Re: [videoblogging] Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread Michael Ridley
Livejournal should work, but I suspect that might be blocked as well. -mOn 11/19/05, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of free blog that is password protected so people have to log in to view it? 360.yahoo.com is can do this, but I can't use Yahoo for this as it's

Re: [videoblogging] Every video blogger has a Star Trek uniform at home.

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Knight
dear sir,I may have liked Star Trek in the past, but I never wore the uniform.  In the past I have smoked a canabis cigarette and and I did inhale.On 19 Nov 2005, at 01:34, Mario Drucker wrote: Hello fellow vloggers! I heard the rumor that every one who is doing a video blog got his own Star

RE: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Randy Mann
i tell you what i dont like aubot flash, i cant do nothing with the file exept to watch it. any one have any ideas on how to save it to a qt or some other format (mp4 ect?) From: Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject:

[videoblogging] No Saturday Video Conference

2005-11-19 Thread Markus Sandy
just a reminder from the wiki: no vid conferences this weekend as the system is offline for maintenance back online for tuesday conference @ 5pm pacific (8pm eastern) markus -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com

[videoblogging] Re: hi guys

2005-11-19 Thread Share
agreed on all counts. but the paint can go a lng way depending on how big of an area you need to cover. or if you're setting up a studio, then you're done once you've painted it. here is a link with some of the chroma key paint: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/cinemasupplies/chromkeyfab.html it

[videoblogging] Re: hi guys

2005-11-19 Thread Irish Hermit
I've had good luck with the chroma fabric from this store: J and K Video GroupTomás--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Knight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to utilize my capability of doing croma (green screen) special effects. However I wondered what is the best shade of green

RE: [videoblogging] No Saturday Video Conference

2005-11-19 Thread Randy Mann
the only thing i was looking forward too all week From: Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] No Saturday Video Conference Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:40:44 -0800 just a reminder from the wiki: no vid

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Josh Leo
so this brings up an interesting question (that i believe has been discussed here but no solid answers have been given) I know it is different for each country, but Gabe, and Nathan Peters have both run into police/civil workers saying that they do not want to be recorded... What are our

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
Fair use guidelines are used to determine what is okay and what is not. Its a gray area to some degree. 'Having been worried about this same question, esp here in NYC where it is almost impossible NOT to capture someone else, surprisingly, I have found that when "news gathering", or creating

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Josh Leo
On 11/19/05, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would assume Josh that someone could make the claim from looking through your videoblog that, as a whole, your videoblogging activity does not include fair use because your intent is thepursuit of personal celebrity. HaHa!! What does

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
The case of the stolen identity; innocent bystander sues videoblogger for internet distribution. Quote the prosecutor: Exhibit A. The defendant, Josh Leo's description of his videoblogging activity: On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Josh Leo wrote: I was just making friends and sharing my life

[videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Watkins
Regarding US law I think this site sums things up very well: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter12/index.html Intent is important, I think its actually 'free speech' (rather than fair use) things in your constitution which make this stuff acceptable, but it should

[videoblogging] A contest

2005-11-19 Thread BevSykes
Since my friend Steve Schalchlin is not on this list, I will pass along a challenge he has issued on Blip. The link for this challenge is: http://steveshack.blip.tv/file/4740 For this Thanksgiving / Hanukkah / Christmas / Kwanzaa / Solstice etc. holiday that is coming up, I am offering a

[videoblogging] Contest PS

2005-11-19 Thread BevSykes
I wanted to add that if you play the song from the site itself, you only get a small portion of it. You have to download it to get the full version. Check http://steveshack.blip.tv/file/get/Steveshack-VeteransDay2005Mpeg675.mpgto see how he used it and to hear the whole song (in this

[videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Watkins
I think you are making an err if you think the overall intent of all of a persons works are the main key to whether they can invoke a 'fair use' defense for anything that might otherwise be questionable. If the law is even half-sane then it will come down to stuff like intent with that particular

Re: [videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: I think you are making an err if you think the overall intent of all of a persons works are the main key to whether they can invoke a 'fair use' defense for anything that might otherwise be questionable. I dont think its the main key. But I

[videoblogging] Re: Citizen Journalists

2005-11-19 Thread Gena
Welcome and thanks for asking these questions. I got some stuff for you. I don't know if you know of these resources or not so I'm just gonna list what I know and keep track of: Amy Garah has a CJ blog called IReporter http://www.ireporter.org/ She is a journalist who is helping to

[videoblogging] Getting the Video out of Your New iPod

2005-11-19 Thread LeanBackVids.com
From MacDevCenter.com, this article explains how to get the video off your iPod. http://tinyurl.com/bnuxp -Matt --- http://ridertech.com http://leanbackvids.com http://vlogmap.org Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video

[videoblogging] Re: Every video blogger has a Star Trek uniform at home.

2005-11-19 Thread Gena
I would love to have Uhura's uniform. It does have meaning to me and heck yeah I would do a video about it from a cultural, technological, afro-centric oh my god I am in the future kind of thing. Then again, Counselor Troi had some nice threads too. That program for a certain segment of the

[videoblogging] Re: Getting the Video out of Your New iPod

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Watkins
The TV out is really gorgeous quality with the ipod, its the feature Im most impressed with for sure. Cheers for the link to the article, I can confrm that a normal (non-apple) av cable works as long as you swap the connections round as suggested. For quality viewing of footage on TV Im using

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Getting the Video out of Your New iPod

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
Thanks for that info Steve. -Verdi On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: For quality viewing of footage on TV Im using mpeg4 @ 1.5Mbits/sec at resolutions of 624x352 for 16:9 stuff and 512x384 for 4:3 stuff. 320x240 still looks pretty good on the TV though, so Im not suggesting

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:48 AM, andrew michael baron wrote: your videoblogging activity does not include fair use because your intent is the pursuit of personal celebrity. Why is it that you seem to think that individuals that videoblog are doing it in the pursuit of personal celebrity? Why

Re: [videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
Having strayed pretty far off this topic, I did want to say Josh, that I don't in any way mean to devalue self-fufillment - self fufillment is something that I hope all of here have as a component of what we are doing with all of this. On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:52 AM, andrew michael baron

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: Why can't they be doing it to document their lives or to connect with friends and family? Why they can and I think that is great! Show me where I said they they coudlnt? Ir even implied? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:48 AM, andrew michael baron wrote: your videoblogging activity does not include fair use because your intent is the pursuit of personal celebrity. Why is it that you seem to think that individuals that videoblog are doing it

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: Are you saying that anyone who publishes a blog, podcast or videoblog that contains information about their lives is aiming for personal celebrity? Eh, no. Did you see something? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: , couldn't someone make a case that Rocketboom is a vehicle to enhance Amanda's personal celebrity thereby hopefully producing offers of acting jobs? Yes, in fact that is one of the many elements to what we are doing. There are so many I wont

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: It seems to me that you throw around these comments (this one and others in the past) about individuals videoblogging as if what they (we) are doing is less valid, less bloggy, and now, it seems, to advance our own personal celebrity as if we were

[videoblogging] Bi-Weekly Vlog Videoconference, 11/19/2005, 3:00 pm

2005-11-19 Thread videoblogging
My Groups | videoblogging Main Page Reminder from the Calendar of videoblogging

Re: [videoblogging] Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
This is my frustration with trying to work inside a school system and why I don't even try anymore. It's ridiculous that they think that young people aren't capable of doing this stuff by themselves without anyone's permission. That being the case why try to control it so much? Sure,

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
In (my) conclusion, I'm seeing a lot of really horrible backlash from people lately and its a bummer because I don't find any reason behind the inferences that people are making. It reminds me of how the media likes to reshape and reformat what they see into their own hypothesis. Verdi,

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:47 AM, andrew michael baron wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Verdi wrote: Why can't they be doing it to document their lives or to connect with friends and family? Why they can and I think that is great! Show me where I said they they coudlnt? Ir even

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:01 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: Verdi, you came to this post with a hypothesis and you stripped out of context fragments to support your claims. On Nov 19, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Josh Leo wrote: HaHa!! What does that even mean? personal celebrity I guess we have said

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Shameless plug... tell people to download FireAnt, and then it doesn't matter what codec or video format you use. :-) -Josh On 11/18/05, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a challenge, We were doing a presentation at the Apple Store/The Grove and Zadi was showing the audience how to use the

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:12 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: Is this videoblogging list topic? Someone tell me if we have transcended, I'm not sure. Seriously. I think the discussion of why people videoblog is very on topic. On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:12 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: On Nov 19,

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread Verdi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:15 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: No, I was talking about Josh. He is a unique individual and I think he has one of the most spirited uses of a videoblog I have seen. When I look around at videobloggers, I do not see sameness. I see people. I'm referring to how you

[videoblogging] The return of the cube

2005-11-19 Thread robert a/k/a r
Hi all, I was walking to the east village yesterday and noticed the cube has returned to Astor Place. I whipped out my cam and shot 30 seconds, posted it last night after reading more in the news the details. Hope you enjoy, and hope it works in fireant, I haven't had time to check yet.

Re: [videoblogging] The return of the cube

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
yes, it does work in FireAnt. -Josh On 11/19/05, robert a/k/a r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was walking to the east village yesterday and noticed the cube has returned to Astor Place. I whipped out my cam and shot 30 seconds, posted it last night after reading more in the news the

[videoblogging] Bi-Weekly Vlog Videoconference, 11/19/2005, 3:00 pm

2005-11-19 Thread videoblogging
My Groups | videoblogging Main Page Reminder from the Calendar of videoblogging

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Frank Carver
Saturday, November 19, 2005, 6:11:05 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Shameless plug... tell people to download FireAnt, and then it doesn't matter what codec or video format you use. So does FireAnt for Windows include Quicktime now? Last time I looked I still needed to download and install

Re: [videoblogging] Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Install Wordpress on your own server, and then password protect it with .htaccess. That should work reasonably well. You'll need to pay for the server, but the school might cover that coast. Dreamhost is around 7 dollars a month. Wordpress is free. -Josh On 11/19/05, Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[videoblogging] Re: Bi-Weekly Vlog Videoconference, 11/19/2005, 3:00 pm

2005-11-19 Thread ecomputerd
Is this actually happening? I don't see the Sat 19 link. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, videoblogging@yahoogroups.com wrote: Reminder from the Calendar of videoblogging http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/cal Bi-Weekly Vlog Videoconference Saturday November 19, 2005

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Markus Sandy
huh? i get codec format errors in fireant all the time. i don't see this as a fireant problem, but it does not solve it for me either. Joshua Kinberg wrote: Shameless plug... tell people to download FireAnt, and then it doesn't matter what codec or video format you use. :-) -Josh

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
FireAnt uses the Quicktime API, so yes you will need to install Quicktime if you wish to view Quicktime videos (if you have iTunes then you also have Quicktime). We are not illegally reverse engineering any codecs, but rather using the native APIs that support the various codecs/formats. -Josh

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Hey Markus, Please send us bug reports if you encounter errors. I've had no problems playing Quicktime, Windows Media, Real, Flash, AVI, DivX, Xvid, etc.. with FireAnt. iTunes only plays Quicktime. -Josh On 11/19/05, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh? i get codec format

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
One exception to throw into the mix... APple made up a whole new codec and file extension/mime-type for the new video iPod, which certainly didn't help video codec matters. There was no such thing as m4v a few weeks ago before the video iPod. The next release of FireAnt will support m4v...

[videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Watkins
They only made up a new extension/mimetype, its not a new codec, its h264 mpeg4. Actually the extension m4v should really mean mpeg4 video stream (no audio) so apples use of this extension is confusing and silly. Personally I recommend that people dont bother with using .m4v even if you want

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
They only made up a new extension/mimetype, its not a new codec, its h264 mpeg4 Yes, this is correct. Unfortunately because many people are likely to just use the apple ipod export in qt703, m4v's are going to appear. So I appreciate very much you adding m4v support to fireant. Yep, this

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
I found this out few days ago as i was embarrassed not to know the scoop on m4v besides it being for video iPod. I laughed when I learned this.I was not sure if simply changing file name would work though, so thanks for clarifying that, Steve. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS

Re: [videoblogging] Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread Josh Wolf
I'm in total agreement with Michael's sentiment; to that end, I think the best solution might just be Livejournal. Every kid could establish his or her own live journal account, and make their entries only viewable to friends. This provides the level of security that the administration

[videoblogging] Re: Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread Carl Weaver
Verdi, this is one of the few good parts of working where I do. It's completely private My speech is more or less unrestricted, although I might get talked to if I encouraged hate crimes. I can talk about sex, rubbers, abstinence, drugs, murder - you name it. I get a young woman to talk to my

Re: [videoblogging] great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread andrew michael baron
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Verdi wrote: I'm referring to how you have on a number of occasions (recently even) made statements about how most everyone who videoblogs just does a personal diary kind of thing Thats true. So what? and how you don't understand why more people don't do

[videoblogging] This odd thread

2005-11-19 Thread missbhavens1969
I'd just like to butt in for a second and say that snooping in on this thread has been a strange experience. AMB--hostile, much? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page

[videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread missbhavens1969
I'd just like to butt in for a second and say that snooping in on this thread has been a strange experience. AMB--hostile, much? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:12 PM, andrew michael baron wrote: Is this videoblogging list

[videoblogging] re: Pinnacle Studio AV/DV Deluxe version 9

2005-11-19 Thread Nerissa \(TheVideoQueen\)
Try before you buy these $99 software:VideoStudio 9 by Ulead.com Studio 10 by Pinnaclesys.com Premiere Elements by Adobe.comThere are other descent consumer level out there, but you must buy before you try. So I advise these. Both Ulead and Pinnacle tend to release with bugs and then

[videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread LeanBackVids.com
Ah, the themed vs. personal debate again. This is the most entertaining one so far. On a somewhat related note, the December issue of Wired asks - What's the most overhyped tech trend right now?... Robert X. Cringely (Creator and host of NerdTV) answers... There's nothing wrong with blogging

[videoblogging] [SF Bay Node 101] Expression mash-up

2005-11-19 Thread Digital
Schlomo, Markus, and Dave Toole put together a really cool event yesterday at Expression College of Digital Arts in Emeryville, CA. J.D. Lasica (Ourmedia.org) was there, as was Chris Rikte (49media.com) and Mia Garlick (creativecommons.org) Markus has a great preview vlog here:

[videoblogging] Re: great post of police misbehavior

2005-11-19 Thread jonny goldstein
To take this in a slightly different direction, I thought Gabe's video was great. I would hope, at least in the USA, that if one put this video of police misconduct on one's videoblog, no matter what the overarching theme of most of the posts on that blog, that this post would be considered news,

[videoblogging] Re: Free, private blog?

2005-11-19 Thread jonny goldstein
Actually, in my case this isn't about kids security---they will all have blogger blogs, open for public viewing, and the schools where I'm working, thus far, are cool with that, which is great. This is more about keeping the details of our curriculum private, as the company I'm working with has a

[videoblogging] Re: Citizen Journalists

2005-11-19 Thread Gena
My 0.02 cents: Journalism is in flux - this new technology and access to technology is changing a bunch of rules. Some for the worse and some for the better. So in my opinion, CJ's and CJ Vloggers should take what has worked - ethics, fact checking, responsibility, and passion to heart. Some of

Re: [videoblogging] This odd thread

2005-11-19 Thread Jay dedman
I'd just like to butt in for a second and say that snooping in on this thread has been a strange experience. AMB--hostile, much? if you change the subject of the post...and dont include any of the old emailwe cant tell what youre commenting on. jay -- Adventures in Videoblogging URL:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread WWWhatsup
How about VLC? that plays all QT including h.264 http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ It would be nice if fireant were able to offer filetype associations and offer them as an external play option, wouldn't it? joly At 03:07 PM 11/19/2005, you wrote: Saturday, November 19, 2005, 6:11:05 PM, Joshua

Re: [videoblogging] Re: iPod video owners: check a vid for me?

2005-11-19 Thread WWWhatsup
That's very odd, I just brought it in on my iMac, and it works fine. I did re-ftp the file into archive.org, but how can that screw things up? Doesn't appear to be anyone else on the list except you actually has a G5 iPod, and is charitable enough to check, Steve. Never mind, and thanks. I'll

[videoblogging] blogging != CB radio the end times

2005-11-19 Thread Thomas G Henry
There are definitely parallels here with Ham Radio etc... but the advantage here is that these Ham Radios (blogs) are already in many homes and counting... and the cognitive overhead in blogging gives it a memetic advantage... also folks overlook the simplification tools like MySpace...

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bi-Weekly Vlog Videoconference, 11/19/2005, 3:00 pm

2005-11-19 Thread Markus Sandy
no conference this weekend maintenance, i think there was an earlier message to the group (plus wiki schedule) ecomputerd wrote: Is this actually happening? I don't see the Sat 19 link. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, videoblogging@yahoogroups.com wrote: Reminder