.blip.tv/ [ cellphone videos delivered to Blip.tv, over WiFi to my satellite- DSL equipped 4x4 van..you can see it in the background of the videos ] http://07bitdtt250.blogspot.com/ http://07bitdtt250.blip.tv/ [ cellphone videos delivered over the cellphone networks. Cellphone coverage is so good these days, you have coverage even in outlying desert areas ] After using Textamerica as my mobile-blog solution, I was TOTALLY UNAWARE of the Blip.tv mobile solution..until Jay Dedman told me about it!! So, if *I* have a "perception" problem, just think of Joe Average in the public. It's kinda like EV (electric vehicles), the public perception is of a clunky ugly thing. The Tesla Motors Roadster was designed to change the public perception ("sex sells"). http://tesla-roadster.blogspot.com So, the answer to video-blogging, is kind of "sexy project" to "capture the publics imagination". Need a disaster (like Hurricane Katrina, Iowa flooding, etc) to showcase how mobile-blogging via cellphone (or satellite phone) can report the news. Textamerica.com did a deal with NBC, to showcase mobile-blogging > > 3. There's a lot of other things taking our time up, like > Twitter and > FriendFeed (a) some guy used his Blackberry to get on the Internet, & make a post on an offroad racing BBS forum..from Baja Mexico!! Just to show you how interconnected we're getting, via cellphone networks. > > 4. (b) Those things are where we now discuss our video problems. > > > > I still lurk. Generally I'd rather talk about this stuff over on > FriendFeed > where more of the new media types are hanging out. I still like the forums/BBS, as a method to discuss topics. > > > > Robert Scoble > > Fast Company TV > > > > > > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Tom > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:37 PM > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [videoblogging] Decline in posts to this group. > > > > I've noticed that I don't get as much email from this group that I > use to, so being really bored tonight I looked at the home page for > this group to check on the number of posts. Seeing a large decline > in posts over the last year, and being too much of a geek, I decided > to plot the posts vs. months in a spreadsheet and graph it. The > graph is at: http://tinyurl.com/5jcwgo > > Our monthly posts are now at the same level they were when the group > started four years ago. So, a few questions come to mind: > > Are people vlogging more, but posting less? > Are people leaving the group? > Like me, have you become a lurker, not a poster? > Did you loose interest in vlogging? > Or, just don't have the time to keep it up? > > I started off all gung-ho a few years ago, but with family > obligations, job, etc. just don't have the time to vlog these days. > > Just a few thoughts. > > All the best, > Tom aka Irish Hermit > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
