[videoblogging] Re: ARTICLE - Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs
Joanna Shields of Bebo is quoted in that article as saying As more and more interesting content from major media brands becomes available ... REALLY? I've got 1,000 channels and find it extremely difficult to find anything interesting to watch. There're gobs and gobs of stultifying treacle and palaver, but very little that qualifies as 'interesting.' And there sure doesn't seem, ever, to be 'more and more' of it. Rather, it seems there's ever less and less spread thinner and thinner and reheated, rehashed and re-served. In the same article we're told Tom Green is a professional. REALLY? His comedy bores me. Ask a Ninja is funnier as is Unleashed and many other amateur internet programs. So, maybe Tom Green is the amateur and the creators of those shows are the professionals. Yeah, that's it. You and me, we are the professionals. Whether you consider yourself a content creator or producer or videographer or vlogger or any other name that describes what you do making videos for online consumption, you are a professional if you want to be. And here's how: Professional as we use it today is a co-opted, bastardized term, roughly meaning expert or someone who gets paid for something. Thus, you are a professional clown if you get paid for being a clown, much like the anchors on your nightly network news program. And, if everyone you know calls you an ass, then you're a professional ass because you're really expert at it. Originally, to be a professional, one needed to be a member of the learned arts, namely divinity, law, and medicine. And for a long time after that, a professional was anyone who passed a rigorous qualifying exam of mental skill. Thus, if you were a doctor, lawyer, CPA, engineer, or actuary, you were a professional, but you couldn't be a professional garbage man. It was a status designation. But that's all changed now. You're a professional at what you get paid for. Thus, Tiger Woods is a professional golfer because he gets paid to golf and a NYC sanitation worker is a professional sanitation engineer. And if you have ever made $.01 from blip.tv or any other revenue sharing video site or you're just really good at it (and aren't we all?) then you're a professional whatever you want to call it. However you fill in that blank, I hope you don't fill in content creator. That term is impersonal and abstract. We're artists, storytellers, diarists, filmmakers, journalists, videographers, photographers, what have you. Content creator suggests some awful bladder hooked up to hoses, ingesting material and extruding content. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i agree with the opposing perspectives in this thread what also came to mind is that as soon as life's catastrophic events occur, suddenly it will be realized again the power of the so-called user-gen content. user-gen does not HAVE to mean teens expressing and working their personalities to each other on youtube. user-gen does not have to mean silly prank videos. user-gen does not have to mean strip-tease or dancing or ANYTHING in front of a damn immobile webcam. user-gen CAN be citizen journalism and art. Let's not forget... and if needed, remind the dimwits and story-fabricators in the world. show them! Sull On Nov 20, 2007 6:37 PM, Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs As more professionally produced content finds a home online, user-generated video becomes less alluring to viewers—and advertisers http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071119_7018 31.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories http://tinyurl.com/2mac2l Has anyone ever heard of VideoEgg and ManiaTV? Did BusinessWeek try to interview executives from known online video outlets? . . . Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog VM/F 202-478-0490 To thine own self be true. __ __ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Which Xacti?
Hey everyone. I'm ready to purchase one of these bad boys and when i went to the website I found that there are 12 versions of the camera. So I'm looking for your input on what you're using and what you like. My first choice would be great low light capture. Any info you can give would be great, thanks.
[videoblogging] Re: Which Xacti?
Sorry, in addition HD is preferred. Looking right now between the HD2 and HD700. Trying to figure out the differences at the moment. Thanks again. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Clintus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone. I'm ready to purchase one of these bad boys and when i went to the website I found that there are 12 versions of the camera. So I'm looking for your input on what you're using and what you like. My first choice would be great low light capture. Any info you can give would be great, thanks.
[videoblogging] Re: ARTICLE - Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs
Really? The first time I heard anyone use the term content provider, it was artist Laurie Andersen. Perhaps she was being sarcastic to refer to herself as such. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However you fill in that blank, I hope you don't fill in content creator. That term is impersonal and abstract. We're artists, storytellers, diarists, filmmakers, journalists, videographers, photographers, what have you. Content creator suggests some awful bladder hooked up to hoses, ingesting material and extruding content.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Counting views in Facebook?
I agree with you; the terms are typically horrible. But the videos I'm putting up there are really just doodles on a notepad and communication to a couple people. Nothing that I'm worried about being co-opted into some promotional piece. Unless they are into me and my girlfriend babbling; which may be the rage next season! On Nov 21, 2007 4:54 PM, mattfeldman78 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be careful uploading video directly to Facebook-their terms of use are horrible. You might want to consider using another app, like YouTube so u don't do a direct upload of the video and deal with their terms. I think Steve Garfield addressed this on this list and he blogged about it here: http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/10/facebook-terms-of-use.html -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net AIM:schlomochat
[videoblogging] Re: ARTICLE - Web Video: Move Over, Amateurs
Joanna Shields of Bebo is quoted in that article as saying As more and more interesting content from major media brands becomes available ... ... from the few Mega Media Conglomerates REALLY? I've got 1,000 channels and find it extremely difficult to find anything interesting to watch. There're gobs and gobs of stultifying treacle and palaver, but very little that qualifies as 'interesting.' And there sure doesn't seem, ever, to be 'more and more' of it. Rather, it seems there's ever less and less spread thinner and thinner and reheated, rehashed and re-served. I almost stopped reading here, then I felt a bit foolish, your thoughts are about a sticky subject, any attempt by me to persuade you to continue or elaborate or expand or provide examples or expound or evangelize or preach or persuade would be ass kissing In the same article we're told Tom Green is a professional. REALLY? His comedy bores me. Ask a Ninja is funnier as is Unleashed and many other amateur internet programs. So, maybe Tom Green is the amateur and the creators of those shows are the professionals. Tom Green, Tome Greens, Tom Greene, hello hello hello ... Tom Grenius!! The man is a comedic/technological/freaking GENIUS. I hope the networks have a whole lineup of shows just like Tom Green Yeah, that's it. You and me, we are the professionals. Whether you consider yourself a content creator or producer or videographer or vlogger or any other name that describes what you do making videos for online consumption, you are a professional if you want to be. And here's how: I do, I really do ... closing eyes. Professional as we use it today is a co-opted, bastardized term, roughly meaning expert or someone who gets paid for something. Thus, you are a professional clown if you get paid for being a clown, much like the anchors on your nightly network news program. And, if everyone you know calls you an ass, then you're a professional ass because you're really expert at it. Do compliments count as credibility toward the designation Professional? Originally, to be a professional, one needed to be a member of the learned arts, namely divinity, law, and medicine. And for a long time after that, a professional was anyone who passed a rigorous qualifying exam of mental skill. Thus, if you were a doctor, lawyer, CPA, engineer, or actuary, you were a professional, but you couldn't be a professional garbage man. It was a status designation. Wow, you just marginalized a small but growing segment of the scientific community. Garbage is no longer a 7 letter word, or something that sparks snickering or nausea ... I think you should rethink who you want to single out here ... just saying But that's all changed now. You're a professional at what you get paid for. Thus, Tiger Woods is a professional golfer because he gets paid to golf and a NYC sanitation worker is a professional sanitation engineer. And if you have ever made $.01 from blip.tv or any other revenue sharing video site or you're just really good at it (and aren't we all?) then you're a professional whatever you want to call it. Perhaps you or a loved one needs certification issued by a self certified, certificate issuer, if so, seek no more. I never mentioned it here before but ... if you send me proof of earnings (yes it's true even One Red Cent) from any site that payed you and $49.95 (plus Shipping handling and all applicable taxes), I will send you a beautiful (suitable for framing) anything you want to be certified as a professional. You won't find an offer online from me, like that anywhere ... I guarantee that However you fill in that blank, I hope you don't fill in content creator. That term is impersonal and abstract. We're artists, storytellers, diarists, filmmakers, journalists, videographers, photographers, what have you. Content creator suggests some awful bladder hooked up to hoses, ingesting material and extruding content. Hey ... Bladder. Kidney. Whatever ... I made this joke first ... remember? Two girls One cup ... metaphor for Consumerism Recycled Content come on ... don't let this David Casting guy distract you with his clever observation and well written post. Where did they find those Two Girls? Oh and this week at WalledMart buy One Cup, Get the Second Cup Free, That's like getting 50% off two cups!! Enjoyed the read --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Sull sulleleven@ wrote: i agree with the opposing perspectives in this thread what also came to mind is that as soon as life's catastrophic events occur, suddenly it will be realized again the power of the so-called user-gen content. user-gen does not HAVE to mean teens expressing and working their personalities to each other on youtube. user-gen does not have to mean silly prank videos. user-gen does not have to mean strip-tease or dancing or
[videoblogging] New Member Intro
Hey everyone, My name is Dina and I'm new to the world of videoblogging and the yahoo group. I'm the creator/host of Get Exercised, which can be seen at http://getexercised.com/ Looking forward to learning more about other videobloggers and being in touch with everyone. Happy Thanksgiving! Dina Dina Prioste By the way, you can Get Exercised with me at: http://getexercised.com/ - Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: New Member Intro
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you are using Joomla and blip.tv to power your site. How do you like using that combo for a vlog? Anyone else using Joomla? I have been using Joomla for about a year now to run my website http://hestakaup.com. I wanted to have a coffee table kind of video blog rather than a chronologically linear one that I felt forced into with blogging software. Joomla allows me to have a menu driven platform in which the visitor can make selections without going into archives. Everything is right there on a menu tree. Also, I wanted to intermix video with text. I use vPIP to embed my Flash videos so they appear without any promotional materials or prompts, particularly at the end of the video. That was a problem with blip and vimeo. Some of videos run for more than 20 minutes and others for less than 20 seconds. I needed to be able have have them start right up and stream at 500 kbs. Http://hestakaup.com is definitely not a show. I think of it as a video book or magazine. Maybe it's actually a vlog... It has a very narrow niche which allows me to explore some issues at some depth. Joomla has a learning curve, but it works well as a CMS. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New Member Intro
I do a lot of work on Joomla, but am not using it for a vlogging platform. http://k9disc.com / http://pawsitivevybe.com I have some embedded video and such, but it's more of a magazine kind of concept. Stan, I've not been to the site in some time, but I'll be checking it out. I'll have to hit you up privately to check in and see what's up. Welcome to the group, Dina. I'll be checking out your site. Good luck! Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://blogtalkradio.com/k9disc http://pawsitivevybe.com On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you are using Joomla and blip.tv to power your site. How do you like using that combo for a vlog? Anyone else using Joomla? I have been using Joomla for about a year now to run my website http://hestakaup.com. I wanted to have a coffee table kind of video blog rather than a chronologically linear one that I felt forced into with blogging software. Joomla allows me to have a menu driven platform in which the visitor can make selections without going into archives. Everything is right there on a menu tree. Also, I wanted to intermix video with text. I use vPIP to embed my Flash videos so they appear without any promotional materials or prompts, particularly at the end of the video. That was a problem with blip and vimeo. Some of videos run for more than 20 minutes and others for less than 20 seconds. I needed to be able have have them start right up and stream at 500 kbs. Http://hestakaup.com is definitely not a show. I think of it as a video book or magazine. Maybe it's actually a vlog... It has a very narrow niche which allows me to explore some issues at some depth. Joomla has a learning curve, but it works well as a CMS. Stan Hirson http://hestakaup.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
