Hi Jay, thanks for your kind review. After a "wait-a-minute" moment, I realized who you were. Not too long ago you gave me some encouraging advice about vlogging and I set this up.
It's done on Joomla. You are right about the context. I tried to dress up the YouTube channel, but it's true, you can only do so much. My hope is that someone will see a video in the wild, will see the watermark and will head over to www.myfirstmemory.org for more. I really don't have the urgency or energy to set up any forums or commenting system, so the site will probably stay as it is. If I could do one thing, I would like to find an easy way for people to send me their video so I can put it in the series... This, and the fact that I don't think I will ever do any high-quality video, lead me to think that YouTube is fine for now... frankly, I like to actually talk to people and find out their first memory a lot more than I like promoting the vlog. I would like to collect more memories than viewers... Cheers, MFM --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a newbie in this vlog-whatchamacallit thing, so please be kind > > and forgive me if this is a stupid question. > > I have been uploading at YouTube, and I am curious why so many other > > people use Blip or Vimeo or such other services. > > Is it the quality? > > Because in my mind, the social functions and the masses of people that > > are on YouTube make it the only option for me. I also don't have the > > patience for multi-site distribution through TubeMogul or otherwise... > > I checked out your videoblog: http://www.myfirstmemory.org/ > cool project: aksing different people their first memory. > and nice layout...did you code that page yourself? > or is that a service? > > And yes, some of us post on sites like Vimeo or blip because the > quality of compression is better. > Also, blip hosts your original file and lets you cross-upload to > archive.org so there's a double backup. > also, it's easier to talk with sites like blip if there's an issue > because they will actually respond. > all depends on what is most important to you. > > When I checked out your site, it looks important that people see the > videos in context of your page...versus someone finding in the wild on > Youtube. > > Jay > > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 >
