[videoblogging] FWD: Know the Wikipedia Platform? Help Make Wiki Videos!
Forwarding this interesting post from Craigslist. Please not contact me, i'm not the original author Reply to: volunt...@sunflowerchildren.org [?] Date: 2009-02-10, 10:20PM EST www.SunflowerChildren.org. Think Global; Act Virtual volunt...@sunflowerchildren.org Sunflower Children is a 501c3 charity formed by passionate volunteers to support at-risk children throughout the world connected by an Obama-like virtual platform. Think: Unicef meets Obama Volunteers Physically located in New York City and the Czech Republic, we support children's projects throughout the world, currently including: South Africa, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Philippines, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and growing. (For a complete list of our projects, please see: http://www.SunflowerChildren.org/list/projects/.) The Sunflower movement was started in 2000 when Miss Czech and fashion model Helena Houdova planted Sunflower seeds in a few friends. Now Sunflower has grown into an Obama-like worldwide network of virtual volunteers. Three paid and ten pro bono staff members run a collaborative charity of thousands of volunteers. 100% of all public donations directly benefit a Sunflower child. Our staff and minimal operating expenses are funded by private benefactors whose generosity enables Sunflower's 100% Benefit Policy. To raise funds for our children, Sunflower Volunteers produce several benefits/events per year in cities around the world. Sunflower volunteers have been awesome at finding, evaluating and catching children's projects that have been falling through the system's cracks and at raising the money for them in all kinds of ways. However, we are still trying to connect to volunteers who can help us tell our story to the world and create a platform that other people can emulate us and do what we do to form Sunflower Circles in their cities. Imagine: Obama-like events on a worldwide scale to raise money and volunteers for children. This is why we need volunteers to make videos for our Wikipedia platform to help us cross those virtual boundaries and explain to others with a whole new media platform. As a Wiki video creator you would need skills in the following: - Open Source - Drupal - Video Editing - Graphic Design - Adobe If you would like to be a part of making videos specifically for our Wikipedia platform then please e-mail us at: volunt...@sunflowerchildren.org. www.SunflowerChildren.org. Think Global; Act Virtual volunt...@sunflowerchildren.org
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Micropayments (part 81)
I firmly believe voluntary support, with a bit of added-value product sales, is the future, either directly to a site or through a service provider or some kind link Kachingle (I don't know if their model will work, but it's a much more promising idea than micropayments). Free is a right is, for better or worse, the mantra of the generation coming up now, and one can't bend reality, only innovate within/around it (see Bush, et al, for the results of trying to act outside of the reality-based community). Brook [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Who is heading to SXSW?
I'll be there for the first time this year. Psyched. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:35 AM, David Terranova da...@davidterranova.comwrote: I'll be there vjing for one of the music shows, I think on the 18th. -- David Terranova www.davidterranova.com | blog.davidterranova.com | rebelrave.tv Quoting Irina irina...@gmail.com: eddie and i should be there with our Tech Cab! On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com wrote: I will be there. Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com 1timstreet%40gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Christopher Polack wrote: I was wonder who among the video bloggers were attending SXSW. I was thinking of blowing my tax refund on going but didn't want to go out and not know anyone. Topher http://www.ChristopherPolack.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Who is heading to SXSW?
I'll be at SXSW!!!
[videoblogging] Miro 2.0
The next version of Miro is out. Check out the new features: http://www.getmiro.com/features/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] SXSW meetup?
I will definitely be heading there for the Interactive track! Why not arrange a meetup or create a Facebook of Video bloggers going to SXSW? -- KARA ANDRADE | ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SPOT.US: www.spot.us 33 Pearl Street #12 | san francisco ca 94103 t: 510.384.0788 k...@spot.us Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community-funded reporting and creating a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Miro 2.0
Very cool, I see you made a cameo in the intro video too. Adam W. Warner From: Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com To: Videobloggers videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:38:27 PM Subject: [videoblogging] Miro 2.0 The next version of Miro is out. Check out the new features: http://www.getmiro. com/features/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry .com http://jaydedman. com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] SXSW meetup?
Yeah, great idea! On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kara Andrade kara.andr...@gmail.comwrote: I will definitely be heading there for the Interactive track! Why not arrange a meetup or create a Facebook of Video bloggers going to SXSW? -- KARA ANDRADE | ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SPOT.US: www.spot.us 33 Pearl Street #12 | san francisco ca 94103 t: 510.384.0788 k...@spot.us kara%40spot.us Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community-funded reporting and creating a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- --- American Cliche http://www.americancliche.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] SXSW meetup?
I'm all for that as well... David Lee King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog twitter | skype: davidleeking On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Scott Parent theamericancli...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, great idea! On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Kara Andrade kara.andr...@gmail.com wrote: I will definitely be heading there for the Interactive track! Why not arrange a meetup or create a Facebook of Video bloggers going to SXSW? -- KARA ANDRADE | ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SPOT.US: www.spot.us 33 Pearl Street #12 | san francisco ca 94103 t: 510.384.0788 k...@spot.us kara%40spot.us Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community-funded reporting and creating a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- --- American Cliche http://www.americancliche.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: iWeb and RSS feeds (WordPress)
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Tim Street 1timstr...@... wrote: Thanks! Looks like I might be upgrading to the new iWeb for a test drive. I'll ask my legal team to look the other way. Doesn't seem to grab the embed though iWeb does not like video embeds, like the embeds your site or YouTube feed. It does like photos. It certainly not perfect, but iWeb can do a few things very well. Topher Polack www.ChristopherPolack.com
[videoblogging] Radio article on legality of photographing in public in UK
There's a short but interesting piece on the BBC's Law In Action about whether the police have any right to stop you taking photographs in public in the UK, in light of various cases where the police have done this. The answer is, basically, that they have to suspect criminal or terrorist intent, and they cannot confiscate or delete material without a court order. You can listen to it here http://tinyurl.com/adpley Rupert http://twittervlog.tv
[videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
When I post videos (I haven't for months) I try to also upload them to Share on Ovi, which converts them to 3gp automatically and provides a mobile compatible channel for you to link to from your blog and an RSS feed. Gives me another outlet where people can watch my videos, and saves the hassle of converting them myself and worrying about the best way to make my blog compatible for older video phones. Rupert On 11-Feb-09, at 10:20 PM, Pat Cook wrote: Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http:// asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/ theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site
Hi everyone: And even then, a $5 Domain Name from GoDaddy would be all one would need for a Blogger-hosted blog. You wouldn't even need to pay for hosting. Just simply get the DNS from Blogger Support to enter into your GoDaddy account control panel and *VOILA!* - A Blogger-hosted blog under YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME - Courtesy of GoDaddy Mind you, I just simply used GoDaddy as an example registrar. Don't like GoDaddy, insert your favorite registrar in lieu of GoDaddy :D Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ From: Mike Meiser Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 16:57 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site To use your car analogy most people simply take it to the dealer for maintence. There is no dealer for self hosting. Dreamhost nor any other provide that sort of support. That type of structure does not exist. Most people are not technically literate enough to manage the constant stream of upgrades. I myself while technically capable, cut a hard edge on maintence issues. If I go on vacation for a month, I simply don't want to worry about it. And a month of ignoring it is all it takes... now multiply that by the rest of your life. Most people underestimate how much the long term maintence costs are while underestimating their own capactity to handle that constant maintence. These people should simply NOT be self hosting... unless they use blogger.com which requires no maintence. It's that simple. -Mike On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:41 PM, David Howell taoofda...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry but the Wordpress site owners that are having their sites hacked are the same people that buy a car and expect to never have to change the oil in it. Running a self-hosted site means being able to manage one as well. If you don't want to manage it, then you use sites like Blogger. Blogger is great for that. No frills. No muss. No fuss. No extras. If you dont want to manage it yourself, you hire people like me that will not only design and build it but manage it as well. If you want to do it all yourself, please read the manual, secure it and keep it up do date with patches. Your unsecured site causes problems for everyone. If you dont change the oil in your car, dont cry when it's eventually sitting dead on the side of the road. David Howell http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@... wrote: Sad to hear. :( I'm assuming he was running wordpress? I've seen way to many wordpress blogs hacked. The problem is just maintence, you have to keep wordpress constantly up to date to patch security holes. If you don't it will inevitably get hacked. Same goes for all server side open source. Many times I've wanted to redo my blogger.com blog in wordpress, indeed wordpress is simply better, but the truth is blogger.com is virtually hack proof since there's absolutely no server side code running. It's all handled by blogger.com and written to the server via sftp. I've really come to appreciate this rock solid security and ZERO maintenance, and to be honest it's the primary reason I simply recommend blogger over wordpress to anyone who wants to self host on their own domain. The exception being if they're a developer and already running code on their server, in which case they're probably aware enough of the maintenance issues to run wordpress. Lately I've been doing a lot of work in the bike industry and it seems the entire industry from shop owners, to racers to bike makers runs almost exclusively on a blogspot hosted ecosystem. It simply works. P.S. a good auto-backup system or version control system for your blog is a MUST if you run wordpress. A lot of hosting providers include this stock. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2 On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Steve Watkins st...@... wrote: Looking back a page or 2 on his twitter history, I think the site got hacked. http://twitter.com/joshleo Cheers Steve --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David King davidleeking@ wrote: Anyone know what happened to josh Leo's site (joshleo.com)? It looks like it is gone ... I really like his videos! Just curious Sent from my iPhone Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site
Hi everyone: AhhBut you DO have a choice Brook. Just simply get a $5 Domain Name from (Again for example) GoDaddy. Seriously, WHAT DIFFERENCE should it make as to where your blog is ACTUALLY hosted? Heck, if I wanted to, I could go out get a domain name for my political website EVEN THOUGH the site itself is on Geocities. PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME. It's the NAME you're interested in promoting as that's your site. You could care less about the host, could you? Just my opinion... Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ From: Brook Hinton Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 07:26 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site To be fair, Wordpress, along with other blog and CMS solutions, is hyped all over the place as being easy and requiring no knowledge of much of anything. Unless you're happy with one of the simpler free templates and never upgrade, it isn't true, but there are reasons some of us less geek-smart folks jumped to it, even if they turned out to be bad reasons. When I contemplated moving from typepad to wordpress I was told by so many people: If you can use typepad you can use wordpress, and migrating is easy There are so many good templates you won't need to code anything, even for that video stuff you want to do. Because it has pages you can replace your whole web site without needing to code anything. It's perfect for you, you won't have to pay someone to set up what you want to do. WIth the exception of the migrating of data, which was easy, none of it was true. Etc etc etc etc etc etc. WIth the exception of the migrating of data, which was indeed easy, none of it was true. All from people who used it, knew how to code but who also knew that I could barely cut and paste my way through editing some simple html. So many of us are NOT the same people that buy a car and expect to never have to change the oil in it. We just bought the hype that no oil was necessary to begin with. A little googling reveals the same stuff now being hyped about CMS like Drupal and Joomla. So since I'm not in a position to pay anyone to do these things for me, I'm learning CSS and whatever else I have to learn. I don't want to, but I sure wish I'd known I had no choice back when I first jumped in. Brook ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
Hi everyone: Well finding a host is THE LEAST of my concerns right now. I have one which I use for my audio podcast although they support audio AND video (And even then, I can always get multiple accounts with all the email addresses I have:D). My main concern is encoding my videos whereas they can be decoded and played back by the vast majority of mobile devices on the market. I realize I may not be able to hit every one, but if I can get a simple majority of them, that would REALLY make me a happy camper. :D Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ From: Rupert Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 23:28 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP When I post videos (I haven't for months) I try to also upload them to Share on Ovi, which converts them to 3gp automatically and provides a mobile compatible channel for you to link to from your blog and an RSS feed. Gives me another outlet where people can watch my videos, and saves the hassle of converting them myself and worrying about the best way to make my blog compatible for older video phones. Rupert On 11-Feb-09, at 10:20 PM, Pat Cook wrote: Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http:// asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/ theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site
Um, I'm not sure what you're responding to - I used to host a blogger blog on my own site, hosted at pair, with its own domain name, so yes I know this is possible. I found blogger's options, at the time, inadequate for what I wanted to do. I've always used domain names of my own choosing regardless of the host I'm using at the time. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
