Hi Jay and everyone else on the list... I often tell the story of seeing your comment on my vlog that asked me to come over and join this list.
2004 It was such a huge help back in 2004 when we were just trying to figure out the best ways to host videos... You are right that it was al about learning how to videoblog back then. We were all watchiing everyone's videos. Think about that. Everyone on the list was watching every single video on the internet. ;-) Well, every single video blog... It was technically challenging... so t here were fewer people doing it. Links Clutter up the list with posts of "here's a link to my most recent video of...: No way. We had RSS for that.. It's weird to think that it was frowned upon for people to point to their new videos. We were all watching everyone's new videos any way so cluttering up the list with pointers wasn't something that was done... Now everything has changed. We need pointers. They now pop up on twitter and friend feed. I always wanted FireAnt to let me see the popular videos that my friends were watching... Now it seems like we are getting that organically from a number of sources. Vlog It still irritates me when I hear someone say they posted a new vlog. They actually made a new 'vlog post'...not created a whole new blog to hold videos... but I'm getting over it... and understand that the video itself has become the vlog. YouTube It's also funny to look back at how we dismissed YouTube because it didn't allow access to the original QuickTime file or support RSS 2.0 with enclosures... Oops. Guess we missed the boat on that one. Exploring I'm still very excited about video on the web... New things I'm exploring are: - Live streaming via cellphone with Qik and other platforms. - Live broadcasting with Mogulus - Video conversations with Seesmic - HD video ( still wondering what camera to get ) I'm also still working on Citizen Journalism with Rocketboom and TheUptake... Along with that I'm looking into how all these technologies can be adapted by TV... So I think this is still a great place to talk about new technologies and new content... I surely couldn't have shared the above in under 140 characters... Meeting in Person It's always fun to see other videobloggers at events like SXSW too... I'll be at Podcamp Boston in July, New Media Expo August and Streaming Media West in September ... --Steve http://stevegarfield.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/stevegarfield --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > others spoke clearly on this. > We started in 2004 talking about HOW to videoblog. > the archives are interesting to read since you see that people were > truly just making it up. > getting video onto a blog was literally a hack. > Now its easy, so no need to talk about HOW...though i agree that list > list is a solid place if you have a videoblogging tech issue. > we've made places like showinbox.tv/forum to discuss specific technologies. > > We spent a year or so talking about the business of videoblogging. > it was interesting seeing all the money pouring into new companies > offering videoblogging services. > its still amazing to think that Youtube sold for 1.6 billion dollars. > that excitement has died down. the hype is stale. > Robert is also right that many people are using Twitter to post links. > > But as Andrew said, content content content. > the technology is here....now what do we want to say? > no more excuses. > Id love to hear about videoblog projects that people are really responding to. > > Jay > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 >
