[videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Rupert
I've just looked at the number of messages being produced by the group. Last month - 246 - was the lowest number of messages since the first month of the group in June 2004. Conversation peaked a year later in June 2005 with 2974 messages (100 per day). Yet you'd imagine that there are more

Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
My take on the why, in addition to what Rupert already said: 1. We're dispersing as our interests go into different directions, and the community seems loathe to create traditions and constants. With the exception of Vlog Europe, which is small, events like Vloggercon, Pixelodeon, the

Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Rupert
Maybe it'd be good to start by making a statement of these convictions somewhere, and making an argument for them. So much discussion of these things has happened in disposable form, lost in the voluminous archives of this group. On 5-Mar-09, at 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: The door is

Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Though this is kinda off-topic... a discussion on principles and convictions... but this post kinda speaks to that in a flippant sort of way: http://schlomo.tumblr.com/post/83691385/tanya77-alanfm78-as-seen-on-the-development Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomo.tv - finally moving to wordpress

Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Irina
definitely the economy has a lot to do with it since there's not so much new activity as u guys know, i had a lot to do with raising funds for events, etc and i can tell you i can barely eek out a couple thousand from anyone these days for even charity stuff like the hiphopchess thing i did

Re: Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread xeni
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Re: Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Lim
Well, isn't this a good thing? What's once fringe yet legitimately useful would naturally move towards the center. I remember writing my own RSS xml feed for media enclosures during the advent of podcasting. Now folks don't even need to know what a audio/video podcast is to start one. Same

Re: Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
What's once fringe yet legitimately useful would naturally move towards the center. I think the technology has definitely moved to the center, but the following has not: 1. Support for masterful online content that will sustain the test of time, but has comparatively little commerical value 2.

Re: Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Jay dedman
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Taylor thejeffreytay...@gmail.com wrote: What's once fringe yet legitimately useful would naturally move towards the center. I think the technology has definitely moved to the center, but the following has not: 1. Support for masterful online content

Re: [videoblogging] 246 messages in February

2009-03-05 Thread Rupert
The new version of IE will support standards by default, apparently (astonishingly) - so we'll see. On 5-Mar-09, at 2:01 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Many of us are still pushing for sane copyright(left) and open standards in online video. I've been talking about the new video capabilities in HTML 5