Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Meiser
I've been thinking about what Charles said. In theory we could extend wordpress' trackback mechanism. I'm not sure exactly how it currently works, but we could basically just extend it to identify video enclosures and embed those in the original blog post comments area. This might be THE

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
You know. I remember reading somewhere that, when the HTTP protocol (that the web is build upon) was being designed, they actually wanted a include a mechanism to keep track of what other pages were linking to you. If I recall correctly, the HTTP Referer and yes you're suppose to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Rather than extending the TrackBack or Pingback protocols, perhaps we could support the marking of the video (and being the content... and thus the thing being a video comment) with some Semantic HTML. I.e., using HTML classes, special HTML elements, and HTML rel and rev attributes to express

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Actually I just remembered that I solved a problem similar to this when I was writing the VideoPress Video Embed plugin. The VideoPress Video Embed plugin provide code other people can use to embed your video on other people's pages. The thing is, I marked that embed code semantically with a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-05 Thread Sull
Charles, Regarding semantic markup... Indeed. That's why i made mention of XFN earlier to imply that taking the same concepts of people relations through semantics (my profiles and friends profiles and discovering connections), the same should be applied to the conversations being had among these

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Feb 4, 2008 6:58 AM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Meiser
I think it would need someone who can develop it to do a protype of the idea in it's most simple form, a proof of concept. -Mike On Feb 4, 2008 11:42 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldnt say it is that easy, a really intuitive system will need more thought in this area than

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Jay dedman
So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity building it. I'm just sick of helping unappreciative companies / people build

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
I would be nice if, for example, each WordPress (or Show in a Box) based video blog had a plugin that could show the entire threaded convo itself. That way you could see the convo no matter which video blog you were on. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Sull
obviously of interest http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/02/urls-are-people-too.html On Feb 4, 2008 1:40 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would need someone who can develop it to do a protype of the idea in it's most simple form, a proof of concept.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Adrian Miles
On 02/02/2008, at 8:53 PM, Jay dedman wrote: when you start talking like tis Adrian, you lose me. I am understanding the concepts of video commenting and following the threads. im in. fair enough. lose myself too. I'll think through and try to make a QT mockup to explain what I mean.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Technical question: ShowinABox + Vpip installation Got Video Archive set up Got video comments installed check Most recent WordPress install Here's the subject test page, creating an 'About' page using comments for dynamic content: http://fauxpress.tv/vlog/?page_id=2#comment-3 Will Vpip not

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Jay dedman
Here's the subject test page, creating an 'About' page using comments for dynamic content: http://fauxpress.tv/vlog/?page_id=2#comment-3 Will Vpip not make a popup for video comments? What do I have to do to accomplish that? Add some code to the comment template? you must have fixed it.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Just nowhere is it clear where that snippet should go - which css file? style.css? That's the right direction. As a newbie @ WP the placement's just not jumping right out at me. Thanks, Mr. Dedman. And Mr. Meade for making it. Thanks, ShowinABox. it's a kick in my artist-ass. :) Jan On

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Meiser
Sorry, been away from my computer a few days. So Jay, is this an offer to develop it? I would be very happy to contribute feedback, design, CSS, light coding / anything I can just as long as it's either a) open source, or b) I have some stake in the entity building it. I'm just sick of helping

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On 2/2/08, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does a tracker help me follow conversations across different sites? that might be the wrong question. If you could map link structures between blogs then the patterns that form, and the clusters (eg your blog

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-03 Thread Jan McLaughlin
XO - that's what I was looking for Ms. Colan. :) Jan On Feb 3, 2008 1:34 PM, Cheryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan, If you're using the Show in a Box variant where you can go to Presentation Theme Options and select a stylesheet from a dropdown menu, then don't put the CSS snippet into

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-02 Thread Jay dedman
how does a tracker help me follow conversations across different sites? that might be the wrong question. If you could map link structures between blogs then the patterns that form, and the clusters (eg your blog would be a dense node since many others link to it) provide ways of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 4:33 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: I'll have to read up on your word to get your meaning... But I disagree that when we talk about video commenting we're ONLY talking about putting videos into comments on people's blogs... I would suggest we instead include vlog to vlog comments

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 4:33 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: we could right a book on this subject, I feel it would be more productive for me to mine for your past comments... are they on here or on one of your blogs. hi Mike some are at http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/thinking but this site is still being

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Kath O'Donnell
yeah that would be cool. shiftspace have an api so perhaps it's something that can be done now/future, not sure. they can replace images already so the view of the page via shiftspace is different to the real page. adding layers/dimensions to the web. like a stack. perhaps a layer to replace your

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Sull
ShiftSpace is interesting, thanks for the headsUp. On Feb 1, 2008 10:13 AM, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah that would be cool. shiftspace have an api so perhaps it's something that can be done now/future, not sure. they can replace images already so the view of the page

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Jay dedman
it's not necessary that comments be posted directly TO the comment box on a blog post. I personally feel that the best potential of all is to track and display the back and forth BETWEEN blogs /vlogs using permalink tracking. Joe vlogs -- Mary vlogs about Joe's post linking directly to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
I would imagine you would see the threaded conversation all on one page. (Maybe including the whole message... or with links to the messages.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-01 Thread Adrian Miles
On 02/02/2008, at 3:25 AM, Jay dedman wrote: H.so are you saying we need some service to do track these conversations? tell me how it works from a user's perspective. yes how does a tracker help me follow conversations across different sites? that might be the wrong question.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread David Meade
It's included in wordpress feeds already. - but I dont think it is in blogger feeds On Jan 31, 2008 1:12 AM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Example of a comment feed reference from sull's blip feed: http://sull.blip.tv/rss item guid

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Blogger just recently allowed commentors to check a box fo follow comments via email. Havent any idea what you guys' are taling about, but... I love it when the coders get all excited. :) Jan On Jan 31, 2008 7:22 AM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's included in wordpress feeds

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
YouTube actually has a great API for asking for all comments, including video comments, for a video. It uses GData. Does anyone know if Blip has a similar API? I have seen that Blip offers comments RSS for each post, but most of the time the conversations are happening at the vlogs,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread David King
Asked a slightly different way - what's the difference? What's the difference between someone's text-based words and someone's video-based words? I'm thinking you should be able to pull quotes from both. David On Jan 31, 2008 11:34 AM, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
From the archives (back in 2005), here's one possible interface for displaying video quotes: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20051013-0025 It has a big quote mark and a link back to the original. Made with this: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/linkubator/ (choose the 'video quote' option)

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jan McLaughlin
My experience in this realm has been mixed. All along the spectrum from ecstasy to rage. Sigh. Jan On Jan 31, 2008 12:34 PM, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been cautious in this area.. It's a good question. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
Asked a slightly different way - what's the difference? What's the difference between someone's text-based words and someone's video-based words? I'm thinking you should be able to pull quotes from both. this would be my instinct as well. But the newspaper/book industry welcomes others to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments [fwd to semanal list]

2008-01-31 Thread Kath O'Donnell
fwding to semanal list - I like your idea Jay - what if for week6 (or choose another week) we all post a video, but we also have to post a video comment to at least one person who's posted that week. or use the comment video as your weekly post if you don't want/are too busy to do 2 videos. so we

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
From the archives (back in 2005), here's one possible interface for displaying video quotes: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20051013-0025 It has a big quote mark and a link back to the original. Made with this: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/linkubator/ (choose the 'video quote'

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread David King
Agreed - a community needs to have a standard of practice in order to, well... practice! And CC seems to be the way to go. The hard part is this: videobloggers come in all different varieties. Some are posting thoughts and conversation-starters (sorta like text blogs). Others think of their posts

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Jay dedman
Agreed - a community needs to have a standard of practice in order to, well... practice! And CC seems to be the way to go. The hard part is this: videobloggers come in all different varieties. Some are posting thoughts and conversation-starters (sorta like text blogs). Others think of their

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Sull
something like disqus.com, which deems it important to allow data export and not be a walled garden using yours and your commenters content. On Jan 31, 2008 5:01 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe a part of effective conversations, comments, communication, is bridging the gap

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Kath O'Donnell
or something like ShiftSpace? http://shiftspace.org/screencasts/intro/ has a demo video. a metadata layer above webpages - the trails sound interesting. how you can link up conversations across the metaverse. I think they're at transmediale atm. there's a few examples on the site. On Feb 1, 2008

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
hi all On 01/02/2008, at 7:48 AM, Jay dedman wrote: So i think CC licenses is totally important...but can we have Fair Use if video is being used for criticism, debate, or conversation? fair use is very weak. As far as I'm aware it doesn't formally exist here in Australia as a right, more a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 4:28 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I think the biggest challenge is getting creators to actually make video comments. Youtube has the only video commenting system Ive really seen used. Most times though, people are just linking to their own videos so they can ride out the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
you should but technically one is trivial computationally the other much more complicated. Also text has clear standards. Quote marks, standardised referencing systems to indicate source, right down to year, page, and object, etc. There is no way to easily indicate this inside video. In

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
in australia it is more or less a 'gentlemen's agreement' (and I'm pretty sure this is how it gets described) which every now and then ruffles feathers when one network is perceived to use too much of someone else's footage or similar. there is no licence, no money, just a sort of mutual

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
hi all Does anyone remember that thing from years ago that was like webpage graffiti? you could leave notes on webpages, and anyone with the plugin could see the notes. I remember that whitehouse.gov got more or less buried under the things... On 01/02/2008, at 10:12 AM, Kath O'Donnell

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Markus Sandy
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: Does anyone remember that thing from years ago that was like webpage graffiti? you could leave notes on webpages, and anyone with the plugin could see the notes. I remember that whitehouse.gov got more or less buried under the things... are

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 2:23 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: are you referring to http://www.mystickies.com/ ? i think there are several services like this now (sort of defeats the point) i recall a firefox plugin always been surprised that this did not take off more. weren't there libel issues in

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
On Jan 31, 2008 3:48 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed - a community needs to have a standard of practice in order to, well... practice! And CC seems to be the way to go. The hard part is this: videobloggers come in all different varieties. Some are posting thoughts and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 3:58 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: it's not necessary that comments be posted directly TO the comment box on a blog post. I personally feel that the best potential of all is to track and display the back and forth BETWEEN blogs /vlogs using permalink tracking. hi Mike here ye,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
On Jan 31, 2008 4:53 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm yes thats the sort of problem that I was gibbering about in post the other day, if comments and conversations are fragmented across multiple websites, how to piece that all back together again and present it in a sane way.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
On Jan 31, 2008 10:01 PM, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, at 4:28 AM, Jay dedman wrote: I think the biggest challenge is getting creators to actually make video comments. Youtube has the only video commenting system Ive really seen used. Most times though, people

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
On Jan 31, 2008 10:05 PM, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should but technically one is trivial computationally the other much more complicated. Also text has clear standards. Quote marks, standardised referencing systems to indicate source, right down to year, page, and object, etc.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Feb 1, 2008 12:10 AM, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, at 3:58 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: it's not necessary that comments be posted directly TO the comment box on a blog post. I personally feel that the best potential of all is to track and display the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Jan 31, 2008 10:37 PM, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, at 2:23 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: are you referring to http://www.mystickies.com/ ? i think there are several services like this now (sort of defeats the point) i recall a firefox plugin

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Adrian Miles
On 01/02/2008, at 4:33 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: Are you farmilliar with the Ted Nelson Exanadu project and it's MANY MANY ill fated inspired projects? It's truely fascinating. A sort of wikipedia for media concept. EVERYTHING is interefernceable. A sort of mythic beast / grail quest project

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
On 2/1/08, Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, at 4:33 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: Are you farmilliar with the Ted Nelson Exanadu project and it's MANY MANY ill fated inspired projects? It's truely fascinating. A sort of wikipedia for media concept. EVERYTHING is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
It's not that complex though to track comments. You follow the permalink. You parse the page one time... you look for the comment RSS most platforms have them now. You display all or part of the comments in the aggregator... maybe as trackbacks, you just take them into account in the aggregator

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Sull
and i just checked blip feeds and... good on them ;) it's in there. On Jan 31, 2008 12:10 AM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For starters, their should be wide adoption of WFW - Well-Formed Web wfw:commentRss namespace element. http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Sull
For starters, their should be wide adoption of WFW - Well-Formed Web wfw:commentRss namespace element. http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/ http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/default.aspx?content=archive.htm#exposingRssComments On Jan 30, 2008 10:56 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
Cool. Example of a comment feed reference from sull's blip feed: http://sull.blip.tv/rss item guid isPermaLink=false9856168E-BE0C-11DC-A000-B09E966E5011/guid linkhttp://blip.tv/file/586535/link titleWhat is it that's driving this?/title [...]