[videoblogging] Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread sdorfman.rm
What wordpress plugin(s) would you recommend to accomplish the following?: 1. by default, show the youtube version of a video (i want the numbers boost to times viewed on youtube to help make the videos more popular) 2. create an itunes-friendly rss feed so people can find and subscribe

Re: [videoblogging] Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread David Jones
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, sdorfman.rm si...@yamlike.com wrote: What wordpress plugin(s) would you recommend to accomplish the following?: 1. by default, show the youtube version of a video (i want the numbers boost to times viewed on youtube to help make the videos more popular) You

Re: [videoblogging] Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread Joly MacFie
I agree with Dave below -and I think you have a choice to make 1) incorporate html5 into your posts, with a simple fallback to YouTube - thereby losing some YT views 2) just have a separate h264 download link under the YouTube - which will work fine for the iPad etc crew Having messed with html

Re: [videoblogging] Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread David Jones
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I agree with Dave below -and I think you have a choice to make 1) incorporate html5 into your posts, with a simple fallback to YouTube - thereby losing some YT views 2) just have a separate h264 download link under the

[videoblogging] Re: Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread Steve Garfield
Hi Simon, Sounds like you are making a series. blip.tv can help. 1. by default, show the youtube version of a video Upload once to blip.tv and have blip.tv post a version to youtube for you. Embed that on your blog. 2. create an itunes-friendly rss feed so people can find and subscribe to

[videoblogging] Beet TV - Looking At the Other Side of the Fence

2010-05-30 Thread compumavengal
I'm always curious about the many forms of web video that are popping up by various stakeholders. I stumbled into http://www.beet.tv because I saw a post about Blip.tv raising $10 million in new funding. I messed around in the Devices section. This might be the place where folks want to visit

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread Robert Millis
Steve is dead on with this, the only thing I would add is that the Blip player (and many others) may look better on your home page than a YouTube player, so consider which is more important -- your brand appearance or numbers seen by YouTube viewers. I'd give the Blip player a try before

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread David Jones
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Robert Millis mil...@hudsonstreetmedia.com wrote: Steve is dead on with this, the only thing I would add is that the Blip player (and many others) may look better on your home page than a YouTube player, so consider which is more important -- your brand

[videoblogging] Re: Questions about setting up a new wordpress video blog

2010-05-30 Thread daredolls
thanks steve, now i don't have to buy your book. or maybe i should, since i still don't have any experience with an RSS feed. we went pro with blip a year ago, ad revenues quadupled that $90. so fear not. the main reason i can afford to have produced a series is i live in such a remote -