Re: [videoblogging] chuck, Chasingmills, Me, etc on youtube
ok, i sill can't find it! Is youtube regional these days. I looked at the homepage, i searched for josh leo, candy, online, h and r.. but no luck. where is everyone looking? i like to see the videos people made! be well d -- http://duncanspeakman.net http://29fragiledays.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Paid Subscription + CMS
Ron, I have some experience with selling music over iTunes. I suspect that a lot of this applies to selling video on iTunes. If you go to iTunes personally by filling in their online form, it can take six months or more to get your music onto the store because they have such a backlog of private applications to get through... and apparently sometimes they just never get back to you. So the best thing to do is to use a distributor/aggregator. However, most of them will screw you on rights, TC and charges. The company we chose (no personal association, just did research) was Tunecore, whose big selling point is that they don't take ANY rights or royalties, whereas other companies like CDBaby and The Orchard have sneakier TCs. Tunecore don't advertise a video service, but it might be worth getting in touch with them to see if they can do it for you if you choose the iTunes route. Or there may be other companies that specialise in video distribution to iTunes etc, but beware TCs. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:57, Ron Watson wrote: I am wondering what iTunes has to off the little guy. ...iTunes...hmmm. Anybody have any experience navigating the iTunes pay for play scheme? I'm going to look into that right now. How many people would pay a few bucks to learn to teach their dog learn to retrieve in just a few minutes? Any help or discussion would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
Remember that the NARA material was paid for by US taxpayers, and so the argument would have been made that it wrong to freely distribute it globally without adequate return or protection.BALLS. This is where people who understand and care need to make their voices heard. The people making the decisions in places like the NARA just DON'T UNDERSTAND what's at stake, and what the opportunities are. And I think you're right to be angry at Google, David - they are pushing a form of DRM for their own commercial gain when they *should* be advising NARA to set the content free. Don't do evil - hmm. Google could easily make money from it in other, less empire- building ways. I am in no doubt that the committees in the NARA that chose this route did not have a good understanding of the future of media distribution and the potential importance of their decision. They will be stuck in an old-media mentality, listening to their advisers: Google. We are about to face a similar problem in the UK. The BBC are putting their massive archive online, and they are obsessed with DRM. In the UK, everyone with a TV pays a $200+ license fee (tax) each year to fund the BBC. It has no commercials or sponsors. It's OURS. The BBC website is beautiful, but the BBC is a massive bureaucratic, old-media beast and its management are locked in an outmoded mindset, and are choosing their technology based on this. They have rejected Quicktime and Flash as formats because they have been told that they don't have adequate DRM or quality - I suspect that they have been sold a line by Microsoft. They have been ramping up their rights clauses in their contracts with independent producers, being very hardline about negotiation on this, and are terrified of being accused of 'giving away' content paid for by taxpayers without getting adequate return. This was a massive opportunity for them and for all of us, and it looks like they're going to blow it. And they are very poorly advised. And all of us have to sit back and watch. Are there pressure groups or organisations with strong voices who believe in protecting public domain media and encouraging free internet distribution for this kind of stuff? Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:02, David wrote: You are correct on one point: I should be (and I am) irritated at NARA for its inaction in making these materials widely available. That content is ours: yours, mine and everyone's. That's part of my motivation for making the video and disseminating the methods you can use to gain access to your cultural heritage. It's naive to think that Google gets no benefit from digitizing and serving these materials. If they were doing it as a public service then they would make the material available in an open source, freely available, editable format. They've gone to extra expense to fence it off. The reason they're keeping it in a proprietary format is because they see profit in doing so, both presently and in the future. At present they benefit from increased traffic, so your assertion that they are losing money is not proven. And, besides, they're not making the material available, they're making it viewable. Unless you use the methods outlined in my cartoon or some form of screenscraping, those materials aren't available to you for your use, they're only viewable by you, through the Google player or on the Google website. And I remind you that the content we're discussing is public domain. It belongs to everyone. I think it's justifiable to get angry at a giant corporation for appropriating a public asset, especially since the corporation in question, Google, has gone to great lengths to advertise itself as a humane, benevolent, progressive company, a guardian of our digital rights and well being. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joey Profit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to play devils advocate (but I'm going to) your anger at google seems unjustified. I'm not sure what hoops you have to jump through to gain access to a file or video in the NARA but I'm willing to bet there is a cost associated with retrieving said information. Even if it's as simple as paying a guy or gal to pull the tape off a rack. Should the archive itself pay those fees? Maybe. They probably make you jump through hoops as a deterrent. I'm willing to bet that google pays a fee to obtain copies of those films. Or has hired lawyers and others to jump through the hoops. That being said who are you to dictate how google retransmits that data. Google isn't making any money off of putting that video up on Google Video. In fact, if anything they are losing money just by making it available in the first place. Bandwidth costs etc. So who should you be upset with? probably the NARA for not putting the content on line and free for people to download. On 23/01/07, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey
[videoblogging] Re: chuck, Chasingmills, Me, etc on youtube
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to find it since it was on the main page, no luck here either. OKAY, stop the presses. I found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmMb6zfmoA Mike ok, i sill can't find it! Is youtube regional these days. I looked at the homepage, i searched for josh leo, candy, online, h and r.. but no luck. where is everyone looking? i like to see the videos people made! be well d -- http://duncanspeakman.net http://29fragiledays.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: chuck, Chasingmills, Me, etc on youtube
ahh.. i didn't know to search for taxcut. thanks mike! d On 24/01/07, Mike Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to find it since it was on the main page, no luck here either. OKAY, stop the presses. I found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmMb6zfmoA Mike ok, i sill can't find it! Is youtube regional these days. I looked at the homepage, i searched for josh leo, candy, online, h and r.. but no luck. where is everyone looking? i like to see the videos people made! be well d -- http://duncanspeakman.net http://29fragiledays.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://duncanspeakman.net http://29fragiledays.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: podcasting in iTunes - question
Dear Videobloggers, At the moment I am trying to learn to podcast via iTunes. This morning, I followed the freevlog video tutorial and managed to organise feedburner and an RSS button for one of the blogs. What I would really like to do by the end of this year is to have all my film making students available for viewing through iTunes so that any EFL student can download the films on iPods for free. Catch is how do I do that? I have started searching on the net (wikipedia), and I am a little lost. I am waiting for one of the books recommended on this site to arrive. Can anyone provide any good links that would speed up the process? I use Windows XP, is that a problem? Thanks for any guidance with this project, Greatly appreciated, Nicolas Gromik Nicolas Tohoku University Sendai, Japan fax=81-22-7647 http://www.filmedworld.com/page.php?3 http://nag-productions.blip.tv/? http://sendai-city-tourism-tohoku-university.blip.tv/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [videoblogging] Paid Subscription + CMS
You can sell media with Cruxy.com, which was developed by Nathan Freitas, who is on this list. Definitely check it out. -josh On 1/24/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, I have some experience with selling music over iTunes. I suspect that a lot of this applies to selling video on iTunes. If you go to iTunes personally by filling in their online form, it can take six months or more to get your music onto the store because they have such a backlog of private applications to get through... and apparently sometimes they just never get back to you. So the best thing to do is to use a distributor/aggregator. However, most of them will screw you on rights, TC and charges. The company we chose (no personal association, just did research) was Tunecore, whose big selling point is that they don't take ANY rights or royalties, whereas other companies like CDBaby and The Orchard have sneakier TCs. Tunecore don't advertise a video service, but it might be worth getting in touch with them to see if they can do it for you if you choose the iTunes route. Or there may be other companies that specialise in video distribution to iTunes etc, but beware TCs. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:57, Ron Watson wrote: I am wondering what iTunes has to off the little guy. ...iTunes...hmmm. Anybody have any experience navigating the iTunes pay for play scheme? I'm going to look into that right now. How many people would pay a few bucks to learn to teach their dog learn to retrieve in just a few minutes? Any help or discussion would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: Custom player skin
Also Divx has a tool that will do this. I saw a demo of it at CES. And of course there is Flash. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: around the 24/1/07 J. Rhett Aultman mentioned about [videoblogging] Custom player skin that: We're considering putting our videos of last year on a CD so we can give them out to people we meet. Since our videos end up in 320x240, we can't make a DVD and have it look decent on a TV. We'd like to have some DVD-like features, though, like menus and whatnot. We thought it'd be neat if there was some app out there that might let us make a skinnable media player that would show a menu of our videos and play them in a 320x240 window on people's computers. Does anyone know if anything like this exists? QT supports skinned movies. Something like videoclix probably supports it URL: http://www.elinetech.com/videoclix_main.html or there's the tutorial at apple: URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/mediaskins.html -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html
[videoblogging] Re: viewing flash videos
You mean the FLV files? Fireant and Democracy will play FLV files, and you can convert them to another format to view with a tool called iSquint. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, miglsd27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a MacBook, and all is fine and sweet. Except for my flash movies. In my previous iBook, I used to view them in Niceplayer and it worked well. But with the new Mac, I can´t seem to find an App that allows me to watch the flash videos I downloaded. Any thoughts? One more thing. In a cheap dv camera, that yellow hole that says AV or something, does that allow you to plug a set of headphones there? What do you use it for? Miguel.
Re: [videoblogging] Paid Subscription + CMS
that looks like a Very Cool Site. never heard of it. thanks. it's depressing, though. how can there be so many cool things to check out and so little time? and i only hear about 0.001% of them. how do people manage to be clued up about stuff AND pay their bills AND tie their shoes? On 24 Jan 2007, at 15:38, Joshua Kinberg wrote: You can sell media with Cruxy.com, which was developed by Nathan Freitas, who is on this list. Definitely check it out. -josh On 1/24/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, I have some experience with selling music over iTunes. I suspect that a lot of this applies to selling video on iTunes. If you go to iTunes personally by filling in their online form, it can take six months or more to get your music onto the store because they have such a backlog of private applications to get through... and apparently sometimes they just never get back to you. So the best thing to do is to use a distributor/aggregator. However, most of them will screw you on rights, TC and charges. The company we chose (no personal association, just did research) was Tunecore, whose big selling point is that they don't take ANY rights or royalties, whereas other companies like CDBaby and The Orchard have sneakier TCs. Tunecore don't advertise a video service, but it might be worth getting in touch with them to see if they can do it for you if you choose the iTunes route. Or there may be other companies that specialise in video distribution to iTunes etc, but beware TCs. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:57, Ron Watson wrote: I am wondering what iTunes has to off the little guy. ...iTunes...hmmm. Anybody have any experience navigating the iTunes pay for play scheme? I'm going to look into that right now. How many people would pay a few bucks to learn to teach their dog learn to retrieve in just a few minutes? Any help or discussion would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: viewing flash videos
hi miguel download yourself a free copy of the perian component, and then you can play .flv files right in quicktime. it's quite nice http://perian.org/ the a/v jack is often used for plugging the camera into a television. an a/v cable splits into three rca-style plugs. the red and white deliver stereo sound, and the yellow delivers the video signal. -- xo philip http://swordfight.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, miglsd27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a MacBook, and all is fine and sweet. Except for my flash movies. In my previous iBook, I used to view them in Niceplayer and it worked well. But with the new Mac, I can ´t seem to find an App that allows me to watch the flash videos I downloaded. Any thoughts? One more thing. In a cheap dv camera, that yellow hole that says AV or something, does that allow you to plug a set of headphones there? What do you use it for? Miguel.
[videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
As good as its programming can be I've heard the BBC referred to as the Big Bully on Campus. I'm not sure the method in the cartoon gets around Google's subscription DRM player encryption and all that. I only know that when I've gone looking for public domain footage on google -- say of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima -- I can only get at the material if I use the steps I've outlined to access the physical file and then transcode it to something I can use. Those steps may be mundane to some. But it took me awhile to discover a way to access that material. My motivation in making the cartoon was not to bring down Google's stock price, but to share the information with my fellow videobloggers in case anyone has been frothing at the mouth to get that archival footage. I'm pretty sure that the US public domain material, newsreels and such produced by the US government, are considered worldwide public domain so they are yours too even though you're a Brit. It's not really clear to a lot of folks if Google's library project is good or bad. On the plus side it could increase access to content a lot. On the negative side, libraries have traditionally been non- profit organizations whose mission is to increase the public good of access to information. Critics argue that Google is a private enterprise whose mission is profit maximization and that can put it at odds with the public weal. Further they point out that google has been fairly secretive about what it's doing and it's using an opt-out strategy. Opt out is ethically problematic. People on this list should be familiar with opt-out's drawbacks: think MyHeavy.com and others. There are more subtle but real problems surrounding issues of search ranking and fairness. In truth, I made the cartoon and publicized it here because as content creators the disposition, use and misuse of information concerns this community. I also thought some of my colleagues might like to get at that public domain video as I have wanted to in the past. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and support Rupert. More videos of your daughter doing obsessive things, please. Cheers --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that the NARA material was paid for by US taxpayers, and so the argument would have been made that it wrong to freely distribute it globally without adequate return or protection.BALLS. This is where people who understand and care need to make their voices heard. The people making the decisions in places like the NARA just DON'T UNDERSTAND what's at stake, and what the opportunities are. And I think you're right to be angry at Google, David - they are pushing a form of DRM for their own commercial gain when they *should* be advising NARA to set the content free. Don't do evil - hmm. Google could easily make money from it in other, less empire- building ways. I am in no doubt that the committees in the NARA that chose this route did not have a good understanding of the future of media distribution and the potential importance of their decision. They will be stuck in an old-media mentality, listening to their advisers: Google. We are about to face a similar problem in the UK. The BBC are putting their massive archive online, and they are obsessed with DRM. In the UK, everyone with a TV pays a $200+ license fee (tax) each year to fund the BBC. It has no commercials or sponsors. It's OURS. The BBC website is beautiful, but the BBC is a massive bureaucratic, old-media beast and its management are locked in an outmoded mindset, and are choosing their technology based on this. They have rejected Quicktime and Flash as formats because they have been told that they don't have adequate DRM or quality - I suspect that they have been sold a line by Microsoft. They have been ramping up their rights clauses in their contracts with independent producers, being very hardline about negotiation on this, and are terrified of being accused of 'giving away' content paid for by taxpayers without getting adequate return. This was a massive opportunity for them and for all of us, and it looks like they're going to blow it. And they are very poorly advised. And all of us have to sit back and watch. Are there pressure groups or organisations with strong voices who believe in protecting public domain media and encouraging free internet distribution for this kind of stuff? Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:02, David wrote: You are correct on one point: I should be (and I am) irritated at NARA for its inaction in making these materials widely available. That content is ours: yours, mine and everyone's. That's part of my motivation for making the video and disseminating the methods you can use to gain access to your cultural heritage. It's naive
[videoblogging] Re: Paid Subscription + CMS
That's a good resource. Thanks Josh. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can sell media with Cruxy.com, which was developed by Nathan Freitas, who is on this list. Definitely check it out. -josh On 1/24/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, I have some experience with selling music over iTunes. I suspect that a lot of this applies to selling video on iTunes. If you go to iTunes personally by filling in their online form, it can take six months or more to get your music onto the store because they have such a backlog of private applications to get through... and apparently sometimes they just never get back to you. So the best thing to do is to use a distributor/aggregator. However, most of them will screw you on rights, TC and charges. The company we chose (no personal association, just did research) was Tunecore, whose big selling point is that they don't take ANY rights or royalties, whereas other companies like CDBaby and The Orchard have sneakier TCs. Tunecore don't advertise a video service, but it might be worth getting in touch with them to see if they can do it for you if you choose the iTunes route. Or there may be other companies that specialise in video distribution to iTunes etc, but beware TCs. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:57, Ron Watson wrote: I am wondering what iTunes has to off the little guy. ...iTunes...hmmm. Anybody have any experience navigating the iTunes pay for play scheme? I'm going to look into that right now. How many people would pay a few bucks to learn to teach their dog learn to retrieve in just a few minutes? Any help or discussion would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] How2 TV: Episode 2 - Sound
http://www.mnn.org/en/node/705 -- Bill C. http://ems.blip.tv
[videoblogging] video sites that pay
There's a piece on Boing Boing today about a new book on the topic of video sites that pay on the web http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/23/video_websites_that_.html book: http://stores.lulu.com/kirsner sample: http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm joly --- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
[videoblogging] Re: Paid Subscription + CMS
This model does not work for everyone. It is the right way for things to work in a just world... too bad we don't live in one. I suppose it could be the difference between giving people something they want and giving them something they need. solidarity, FluxRostrum Fluxview.com Re: Paid Subscription + CMS Posted by: Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] filmguy1105 Date: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:06 pm ((PST)) You could also try giving the videos away for free and make money from the opportunities that arise from that (that's what happened to a number of bloggers and some vloggers). -Verdi = Logistics Software Solutions Express Technologies is a leading provider of technical solutions to transportation firms, offering state-of-the-art transportation, logistics, distribution and warehousing software. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=c93660321accaeae76b0a865774ce083 -- Powered By Outblaze
[videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
Funny that the BBC is mentioned. Like any large institution they have a certain amount of power, but this is counteracted somewhat by so many people being interested in influencing what they do with their mammoth size. Just today I saw this story about how Ofcom (the UK regulator) is telling the BBC off for some of its planned Video Download services - Ofcom want it to be even more restrictive, so that it doesnt unfairly harm the commercial competitors to the BBC, and so that it doesnt impact too much on things like DVD sales. So they are advising the BBC to make the content timeout and dissapear from users computers even more quickly than the BBC had planned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6290745.stm As a BBC license fee payer, I am resigned to the fact that just beccause we pay for it, doesnt currently give us entitlement to use all BBC footage however we like. We contribute to production costs, and we get to watch their stuff, and technically the right to keep it for a certain period of time. If we want to have permanent access to it, we have to buy the DVD. I would like this to change but I cant expect it to happen in isolation, the argument about it harming commercial rivals will carry weight with those who get the power to make these decisions. And if it were freely available worldwide, the argument about us paying license fee to subsidise the rest of the world would arise. We shpould also be aware that current BBC footage isnt really akin to stuff that in the public domain. Its fine to make an argument that it should be, but as things stand right now the stuff about google DRMing public domain stuff is not directly comparable with commercial or nation-owned companies DRMing their copyrighted content. Personally as someone who is not an optimist about things in the medium term, I expect injustices like this stuff to become inconsequentioal compared to the horrors ahead. I think its more likely that 'media will become free' because the industry that currently produces it will collapse over time with much of the rest of our modern economy society, rather than as a result to some new enlightened approach to our very ideas about 'owning' creative content. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As good as its programming can be I've heard the BBC referred to as the Big Bully on Campus. We are about to face a similar problem in the UK. The BBC are putting their massive archive online, and they are obsessed with DRM. In the UK, everyone with a TV pays a $200+ license fee (tax) each year to fund the BBC. It has no commercials or sponsors. It's OURS. The BBC website is beautiful, but the BBC is a massive bureaucratic, old-media beast and its management are locked in an outmoded mindset, and are choosing their technology based on this. They have rejected Quicktime and Flash as formats because they have been told that they don't have adequate DRM or quality - I suspect that they have been sold a line by Microsoft. They have been ramping up their rights clauses in their contracts with independent producers, being very hardline about negotiation on this, and are terrified of being accused of 'giving away' content paid for by taxpayers without getting adequate return. This was a massive opportunity for them and for all of us, and it looks like they're going to blow it. And they are very poorly advised. And all of us have to sit back and watch.
Re: [videoblogging] video sites that pay
This is a good piece of work. From my cursory view Scott has done a great job synthesizing the different services, with an understanding of the mechanics and the energy behind each. Mahalo nui for posting the info Joly. Rox On 1/24/07, WWWhatsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a piece on Boing Boing today about a new book on the topic of video sites that pay on the web http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/23/video_websites_that_.html book: http://stores.lulu.com/kirsner sample: http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm joly -- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian 808-384-5554 http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.barefeetshop.com http://www.barefeetstudios.com http://www.inthetransition.com
[videoblogging] Reaching out
Hi all, As some of you know, my 18 month old nephew, Joey, is in critical condition after being found in a pool a little over a week ago. This last week has been quite trying for my family, and the last couple of days have been difficult (highs and lows), as he has woken from his coma. The doctors are now trying to determine if he has sustained any brain damage and to what extent. I have made a personal video, and posted it at: http://www.joshpaul.com/?p=263 Feel free to watch the video, and if you're so inclined, leave a comment on Joey's update blog (link is in image form on my post...trying to avoid spambots) which the family is reading. Also, if you make a video, I will burn it to DVD and show it to my family over the next week. Warm regards, Josh
RE: [videoblogging] video sites that pay
Hey guys, Just so that you know the information about blip.tv in this table is about six months old, and much has changed since then. We're getting in touch with the author to make the change, in the meantime you can see our actual advertising program by clicking on the link about blip.tv in the book's comparison table. Yours, Mike -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roxanne Darling Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:42 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] video sites that pay This is a good piece of work. From my cursory view Scott has done a great job synthesizing the different services, with an understanding of the mechanics and the energy behind each. Mahalo nui for posting the info Joly. Rox On 1/24/07, WWWhatsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a piece on Boing Boing today about a new book on the topic of video sites that pay on the web http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/23/video_websites_that_.html book: http://stores.lulu.com/kirsner sample: http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm joly -- WWWhatsup NYC http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- -- Roxanne Darling o ke kai means of the sea in hawaiian 808-384-5554 http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.barefeetshop.com http://www.barefeetstudios.com http://www.inthetransition.com Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
the industry that currently produces it will collapse over time with much of the rest of our modern economy society. thanks for that cheery thought :-) Thanks for the link, too - I hadn't seen that story today. It's talking about the iPlayer, which is for all recent (last 7 days) content, and I can definitely see the competitive element of that, and also the need for the BBC to make some kind of revenue return on new shows - after all, you're right, it's not pure public domain stuff. but it's just wrong that they seem to be taking the same attitude towards their archive - decades of basically non-competitive material. as it gets older, it *should* become public domain. we don't 'contribute to' production costs - together, we totally fund everything they do - we are investors in the finished product, and part owners of it. If they opened up the archive, it would be an argument *for* the licence fee and the BBC. You say you can't expect this to change in isolation... but can you see any real way that motivated people could influence the decisions of large public bodies, which doesn't involve the end of everything else? In an optimistic moment? On 24 Jan 2007, at 20:12, Steve Watkins wrote: Funny that the BBC is mentioned. Like any large institution they have a certain amount of power, but this is counteracted somewhat by so many people being interested in influencing what they do with their mammoth size. Just today I saw this story about how Ofcom (the UK regulator) is telling the BBC off for some of its planned Video Download services - Ofcom want it to be even more restrictive, so that it doesnt unfairly harm the commercial competitors to the BBC, and so that it doesnt impact too much on things like DVD sales. So they are advising the BBC to make the content timeout and dissapear from users computers even more quickly than the BBC had planned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6290745.stm As a BBC license fee payer, I am resigned to the fact that just beccause we pay for it, doesnt currently give us entitlement to use all BBC footage however we like. We contribute to production costs, and we get to watch their stuff, and technically the right to keep it for a certain period of time. If we want to have permanent access to it, we have to buy the DVD. I would like this to change but I cant expect it to happen in isolation, the argument about it harming commercial rivals will carry weight with those who get the power to make these decisions. And if it were freely available worldwide, the argument about us paying license fee to subsidise the rest of the world would arise. We shpould also be aware that current BBC footage isnt really akin to stuff that in the public domain. Its fine to make an argument that it should be, but as things stand right now the stuff about google DRMing public domain stuff is not directly comparable with commercial or nation-owned companies DRMing their copyrighted content. Personally as someone who is not an optimist about things in the medium term, I expect injustices like this stuff to become inconsequentioal compared to the horrors ahead. I think its more likely that 'media will become free' because the industry that currently produces it will collapse over time with much of the rest of our modern economy society, rather than as a result to some new enlightened approach to our very ideas about 'owning' creative content. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As good as its programming can be I've heard the BBC referred to as the Big Bully on Campus. We are about to face a similar problem in the UK. The BBC are putting their massive archive online, and they are obsessed with DRM. In the UK, everyone with a TV pays a $200+ license fee (tax) each year to fund the BBC. It has no commercials or sponsors. It's OURS. The BBC website is beautiful, but the BBC is a massive bureaucratic, old-media beast and its management are locked in an outmoded mindset, and are choosing their technology based on this. They have rejected Quicktime and Flash as formats because they have been told that they don't have adequate DRM or quality - I suspect that they have been sold a line by Microsoft. They have been ramping up their rights clauses in their contracts with independent producers, being very hardline about negotiation on this, and are terrified of being accused of 'giving away' content paid for by taxpayers without getting adequate return. This was a massive opportunity for them and for all of us, and it looks like they're going to blow it. And they are very poorly advised. And all of us have to sit back and watch. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Tony Kahn of WGBH Radio's Morning Stories is vlogging
Tony Kahn of WGBH Radio's Morning Stories is vlogging The video project I worked on with Tony Kahn of WGBH Radio's Morning Stories podcast is now being posted to YouTube. This was a fun musical mashup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ah-BWtWdA --Steve -- Steve Garfield http://SteveGarfield.com
[videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
Cheers, well, in an optimistic moment the BBC will play an important role in pushing some boundaries in the UK at least. In the past they have stuck their toe in the water with things like letting VJs remix use some of their archive clips for non-commercial purposes (although it with their own license which was inspired by creative commons but more restrictive in various ways, eg UK people only). There will be people within the organisation and externally who want to go much further than they willr ealistically be able to do. If the economic political climate was different, if we were not in the middle of a 'the market is god' phase of political belief, various commercial effects any move the BBC makes may be less powerful factors in the decision than other stuff such as public interest etc. I really cannot make any predictions about how fast the pace of change will be, I clearly dont expect all that much, some real progress but some very real hardles that wont be jumped in a hurry. Its possible the 'dvd sales' factor may diminish in the future - its not impossible that replacing some physical goods, and the need to transport them using oil, with digital goods, is a small but significant enabler for various nations plans to reduce oil consumption by tens of percent in the next decade or so. So I think we'll see plenty of encouragement with the whole video downloading thing, but possibly as a result of this becoming the main revenue stream rather than DVD etc, an even greater emphasis on DRM. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the industry that currently produces it will collapse over time with much of the rest of our modern economy society. thanks for that cheery thought :-) Thanks for the link, too - I hadn't seen that story today. It's talking about the iPlayer, which is for all recent (last 7 days) content, and I can definitely see the competitive element of that, and also the need for the BBC to make some kind of revenue return on new shows - after all, you're right, it's not pure public domain stuff. but it's just wrong that they seem to be taking the same attitude towards their archive - decades of basically non-competitive material. as it gets older, it *should* become public domain. we don't 'contribute to' production costs - together, we totally fund everything they do - we are investors in the finished product, and part owners of it. If they opened up the archive, it would be an argument *for* the licence fee and the BBC. You say you can't expect this to change in isolation... but can you see any real way that motivated people could influence the decisions of large public bodies, which doesn't involve the end of everything else? In an optimistic moment? On 24 Jan 2007, at 20:12, Steve Watkins wrote: Funny that the BBC is mentioned. Like any large institution they have a certain amount of power, but this is counteracted somewhat by so many people being interested in influencing what they do with their mammoth size. Just today I saw this story about how Ofcom (the UK regulator) is telling the BBC off for some of its planned Video Download services - Ofcom want it to be even more restrictive, so that it doesnt unfairly harm the commercial competitors to the BBC, and so that it doesnt impact too much on things like DVD sales. So they are advising the BBC to make the content timeout and dissapear from users computers even more quickly than the BBC had planned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6290745.stm As a BBC license fee payer, I am resigned to the fact that just beccause we pay for it, doesnt currently give us entitlement to use all BBC footage however we like. We contribute to production costs, and we get to watch their stuff, and technically the right to keep it for a certain period of time. If we want to have permanent access to it, we have to buy the DVD. I would like this to change but I cant expect it to happen in isolation, the argument about it harming commercial rivals will carry weight with those who get the power to make these decisions. And if it were freely available worldwide, the argument about us paying license fee to subsidise the rest of the world would arise. We shpould also be aware that current BBC footage isnt really akin to stuff that in the public domain. Its fine to make an argument that it should be, but as things stand right now the stuff about google DRMing public domain stuff is not directly comparable with commercial or nation-owned companies DRMing their copyrighted content. Personally as someone who is not an optimist about things in the medium term, I expect injustices like this stuff to become inconsequentioal compared to the horrors ahead. I think its more likely that 'media will become free' because the industry that currently produces it will collapse over time with much of the
Re: [videoblogging] Paid Subscription + CMS
Joshua Kinberg wrote: You can sell media with Cruxy.com, which was developed by Nathan Freitas, who is on this list. Thanks, Josh. There is a great new survey of sites that help video producers make money. Its an except from a book by Scott Kirsner: http://www.scottkirsner.com/webvid/gettingpaid.htm Happy to answer any questions about Cruxy, as well. Best, Nathan -- cruXy: buy/sell/promote independent original creativity http://cruxy.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Paid Subscription + CMS
yeah, cruxy is an excellent project. please spread awareness of it. sull On 1/24/07, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a good resource. Thanks Josh. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can sell media with Cruxy.com, which was developed by Nathan Freitas, who is on this list. Definitely check it out. -josh On 1/24/07, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, I have some experience with selling music over iTunes. I suspect that a lot of this applies to selling video on iTunes. If you go to iTunes personally by filling in their online form, it can take six months or more to get your music onto the store because they have such a backlog of private applications to get through... and apparently sometimes they just never get back to you. So the best thing to do is to use a distributor/aggregator. However, most of them will screw you on rights, TC and charges. The company we chose (no personal association, just did research) was Tunecore, whose big selling point is that they don't take ANY rights or royalties, whereas other companies like CDBaby and The Orchard have sneakier TCs. Tunecore don't advertise a video service, but it might be worth getting in touch with them to see if they can do it for you if you choose the iTunes route. Or there may be other companies that specialise in video distribution to iTunes etc, but beware TCs. Rupert http://www.fatgirlinohio.org On 24 Jan 2007, at 02:57, Ron Watson wrote: I am wondering what iTunes has to off the little guy. ...iTunes...hmmm. Anybody have any experience navigating the iTunes pay for play scheme? I'm going to look into that right now. How many people would pay a few bucks to learn to teach their dog learn to retrieve in just a few minutes? Any help or discussion would be appreciated. Cheers, Ron Watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and other Videos.
around the 24/1/07 Steve Watkins mentioned about [videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and oth that: Cheers, well, in an optimistic moment the BBC will play an important role in pushing some boundaries in the UK at least. In the past they have stuck their toe in the water with things like letting VJs remix use some of their archive clips for non-commercial purposes (although it with their own license which was inspired by creative commons but more restrictive in various ways, eg UK people only). the BBC have been popping up at pretty much every event I've been to recently, largely because in places that have state media (everywhere except the United States I guess) the BBC are the benchmark, particularly in what they're doing online. RSS, podcasting, and so on, they got in early. They have announced that all tv content will be freely available online, with some DRM attached, simply because there is nothing in the charter of the BBC that says to watch this program you have to be at home at 6pm on a Monday night. Now, for a national broadcaster, that's a pretty refreshing approach :-) They have a lot of projects that now use what I guess we'd call web 2 stuff for regional and local storytelling, etc. It's impressive as these sorts of institutions are often quite conservative (they have also realigned internally so that distinctions between media are being dissolved, you don't do radio, you do sport, and it will be www, radio and tv for example). For someone who teaches in media this is revolutionary, most staff I work with still think that radio is radio is radio, for example. Anyway, I like their approach to their content, it's paid for by tax payers so they see their role as providing as much access to this as possible. That's cool. -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html
Re: [videoblogging] Reaching out
i'm sorry your family is going thru this thinking of you On 1/24/07, Josh Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As some of you know, my 18 month old nephew, Joey, is in critical condition after being found in a pool a little over a week ago. This last week has been quite trying for my family, and the last couple of days have been difficult (highs and lows), as he has woken from his coma. The doctors are now trying to determine if he has sustained any brain damage and to what extent. I have made a personal video, and posted it at: http://www.joshpaul.com/?p=263 Feel free to watch the video, and if you're so inclined, leave a comment on Joey's update blog (link is in image form on my post...trying to avoid spambots) which the family is reading. Also, if you make a video, I will burn it to DVD and show it to my family over the next week. Warm regards, Josh -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Something Old, Something New??
Hey all, The Vlogging list is buzzing with conversation about new equipmentwhich means your old equipment, that old one chip video camera or that pre-MacBook laptop, is lying around, getting lonely and gathering dust. Dont let your old equipment get lonelydonate it to Alive in Baghdad. Send it on a new vacation to a faraway land! Not only will your equipment get to travel to the hottest spots in the world, but it will help us to provide voices to those in Iraq and, now also, in Mexico! And be assured, we promise to put any and all equipment into the hands of new vloggers in interesting and seldom seen places, rest assured we're already thinking about new locations even more interesting and under-seen than those we're working on now. If you have old but working equipment (cameras or laptops in particular) to donate, please send it to: Alive in Baghdad / Mexico c/o Brian Conley 28 Bay Rd. Revere MA 02151 Thanks so much! If you have suggestions or criticisms, please let us know, we're always open to hearing more input and bettering our work. and if you have stories to suggest, don't hesitate! Brian PS we've just received the first shipment of independent material from the Mexican folks, so expect new and regular material to begin soon on aliveinmexico.org ! - Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
