Re: [videoblogging] Google Video Revisited

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
is better than the other... it depends on the audience. sull On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FireAnt for Mac can play FLV, provided that the raw FLV file is syndicated, not the SWF wrapper. FireAnt for Windows does not yet play FLV, but it does play SWF. We

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
. -Josh On 12/23/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha, and the sky is falling too! I'm no fan of Google Video either, but I can see why they do it. They want the experience to be sticky They want advertising impressions They want to track the advertising impressions They want to put ads

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I still think this FLV plugin for wordpress is nice: http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-flv-video-player-plugin/ Haven't noticed anyone using it, though I've posted here about it a few times. I still suggest providing an alternative video format for syndication though. I'd be happier

Re: [videoblogging] Google Video IS A TRAP!

2005-12-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
with to make money of your videosBasically their interface says to me... ME, ME, ME! Screw that. On Dec 23, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Ha, and the sky is falling too! I'm no fan of Google Video either, but I can see why they do it. They want the experience to be sticky They want advertising

Re: [videoblogging] Poser Mobile

2005-12-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Wow! Now my life is complete. If there's anything I need, its the Singing Woodchuck Variety Minute on my cell phone. Praise Be! -Josh On 12/21/05, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tired of Poser Mobile eating up all your minutes? Try the new Woodchuck Mobile. Text your friends,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flash, video iPod and offering MP3 podcasts

2005-12-21 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Yes, FireAnt does play SWF files. But Flash video is not a SWF. It is an FLV loaded into a SWF.. often loaded externally via relative link within the Flash file. This type of scenario often breaks syndication because it cannot be viewed offline or from a local hard drive. Syndicating the raw

Re: [videoblogging] multiple formats and feeds

2005-12-18 Thread Joshua Kinberg
ditch Blogger... you just graduated to a new level. Try Wordpress, TypePad, MovableType, or something else that gives you more flexibility. -josh On 12/18/05, Richard Show [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I would like to start posting a .wmv version of my videos.2) I want to have the feed us my

Re: [videoblogging] multiple formats and feeds

2005-12-18 Thread Joshua Kinberg
so explain to me how you can make multiple feeds with different enclosure types if you're on Blogger? As far as I know there is no way to do that... -Josh On 12/18/05, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOps. I made a mistake. Obviously the new wmv line of could would NOT have the

Re: [videoblogging] what is vlogging...

2005-12-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I would amend this to the opportunity to be heard or maybe the right to the opportunity... Remember, there is nothing obligating anyone to view your content just because you publish it. Viewers will always have the right to tune you out. -josh On 12/17/05, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Define Videoblogging

2005-12-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Amazon.com is NOT an authority. Check the IMDb if you have to check anything. i think Amazon owns IMDB. -Josh Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life.

Re: [videoblogging] Define....

2005-12-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Don't judge us all over a zealous conversation b/n a few people some conversations are better carried on off-list. -Josh On 12/17/05, jeffrey_harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is just too much... I liked this group the first week but you all seem so worried about nothing... OH

Re: [videoblogging] video Flickr?

2005-12-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I don't doubt that Flickr will introduce video. Its inevitable. -Josh On 12/16/05, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A short video: http://news.com.com/1606-2-5997652.html (About video Flickr) I can't make any announcements along those lines, but it is certainly something that is hotly

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging

2005-12-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I didn't see FireAnt mentioned in those articles... though it would have been nice. Journalists repeat articles and press releases ad nauseum. That's just the way it is. Though I do think that the videoblogs we've seen metioned consistently are deserving of the attention they receive. I'm going

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging

2005-12-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Again... was FireAnt mentioned in an article I'm not aware of? If it was, please send me a link. -josh On 12/16/05, ManCheeseMo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, how original. What exactly am I promoting? I don't even have a vlog to promote yet. My point is that the good ol' boy network gets

Re: [videoblogging] Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging

2005-12-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Any idea if you'll be implementing a fireant:blah namespace? Tell me what the advantages would be for this? Is something not covered by RSS, iTunes extensions, or Media RSS, that you think we should include... or try to get included in other specs? -josh On 12/16/05, Christian Wach [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging

2005-12-16 Thread Joshua Kinberg
, Christian Wach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Dec 2005, at 20:03, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Any idea if you'll be implementing a fireant:blah namespace? Tell me what the advantages would be for this? Is something not covered by RSS, iTunes extensions, or Media RSS, that you think we should

Re: [videoblogging] PUNKCAST GOOGLECAST

2005-12-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Can you point me to any documentation on this method? Is this a special XML format only compatible with Google Personalized Homepage? -Josh On 12/15/05, WWWhatsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been messing with the new google personalized homepage http://google.com/ig Just making a

Re: [videoblogging] PUNKCAST GOOGLECAST

2005-12-15 Thread Joshua Kinberg
nevermind... found it: http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/ -josh On 12/15/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you point me to any documentation on this method? Is this a special XML format only compatible with Google Personalized Homepage? -Josh On 12/15/05, WWWhatsup

Re: [videoblogging] Re: How to Kill Fire Ants!

2005-12-14 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Yeah... we should probably purchase those keywords at Yahoo and Google, huh? -Josh On 12/14/05, Rob Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for watching! I'm glad you're enjoying the site. I didn't know about your site, but I'll add it to my FireAnt channels tonight. Rob

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Could Amanda Drive Broadband Television?

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Mainstream media often define blogs in general as being mainly a tool to express political opinions fact check your ass and all that. In actuallity political blogs make up only a small portion of all the weblogs out there (and I'm not referring to the personal is political, though I personally

Re: [videoblogging] Getting More Traffic . . . How?

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
We're getting ready to release a shiny new directory service for FireAnt very soon. Stay tuned -josh On 12/13/05, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to sharing with the world . . . I'd like to share with more of the world. I'd love to have a conversation about strategies for

Re: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Dude, m4v is nothing other than mp4 encoding at default settings preset by Apple. m4v is a myth. It is not a format. It is simply a file extension pulled out of the ether, but not a different file type. You could name it mp4 or mov as that would more accurately define the file type and you

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why I chose M4V temporarily

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
got with m4v with other formats, even though what you say is true. That's where I get a little confused. Mine eyes deceiveth me. ER --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, m4v is nothing other than mp4 encoding at default settings preset

Re: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This is not entirely accurate. The M4V saved out by Save for iPod defaults to H.264 with AAC audio. The M4V files available for sale through iTMS are VRML Media video, which makes M4V a wrapper format of some kind, which allows Apple to add DRM. Renaming the file from M4V to MP4 works for

Re: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Thanks Captain Obvious! ;) My point is, changing the file extension doesn't mean it will play back with *all* H.264 decoders, because it won't. You're correct, but it does solve the mime-type issue on the server side. -Josh On 12/13/05, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's

Re: [videoblogging] Why I chose M4V temporarily

2005-12-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Yes... this is the method I;ve previously suggested to folks. However, not everyone is technically capable of doing this. Even Eric Rice, who is a technically savvy dude has had trouble here. -Josh On 12/13/05, Jake Ludington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of Joshua Kinberg You're

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: The Indie TV Movement is Here

2005-12-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Joshua Kinberg could probably address the usage of media RSS bettter. I have a feeling that the person misused the term Media RSS. I don't think they were referring to the Media RSS specification developed collaboratively by Yahoo! and others. I think they were simply referring to the process

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Fwd: The Indie TV Movement is Here

2005-12-12 Thread Joshua Kinberg
pushing media streams to affiliates, which includes program guide metadata. Think broadband TV providers digitally pushing content to an affiliate station. I really think it was designed to accomodate both. -Josh On 12/12/05, Richard Bennett-Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Kinberg

Re: [videoblogging] 2006: Year of...

2005-12-11 Thread Joshua Kinberg
2006 will be the year when we finally get a terminology that distinguishes between stuff like Rocketboom.com and Charlene scratchtv.com - both are technically videoblogs, but they are very different forms/genres of media in my opinion. Please... the Rocketboom Vs. Personal Media

Re: [videoblogging] Advice on m4v MIME types

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Kinberg
mime-type for m4v is actually video/mp4 m4v is not really a new anything.. apple just made up a new file extension for the heck of it. FeedBurner should recognize the video and make an enclosure as soon as you give it a mime-type. If you are getting gibberish in your browser it means that the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on m4v MIME types

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Kinberg
after you set the mimetype with cpanel you probably need to restart your apache server for the change to take effect. -Josh On 12/9/05, Eric Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using CPANEL to set it. I did this whole process before with 3GP files no problemo. ER --- In

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is Flash the answer?

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Kinberg
for newer flash videos that use the new flash video codec, the user must have flash 8 installed. I am one who does not think that Flash is the answer for individual videobloggers. Making flash video, embedding it inside a SWF controller, and then posting it on a blog is not easy for a casual user

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Is Flash the answer?

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Kinberg
devil's advocate here, so could you tell me the problem with flash video and syndication? sorry if I am being a pain. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for newer flash videos that use the new flash video codec, the user must have flash 8

Re: [videoblogging] DivX - Shameless Plug

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Kinberg
So if I encode with DivX, the video can be played in QT Player and Windows Media Player? But the viewer has to have DivX codec installed, right? -josh On 12/8/05, JV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little shameless plug http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/ There is a free trial, but if anyone needs a

Re: [videoblogging] DivX - Shameless Plug

2005-12-08 Thread Joshua Kinberg
From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kinberg Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:40 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] DivX - Shameless Plug So if I encode with DivX, the video can

Re: [videoblogging] making directories

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I think show vs. personal diary may be the wrong way to put it.Really it comes down to the intent of the creator and their goals in terms of reaching an audience.Some people make stuff for a generalized (and thus larger) audience. This type of content needs to be entertaining or somehow have

Re: [videoblogging] Re: making directories

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Kinberg
http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 - Original Message - From: Joshua Kinberg To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: making

Re: [videoblogging] 'Podcast' named word of the year

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Kinberg
For the record, I agree podcast is a lame term to associate with video blogging, but it works to build an audience. Ummm... it doesn't work as well as good content. Rocketboom does not use the word podcast on their site anywhere (though they used to use vlog). Ryanne's Video Blog is called

[videoblogging] Skype adds video chat for PC users

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
PC users no longer have to be jealous of iChat AV users on Mac... now they have Skype with video chat: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-technopolis4dec04,1,1146484.story?coll=la-headlines-business Some other interesting stuff with this update too... a Skype Toolbar for Outlook, and

Re: [videoblogging] making directories

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
QT + SMIL really sux. I hate watching things load/buffer forever. -josh On 12/4/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is one area where quicktime really sux compared to the others (real, windows, etc) QT+SMIL then. On 12/4/05, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [videoblogging] making directories

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: craigslist works pretty well On 12/3/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things that helped people find weblogs in the very early days was weblogs.com, which was acquired recently by Verisign. All itis really is a ping server. Bloggers would ping it when

Re: [videoblogging] making directories

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
These threads really get off topic quickly. I'm much more interested in what makes a good directory rather than whether a video blog should be restricted to under 15 minutes. Personally, I like to leave the content decisions up to the creators. They make what they want, I view what I want. I

Re: [videoblogging] iPod Video Version of Vlog It! Preview Vodcast Posted

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
link? On 12/4/05, dsdietzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got around to posting the M4V version of my Vlog It! preview. Sync and enjoy. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: making directories

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Just because you're an artist or in art class doesn't mean that you make good art. I want Directories, or systems, that help me find the good back to the subject of thread please. :-) -josh On 12/4/05, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:35:20

Re: [videoblogging] re: Porn-- and possible soultions

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
If you have a community of taggers then you can weight the tags such that things more commonly tagged X are pushed up in the list of items tagged X.Tags do not have to be a one to one relationship... in this way you can help minimize the effect of users simply trying to game the system. Of

Re: [videoblogging] IPod Video Dating

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
does it get any better than this? RSS would make it better. How do i get the stuff on my iPod? How do I subscribe? On the other hand, there's always: http://suicidegirls.com/ipod/ -josh On 12/4/05, Michael I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does it get any better than this? andrew michael baron

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Multiple file formats in MT feeds

2005-12-04 Thread Joshua Kinberg
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both iPod and Sony PSP play h.264 (PSP firmware 2.0 added h.264 playback) Wow, I didn't realize that. Perfect. Makes my life much easier

Re: [videoblogging] Multiple file formats in MT feeds

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Both iPod and Sony PSP play h.264 (PSP firmware 2.0 added h.264 playback) You should be able to handle in one feed with the same file. -josh On 12/3/05, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm making 2 different feeds. One with mp4 enclosures for PSP, and one with m4v enclosures for

Re: [videoblogging] Multiple file formats in MT feeds

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
with rel=enclosure. Also, you can use the mime_include and mime_exclude params to filter exactly what types of files you want to create enclosures for. -josh On 12/3/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both iPod and Sony PSP play h.264 (PSP firmware 2.0 added h.264 playback) You should

Re: [videoblogging] Multiple file formats in MT feeds

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I haven;t tested it yet, but i've read it.-joshOn 12/3/05, Adam Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both iPod and Sony PSP play h.264 (PSP firmware 2.0 added h.264 playback)Wow, I didn't realize that. Perfect. Makes my life much

[videoblogging] open source DRM?

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This looks interesting... SUN pioneering open source DRM: http://www.openmediacommons.org/ Still very new and no source code has yet been posted. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life.

Re: [videoblogging] making directories

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
One of the things that helped people find weblogs in the very early days was weblogs.com, which was acquired recently by Verisign. All it is really is a ping server. Bloggers would ping it when they posted something new, and it contains a list of the recent posts. When there were only a handful of

[videoblogging] wordpress plugin for FLV support

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This looks cool: http://roel.meurders.nl/wordpress-plugins/wp-flv-video-player-plugin/ A plugin that automates embedding of Flash FLV in Wordpress blogs. Uses a nice looking, compact SWF video player (same one used by YouTube). Although I would still provide a Quicktime or WMV version for

Re: [videoblogging] Audacity preferences

2005-12-03 Thread Joshua Kinberg
First off... Make sure you are plugging your device into the Microphone Line-in input of your G4 not the headphone jack. Go to System Prefs-Sound and select the Input tab, and choose Microphone Line-in as the input source. Audacity should now hear your input. I think Powerbooks have a

Re: [videoblogging] Anyone from Feedburner?

2005-12-01 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Why not email FeedBurner for support? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Josh On 12/1/05, Juan Falla Ximena Muñoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anyone on this group from Feedburner? I need to ask a very specific question regarding changing my feed/site/url... I've been looking for any info on that but

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??

2005-12-01 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Why not provide an option for users to flag certain content as questionable or offensive, then put that content/feed into moderation queue for possible removal. -Josh On 12/1/05, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you should be required to sensor anything if you dont

Re: [videoblogging] Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
On 11/30/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Kinberg wrote: As for setting a poster frame... yes, do that. Its generally good practice, though most people tend to disregard. What is required to set a poster frame? Does it require QuickTime Pro? Can it be done with iMovie

Re: [videoblogging] miraculous says Adrien Brody

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
The videoblog, for those of you who haven't seen it, is at: http://www.kongisking.net/kong2005/proddiary/ I thought this site was great, but found it disappointing that i couldn't subscribe. I could never remember to check the site, and when I did I didn't know where to look for what I had

Re: [videoblogging] Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
://the-hold.blogspot.com - literature . On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Thumbnail generation is a very CPU intensive process. Mefeedia's server must download your videos, extract thumbs and save them, then remove the video. Not to mention there are often errors due to various video codecs

Re: [videoblogging] QT 7 Poster Frames / WAS Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Kinberg
The downgrade of QT sux becuse then you can't view h.264. I really feel like Apple is rushing early to market with these new technologies before they are really ready. I know Peter's video iPod completely died after maybe 2 weeks of use. He returned it and is now waiting for a replacement. Add

Re: [videoblogging] German Mobuzz Ripoff - Ehrensenf

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
It cerainly doesn't hurt though. -JoshOn 11/29/05, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering somewhere around half of all of the human beings on the planet are female and probably half or more of those are young and pretty, I don't find this to be enough of an argument for why

Re: [videoblogging] Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Rocketboom's layout works because it is updated daily...not many people delve into their archives (i imagine) Definitely wrong. People check back into the recent archives because of the thumbnails below. There is also an archive page which has thumbnails for every rocketboom... which is well

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Back to the point though... Rocketboom uses MovableType, which provides excellent control over the template design. You will have to learn a little bit of code beyond HTML to do what you want, but its pretty easy to get the hang of and very well documented. -Josh On 11/29/05, Bill Streeter

Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Tivo Beta Does Podcasting

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Isn't it insanely difficult to hook together Myth TV. My understanding is that its not for the faint of heart. -Josh On 11/29/05, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think MythTV does have a video aggregator. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In

Re: [videoblogging] Maybe a dumb question about RSS

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
What feed URL's? Which version of FireAnt? Mac or Windows? -Josh On 11/29/05, Horace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, So sometimes when I click on a sites feed, I get a URL that is the same, but with /rss and the page has lots of text on it. well, when I try to put this into FireAnt, it

Re: [videoblogging] Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Thumbnail generation is a very CPU intensive process. Mefeedia's server must download your videos, extract thumbs and save them, then remove the video. Not to mention there are often errors due to various video codecs and the fact that it can be hard to decode all types and extract images. Even

Re: [videoblogging] Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Kinberg
! this still does not explain why older video thumbs are not slowly showing up for me and why some new ones aren't (no changes in codec here) Joshua Kinberg wrote: Thumbnail generation is a very CPU intensive process.Mefeedia's server must download your videos, extract thumbs and savethem

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-28 Thread Joshua Kinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Kinberg wrote: In general, Amazon works pretty well. i'm not so sure it's working like it used to case in point: steve garfield sent a link earlier today to a site on photographer rights that had a link to amazon for a book it looked interesting and i

Re: [videoblogging] German Mobuzz Ripoff - Ehrensenf

2005-11-28 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Glad to see they're using QT Chapters. Even though I don't speak german, I can tell that they are running way too long -- skipping ahead is a must. I always believe shorter is better though. -Josh On 11/29/05, Jack Olmsted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these daily vlog ripoffs are setting the bar a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Its also the fact that you can rate the reviewer and let other users know that you found the review helpful or not. This type of feedback promotes trust in the system. People who are considered good reviewers rise to the top of the reviews. -Josh On 11/27/05, Randolfe Wicker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
on the Internet vote with their mice :) Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 - Original Message - From: Joshua Kinberg To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
we say that viewers on the Internet vote with their mice :) Randolfe (Randy) Wicker Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280 - Original Message - From: Joshua Kinberg

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
consciously adds is more valuable than tracking usage. But that's just my 2 cents. But then behavior is more indicative of honesty than speech. That shows up in polling questions. -- Enric On 11/27/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to Randy's comment... user's do

Re: [videoblogging] Fireant issue.

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Hey Michael, You're almost there. Check out http://FreeVlog.org and go to step #6. You need to transform your Atom feed to RSS format. You can do this at FeedBurner by enabling your feed for podcasting. Hope this helps, Josh PS: please use the Send Feedback and Report Bug features in FireAnt so

Re: [videoblogging] help! want to change .mov to something else.

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Quicktime Pro is $30. Definitely worth it. You can convert mov to something else... DV, AVI, etc. that can be handled by Movie Maker. -Josh On 11/27/05, Crystal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I am working with Windows XP and I bought a Kodak easyshare camara that makes movies in QuickTime

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

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
You can do whatever you like, that's one of the great things about vidoeblogging. Of course, if you want to reach a larger audience, you might want to create content with regards to that particular audience in mind. Also, don't get too hung up on stats. The longer you produce content, the more

Re: [videoblogging] Quicktime Pro vs Windows Movie Maker

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Quicktime Pro is not really for editing, although you can use it for simple editing (copy and paste style, but not timeline based). Quicktime Pro is generally used for converting movie files and compressing them. You can also do some advanced stuff like add captioning and clickable links inside

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-26 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I think maybe that was supposed to be popularity control? i.e. prominent placement in a directory can lead to more click throughs? -Josh On 11/26/05, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the directory is where the popular control lies now, especially when a directory is large and not open,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-26 Thread Joshua Kinberg
I agree here... but I think its a matter of allowing the community to determine what gets promoted. You can't be everything to everyone, but you can create the infrastructure to enable various ways of finding stuff and pushing stuff up to the top. Categories, Search, Tags, Social Networks,

Re: [videoblogging] YouthMinistryTV.com » Happy Thanksgiving 2005

2005-11-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
well, they did give you attribution credit. I don't think CC license specifies what type of attribution credit is acceptable. -josh On 11/25/05, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YouthMinistryTV.com remixed my video and deleted my credits from the video, but credit me in the blog post.

Re: [videoblogging] Spirit can not be spoken for

2005-11-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Its all in the works... be patient :-) -Josh On 11/25/05, Randolfe Wicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrew michael baron says: While in truth, no one can stop anyone from the mere act of podcasting, and granted, podcasters have all kinds of motives, podcasters were not included in

[videoblogging] Blogging in China on the front page of NYT

2005-11-24 Thread Joshua Kinberg
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/international/asia/24bloggers.html Interesting article on the developing blogging culture in China. From the front page of today's NY Times. -josh Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo!

Re: [videoblogging] Re: separate RSS for second video format

2005-11-24 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Wordpress... I know I can have feeds for each category but how can I make a separate feed without duplicating posts? Verdi On Nov 24, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Or maybe its time to ween off Blogger to something that provides more options and customizability... Wordpress

Re: [videoblogging] for the new people on this group

2005-11-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Don't you mean video podcast? I'm joking, of course, but I've noticed a lot of people in this group change their weblog title or description to include the phrase video podcast since the release of the video iPod. Is this simply to gain a little extra Google-juice with the hopes of snagging those

[videoblogging] small piece of history

2005-11-23 Thread Joshua Kinberg
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/video/metv.mov This video is almost a year old. This is Peter, Jay, Kenyatta, Mica, and me at Jay's apartment in Harlem, NYC. Peter had just started Me-TV, which became MeFeedia, which was based on Kenyatta's VogBrowser, which was based on a proof-of-concept

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
When you say it brings in the traffic, what kind of traffic are you talking about? Sometimes I wonder if people say, my traffic doubled... meaning that they went from 20 unique visitors in a day to 40. Which is likely skewed since you may have subscribers trying several different aggregators just

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Also, one other point to make... seeing a spike in statistics may mean very little (or at least may be pin pointed as uncharacteristic) if that spike is not sustained or representative of sustained growth. Trend analysis is always more important than random spikes. -josh On 11/22/05, Joshua

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Its very typical to see most traffic occurring during business hours. The bored-at-work-network at work. -josh On 11/22/05, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already I see a lot less traffic on Saturdays than any other day. So a lot of people are surfing my site from work. grin--

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Kinberg
supporting m4v in aggregators is as simple as adding another file extension to recognize and associate with quicktime player. not a big deal and i am sure if not now, any media aggregator will add this extension to the mix. nothing to be concerned about. This is exactly right. In fact,

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] 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

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]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
On 11/19/05, Frank Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
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'tmatter what codec or video format you use.:-)-JoshOn 11/18/05, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv

2005-11-19 Thread Joshua Kinberg
... stay tuned. -Josh On 11/19/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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] mov in to wmv

2005-11-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
If you're on Mac, check out Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime. It is totally worth it. You can encode WMV and also play and edit WMV using QT player/pro. As for importance of having multiple file formats, I think its a nice to have, but not a need to have. Depends on your goals and your intended

Re: [videoblogging] pop-up windows and feeds

2005-11-17 Thread Joshua Kinberg
read this: http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/10/easily_create_p.php use this: http://joshkinberg.com/popupmaker/ -Josh On 11/17/05, Lossy Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another techy question... I am trying to get all my Quicktime videos to open up in little pop-up windows when you

Re: [videoblogging] Michael Verdi: The numbers behind the numbers

2005-11-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
This is a little screwey if you are counting views using FeedBurner's stats. Views according to FeedBurner is how many people have clicked through to the original blog post and passed through FeedBurner's redirect in order to be counted. So its more like, how many people watched a video, read a

Re: [videoblogging] creating del.icio.us tags with posts

2005-11-13 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Can you explain to me the purpose for using Delicious to tag your own stuff? Is it because you are trying to make it findable for others? Wouldn't that be better accomplished using an open tagging spec like Tachnorati's. That way your tags are more likely to be picked up and spread aroun the web

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