[videoblogging] Computers in Classrooms -- including info about Flashmeeting

2007-10-17 Thread terryfreedman
Dear Colleagues The latest issue of Computers in Classrooms is now available and contains articles on the following subjects: A news update, including the chance to get your students to take part in a survey about social networking, and a prize draw. FlashMeeting in Education -- a wonderful

Re: [videoblogging] Advice on video blog site design

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Darlow
Hi Nick: One idea is to post the video at the beginning of each post, then a short description/info, followed by a Read More. This will create a full page with about 4 videos, and when they read more, then they will see the whole post. Hope that helps, Andrew

[videoblogging] Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread Renat Zarbailov
I was wondering if anyone knows a solution, aside from Brightcove and Blip, that will enable the video content provider to host his own videos that can have auto-modular pre-roll, mid-roll, and post- roll clickable video ads. In other words here is a scenario that would really hit home for a

[videoblogging] Let's All Video Rupert

2007-10-17 Thread wabyradio
Our little web efforts from suburban Melbourne have resulted in Rupert Murdoch having to be questioned at his annual general meeting about why (after advocating bringing democracy to Iraq) he won't bring democracy to his own company News Corp and insists on a jerrymander of votes in his own

[videoblogging] Re: free video converter for PC

2007-10-17 Thread tom_a_sparks
Super use it all the time for video transcoding --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I ran into this and thought some of you PC users may be interested in it: http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html Looks pretty robust and its free!

[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Cammack
These are all interesting ideas, but I think they're too intricate to be feasible right now. I don't know that there's such a thing as Brazilian local video ad providers, for instance. The way it seems right now is that there are a couple of groups that serve a bunch of different videos and are

[videoblogging] Re: free video converter for PC

2007-10-17 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I ran into this and thought some of you PC users may be interested in it: http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html Looks pretty robust and its free! Basically, it looks like it gives an easy-to-use

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread Jan McLaughlin
But what about hyper local markets? I'm thinking North New Jersey for example. Skype me. We'll talk. See sig for skype info. Jan On 10/17/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are all interesting ideas, but I think they're too intricate to be feasible right now. I don't know that

[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread bordercollieaustralianshepherd
I can imagine ... but Total speculation follows Google today more so than with any other product they bought or created looks to/could be headed in this direction with the recent purchase of Jaiku http://www.jaiku.com/ Combining what they already have in their bag o tricks with Jaiku, Google

Re: [videoblogging] Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/15/07, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) part by Google Ads, we did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our spam for us. I've gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's spam, but I came across

[videoblogging] Inside YouTube with Comedian Mark Day on Jonny's Par-tay

2007-10-17 Thread jonny goldstein
9PM Eastern tonight. A great opportunity to learn about the weird wonderful world o' YouTube with tour guide comedian Mark Day. http://tinyurl.com/ywml8t

Re: [videoblogging] Re: free video converter for PC

2007-10-17 Thread pepa
for me (avi to mp4) is tooo slow :(. squared5 is great. thanks! On 10/17/07, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah ok, great. I use VisualHub all the time. Glad this is like it so I can recommend it to my nonMac using friends. thanks! On 10/17/07, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones

[videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread John Oeffinger
I've mainly lurk on this group but have benefited from your comments and suggestions which I appreciate. Quick question, are most of you still using .com domains or are you migrating to .tv domains. If you are not migrating to the .tv domains, is it because of the domain name cost? Thanks

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
I own schlomo.tv for only one reason: schlomo.com is taken. Of course, I don't do anything with schlomo.tv because I'm happy with my blogspot account, so it just sits around being a waste of money on a yearly basis. Since I can't own schlomo.com, godaddy was nice enough to inform me that I can

[videoblogging] Re: New stuff from a Flash showcase

2007-10-17 Thread Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, bordercollieaustralianshepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was posted to another group. Upcoming stuff in Flash. http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/03/adobe-max-chicago-sneak-peeks/ The guy (Peter Elst) has a lot to say on his blog, may be worth a

[videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
The US House of Representatives recently passed a Federal Shield law for journalist. It's doesnt seem to please anyone fully, but it is a start. The interesting part is how they defined Journalist: In its current form, the law protects only a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread Jackson West
I'm in a class on documentary research and writing, and I was trying to whittle down my final choice for a focus from a couple of ideas, and as anyone on the Internet knows, you can't start a project until you've purchased an appropriate domain name. A quick search told me my first choice .com

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread David Meade
Interesting ... reads as though you have to be getting paid to do it though. On 10/17/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US House of Representatives recently passed a Federal Shield law for journalist. It's doesnt seem to please anyone fully, but it is a start. The interesting part

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jackson West
So legally, you aren't a journalist unless you're a commercial journalist, huh? Funny, other 'professions' like medicine and the law aren't tied to such mercenary considerations. On 10/17/07, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting ... reads as though you have to be getting paid to

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread David Meade
I've not bothered with a .tv domain because I think it's got a connotation of episodic content or shows etc ... and that doesn't really describe my stuff. Also I guess I have always had the its a website that has video perspective rather than the I've got videos that need a website perspective

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread John Oeffinger
Good point Rox, these will primarily be short 5 minute weekly clips on 3 different sites. One weekly clip is based on historical stuff. The other two are weekly summaries of industry stuff (2 different industries - connecting the dots kinda things.) On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Roxanne

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Frank Carver
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:02:50 PM, Jay dedman wrote: I do agree that it's trubling to read for financial gain or livelihood. does this mean you must get paid by a commercial company? can you just get donations from the community? can you have a day job and blog at night? In some ways

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread Roxanne Darling
If you are producing an internet video series or show aka Internet TV, I think.tv helps communicate that message much more effectively than a dot com address. If you have a blog that sometimes includes video, dot com is more suitable IMO. Aloha, Rox On 10/17/07, Jackson West [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
So legally, you aren't a journalist unless you're a commercial journalist, huh? Funny, other 'professions' like medicine and the law aren't tied to such mercenary considerations. im not sure i read it that way. i think they define it as someone who regularly reports on something, has a

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread John Oeffinger
Thanks Schlomo, Jackson, and David - I appreciate your quick responses. I've mainly used .com and snagged a .tv when GoDaddy still had it for 9.95...but their .tvs are now $39 so I was wondering if I am missing something. I'll stick with the .com but include tv in the domain name so people

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread David Meade
well you left out the last part of the sentence :-P It says for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism ... if you're livelihood is gained from a day job, and you aren't getting paid to cover a story ...you' aren't engaged in journalism for financial gain or livelihood and it

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jackson West
I guess my reaction is born from two things: one, there's no such requirement in California's shield law, and two, in the Apple v. Does case, the judge opted to protect the bloggers under that shield law (instead of trade secrets laws) since they'd committed an act of journalism, regardless of

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jackson West
By the way, really looking forward to what Josh has to say in all this. On 10/17/07, Jackson West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my reaction is born from two things: one, there's no such requirement in California's shield law, and two, in the Apple v. Does case, the judge opted to protect

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
I just don't see how a free and independent press doesn't include people who get a bug up their rear and publishing something, with no regard for their livelihood or personal financial gain. What about journalism students, who often take chances on writing provocative stuff -because- they

Re: [videoblogging] Let's All Video Rupert

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
It would be great if as many bloggers could show the world's most powerful media operator the power and independence of the video blog by showing up, taping him and each expressing their own opinion about anything Murdoch, from Fox News, 20th Century Fox to the New York Post.

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined [CNET: How politicians weakened a legal shield for bloggers]

2007-10-17 Thread John Oeffinger
Here's CNET's take on the issue and how it was watered down. As noted earlier, this will go to the courts... http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9799178-38.html? part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-5 How politicians weakened a legal shield for bloggers Posted by Declan McCullagh The House of

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined [CNET: How politicians weakened a legal shield for bloggers]

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
Here's CNET's take on the issue and how it was watered down. As noted earlier, this will go to the courts... http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9799178-38.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-5 Thanks for the link. Much better breakdown of the new Shield law that still needs to be approved by

[videoblogging] New daily web news/comedy show

2007-10-17 Thread Ricky Marson
The website I work for, ElasticWaist http://elasticwaist.com , launched a new daily web show this week, called the Daily Special. It is funny, smart take on all kinds of stuff going on in the world today, particularly affecting women. Check it out! Here is the link where you can find today's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Free compression software

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
I use a program called SUPER (uses ffmpeg, Mencoder,MPlayer,x264,ffmpeg2theora, libavcodec) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER_%28software%29 cool. I found a cross platform transcoding tool here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux I made a list here:

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Ron Watson
I'll tell you what they're trying to accomplish. They're trying to make sure that nobody reports on anything explosive that is not a corporate sponsored journalist. Media markets have a beautiful mechanism for controlling thought. If it costs important artificial people profit, it's not

[videoblogging] Re: What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread deirdreharvey2002
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, long time lurker, rare poster here, IANAL ... but I wouldn't count on this wording protecting a blogger from the DOJ if they've got some other day job and nobody is paying them to over a given story. The most

[videoblogging] New York Noise launches vidblog

2007-10-17 Thread WWWhatsup
New York Noise, NYC TV's hit indie music show, is launching a weekly video blog, Weekly Noise, available at http://www.nyc.gov/weeklynoise. Each episode will feature insights about the City's indie music scene, information on new bands, upcoming events, new venues, and more. In the same style of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Wolf
Hi guys, I'm at work -- just getting a chance to check my e-mail now. here's a link to what I wrote on my CNET blog: http://blogs.cnet.com/ 8301-13508_1-9798084-19.html?tag=head Basically the latest iteration of this bill only protects those who earn a substantial amount of money from their

Re: [videoblogging] Re: What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
The emphasis on financial gain is extremely weird and pretty much unjustifiable. I can see lots of reasons why you need to discriminate between someone who works (for love, money, or bee in bonnet) as a journalist and someone who doess not. Not all bloggers qualify as journalists

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube's new content id tool now in beta

2007-10-17 Thread Jay dedman
On 10/17/07, Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google's new content id tool YouTube Video Identification is now in beta. It will find and block exact same copies of videos by hash value. I don't see it mentioned but they are developing an audio matching tool as well that finds videos

Re: [videoblogging] Re: What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Wolf
Actually, the original language of the bill, the very same language that defines a journalist under the Senate version of the bill is quite well articulated in that it defines a covered person under the act of journalism as opposed to tying it to the profession and the economics entailed

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube's new content id tool now in beta

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/17/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google's new content id tool YouTube Video Identification is now in beta. It will find and block exact same copies of videos by hash value. I don't see it mentioned but they

[videoblogging] Re: Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Cammack
+1 to what Rox said. It depends on what you're branding. If you're branding your videos, go with .TV. If you're branding a wide selection of items or ideas that *happen* to include video, go with .COM. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv http://billcammack.com --- In

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/17/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US House of Representatives recently passed a Federal Shield law for journalist. It's doesnt seem to please anyone fully, but it is a start. The interesting part is how they defined Journalist: In its current form, the

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Adrian Miles
around the 17/10/07 Jay dedman mentioned about [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined that: So this could include bloggers if what you do is regularly cover topics as your livelihood. well, as long as you do news and information which in journalism speak is not opinion and commentary :-)

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Adrian Miles
around the 17/10/07 Jackson West mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined that: So legally, you aren't a journalist unless you're a commercial journalist, huh? Funny, other 'professions' like medicine and the law aren't tied to such mercenary considerations. no, but

[videoblogging] Re: New daily web news/comedy show

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Cammack
Hey Ricky. I like the overall format of the show. When I saw the still, it looked like the generic host on the edge, graphic over the shoulder situation, but you guys went for some interesting stuff. I'll stay tuned. :) Make sure you tell whomever shoots the show to compensate for that

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Wolf
Pat, Would I have been covered under the law? Possibly, due to the fact that I sold stringer footage of the protest that night, but even that is unclear due to the addition of the word substantial to the text of the law. I've discussed this briefly with one of my attorney's and he's a

Re: [videoblogging] Let's All Video Rupert

2007-10-17 Thread Rupert
oh, that title got me all excited. great idea. wish i could make it. On 17 Oct 2007, at 19:59, Jay dedman wrote: It would be great if as many bloggers could show the world's most powerful media operator the power and independence of the video blog by showing up, taping him and each

[videoblogging] Re: YouTube's new content id tool now in beta

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Cammack
Interesting post, Kenya. Blocking exact same copies of videos is of zero value. Whether you can find one example of a copyrighted song or eight of them makes no difference whatsoever. As far as the audio-matching tool, I haven't researched stuff like this, but I say it's impossible... at least

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/17/07, Josh Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat, Would I have been covered under the law? Possibly, due to the fact that I sold stringer footage of the protest that night, but even that is unclear due to the addition of the word substantial to the text of the law.

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined [CNET: How politicians weakened a legal shield for bloggers]

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/17/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's CNET's take on the issue and how it was watered down. As noted earlier, this will go to the courts... http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9799178-38.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-5 Thanks for the link. Much

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread Adrian Miles
around the 17/10/07 John Oeffinger mentioned about [videoblogging] Domain question that: If you are not migrating to the .tv domains, is it because of the domain name cost? Thanks for your insight...John no, because it isn't tv :-), (and neither do I live or work in Tuvalu). Don't get me

Re: [videoblogging] In your opinion what is THE yearly videoblog/video podcasting event to attend?

2007-10-17 Thread Irina
i think this is the event of the year http://youarethewinner.org/ On 10/17/07, Chumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see so many podcamps and such floating around, there is the podcasting track at DragonCon, PNME, once upon a time the Vloggies, and I've only ever been to DragonCon and thats

Re: [videoblogging] In your opinion what is THE yearly videoblog/video podcasting event to attend?

2007-10-17 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
It already happened: Vloggercon:) Relive it through the videos of the event: http://vloggercon.com And yes, it will happen again. Just like Friday the 13th, right when you think its over, it rears its head again. On 10/17/07, Chumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see so many podcamps and

[videoblogging] In your opinion what is THE yearly videoblog/video podcasting event to attend?

2007-10-17 Thread Chumley
You see so many podcamps and such floating around, there is the podcasting track at DragonCon, PNME, once upon a time the Vloggies, and I've only ever been to DragonCon and thats only because I was going anyway. (and that mostly focuses on audio podcasting). I'd love to find out what the big

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Rhodes
Josh is a journalist. It even says on the San Francisco ballot http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/1606818196/ -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://ari.typepad.com http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles sites

[videoblogging] Re: In your opinion what is THE yearly videoblog/video podcasting event to att

2007-10-17 Thread Chumley
Wasn't that back in 2006? Its almost 2008 and I don't see any coming soon stuff on the website or anything. Rev. Chumley Cult of UHF --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It already happened: Vloggercon:) Relive it through the videos of the event:

Re: [videoblogging] Domain question

2007-10-17 Thread Rupert
I have a .tv domain (and I'm happier to contribute to the Tuvaluan economy than to whomever gets .com fees) Some bastard or robot stole twittervlog.com. i didn't buy it quick enough after launching as twittervlog.blogspot.com So I got twittervlog.tv instead and only later realised the

[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread Renat Zarbailov
Thanks Bill for helpful insight into this subject, as well as the link to Jonnygolstein.com interview with Dina Kaplan. The thing is that I just brought up Brazil as an example. What I actually meant is demographic-targetted video ads. The show creators buy this backend video-ad serving

Re: [videoblogging] Re: In your opinion what is THE yearly videoblog/video podcasting event to att

2007-10-17 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Instead of turning conference-making into a job/career, we took the year off. Believe me when I say this: Labors of Love makes a day job a little harder. And we do love it madly and deeply. On 10/17/07, Chumley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't that back in 2006? Its almost 2008 and I don't

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Free compression software

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On 10/17/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a program called SUPER (uses ffmpeg, Mencoder,MPlayer,x264,ffmpeg2theora, libavcodec) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER_%28software%29 cool. I found a cross platform transcoding tool here:

[videoblogging] Re: What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread wabyradio
This is exactly the issue I am deliberately to raising by bloggers seeking admission to the News Corp meeting in whatever capacity they choose. A For-Profit intention should be irrelevant and the method of distribution should be too. Hope you all can join us. Paul Bendat

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Ron Watson
Thank you Josh! If I could I'd vote for you for Mayor! Unfortunately, for myself, I've given up fighting. I don't have the time or the energy, and I have to make a living. It's a real shame too. I'm pretty good at seeing the big picture... finding, seeing, and connecting the dots and drawing

Re: [videoblogging] YouTube's new content id tool now in beta

2007-10-17 Thread Kenya Allmond
I posted this as there has been much discussion about YouTube, take down notices, and copyright infringement. - Original Message From: Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:05:43 PM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] YouTube's

[videoblogging] Re: Ideal video-ad platform for an online show

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Cammack
For that, post your videos on http://blip.tv and pay them to serve post-roll advertisements that YOU choose/create yourself. -- Bill Cammack http://reelsolid.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill for helpful insight into this subject, as

Re: [videoblogging] Re: YouTube's new content id tool now in beta

2007-10-17 Thread Kenya Allmond
Once again, the whole thing's retarded. None of this would even be happening if YouTube hadn't been *BUILT* on blatant piracy from day 1. I agree. The exact matching is ridiculous and isn't going to find anything but videos that are either directly from the studios or mass downloaded from

Re: [videoblogging] Advice on video blog site design

2007-10-17 Thread Irina
oh what a pretty site looks like u have plenty of room on the sides as well i like the idea of having the videos across the top like http://newteevee.com or down the side in a similar fashion! On 10/16/07, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm after some advice on the design of our

Re: [videoblogging] Let's All Video Rupert

2007-10-17 Thread Irina
oh i would totally do this if i was in the city! is anyone going? On 10/17/07, wabyradio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our little web efforts from suburban Melbourne have resulted in Rupert Murdoch having to be questioned at his annual general meeting about why (after advocating bringing

[videoblogging] rixer reporter for Marrakech

2007-10-17 Thread Irina
On 10/15/07, Karine G. Barzegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'll be in Marrakech from October 22nd till October 27. I don't know the city and would love to meet up for a mint tea or a couscous in town... Also if anybody knows a good fixer/reporter, Moroccan and anglophone, able to

Re: [videoblogging] What is a journalist--Defined

2007-10-17 Thread Irina
they can try to define it however they want but bloggers report the news and thats what journalism is money or not see this article in the post today *Crackdowns On Bloggers Increasing, Survey Finds* By Nora Boustany Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, October 17, 2007; A14 Government