[videoblogging] bye bye analog tv
A call for video submissions from a friend's project. Get more info at: http://virtualmemory.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/ 3 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Virtual Memory Project is calling for submissions : We are soliciting and collecting short films and videos documenting, describing, or otherwise acknowledging the analog-digital transition for a curated, traveling film program to coincide with the analog switch-off in February 2009. Farewell, Analog : Whats this all about ? In February 2009, analog broadcast television signals will cease. Somewhere back in the first half of the previous century, the first analog broadcast signal floated out across the air. Ever since, analog processes, technologies and aesthetics have shaped our existence - weve been sending and receiving analog, speaking to each other through these long, sinewy, unreliable analog waves - and now well officially replace them with digital packets, invisible streams of 0s and 1s that wouldnt know an antenna from a reel-to-reel. Will you miss it ? Does it matter ? Are you an analog purist ? Do you prefer celluloid to megapixels ? Or are you a digital prophet ? Streaming along above the fray - no rabbit ears for you Love it or hate it, analogs been a good friend to us - shouldnt we say goodbye ? Make something, and submit your work today ! Criteria : Submitted films dont have to reference the analog switch-off directly but should be closely related to the themes of : the quirks, pleasures and frustrations of analog technology (film, photography, vinyl, radio, magnetic tape, vacuum tubes, cathode ray television, etc etc) obsolescence (do all technologies have to end ?) digital future (utopia or apocalypse, you tell us) the difference between analog and digital the work of art in the age of digital reproduction, etc, etc All genres accepted - Documentary, Experimental, Narrative and Animation, etc Works may be newly created for the project, or be existing works. Work will be reviewed for thematic content, production quality, and programming viability. Length : No limitations, but length may affect submissions ability to be programmed Deadline : Submit work by January 23, 2009. Jen Simmons Milkweed Media Design http://milkweedmediadesign.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Boxee: open source media player
I am using it. I like it. Makes me want a TV to use it on. I like that I can watch videoblogs via RSS without having pre- downloaded anything. I'm not sure how much I'll use Boxee vs. a web broswer, however. If I had a TV (and no tivo or whatever other service people already use) I would *totally* use the Boxee all the time. So far, on my computer, it's just an experiment. I think there'd be more value if I had more friends to follow you can watch what your friends just watched. Which would be a great way to find new online content. Jen Jen Simmons Milkweed Media Design http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Dec 28, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Enric mentioned this site recently which I just now checked out: http://www.boxee.tv They have a video explainer on the front page. It's not open yet accept through invite, but look interesting. Supposedly it lets you watch stuff from around the web in one place. The wikipedia article explains more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Boxee It's licensed GPL which is encouraging because people can build on it. anyone actually try it yet? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spoof Accounts
There's a cool bookmarklet-thingy that you can add to your browser toolbar that then let's you reveal the link to the mv4 file — and download it. Awesome for remixing. Grab it here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html Jen Jen Simmons http:/jensimmons.com http://mlkweedmediadesign.com I assume Youtube transcodes videos to mp4 for he iPhone? but then just hides them from view on their own site? Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] video in schools?
There are several great highschool programs in San Antonio. Michael Verdi could give you more specific contact info than I can. http://michaelverdi.com Jen Simmons http;//jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Oct 17, 2008, at 8:24 AM, David King wrote: Anyone know of any k-12 schools that are doing cool stuff with video? I'm writing a primer article for a magazine on video on the web for schools, and they want examples... Thanks! David King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: McCain on Blip = a Shame
I agree with you Michael, it's a total shame McCain and his terrible ads are on a service we love. BOO. I was upset when I saw the blip.tv player on McCain' website. :( Yet I totally disagree with your call to ask or expect blip.tv to take the videos down. That would be a kind of censorship that I would NOT want to see. As much as I don't like the videos (or a lot of the videos on blip.tv, or any of the other video hosts for that matter), censorship by any hosting service would be much worse. Also, I'm glad you brought up the issue, Michael. I don't have anything against your rant. I'll rant too. I don't like McCain's videos at all! BOOO!!! We get to rant. His campaign gets to post more videos. Blip will leave them up. We can discuss it all here. This is how free speech works. YEAH, FREE SPEECH. Don't censure yourself Michael just because people are disagreeing with you publicly wishing and asking blip.tv to take the videos down. No need to crawl in a corner to lick wounds. Or change your mind and love McCain now. We get to have an open discussion here. That's good. Plus, come on. Imagine the public relations nightmare that would happen if blip.tv took down McCain's videos and refused to give his campaign hosting service. NIGHTMARE. His campaign would start making ads about how the leftist commie internet elite are out to get Joe Six Pack and Joe the Plumber regular non-computer dudes with all our leftist commie control of teh internets tubes. Then Obama would have to disown the internet peoples and the blip.tv, disavowing all of us. The talk radio would be complaining endlessly about videobloggers and everyone we pal around with, ranting how we are destroying the fabric of society by undermining television and the American way of life. No no. We don't want all that. It doesn't feel good to have to deal with all that. Freedom means freedom for everyone. Even those we disagree with. That's how the Bill of Rights works. And if I want people in the GOP to start remembering that (please!), then lets extend to everyone even the GOP the same freedom. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Oct 16, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Michael Schaap wrote: Ok final call. I thought that since Blip is part of the community this would be the place to have a discussion. Apparently most of you do not like my rant and clearly most of you do not agree. How unfortunate. I will have to live with it the rest of my life. I actually think the McCain ads are top of the bill, real class. Hope he wins! I'll send flowers to Blip then, ciao Michael (I really rest my case now) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Budgeting software
Feeling totally ripped off by film preproduction software? Go open source: http://www.celtx.com/ No, every freaking thing should not cost 6x the normal price, just because it's filmmaking. We don't all have multi-million dollar budgets. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Rupert wrote: Does anyone here use Movie or TV budgeting software for your shows or in your day jobs? There are a few packages available. I've always just used Excel, but I want to get one now and I just need a recommendation before I buy. Raindance Canada lists these: Movie Magic Showbiz Budgeting Actualization Cinergy Budgeting Easy Budget Movie Budgeting Software Gorilla Budgeting Scheduling Software BoilerPlate - Film TV Budget Templates for Independents Production Pro Budget I know, I know, it's a little bit OT - but the film I'm budgeting for is quite videobloggy ;) Thanks in expectation of deafening silence, Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Michael Moore follows the Radiohead model
I agree with your insights, Rupert. YouTube is great for marketing. Not for distribution. Blip.tv is great for distribution. There's a big difference between the two. Filmmakers (big and small) understand so much about how to distribute and market using the old tools. There's lots of pro and con to each of the zillion options. Yet so many film/tv pros think everything internet is all the same stuff. Building a website that's a flat presentation of static content (with or without animation) is like sending out direct mail postcard. Building a website that fosters discussion and fan-based-promotion is like orchestrating a underground word-of-mouth marketing campaign. Doing an video interview with an internet-based show is like getting booked on a t.v. or radio show for an interview. Putting trailers up on YouTube is like buying t.v. ads for your trailer. Using blip.tv to distribute the film is like getting booked onto television timeslot. Using the Apple store to sell digital downloads is like making DVDs (or VHS tapes) and selling them in stores. Just because these are all examples of stuff on websites doesn't mean it's all the same. I wonder sometimes how long it will take for people to understand the reality of computers and the internet, instead of the distorted stereotypes. Maybe never. It's interesting that many *media* professionals are having the hardest time of all. Anyone who says I don't know, I should ask my kid. They know is not even trying. (Because 98% of kids don't know anything about what is happening either.) Those filmmakers / media pros are going to be left in the dust. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Sep 5, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Rupert wrote: Good for Michael Moore. Yes, some of them are starting to get it. But even the ones who are getting it are only partly getting it, and - like your director, Jan - are bullied by producers and funders who are still a long way from getting it. In May, I was at a talk about the future of documentaries given by Deborah Scranton, who directed War Tapes. In the end, she advocated YouTube as the best way to get your films seen by people. I asked her how she thought that kind of free distribution fitted with getting the considerable funding needed to make big documentaries like hers. She didn't have an answer. And then I asked her whether it was OK for The War Tapes to be distributed on YouTube so that it got viewed by more people. She said Oh, that's a question for the producer. I was really disappointed with her. One moment, she was saying It's great for you little people to get your films in front of an audience on YouTube - and the next, she wouldn't even give her personal view about her own film being shown that way, to a room full of emerging documentary filmmakers. These questions are no brainers to me, and yet she was supposed to be giving an authoritative view about the future of documentaries. It's all very easy for established filmmakers to say Up and coming filmmakers should use YouTube - but if they say that, then they have to be able to justify why THEY should use it, too - regardless of what the studio's lawyers say in 2008. Otherwise it's just a bullshit platitude to make them sound like they get it. And it doesn't address the problem of how big documentaries will be funded ten years from now. I'm always amazed at how long it takes TV and Film professionals to understand and get excited about this stuff, instead of seeing it as a financial threat. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] CBS videoblogs
I don't think http://www.clarkandmichael.com is built on WordPress. The code isn't similar, the theme doesn't have typical WordPress details. Looks like another, not as good, CMS is running it. Jen On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Jay dedman wrote: has anyone seen...http://www.clarkandmichael.com/index.php Interesting because many of us have always imagined that younger Hollywood would not have a problem with being creative online. Seems that CBS is using Wordpress(I think) to create their different online shows. Anyone know the story behind it? Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Best online TV site?
There are a lot of good sites out there and great ideas sprinkled throughout. I created a Flickr slideshow last December as a kind of inventory of what's going on to answer this question. Take a look and see what you like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jensimmons/sets/72157603357724756/ Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Aug 14, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Sheila English wrote: I want to do an overhaul to my online tv site. I'd like something more engaging. Does anyone have a favorite online tv site that you think is really well put together? I'd love to see some examples of well done online tv sites. Thanks! Sheila [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] remix video footage source material?
Help me remember what the best resources are for finding archival footage for remixing. Where do you download footage? http://archive.org http://politicalvideo.org http://remixamerica.org http://youtube.com What else? Especially high-res. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com
Re: [videoblogging] Kaltura - crazy web editing tool
A Kaltura WordPress plugin made it possible for someone to swap out your video with a porn remix version? Yeah, that would make anyone cry. For anyone that wants to see Kaltura in action, Remix America uses it http://remixamerica.org . (I don't know that it's using WordPress). They are working to add some non-Kaltura features as well. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Rupert wrote: Thanks! I'm really looking forward to that Wordpress plugin. I had to take down my test of the player that I posted a link to here last night, because someone remixed porn into the video I made, and it made my wife cry at the end of a bad day because she thought I'd started putting porn on my blog next to nice videos that our families watch! The remixer didn't realise that the remix they were doing would *replace* the video I'd made. Anyway, the Wordpress plugin allows you to set permissions, control the remixing a little more and add video comments, doesn't it? So I'll install that and see where we go from there. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Editing question
Bill, You might want to check in with Josh Paul and Tony Katz at AdGrinder. They are doing some interesting things with video advertising. http://adgrinder.com/ Jen On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Rupert wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Bill Vick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jay - it's not embedding the video that's the problem. When somebody goes to my page to view a video I want to video to contain pop up ad or ads that can be clicked on so the viewer can be directed to web site and (hopefully) buy a product or service that I'm selling. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Editing question
You might want to email Carey over at blip.tv to see if he can suggest how to do this. http://blip.tv/about/carey careykino at gmai L (dot) com One part that is tricky is getting the URLs to *stay* attached to the frames after you've uploaded (and transcoded) the video. I'm not sure you can do that at blip.tv. They'd be the ones to know. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com On Jul 16, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Bill Vick wrote: I'm using Skype video to create short interviews focused on the changing model of recruitment I see taking place. They average 10 minutes give or take. I want to embed a live link in my videos so a user can click on a graphic or item and be directed to a web page. I know I can do something like this using QuickTime and companies like BubblePly and Amazon offer a tool but I want to host my videos on Blip.tv and have the link work in a .flv file. I'm on a Mac, using FCP 6.04. Any ideas, software,etc. greatly appreciated. So far the answer totally eludes me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] iPhone devs?
Hey who's kicking around here who knows the iPhone SDK?? I may have a quick project. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 16:9 video question
640x360 is a frequently use and highly recommended 16x9 size. Your problem is that while your image is in the 16x9 shape, your video is really still 4x3 with black lines filling in the difference. You gotta set up a workflow in one way or another that *crops* off the area where the black lines are now, and makes your original finished movie into a true 16x9 shaped movie. Then when you output to 640x360, it'll look great. You said: ok... I used the Sanyo Xacti HD1A. The source video was 1280X720, 30 fps mp4 video. I edited in FCE, then chose export using quicktime compression, and did this: - under format, chose mpeg-4 and clicked options - chose mp4 under file format - chose h.264 under video format - did the 640x480 image size (chose custom) - clicked the preserve aspect ratio using letterbox checkbox So it sounds like your FCE timeline is 640x480. That's fine, you can edit like that. What you want to do next is make a new sequence that is 640x360. Then drag the first sequence onto the second (pretending like your first finished movie is a clip in FCE, and dropping that clip onto the timeline of the second movie. What you get is the 640x480 fottage sitting in a 640x360 space. Drag that 1st-sequence- clip up and down in the window (with wireframes on) until its centered vertically, and you can see that the black bars are going to get chopped-off evenly on the top and bottom. Then render. NOW export *that* movie in 640x360 -- and all will be perfectly well! I do this all the time in FCP. If FCE doesn't allow for nested sequences, an alternative is to highlight and copy all the clips (video and sound and transitions) that are edited in the first sequence and paste them onto the second. Then adjust (if needed) each of the separate video clips one at a time until the same end result is accomplished. Render. You could have edited in a sequence that was 640x360 in the first place... *but* doing so can be a real pain if the footage from the camera is actually 640x480 because you might have to render everything even time. I usually edit in a timeline that matches what I shot. Then I nest sequences and put the finished piece on a timeline that is the same shape as the web video I want to make, render, and then export. Even if you want the final movie to be 480x270 or another 16x9 ratio, put it into a 640x360 timeline first. There isn't anyway to crop when you export for web in the quicktime software. The video gets squished instead which is what you experienced. Be sure to deinterlace (if the original video has interlacing on it, ie: was shot in anything besides 24p mode), *especially* if you make the video 480x270 or something, because the interlacing gets accentuated when dropping 1/3 of the resolution. I hope this helps, Jen http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Jul 9, 2008, at 6:33 PM, David King wrote: I did another test (haven't published it anywhere). This time, I did everything I mentioned below, but did NOT check the letterbox box. After exporting, the mp4 video is stretched, and has the black letterbox lines top and bottom. Is 640x360 not a standard size or something? David King davidleeking.com - blog davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Need recco for tool to collect info on website visitors.
I second the recommendation for using Google Analytics. It kicked everyone else's attempt to provide free site stats when it came out, and it's only gotten better. Google has the best computer grid in the world keeping track of everything on the internet, so why not let them tell you what's going on with your site. Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:32 PM, David Terranova wrote: Yes, Googles Analytics service is free and works pretty well. https://www.google.com/analytics/ All youll need to do is sign up and paste some javascript into all your pages. I also implement it into all of my flash applications and video players, for example to track how many visitors watch 50% of the video and how many watch the full thing, or to track when they interact with the player, etc... //-- DAVID TERRANOVA d a v i d t e r r a n o v a . c o m From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:26:14 - To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Need recco for tool to collect info on website visitors. Hi, I use godaddy to host my website, and they do not give me detailed information on who visited my site on what day. They only furnish a list of ISPs but not broken out by what day the hit occurred. They charge an extra $3 per month if you want that kind of information. Is there a tool I can build into my website that will collect information on who visits, when, etc, that does not involve godaddy? Thanks for your help. Ed Smith [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Newbie Questions
I don't know about iMovie '08 having less in the way of semi-advanced features. I haven't spent much time with it (preferring to edit in FCP). That may be true. That would be sad. What I did like about it was that when I was teaching new people -- people who typically struggle to understand the basics of how to import video, choose in and out points, and plop things on a timeline -- it was much easier to get people going quickly in this newest version of iMovie. Most people struggle like mad to do anything on a computer, and if they can't make any progress with editing in the first 45 minutes, they give up. iMovie '08 was more intuitive for new users, and more satisfying... so people were willing to stick with it longer. And they were editing movies in the first hour, so they were excited! That sold me on iMovie '08. There was something about it that was more familiar to them. Maybe it was the way you click-drag-across- and-release to highlight the part of the video you want to use -- it's like a word processor in a way. But for anyone who either has been editing for long enough to have no trouble with the basics anymore, or anyone who needs more in the way of features -- I can believe that iMovie may not be enough. Final Cut Express is a great next step for US$200. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com On Jul 7, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Rupert wrote: Except, it seems to be sorely lacking in video effects audio editing and pretty much any of the semi-advanced features that iMovie 6 had, no? On 7-Jul-08, at 3:16 PM, Jen Simmons wrote: I highly recommend the video tutorials Apple has posted online: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie They are for the new version iMovie '08. While many people complain about the changes Apple made in this last release of iMovie, and are hanging onto the HD '06 version because they already know how it works, I've found the new version to be much better for anyone new to iMovie and new to editing. Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] How do you find vlogs in another language?
It'd be interesting if Blip.tv provided a way to find shows by language or geography. Jen On Apr 23, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Raymond M. Kristiansen wrote: Hey all, In the months leading up to the VlogEurope 2008 conference in Budapest (Oct 18.-19.), one of the main topics I will be looking at myself will be findability. I have written about this in an European context here: http://www.vlogeurope.com/blog/2008/04/23/how-do-you-find-european-videoblogs/ How do you find videoblogs from around the world, or the country next-door? A few years ago, VlogMap (www.vlogmap.org) was really useful, but it has since turned out not to be that useful because - well - the database is not very populated. Searching for Finland or Hungary on Youtube, Dailymotion, Blip, etc doesnt help much either. A few years ago, in connection with his presentation at Reboot 7, Loic Le Meur started this wiki for European blogging which I have consulted now and then: http://www.eu.socialtext.net/loicwiki/index.cgi?the_european_blogosphere - it always helps to have a few first sites in your target language to look at first. If you are travelling to Peru and want to see if there are videobloggers from Peru active - how would you personally go about finding them? Best regards, Raymond M. Kristiansen www.dltq.org http://www.vlogeurope.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] question about Rode and DVX100B
I'm not familiar with The Rode VideoMic. Sounds like it has an 1/8 mini plug? and you have a 1/8 mini to XLR adapter that you are using to plug the mic into the DVX100b?? It may be a line-level vs. mike level thing. Have you tried toggling the switches on the DVX from mic to line / trying them out? What kind of result are you getting? ie: a sound with buzzing in it? or no sound at all? Jen Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com On Apr 23, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Heath wrote: I just bought the Panasonic DVX100B and I was hoping to still be able to use my Rode VideoMic for the time being and just get an adapter. Well it does not seem to be working. I know it's not the adapter because it's works with my handheld microphone. So does anyone know about this? Anyone have the Rode and the any camera that has XLR inputs? Any help is appreciated Heath http://batmangeek.com http://heathparks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] vloggercon karaoke
I remember vloggercon karaoke. http://blip.tv/file/41334 It changed my life. -- Jen Jen Simmons http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://jensimmons.com On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: Anybody remember vloggercon karaoke? http://richardswife.com/?p=19 ... Richard -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: slightly off topic, what did you use to build website?
Dreamweaver isn't really a program that will build you a website -- it's more an environment in which you can code your own. It has some WYSIWYG tools, but they write horrible code. Instead, you'll get better results using software that *is* a website -- where you put your content and look on top of their code. Wordpress, blogger, ning, drupal, are some of a few. Downloading wordpress from wordpress.org will give you lots of power for a medium amount of work. It is an investment. Show in a Box can help you out getting it all set up. Opening an account at wordpress.com is a lot easier -- but the video tools are more limited. Blogger used to be popular, but honestly, wordpress (either version) is better. Drupal is the most powerful of all, but way more work to set-up than Wordpress, and frankly, it's overkill for videoblogging (use it if you want a social network). Ning is another tool for creating a social network. I'm not familar with how well it would work for a videoblog. I might suggest checking out wordpress.com first. Another choice for software to write the website (a la Dreamweaver) is Apple's iWeb. It will give you much prettier results than Dreamweaver. It's easiest to use if you buy Apple's .Mac service. Lots of choices. Many are awesome. Really it depends on what you want to do. And how much time / skills you have for it. Jen Jen Simmons http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://jensimmons.com On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Heath wrote: Wordpress does take a bit of time, but I have to say if you are doing video I really like it along with the Show in a Box stuffthat's what my new site is built on. And also Yahoo, has some pretty nice tools as well. That's what I used for my pro site before I started messing with WP Heath personal http://batmangeek.com professional http://heathparks.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a free or low cost program to build a website. Adobe Dreamwever is $399 which is more than I want to spend on a one shot use. OK, thanks for your help, Ed Smith. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Licensing
I think vPIP is an awesome plug-in. I'm glad we get to ship it / promote it / teach people how to use it with Show in a Box. I respect Enric's desire to not offer everything as GPL. Especially since he is working on his flash player to make it fabulous, and since the use of flash players by media companies big and small is a HUGE thing, that has to do with $$$ flowing... I respect Enric's plan, whatever it might be, to be able to charge people for use in the future / or whatever (I don't know what) but to not simply give everything away as GPL. We definitely need to work out the licensing issues around all the parts of SIAB. It's on the long list of things to do -- but no one has gotten to it with the focus and rigor needed to finish answering all the questions and teach everyone else what's up. I, for example, barely know what all the different terms mean -- and could easily use the wrong one when talking. This issue does keep coming up internally, and does keep starting over at the beginning... without ever really getting resolved. So -- sorry, Enric. I hope it seems less like pressure to get you to change your mind -- and more of a lack of understanding and clarity on the part of the SIAB team. What we need is for someone in this group to take this on as a task and go the distance with figuring out what all this means. And write it all up as a clear thing on the wiki -- and hopefully in the future we can simply keep pointing to the wiki. I think the issue is least resolved around the flash player issues -- what are we going to include? How do those licenses line up. Do we have any lawyers in this group?? Anyone who's worked on software licensing before?? Any volunteers to really figure this out??? Jen On Nov 16, 2007, at 5:10 pm, Enric wrote: Yes, I've been finding it a bit frustrating getting repeated questions on why vPIP isn't GPL that I've explained several times. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Licensing
I invite the discussion -- especially as someone who is about to put a lot of time, effort, and years of skill into creating a kick-ass themeing engine then to give it away for free?? And as someone who runs her own business full-time, relying on my client base of income (ie: not someone who's working for a large company who pays me a salary, and then wants to release my work as GPL -- which is how most of Drupal is getting built). Mostly people will use SIAB as a way to get out of hiring a designer / developer, not as a way TO hire a desiger / developer, and share their results with the world (again, as Drupal works) ... j Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 917-455-0022 skype: jensimmons On Nov 16, 2007, at 6:19 pm, Enric wrote: This may start a whole discussion back and forth. But, I find a problem with the philosophy and idea behind fully GPL and free software. As Richard Stallman posits freedom, it's the freedom of anyone to use software without restriction or barriers. The contradiction I find is that is that is purely accomplished by compelling those that create software to release all the code. So there is a contradiction in the word freedom in that it is taking away freedom of choice from those that create the work. I see the best result is a wide inclusion of those producing open source and mixed open and closed source products. That way a wide range of products and perspectives produce a rich, valuable source of software. -- Enric [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Need to decide on a format
On Nov 16, 2007, at 6:15 pm, Steve Watkins wrote:
I really love the idea of
SIAB and as a paranoid negative person, I worry about the issues
that could harm it.
If you need an issue to get worked up over ('cause sometimes we do
just need a fight to go kick some ass over ;-)
then worry about the name Show in a Box...
someone (Markus?) just figured out that the name is already
trademarked (copyrighted?)
that would have worried me, if I hadn't chosen to totally ignore the
worry..
but
it is something we need to look into further.
jen
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: iTunes Problems
Rupert, If instead of pasting the blip embed code, we use vPIP and paste the permalink to the blip files into vPIP -- will all this be sorted out beautifully? I believe so... vPIP also gives us the ability to have multiple formats on one post, and separate feeds for each of those formats. Jen On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:18 am, Rupert wrote: Thanks, Mike I'd been meaning to write to you about it since I posted that here yesterday, and hadn't got round to it. The only problem with using the Blip feed for iTunes is that I'd lose the ability to let people click through to my Blog from iTunes - there are permalink arrows on each episode in iTunes that link back to the original post. If you take the rel=enclosure off the flv link, that'd sort it out fine. You could also allow people to set what type of file they want to prioritise for podcasting in their crossposting code. Feedburner will make enclosure of the first file with a rel=enclosure. If people want that to be flash, fine, but maybe they could set that manually from a little pulldown menu in the preferences or sharing menu. I think your crossposting and autocrossposting is so futuristic that it makes me want to cry, especially when combined with the mobile upload. I highly recommend all videobloggers who use Blip to investigate it. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 6 Nov 2007, at 20:58, mikehudack wrote: Hey guys, Thought I'd chime in here. A couple things: * You're going to have the best experience using blip to get to iTunes if you use your blip iTunes feed to do it. Your blip iTunes feed is http://yourname.blip.tv/rss/itunes/ * If you use FeedBurner in this fashion it'll still work, but you may run into problems like these. * We're about to refactor our cross-posting system in an upcoming release (probably maybe a month off) and we're going to address this problem in that refactoring. The entire cross-posting workflow and templating system will change... and those changes, in addition to making everything more elegant and more efficient, will almost definitely solve this problem. Yours, Mike --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schlomo, Feedburner will make an enclosure for the first video file it sees a link to, unless it sees a rel=enclosure element. So when you used to just link to your mov file, it'd turn that into an enclosure that iTunes could see. But now you're copying the Blip copy paste code. And that contains two links to Flash files with rel=enclosures in them. So Feedburner sees that and turns the flv file into the only enclosure for that post, and so iTunes ignores it. If you also had a rel=enclosure in your Quicktime link at the bottom, Feedburner is smart enough to prioritise the mov file over the flv file. So what you need to do is add a rel=enclosure to your Quicktime link. Then Resync your feed totally (the nuclear option) in the Troubleshooting section of Feedburner and you'll be fine. It will prioritize your mov rel=enclosure over the two flv rel=enclosures in the Blip player code. Though you could just delete those, just to be sure. Actually, there's something else you should be aware of. If you copy paste your code immediately, before Blip's had time to do the Flash conversion, the Copy Paste code that they give you links to the original file (Quicktime mov or whatever), with a rel=enclosure. This is what you have on Rabbits and Weddings, which is the only other mov file that's an enclosure in your feed. But if you wait until the Flash conversion is done before copying pasting, you get only the flv files in the Player code, with rel=enclosure in the links, and that's what screws you up. What Blip should really do is either get rid of the rel=enclosure attached to flv files, which hardly anybody wants, or just STOP changing the copy paste code after it's done conversions. It should keep the original file in the copy paste code. It'd still play in a Flash player when clicked, because of a magic little script Blip puts in there that tells it to play the flv file if one is available. And it would stop you having to manually code a link to your mov file with a rel=enclosure. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 4 Nov 2007, at 18:18, David Howell wrote: Try resyncing your feed in feedburner. That might work. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, schlomo rabinowitz schlomo@ wrote: Thanks Bill and ssukotto for the advice; but I'm still confused... (I've already tried to re-ping the services.) Ssukotto, how do I tell feedburner to use the quicktime? I've always put the quicktime as a link in the title post so the aggregators take that first. Always worked
Re: [videoblogging] What is online video worth - contract info
Are they asking you to get EO (Error and Omission) insurance? What other costs might you have to deliver your content to them? Be sure to factor that in — EO costs a lot of $$$. Or better, insist they cover the EO / liabilities (for things like someone suing 'cause your video about dating features a guy who was cheating on his wife and his wife left him so now he blames your video...TV lawyers spend years dreaming up such crazy liabilities) jen Jen Simmons http://milkweedmediadesign.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: 35 series premire
I bet there was some kind of fuckup in the chain of things, and they replaced the sound with Jan's originals for the archived post to the website. I know she records her work directly on her equipment (digital recorders with harddrives) -- so that would have given them a second chance to make it sound good. I'm proud of Jan and Brian for working such a crazy multicamera no- stopping project! Congratulations you two!! Jen On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:36 am, Steve Garfield wrote: Hi Jonny, I'm now watching the first episode of 35 on USTREAM.TV http://www.synchronis.tv/ The audio is 1,000% better than what I heard last night on the live stream. I can hear the dialog. Last night I couldn't make out hardly any of it. I wonder why? What was you experience in viewing the show live? --Steve On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:17 PM, jonny goldstein wrote: I liked it a bunch too. If ya missed the debut of 35 you can check it out, along with our jonny's par-tay post mortem at http://tinyurl.com/2t24ru next week: drew olanoff of http://scriggity.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: [Reminder] 35 Live @ Wed Sep 19 17:00 - 23:00 (Jan McLaughlin)
It's pretty dorky to put a link on your website front page to a live show that starts in a matter of hours, and then not even check the link to make sure it's right!!! DUH! (And a mistake we've all made). They've done such a professional job at promoting this thing and getting pre-press. Looks like they need some professional website help But I'm looking forward to watching ! Especially since Jan and Brian Gonzalez are involved. Jen On Sep 19, 2007, at 5:14 pm, Steve Garfield wrote: USTREAM LINK is BROKEN too http://www.synchronis.tv/www.ustream.tv/channel/35--a-scripted-live- webisode Should be: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/35--a-scripted-live-webisode [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Themers
If you want to do this -- email us (Verdi / Cheryl / Jen / Jay) and get the version of K2 we are starting with + learn what we are all doing in common. (don't just start from your own version of K2) Jen On Sep 13, 2007, at 11:57 am, Jay dedman wrote: We're doing a hackathon this weekend to start documenting the process for installing showinabox.tv. if anyone here wants to contribute a K2 design, we'd love to include it in our package. this way someone could choose from different themes with different layouts...similar to what Blogger provides. I'm waiting for someone to do the Pirate theme. Or the Dungeons and Dragons theme. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Loren says this group should be ashamed
This list does discuss technology a lot. And some questions get more replies / better answers than others. The discussion about said racist video is important, I believe. The discussion started with several people saying hey, it's ok. The video isn't funny, but whatever, it was cool / and other people countered with no, it's not ok. It's racist and let's say so. And then a lot of people had a lot to say. People debated 'What is censorship?'... What is feeding the trolls... What were the motivations of the person who made the video What does racism look like in the 21st century?... and yes, discussions like this can get very hard to watch especially when we are talking about racism in the United States (land of the free / home of the brave). I like discussions like these, messy as they are, because the debate asks the people who are participating it in to think. To think about what they think, notice it, attempt to articulate it. It is rare to get a chance to think about and talk about racism in our culture(s) and yet, social dynamics like the ones that have been discussed dominate our lives (including censorship / power / money / etc) and affect most everything going on around us. It is important to talk about racism in the U.S./U.K. and elsewhere. If it's not talked about, it goes unchecked, passed on from person to person. Congrats on your videoblog! David Howell just pointed me over to it the other day, and I've been watching all your videos with great interest. I spent a month in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia last summer, and a month the summer before, working on a multimedia opera about Nikola Tesla. I feel a strong connection to Belgrade and Croatia now, and have many friends there. I know ethnicity / nationality has played a huge role in what life is like in the former Yugoslavia for the last 10-15 years. Maybe that's why you really don't want this list to be going on and on about race-based tensions. While it may sound like people are angry with each other the debate in the U.S. does not carry with it the nationalism that could start a war. That war ended in 1865, and while we haven't completely gotten over it, there not been any movement to restart it for about three decades now. And this discussion will end in a week or so. And we'll start debating something else with a lot of controversy usually talking about advertising or Hollywood business models gets things going. ;-) Read the list email in a program / environment that sorts things into threads, and then delete all the email from any discussion that you don't want to be part of without having to read any of it. Two thousand emails a month are too many for most all of us. And keep posting your technical questions! Somebody answer GoGen's questions! Rupert is really one of the people who get movlogging. zdravo, Jen On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:09 am, gogen001 wrote: As a newbie in this group I somehow thought it would be more technical, unfortunately there's a lot of (unnecessary?) flaming going around some racist or whatever they are videos, while, for example, the post about movlogging with bluetooth remains with only two replies. OK, my bad if I expected something different. Sorry, I'm just being sincere. PS David, I'm posting below your reply 'cause I know you better than others, no other reasons. GoGen www.gogentv.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This group should be ashamed. It should be ashamed over what is happening to it right here with this discussion. The only thing I can say at this point about Feldman, Podtech, Scoble, AND this group as a whole with the infighting is *pt* David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Loren Feldman = Technigga
Yeah, ya'all this video is totally racist. I find it very strange we now live in a world where many want to say hey it's ok with me and that's not racist, just lame. Yes, it is a bad video, lame, etc. But also — it is racist. It plays on and depends on racist stereotypes. Let's just call it what it is. Do I think Blip.tv should pull it — no. Do I think we should make a big deal out of it — no. In fact the its ok with me trend of this discussion is more upsetting to me than the original video. The right has certainly succeeded in twisting our ability to understand what racism is, how it has worked, and how it is currently being perpetuated. That was their goal, well stated, documented... in the 1970s after the two decades of civil rights movement successes. David Duke and company (otherwise known as the Klan) set out a 20-year strategic plan that included introducing the idea of reverse racism into our culture. Which they did (check out the 1992 republican national convention). It's the how of racism looks today, people. Which is different than how racism looked twenty years ago, or forty years ago, or 100 years ago. But just because it's different, (and thank god it is), doesn't mean racism doesn't exist or this isn't racist. Jen Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video Blog Wikipedia Entry
On Apr 30, 2007, at 9:59 am, Rupert wrote: I added a little something about the definition of vlogging, with reference to Winer, Cho, YouTube. I think it's reasonably on track, but I've never edited Wikipedia before, only consumed in large quantities. Don't mind it being changed/removed by rational people, of course. Rupert I think it's weird to read this addition, including one comment by one person, which a whole community immediately took issue with, to the Wikipedia entry as if its a trend and a thing to watch. Putting this in Wikipedia will only perpetuate an idea that I don't think 99% of us agree with or want to see perpetuated! Please take this out. Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Housing Committee
We just twitter-spat the first official outside the building event for Vloggercon '07 (or is it spring '08?): FISHING Fishing Side Trip on the Potomac River Cheryl Colan David Howell Jen Simmons So, Vloggercon must be during warm-enough weather Cheryl's bringing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] t-shirts Jen's bringing the boat and gear - Jen On Apr 28, 2007, at 3:53 pm, Jay dedman wrote: If this is official, I¹d like to be on some sort of a housing committee to help people find cheap affordable housing. PS. I finished my masters so now I have more time for videoblogging and help with planning of the vloggercon. I dont think DC is official yet, but you can add notes and ideas until we have: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/Vloggercon2007-Planning its a wiki...so it can all be changed later. good to do idea dumps now though. Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2007
Yeah. Excellent work moving forward. I'd expect the next conversation will be about when I say NOT AUGUST! D.C. in August is a killer. Wait until things cool down. Jen On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:06 pm, Rupert Howe wrote: We're up to 95 votes in total now, 46 of them for DC. Jay suggested that we close the vote at 100 votes. It seems pretty decisive already, but maybe we can close the voting on Monday, give people a chance to catch up on their email over the weekend. I understand Jen and Richard's thoughts about organisers being more important than venue, but we had at least 3 serious offers for organising - Randy in Boston, Carl in Ohio and Johnny Co in DC - and the discussion has been going on since October/November, always petering out without a decision or a sense of which option people would prefer. Hopefully, having this kind of approval mandate from the community will kickstart enthuse the winning team :) Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2007
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:14 am, Chuck Leggett wrote: Once you've seen a bunch of monuments and museums in DC, what else is there? How about something else, something real that is more humanizing? HEY! I'm a real-deal Washingtonian, 8th generation in fact, and I'm human. And not one person in my family was a politician. Carpenters, bread delivery truck loaders, phone company employees, construction managers, teachers, mothers (bad ones, but that's a whole other story). There are a lot of humans who live in D.C.. And have nothing to do with Washington Politics. so DON'T KNOCK MY CITY! ;-) If you want to see DC, and see beyond the tourist worlds, then get off the Mall, and go see the real DC. That happens in every city -- the typical huge convention make people think they've been to a city, when really they've just been to the airport, the convention center, the convention hotel, the four convention hotel Starbucks, and the three Au Bon Pans. At least DC makes it easy to get beyond that! There aren't any Au Bon Pans wedged between the Smithsonians. Which, btw, take days and days and days to see, so anyone traveling from out of town who does want to experience what the DC Mall has to offer (and the Mall is a park space, not a shopping center) -- then come for an extra week to 10 days. http://www.gosmithsonian.com/ http://www.nps.gov/nama/ I have a feeling much of the Vloggercon days will be spent with Vloggercon people in Vloggercon spaces -- that's a lot already! This does raise a good question, what pre-conference / post- conference activities do we want? A group trip to the Air and Space Museum to see the spaceships -- you know, the REAL SPACESHIPS? http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/ To connect with a community media arts center in town? Connect with people working on Fair Use (Center for Social Media), Net Neutrality, FCC issues. Like maybe: http://www.videoaction.org/ http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ http://www.creativevoices.us/ http://www.ctcnet.org/ http://www.mediaaccess.org/ jen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2007
DC 1) Cause it's not San Fran / LA / Hollywood and at this moment, having Vloggercon in one of those places = being dominated by the mass media corporations. I like that this has been a community-led movement, and hope the choice of Vloggercon location / size / sponsors / leadership / etc can all reflect the history of the group and promote the same values. Let's not make it easy for it to be all L.A. folks. 2) Jay and Scholmo want DC, and I want their leadership and history and generosity and etc to have some say here. Not all the say -- that's the cool thing about this group, that it's not been / is not dominated by a few Cool Kids -- but still it's Jay, people! Plus Washington DC is my hometown. And the monuments are beautiful. And the museums are all free. And it's cheaper than freakin New York. And it is a BIG election year. -- Jen On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:38 pm, Jay dedman wrote: I'd like to throw Washington DC in the ring as a possible venue for Vloggercon 2007. So far we've had NYC (The Culture/Finance/Media capital), Bay Area (The Tech capital), why not do vloggercon in the political capital? Imagine combining Vloggercon with visits to your lawmakers, interest groups, and such and vlogging those visits? The election cycle is going to add a bunch of energy to this town too, and we can feed off and into that energy. Washington DC is all about communication. Every major interest group in the country has a presence here. Maybe it makes sense for DIY media makers to have their voice heard here too. Maybe there are some issues that we hold in common, perhaps around intellectual property, net neutrality, shield laws, broadband access? If so, a collective voice beats a solitary voice. Jonny and I talked about holding Vloggercon in DC. Its great on several levels. --Its central and easy to fly into. --it'd be a surprise because its not a common place to hold a bleeding edge, community tech conference --DC is getting more and more attention as the 2008 US elections keeps heating up. A grassroots media conference is perfect for this mix. --we're right in the heart of the FCC where decisions on Net Neutrality are being decided --I imagine 300 vloggers running around the Capitol steps with cameras. especially the new Nokias where you can upload to the web immediately. im for DC. jay -- Here I am http://jaydedman.com Check out the latest project: http://pixelodeonfest.com/ Webvideo festival this June [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Hi I'm New Here.
You hack the template / use a different template. Or you code the video so it opens in a pop-up window. Great point in the midst of this 6400x480 discussion -- how do the free-vloggers do 640 wide from a blogspot template??? Some day I will make a kick ass vlogger template for blogger -- when I have time / someone funds me! Jen On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:57 pm, Jay dedman wrote: Persoanlly I dont know the answer myself. How do you fit a video this size into a blogger template? jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Vloggercon venue voting now on the wiki
I think what will matter is not the number of people who 'vote' for a city, but the reality of whether / not it will work there // especially regarding who will host and produce the event. My vote is that the people actually doing the work (presumably without getting paid, as was the case with all of the previous vloggercons) get to vote more/ have their wishes count. We in the peanut gallery can demand all we want -- but who is going to make it happen??? That's why it was not in New York last time -- organizers tried for NYC, but could not get a larger enough venue that was affordable. You can decide New York / XX-city all you want, but if there's no place for the budget we have (or people to do the work of planning the event), it ain't gonna happen there. After a long search in NYC, the Vloggercon 06 organizers started looking elsewhere -- and ended up in San Fran at the Swedish American Hall. Plus the people working on the event all started moving to San Fran. And it's easier to plan an event in the town you are living in then somewhere else. Simply 'voting' and making that be some kind of ruling decision is a bit crazy. Maybe the better question is who can plan, host, and do this whole gig?? And what cities do those people live in? // Who lives in DC who can work on this? Who is volunteering in ___ the place you are voting for _? Jen On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:25 pm, Rupert wrote: As if I didn't have better things to do than think up ways to decide a venue for a convention I won't be able to attend, I just found myself going through all the emails about Vloggercon from the last 6 months and noting down everyone's preferences. If you've said that you're For a city, I've put your name under that city, added up the totals and put it up on a page on the Videoblogging Group Wiki. It's a slightly more web 2.0 way of managing the voting than doing it by Email here, I guess. So if that's OK, you're now all responsible for checking it, adding or deleting your names and amending the totals. I say we give it a week to decide - whichever city has the most votes by Fri 4 May wins. Whaddya reckon? Go to: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/Vloggercon-2007-Voting You can vote for as many cities as you want. Just click edit page and use the password: surge. Since I quickly compiled this from all the emails with subject Vloggercon on the Yahoo list over the last six months, noting down all preferences expressed, I'm sure there will be mistakes - don't shout, just change. If you think it's a crap idea, fair enough, just say so here. Right, now I'm going to go and get a life. Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Apple TV and iPod clash
I will be interesting to see what the blip transcoding to AppleTV/ iPod results in. If I upload a 600 kbit/sec file to blip, and the magicians at blip translate that to a 1500-1800 kbits/sec Apple TV file (assuming its the same bitrate as the pre-fab settings here in FCP / Mac OS world) -- then that will be a poor result: all the long download times without any of the high-quality. [once data is thrown away, it cannot be gotten back -- for those of you who believe the TV spy shows that show zooming in on video -- that's not possible!] The debate, to me, is not 640x480 vs. 320x240 -- the debate is 600 kbits/sec data rates vs. 1500 kbit/sec. Using the freevlog advice, I can get files that will start playing immediately (on U.S. 'broadband' connections) and still be the highest quality possible. At 1500, people _would_ have to wait several minutes _if_ they were trying to watch the file from a web browser -- a far too long a wait / most people would give up and leave. BUT I'm not going to stop encoding at 600 kbit/s for the website itself -- I'm just going to add a 1500 kbit/s video for the iTunes feed. People aren't expecting to watch the video right away from the iTunes environment. And a bit rate that is three times wider is going to result in some beautiful footage. I can only expect Apple did all kinds of market research / planning / thinking about wait times vs. files sizes vs. image quality when deciding to move all of their TV shows and movies to this new bitrate. I do love that these files Apple is making look great when blown up to two or three times the original size (to fill the HD screens). You just cannot do that with a 600 bkit/sec file! The biggest disadvantage I think of the wider bitrate is the fact people's harddrives are going to get full 3 times faster. And that Apple TV harddrive is awfully small. But that problem comes long after the viewer has already downloaded and watched your show -- it's not going to stop them from subscribing in the first place. I download two to four 45 minute files at 1500-1800 kbits/sec every week from the iTunes store, and I have no problems with waiting. It all happens in the background, and I'm excited to get the content every time. So I say: let's embrace the Apple settings / 1500-1800 kbit/second! I was avoiding it based on Verdi + Ryanne's advice, but once I poked at the files and started figuring out what Apple is up to, I got excited about Apple's choices. The are trying to get us to all do one thing (not 50,000) and have it work as best as possible. I plan to use this for all iPod / Apple TV feeds. (And NEVER for files that are played straight from the browser.) I just hope the Blip transcoding does not use the higher bitrate, since (if people are uploading 600 kbit/sec source files) the quality will not reflect it. If Blip can get an Apple TV / iPod compatible 640x480 or 640x360 sized video going at the regular 600 kbits/sec rate -- that will be an incredibly useful tool. Small files for those who want it. Larger physical size. Works on the iPod/TV devices -- this is what is not possible right now, at least not from Quicktime / iMovie / FCP. The other option for Blip, I would guess, is to have users upload high res videos -- DV? / High-bit rate mpeg-4 files? -- expressly for the transcoding into multiple formats. Including a normal Quicktime format at a rate people can watch from the blip site / the creators website without waiting. Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:32 pm, Mike Hudack wrote: Hey Waz, I'm afraid the secret sauce includes a dozen pages of signed legal documents and some custom code :) not sure what kind of file size we're talking... -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wazman_au Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:29 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Apple TV and iPod clash Mike, Great. How about sharing the secret with those of us who'd like to encode the vids ourselves??? What sort of file size are we talking? Let's talk megabytes per minute at 640x480. Waz --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Waz, Blip pro account holders soon won't have to worry about this :) We're hoping to have transcoding to an Apple TV + iPod compatible format available for pro users in our next release (about two weeks away). Yours, Mike -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wazman_au Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:30 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Apple TV and iPod clash Stupid bloody Apple, why do they DO things like this Folks, this is a tough one, and yes, I've read
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Apple TV and iPod clash
What matters is mb per min what's the math with division involved? jen On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:11 pm, Bill Cammack wrote: BTW, Today's http://Galacticast.com : AppleTV version = 203 mb. iPod version = 98 mb. 3gp version = 17 mb. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File size is always an issue. Especially so if you think a 10 min. 120 megabyte file ain't no thing. With a 1.5 megabit connection the download will take 10:40 - ASSUMING you can use all your available bandwidth for the download (not going to happen). More realistically you will get downloads in the 80-90 kilobytes/second range (which is what I'm usually getting from video services). In that case the download will take 23 minutes (230% of the video duration). From blip.tv I rarely get more than 50 kilobyte/sec (and my connection is a 1.5 mbps cable connection. Very common here). Then the download is a 41 minute download (ie. it takes 4 times as long to download as it takes to watch). To avoid the click-wait problem you will have to encode at a decent bitrate. 50 kb/s (700kpbs) is a good target. That would make your 10 minute video be 30 megabytes. A much more realistic scenario if you don't want your viewers to wait for your video to download. - Andreas Den 24.04.2007 kl. 00:23 skrev Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why exactly is it that you're worried about file size? If you're talking about a 120mb file, and it's a 10-minute episode, it's NOT going to take 10 minutes to download the 120 megs, so there's no significant loss in the viewer's quality of experience. Are you concerned that the file won't play until it's downloaded? What's the negative issue for the viewer if your files are that size for that program length? -- Bill C. BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, wazman_au elefantman@ wrote: Guys guys guys, Are you really content with imposing such a bloated file format on your viewers? Does 120MB for a 10-minute episode seem reasonable, for example? Not to me it doesn't, when it's about six times the size of what I've been putting out so far - and when my source videos aren't hi- def or anything, just garden variety Mini-DV at 4:3. I have managed to produce a 640x480 video that is 10 minutes long and takes up about 50 megs but because of this baseline low- complexity issue it won't iPod. There are such simple ways of chopping down the size - such as changing sound from stereo to mono - if you can control the parameters, which you can't with Export to iPod in QT Pro. Waz --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Good call, Bill. That's right along the lines of what I was thinking. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Shackelford bshackelford@ wrote: My video feed enclosures support ipod,iphone,itv and quicktime.. I just use iPod .m4v format. So in quicktime export to ipod and get a 640x480 video that anyone can watch. The only thing that *might be worth while to instead of .m4v would be .mp4 video that you can play in all of apples stuff in addtion to PSP... but .mp4 videos kinda suck to playback over the web in my opinion. My feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/billshackelfordcompod All my links in my podcast rss file point to flash video on my site and the enclosures are the .m4v files. I have also been provideing .3gp video.. but no no one has been looking at those. my mobile site: http://m.billshackelford.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: Steve: That's precisely what I was thinking. Subscribe to the feed that works for you. http://JetSetShow.com , for instance has about 6 feeds. Waz: Personally, if I were concerned about a video being playable on iPods as well as AppleTV and having only one feed for the reasons you mentioned, I'd aim for the lowest common denominator. I haven't looked into AppleTV, so I'm not sure this is possible, but the data rate for iPods is lower than the data rate for AppleTV, so I'd make a video to iPod spec and test it through iTunes to make sure it also runs on AppleTV. You might lose some resolution that way, but if you insist on having only one feed, that's the only way I can see it working. Again, assuming there IS a LCD that you can encode to. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@
Re: [videoblogging] Bullet-Time
The HDX200 does beautiful high-speed shooting. I haven't tried it personally yet, but hear great things about it. And, of course, this is something most film cameras can do + can be a big reason to shoot film. I don't know of any under-$5,000 video cameras that do this. jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:12 am, Bill Cammack wrote: Anybody using a digital camera that shoots more than 30fps? Preferably 120fps or higher? Ever since watching 300 @ the IMAX, I've been interested in smooth slow motion. The more fps, the smoother it looks when you speed-change the video, so for instance 25% speed on a clip going 120fps still gives you 30fps. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Yeah, someone really needs to invent THE killer ap -- imagine it, and it exists. Funny how there's always a gap between those two... spam :( blip perfect as it is now :) blip perfect as it will be :) j On Apr 22, 2007, at 4:32 pm, Mike Hudack wrote: Jen, We're definitely moving in this direction, it's just going to take us a little while. Because of the way the blip software was originally developed it's a big difficult for us. But we do want things to work this way in the future, no doubt. In the meantime, it's in our roadmap to relax the e-mail requirements really soon. The one email/show/user requirement was designed to prevent spam. We're going to move to requiring a CAPTCHA for signup in an upcoming release (hopefully this one coming up in two weeks, maybe the one after that) and remove the unique e-mail requirement. From there we'll definitely be looking at ways to become more Blogger-like in the way we handle accounts and shows. It'll probably take us a little while, though :( Yours, Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
In blogger, it's easy to have multiple blogs in one account. Sign in under one name, pick the blog to work on, and go there. In blip, blip assumes one person = one account = one 'show'. I've got multiple blip accounts going, and have to sign in and sign out to get to each one. Plus, in order to get those multiple accounts, I had to use unique email addresses for each one, and have run out of real email address. So now to create new accounts, I have to go make an email account, and then use that for blip. Hm. Can blip be retooled at some point to make it more like blogger? One sign-in. AND -- have the ability to add other people to the people allowed to work on that account. So I can setup accounts for clients using my log -in, and then invite them to join in... yet still be able to get in myself, and have those log-ins be separate. (Allowing me the ability to uninvite, and for each of us to have different passwords / not get into multiple people knowing passwords) -- just like how blogger works. Jen On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:53 am, Mike Hudack wrote: Andy, I would definitely suggest having separate blip accounts for each of your vlogs. The way blip is designed, it's best to have one account per show. Yours, Mike Blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] twittering posts
When I first heard of Twitter a while ago, I thought it was the dumbest thing ever -- yeah, who in the world would want to constantly post what I'm doing for IM? I'm not a teenager. I hate MySpace. I like talking to real people in the real world. Aren't we already fragmented and fast enough? IMing 140 characters at a time -- won't that just exacerbate the problems of modern society?? Then at SXSW, Twitter was unavoidable. A lot of people were excited about it -- so I signed up to try it out. I understood quickly how valuable it is in a group-event situation like a conference. If you had Twitter deliver to your phone, you could keep up with who was were -- even with people you don't know well, but would like to. It's a tool for being the coolest kid on the block, knowing which party or panel or place for dinner is the best. It lets you just magically show up at the party where the people you want to be with are... you can intentionally run into someone at a restaurant and join them -- I wondered post-SXSW if I'd use Twitter in my regular life. I wondered if it had any value outside a technology conference, or a college campus (where you more easily find your friends), or such physically contained places. Two weeks later (and still without a IM phone plan -- so I only use Twitter from my computer), I have to say I absolutely LOVE IT! -- I LOVE TWITTER!! Why?? Well, its a super fast way to keep little tiny tabs on people who I care about, who are in other cities from me. When I'm on, it's a kind of constant connection. It's like being in the same house with someone when you aren't talking or doing anything together, but you are simply there together. I've noticed I check my email a lot less. I try to leave email alone so I can focus on one thing at a time, but frequently I get just bored enough or lonely enough while working (usual by myself) that I start checking the email compulsively. Which is never satisfying. I'm looking for connections to people / to my friends, and I end up with lots of junk, extraneous information, and people asking me for things -- which raises my stress level, overwhelms my brain, and creates little sense of community. Twitter on the other hand, does create community. It's just little bits of saying hi. Hi. I'm here. You are there. There's 3500 miles between us / 150 miles / 2000 miles, but I see you. We are both bored working out css bugs, or compressing videos, or trying to burn DVDs. Banal stuff. Not worth calling anyone or emailing anyone to say -- but I'll say it to the vague out there world. Hm. Meh. Hi. This is how it's going for me right now. I've called and skyped people a lot more since using Twitter -- having a small connection already open, I then want to say more or ask more + switch over to voice / live video. Which is cool. Rather than feeling disconnected and using the voice to connect -- it's like we are already connected and using the voice to take it deeper. I've even started new friendships that first started on twitter. I would have NEVER thought that was possible. Of course this only works with other geeks -- so it has no affect on all the relationships I have with non-geeks. And who knows what will happen over time. I wonder about a lot of things about it -- like do I want people I don't know subscribing to my twitter feed? How public do I want to be / writing as a celebrity to fans, or how private do I want to be, writing as a friend to friends (and therefore being more casual / showing raw emotion more, rather than curating what to express). I like it that geek communities take on new technology as an experiment, using ourselves as the test animals. Twitter is still a big experiment -- one that I am enjoying very much. Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: question about using vpip in a wordpress blog
You don't need to install a plug-in in order to be able to embed video into your wordpress blog! There are many ways to do it, and while vPIP is a good one, there are others that will work with wordpress.com 1) use the freevlog video embedding tool to write code for you. http://www.freevlog.org/popup/ There's a tutorial (of course) on how to use it (and why) at: http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/2006/04/18/freevlog-video-pop-up- maker/ 2) host your videos at blip.tv, and use their tools to create the code... Jen On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:36 pm, Milt Lee wrote: So for now, I changed the post at Http://realrez.wordpress.com - so that it goes to my regular site- http://realrez.com and you can watch the video there. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re:Participate in Stop Cyberbullying Day-- Decency and Opposition
There's a huge difference between saying I hate blahblah.com, it sucks, and the people who make blahblah.com are weird ass losers and yuk yuk for what they do and saying the people who make blahblah.com should die (and now I'm going to describe how + make pictures displaying my violent fantasies.) I just don't get Schlomo how you start defending the first in reaction to a movement to publicly condemn the second. It makes me think you just have no idea what some people go through. I to have been in work-related danger -- the place I worked at and the people I worked with, we were getting death threats on the phone (jokes that were also straight-up death threats left on the answering machine). Our phones were mostly likely tapped (fbi / nsa?). We got harassing phone calls on our work phone non-stop for days at a time. Then they'd start on our home phones. People were followed in their cars. We came to work to fine shit shmeered on our windows and a sliced up bra hanging over our parking spaces. We called the bomb squad one day for a suspicious package that came in the mail (and turned out to be fine, but just the experience of knowing we were a target for the kind of people who do send mail bombs, and that we needed to be on the lookout, and then one day we did need to call the bomb squad to come in with their trucks and robots and x-ray machines and dogs -- that was a hard thing itself.) And this went on for several years. YEARS people. Like four or five. I can I tell you, it looked and felt nothing like the movies. It's really not fun. How can anyone have sympathy for what Josh Wolf is going through, and think what happened to Josh Kinsberg was unjust and wrong -- and then think what's happening to Kathy Sierra can be defended as just part of what the internet is about / the internet needs spaces like this? I can only notice that it's two men and one woman. (and is it really just that?) This kind of violence is accepted as part of what will be the natural result of a free internet where someone can have an unfiltered voice to discuss what is eating them up inside in regards to [their] passions?? When you say the internet needs spaces like this. I even kinda believe that the public internet was BUILT on spaces like this ??? Are you meaning the internet needs spaces where people can make violent threats? you should go read some constitutional law about how the Courts have worked out the line between freedom of expression and prevention of violence. It's not a new issue. And while I don't have time to write out the whole story to educate you -- I can say what Kathy Sierra said: THIS IS NOT ABOUT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. Perhaps being this accepting of acts of intense violence is something many men can do easily, taking their own safety for granted, and believing violence is natural and a normal part of society. Not all men think this -- as many are victims of violence and injustice, and feel in their gut (and the memory of their body) just how 'not funny' this is. For those of you who haven't experienced violence firsthand, be grateful, and then realize maybe you could learn something new, by listening to people share what they've been through and how terrifying and eroding it is. Somehow everyone understood in their gut on 9/11/01 that real world planes crashing into buildings is nothing like a Hollywood thriller. Getting threatening email and having websites come after your personal safety is nothing to be taken lightly either. alrighty my dinner is starting to burn and that's not good either Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967
Re: [videoblogging] I've got 2 Joost invites... anybody want one?
If anyone out there has an invite, I'd love one! I've been following invite-leads around for weeks, getting there just a moment too late, or being promised invites that never came. It's kind of weird how hard this has gotten. I would REALLY love for something to work out and for me to be able to get hooked up --- maybe that's you? thanks, Jen _ Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:22 pm, Chuck Leggett wrote: An email from Joost today informed me that I have 2 invites to use before tomorrow. If anyone is interested in one of them, please email me with your name and email address. email to request joost invite: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck's Vlog http://runchuckrun.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] provocative statements...
On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Gena wrote: Good vlogs are not easy to find for novice users. You have to have the right players on the system. Bandwidth issues. And even if you send them the link they are too embarrassed to tell you they don't know how to view the video. Maybe it's time for another round of effort from this community to solve this. Blip is working to promote videoblogs/shows that host on their site and (with huge buttons) get people to subscribe using a player. Network2 just had a video contest soliciting video submissions that explain to people how to watch video on the internet so a lot of different things have been done, yet I totally agree with you Gena -- this is a big issue. People do flock to YouTube in part because it's easy to use and easy to surf. A zillion media companies are all trying to be the next hot mix of YouTube and __(fill in any television channel here)__. What are other ways to crack this nut? Freevlog solved the problem of teaching people how to videoblog on mass. And Node 101, all the workshops and classes we've all been teaching. What does it mean for us all to work on the issue of teaching people how to find and watch as hard as we worked on teaching people to vlog. How can we educate people to fluently use / consume / watch / comment / participate -- even when they have no inclination to create their own videoblog. Or as Irina would ask how can you teach my mother to watch videoblogs? If the videoblogging community could virally go all at this issue, posting videos, creating a wing of freevlog, explaining how to use your iPod to watch video, how to find videoblogs, how to use an Apple TV, how to hook up a PC to a TV, etc etc -- we could transform this and tip the scales in favor of independent shows / free floating videoblogs (not on a network) / lots and lots of tools and spaces. Jen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] video within a video
yes. put the main video (the one you want to be the big one) on the timeline, as usual -- putting it on the V1 track - or the lowest one. then overwrite edit the clip that will be the little video onto a higher up track -- V2 or anything higher. It should be that the bottom one is totally covered up by the top one, but it is still there. Now Double click on the top video in the timeline -- which opens that clip in the Viewer window (and you've opened that particular instance of that clip -- not the original clip. Very important, so be sure to double click on the piece of video that is in the timeline) Next looking at the Viewer window, click on the motion tab. In there somewhere (i'm writing this from memory, not from looking in FCP - so you might need to poke around a bit) there's a control to resize the video. Right now it says 100%. You can make it 25% or 20% or whatever you want. That will shrink the video. To move it over in the corner, you can either change the numbers that are in this box (right now center = 0, 0. To move it down and right I think you could type 160, 120 or something like that. Or maybe it's 160, -120.) OR instead of doing it by numbers, you can just grab the video and move it. To do that 1) looking that the canvas window, there's a little icon above the video image that has a pull down menu -- you need to set that window to image and wireframe. This will give you the handles for dragging. 2) Make sure the playhead is in the right place on the timeline so you are looking at the part of the video that you want to edit (and not something else later or earlier). 3) Grab the little video and drag it to where you want. i hope this help, Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:11 am, quietleader wrote: I apologize if this questions is off topic. (I just get the sense there are lots of Final Cut experts in this group) My question: Is it possible to produce a video within a video using Final Cut Express? The best way to describe what I want is with an analogy: Some television sets allow you to watch a main channel, and show a second channel in a smaller window down in the corner. Is it possible to create the equivalent with Final Cut Express, and how would it be done? Or is Final Cut Pro/Studio required? Thanks! Warren [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] have you used the videblogging syllabus??
I am in the process of putting together some paperwork for Temple University, and I would like to be able to list all the professors + people who've used the teaching resources that I posted online at http://teaching.jensimmons.com/videoblogging, especially anyone who has used it to teach a similar class at another university or college. So if that's you -- will you shoot me an email and let me know when / who / were? thanks, Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] congrats to blip - one to watch
Congrats to everyone at blip.tv for being named one of the 100 IP communications companies to watch in 2007 by Pulver! http://pulver.com/pulver100/ http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/006604.html - Jen _ Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] dan rather
Go listen to Dan Rather's keynote at SXSW. http://2007.sxsw.com/blogs/podcasts.php/2007/03/13/ dan_rather_keynote_interview jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] milkweed media design
Hey all you videobloggers, I've been running into several of you here at SXSW -- it's great to see you again, new city, new conference. Many people are saying to me how's the teaching going? and I'm realizing Oh, right, at Vloggercon in June, I was talking about teaching vieoblogging at Temple University -- so I got known as the videoblogging professor. Hm. Yeah, I'm not doing that anymore. Yes, for those of you who are interested, I taught videoblogging (officially!) at Temple's film school, and I have all kinds of resources / my syllabus / my students work online at: http:/teaching.jensimmons.com/videoblogging Please feel free to mine that work from those years of my life to help you in your teaching I like seeing the ideas and effort continue to have a life, even as I no longer place my energies on that. Instead, I've been creating interactive multimedia projections for live performance (Violet Fire: a multimedia opera about Nikola Tesla, and love conjure/blues, a filmic installation of the performance/novel by Sharon Bridgforth), and researching / shooting for new film (a feature-length experimental documentary about english colonialism / societal trauma, the personal impacts / injuries in our lives, and the possibilities for healing). To pay the bills, I've expanded my freelancing life into a business with a name, and launched Milkweed Media Design. http://milkweedmediadesign.com SO, if you are looking for a web designer or need some CSS help or want a fabulous template for your wordpress or blogger blog or could use some professional coaching for marketing your site... shoot me an email. I love to create beautiful sites that are beautifully coded as well. I hand-code everything using webstandards / strict xhtml / css positioning (if you know what that is). I've been part of the videoblogging community since late 2004 / early 2005... have lots of experience explaining complex technology to people who previously had never heard of it (and do for my clients all the time)... I'm a filmmaker who's used the internet to distribute films since 2000 I built my first website in 1997. I wrote my first computer program in 1982 (go BASIC and Turbo Pascal). I designed my first poster (of like 800 print design things) in 1989. And mostly, you can just go look at my work at the Milkweed website And by hiring Milkweed, you are helping to support an artist to create her own work, while getting her to help you create yours. Ok, enough self-promotion. Thanks for listening, and see some of you today and tomorrow at SXSW... and the rest of you online. Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967
Re: [videoblogging] Re: video Blogging Week 2007
FedEx??? YUK! SpinXpress it instead. Collaborate, share the work load -- create a team of people in different places to _together_ make one video a day -- and use SpinXpress to share the source media and ideas via a wiki. Who has time for FedEx, and why spend HaveMoneyWillVlog money on something that is free instead Go get spinxpress if you don't have it already. http;//spinxpress.som (from Austin) - Jen __ Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com On Mar 10, 2007, at 5:29 pm, Frank Sinton wrote: The video relay idea could work - would just need a volunteer in each major area. Maybe for those that aren't near those areas - we could have a 1-day delay if they could FedEx to the voluteer nearest them. A HaveMoneyWillVLog fund for paying for the FedEx shipments? -Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Find great videoblogs and podcasts. blog: http://www.mefeedia.com/blog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Philebrity TV! -- Shamelessly Infamous New Philly Video Channel
So YOU are the one making Joe, Bill and Moon internet tv starts! Bill was telling me all about how he's now on an internet tv show, and I thought he was pulling my leg. Until I realized he meant it -- someone started a vlog starring them. Absolutely brilliant!! Congratulations. Now I'm going to go watch now that I have the URL. (You should give them cards to hand out with the address, 'cause they have no idea what it's called or where to go to watch it.) look for me at Sulimay's. I used to live across the street, and I still go there to eat and work (coding websites on my laptop) lots of times. When do you shoot? Jen Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967 On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:02 pm, Mark Schoneveld wrote: Hey everyone! I'm very proud to announce after months of hard work, we have just officially - 5 minutes ago - launched our very own homebrewed video channel! http://philebrity.tv Totally original, decidedly weirdo, unabashadly entertaining in the way that only Philly can be (?), we're testing the waters to see how this kind of city-centric vlog programming plays out with everyone. What do you think?? Thanks, of course, goes out to FeedBurner and Blip.tv for having kick-asstic tools and hosting!! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blip / Alive in Baghdad / Josh Leo in the news
I had no idea it was you -- and I was totally impressed with the intro. then I listened to it again, and went -- hey! That sounds like Jan at the end -- so I watched it again + saw the Faux Press badge. Which gave it away congrats! Jen On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:36 am, Jan McLaughlin wrote: LOL - yes - that's one reason I enjoy Second Life :: I can be whomever I feel like being at the time. How did you know it was me? Jan . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: SXSW Roll Call
I'm in Austin now -- (the 6th) and will be here til the 13th. Jen Simmons http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 267-235-6967
[videoblogging] compare embedded video experiences
http://www.zefrank.org/toys/quackattack.html?g=2 YouTube in a pop-up page YouTube embedded (a much better way to experience YouTube. I wish more people knew to embed) Blip Revver (ads and all) others?? - Jen _ Jen Simmons http://milkweedmediadesign.com http://jensimmons.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Video comments plug-in for WP
Hey I didn't get a chance to tell you at vloggercon how awesome I think this is. It's going to take a while I think for us to figure out when and where this kind of tool is most appropriate -- how to use it, but it's got incredible potential. Someone in the panel mentioned how hard it is to make videos and that people won't always be able to do so - -and I agree with that -- and yet, of course there are ways to make quick comments back. A vlog that is a discussion desires only talking-head videos as comments (not well thought-out, edited pieces). And one with a new mac that's got a built in camera has an advantage -- AND the video recording tool in Blip would be great for this. In fact, this really gives that video recording tool a purpose IMHO http://blip.tv/file/record/ (works only with mac os + safari only for now) I can't wait to see a videoblog designed for discussion get populated with comments made quickly using built-in cameras and the blip interface. In fact, that combination should be easier that typing... It was great to meet you Josh, and share a panel with you. I jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:13 AM, Joshua Paul wrote: Hi all, If you're interested in either of the tools I showed, simply ping me off-list. As a refresher: - video comments: enables people to leave video comments that automatically play after your video finishes - buy something: enables you to sell items in a home-shopping- network way, with the video being clickable (and disables when sold out) You can see the video comments in action at: http://www.joshpaul.com/blog/?p=132 (you might need to wait for each comment to load; I'm working on that) I am still coming down from the high of vloggercon. I got about 2 hours of sleep on Sunday, and 5 last night. I keep waking up to write down thoughts and ideas that spawn from what I saw, heard, and talked about. Thanks to everyone, especially the organizers and volunteers. But it was the collective that made it such an amazing event. -- joshpaul > On Jun 13, 2006, at 5:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We need to get links up to Josh Paul's as well. Car 54, where are > you? > > :) > Susan > http://vlog.kitykity.com > > On 6/12/06, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> At Vloggercon, a student from ITP annouced a new WP plug-in he just >> built that does Video Comments. Id love for someone to try it out and >> see how it works. >> http://uncleleron.com/wp/2006/06/11/video-comments-a-wordpress- >> plugin/ >> >> Jay >> >> -- >> Adventures in Videoblogging >> http://www.momentshowing.net> >> http://FireAnt.tv> >> http://node101.org> >> Cell: 917 371 6790 __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (3) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic x-tad-smallerMessages/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerFiles/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerPhotos/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerLinks/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerDatabase/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerPolls/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerMembers/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller | /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerCalendar/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerma_grp_160.gif>x-tad-smaller You are receiving Individual Emails /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerChange Delivery Settings /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller Visit Your Group /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller| /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerYahoo! Groups Terms of Use /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller| /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smallerUnsubscribe/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerWe Made Changes Your Yahoo! Groups email is all new. Learn More Share Feedback x-tad-smallerRecent Activity/x-tad-smaller 13 New Members 1 New Links 1 New Files Visit Your Group x-tad-smallerSPONSORED LINKS/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller▪/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerFireant x-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller▪/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerIndividual x-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller▪/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerTypepad x-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller▪/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerUse x-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller▪/x-tad-smallerx-tad-smaller /x-tad-smallerExplains x-tad-smaller./x-tad-smallerserv.gif> __,_._,___
Re: [videoblogging] OT max/msp (was Re: question for Macbook Pro owners)
Thanks to you both for the advice. Yes, we've checked out both programs. We are using quite a few Max MSP Jitter plug ins (Boids, SoftVNS), and wanted the more robust / complex tool - plus with our own pair of programmers working with us on this, Max is just what we're using. I'll have to check out Pd and Isadora personally sometime (in the distance future) for next time. The project I'm working on is an opera, Violet Fire: A multimedia opera about Nikola Tesla. Four projectors, video tracking, all running from one G5. We open July 9 in Belgrade Serbia, and reappear at the BAM New Wave festival in October. We've been intending to upload video documentation of some of our tests... we just haven't had time! Soon, hopefully -- or later, once the show is done. back to editing! j jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Jun 5, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: If you're on Mac, you may also want to check out Pd (PureData) -- its similar program to Max/MSP (also developed by Miller Puckette), except its free and open source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data> I had been playing around with Pd a few years ago and OpenGL graphics capabilities were still pretty new to Pd (check out the GEM extension, Graphics Environment for Mutlimedia). I'm sure its come a long way and may be much closer now to Jitter in terms of functionality. Plus if you're learning, its great because Pd is free and Max/MSP/Jitter can be expensive. The programming concepts in Pd and Max are almost identical. -Josh On 6/5/06, Kath O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/2/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what are u doing in max/msp/jitter Jan. I was running the student > version on my windows laptop and have just upgraded to a macbook pro > so waiting for the UB version before buying it. it's a neat program. > have you tried Isadora also? very similar with the patching but less > build it yourself - more patch it yourself. it's so quick to learn > compared to max (so I bought it also for video until I get max again, > though it does audio also). I'd love to see some of your work if you > have examples - do you add them to your vlogs/site? I've only really > made a gps data music generating / effects controller as a project to > learn play in max. > > cheers > Kath > > On 6/2/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What I WANT a videocard for that slot, so I can hook up two external > > monitors at the same time -- or rather, two projectors so I can do cool > > multi-projector things with MAX-MSP / Jitter and my laptop in live > > performance settings. The project I'm working on right now is a four > > projector gig, and so we've loaded up a Quad PowerMac with videocards > > to give us the ability to send separate signals to four projectors and > > a monitor at the same time, but for smaller versions of this same kind > > of work... being able to use a laptop would be ideal. Any thoughts on > > whether or not we'll see a videocard? > > > > > > -- > http://www.aliak.com > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners
You'll only see a difference when you are doing something that needs the extra speed. If, for example, you are capturing DV video, the bandwidth needed is under the limit for 400, so switching to 800 doesn't make the process any faster. The big difference that I encounter is when I copy files from one drive to another. Then, I believe, the process does go twice as fast. The project I'm working on needs super fast drives, so we are using a RAID Array that connects to the computer using Serial ATA -- which gives us faster lift-off of the data from the drive platters, and then a faster connection to the computer. Firewire 800 doesn't do this -- you are right, there are bottlenecks elsewhere: a single drive can only read data so fast, etc... jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:14 PM, André Sala wrote: Has anyone every really compared performance between FW400 800? I have an 800 drive plugged into the 800 port on my G5, and I honestly do not see any better performance than with my other 400 drives. Seems to me there's a bottleneck elsewhere that doesn't let the entire system really take advantage. Instead of calling it Firewire 800, I think they should have called it Firewire 430nc. nc stands for new connector. SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: question for Macbook Pro owners
Why two Firewire 800 ports on the card, instead of just one? Probably simply because the room to fit them both was there and it was just as easy to do two as it was to do one. Plus, sometimes it's just easier / fast to plug a second drive into the computer -- ie: I'm working a group of people in our studio these days, passing drives back and forth and need to get into one quickly and then pass it back... I might throw it into the second port on the laptop instead of the back of my drive, to prevent jarring / disconnecting the cables on my drive. If the second port wasn't there, it might not matter... but since it is... And yes, as someone said, not all devices have two ports, so you'd have to get a hub -- which is a pain in the ass on a portable system that you are moving all the time. As for the slot itself, I've also seen gigabyte ethernet cards, and serial ATA for the new slot. http://www.expresscard-info.com/ What I WANT a videocard for that slot, so I can hook up two external monitors at the same time -- or rather, two projectors so I can do cool multi-projector things with MAX-MSP / Jitter and my laptop in live performance settings. The project I'm working on right now is a four projector gig, and so we've loaded up a Quad PowerMac with videocards to give us the ability to send separate signals to four projectors and a monitor at the same time, but for smaller versions of this same kind of work... being able to use a laptop would be ideal. Any thoughts on whether or not we'll see a videocard? It sounds like there will not be a compact flash card reader, however, because the 34mm slot is physically too small to fit flash cards. People are bummed out about that. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Michael Verdi wrote: I think the deal here is that it's FireWire 800 which is missing from the 15 MacBook Pro. Jen Simmons and I were talking about that the other day, wondering what you could find for that slot. The first thing that came to mind was FW 800 since some PowerBook owners have FW 800 drives since they shipped with 800 ports for a couple of years now. -Verdi SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Are in boref in SF this weekend?
jay wrote on his blog: x-tad-biggerThis is the wonder that is Web 2.0(now trademarked by Oreilly). But these 2.0 folks got to get over themselves./x-tad-bigger I say -- it's time for Web 2.1 -- not because anything significant changed on the web, but to get away from the Web 2.0 trademark, I mean, so we'll all just say Web 2.1. HA! jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 31, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Jay dedman wrote: Then check this out. http://blip.tv/file/get/Ryanne-SuperHappyDevHouseX760.mov you can read it about on our blogs: http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2006/05/super-happy-dev-house-x.html http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/2006/05/super_hapy_dev_.html jay
[videoblogging] vloggercon weather?
So what should we out of towners expect for weather at vloggercon??? Somehow I'm thinking it will be cooler than the 95 degree freaking too hotness we've been feeling... day temps? night temps? air-conditioning in building temps? rain / storm possibilities? walking needs? jen SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Have Money Will Vlog
I am sure -- tax write-offs (in the U.S.) are only for donations to 501(c)(3) organizations. I'm sure Human Dog isn't one of those so what we are all doing (legally) is giving Chris (or whoever's next) a GIFT. It's a gift, no string attached, you know, like the kind your Grandma gave you for your birthday. That way, Chris doesn't have to pay income tax on this money (yes, right, we don't want him to have to use some of this to pay taxes on this...) I do love this project! Wow. Yes, a grant flipped inside out. Instead someone with a lot of money looking for good ideas, it's someones with a lot of good ideas, looking for money! Excellent... jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 25, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Jay dedman wrote: i think you can only write-off donations to offical non-profits...but im not sure. SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Help with Wordpress background/sidebar glitch?
I think the answer lies in modifying the code in your post -- which is also easier than changing the whole site. But it's hard to know without seeing what's happening -- what's the URL? jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 23, 2006, at 10:19 AM, gmjoyce_y wrote: Can any Wordpress experts out there help with a problem? I'm using the Kubrick header, which I've modified a bit on my own. All I did was update a post by selecting all the text and making it left- justified and when the site updated, the whole whole background turned the color of my border and the sidebar was pushed to the bottom of the page. I assume the answer lies in adjusting one of the style sheets but I'm by no means an expert on Wordpress. Any advice? --Greg SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] wordpress problem with enabling referrers
Is this the Karen Chen of Karen Snips of Life? http://www.karencheng.com.au/ How weird that this list is getting so big that the web design superstars are joining in the conversation... Welcome!!! Are Jason Santa Maria, Greg Story, and Jeffrey Zeldman next? And if this is you, does this mean you are going to stop hand-coding your site? Jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 23, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Karen Chen wrote: Calling all those who have mastered wordpress... I have tried all of wordpress's troubleshooting procedures for both internet explorer and mozilla, have deleted all database info and reinstalled four times and am still coming up with the same problem. My wordpress administrator account will not allow me to make any changes until I can enable referrers. Any suggestions? -Karen SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] AboutURL.com
aw, you need an invite to use Google Analytics -- anybody got one??? jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 21, 2006, at 4:28 AM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: Also, it only works on the specific URL page that you give it. If you want whole-site analysis, Google Analytics is one useful free tool: http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Speaking of Spam - blank trackbacks
Did you have Akismet activated? Do you now have both? Or did you have nothing and now you have Spam-Karma? I finally did get Akismet turned on. It just worked when I tried it again. I also upgraded my Wordpress to 2.2 (from 1.5) finally on my main site. When I checked for spam this weekend, I had over 1500 spam comments on jensimmons.com -- GOD. It's one thing to have 100 or so, a pain to clear out, but oh well. But when it's 1500 -- with less then half being caught by Wordpress itself (which meant I had to delete them all individually in sets of 20) -- it was time to take some serious action. I'm wondering do people like Akismet or Spam-Karma better? And /or is it possible to run both? jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 22, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Michael Verdi wrote: Hey Blips, That Spam-Karma really did the trick! Thanks, -Verdi On 5/18/06, vlogassist [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I asume you are using WordPress, I use Spam-Karma for about 3 years on my blog and now also on my vlog, it takes care of comment spam and track back spam 99% of the time. It is a very easy plugin, upload it, activate it and it works like a charm; Link to the plugin; http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/ blips http://vlogmatic.com http://vlogassist.com videoblogging resources.
Re: [videoblogging] Michelle Malkin's Vlog
I just found out about that Michelle Malkin has a vlog: http://hotair.com/ This is bizarre - their format choices I mean. It's golf hottie meets right-wing think tank. David Duke et al redressed for the 21st century neo-MTV generation. God. so that's where internet video is headed? Yes. I do think so. Unfortunately once again the mega-corporations and the ultra-conservative crazies jump on the new-technology bandwagon long before the masses of everyday people and the artists / non-profits / power-to-the-people people. This is why I want us all to keep asking what format do we each want to use?? Why?? Don't just copy blindly... jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: MacBook Pro VS Powerbook 15/17 for video-podcasting? [ was Re: [videoblogging] 17 inch Powerbook to a good home, cheap?
1) FCP works on the intel macs now? Final Cut Studio (with Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack, etc) version 5.1, announced at the end of March is a universal binary. The upgrade from Final Cut Studio 5.0 is $50, from Final Cut Pro 5 (or Motion / DVD Studio Pro / etc) to the full Studio is $100. From FCP 4 it's $200... http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/mar/30fcstudio.html http://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/ http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/ Final Cut Express HD 3.5 is also a universal binary. Don't forget about this program people it's got much of the power of Final Cut for a lot less money — it's a great way to step up from iMovie, without spending $1300! And many people never ever use the extra features of FCPro anyway. Check out a chart of who's got what at: http://www.apple.com/finalcut/ Apple updated the MacBook Pros to include glossy screens. :( It's an option for the MacBook Pros, you can get glossy (yuk) or matte. MacBooks only come in glossy. jen Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 2:40 PM, usadutch2001 wrote: SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
I'm not sure how to know if I've got an open relay or not. I think Shane is going to help me figure that out -- I tried the spamlinks.net adress, but its not working.
I think I've got an authentication thing-a-ma-gig in place (i hope). I'm always wrestling with smtp servers and getting through various firewalls to send mail through the smtp servers with the right password and I always expected that those technologies were keeping anybody but me from sending out email on my domain, but again, I'm over my head with this. I was guessing the spammers are just using my domainname.com to slap on their email, not that they were actually using my server. Is that possible?
Anti-virus -- I've got a Mac, so I don't think there's any way for there to be a virus on my own machine sending spam or authorizing spam or leaking passwords to spammers. (Is that naive? Or just a great thing about the Mac OS?)
FIrewalls... again. I am overwhelmed by understanding all this. My server is at GoDaddy (in a bunker in Arizona, not in my bedroom closet) so I've just been relying on their services to protect me. Hopefully that's working -- but since I know the spammers are persistent and constantly getting savvier, so...
thanks for all this info and suggestions! I'll keep working on learning so I can understand better --
thanks to David for taking time to respond
jen
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On May 18, 2006, at 1:48 PM, David Meade wrote:
There's actually a few things that could cause this ... but assuming it is in fact unauthorized use of your mail server there are a few things you should do:
First off, make sure your mail server is not an open relay. An open relay is where a mail server will forward on email even when nither the recipient nor the sender are its local users. You'll have to read a bit on your mail server to see how to configure it properly. There are some webbased tools to test if your an open relay or not. (http://spamlinks.net/prevent-secure-relay-test.htm#web)
2nd, you should be able to setup your email server so that authentication is required to send email from it. This way the only people who can send email from your server are users who have a mail account on the server. Now, even if they forge the source address in an attempt to fool the 1st safeguard ... your server will additionaly insist they provide a username / password.
(I dont know much about linux (or mail servers honestly) so I cant really provide much more detail than that)
3rd, run a good Anti-virus sweep on all your machines. Some viruses will send mass mail with variants of your email address ... and often generate bounce messages. If its a virus, the problem may not be on your linux box but another on your lan.
4th, make sure you have a decent firewall in place
After all thats said and done you should be ok. If you're still being blocked by spam services (because of past spam) you may need to send a request to some of the spam / open relay databases saying you've taken the above steps and ask to be removed.
- Dave
On 5/18/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
advice, so I ask forgiveness for this off-topic post. It's just you all
are my favorite geeks, and I don't know where else to turn :-(
The spammers have snatched up my jensimmons.com domain, and used it to
forge addresses on their emails. It's been happening for a long long
time, but in the last month, they've _really_ used my domain a LOT (I
know this because I am daily getting dozens of rejected email notices
for spam emails sent from ajdiv @ jensiimmons.com , baovzmr @
jensions.com , etc etc. All crap fake email addresses... well,
except with my name spelled right -- I'm writing it wrong here to
prevent more spam.)
The thing is, now all the email I send from jen aat jenssimmons.com is
being rejected from the big email houses. Like I just tried to send an
email to a gmail account -- rejected. I've apparently been completely
banned from gmail. The other day I sent an email to 10 addresses at one
time, including yahoo and hotmail and gmail addresses, and it bounced
from almost all of them. It's very annoying and getting scary --
basically I'm getting labeled by everyone as a spammer and I'm not a
spammer!
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com among
other sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I get a ton of spam. I expect
that spammers are not actually running anything through my box, so I
can't block them or stop them from my end -- is this right?? Or maybe
I'm misunderstanding what is happening, and I can do something --
install something / report something
so that's my question, what can I do to stop these spammers from
stealing my identity, and to get back to where I can email people again
at gmail / hotmail / yahoo / aol / etc??
HELP!!
thanks,
jen
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
Killing my email address and switching to another one is just not an option. That would STINK! I do have a gmail account, and a university address, and 5 other domains on which I could set up a zillion addresses, but the whole point of snatching up my name as a domain 5 years ago was so that I could use it as a permanent website / email address -- like for the rest of my life, no matter what job I have. I would hate to loose that to spammers :-( Viruses : again, is this a think that Mac users have to worry about? These spam people are so annoying -- and does anyone ever make money off the spam that is sent?? I'm sure the people who get hired to create spam make money, but do the people who do the hiring make any money?? It's such an unethical business! I just don't understand why it's so popular. I can't even read half the spam I get. I know a some of spam is about driving search engine stats up -- so everybody -- don't EVER hire one of those companies that claim they will raise your Google rating. You can't do that directly in a legal way!! Comment spam and email spam and such is just wrong. You can optimize you website to be read by the googlebots, and you can surf and comment personally and that will raise your stats, but hiring someone else to raise your stats without re-coding your site = hiring someone to spam the 'net on your behalf. JSUT SAY NO!! Thanks Blips for your advice... I'm slowly putting the pieces together jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 2:40 PM, usadutch2001 wrote: David has some very good sugestions I would recommend for everyone. Another scenario if you think that the spammers are not using your mailserver is to switch it of and obtain a gmail account, I know you need to tell everyone the new email address and thats a pain too. By turning off your mailserver (a setting to be found somewhere in a configuration file. (I'm a microsoft guy and do not know the filename)) you might be seeing less bounced email. A lot of mailservers now check the sender address for the fact that there is indeed a mailserver behind that address even if that address is forged into the mail. (reverse DNS lookup) If you take away the mailserver as a valid source, spammer might abandon your email address. As David mentioned it could be a worm or virus that acts like this; Someone who has your email address in his or her addressbook, lets say George. George also happens to have the NETSKY virus. This virus grabs a random email address as the sender address and send out a message to everyone in Georges addressbook in this case using your address as the sender. George has no clue as he is not aware of it. You will get the bounce back messages or the virus reports and George still has no clue. There is nothing you can do about these viruses except switching of your mailserver as mentioned before. If George never cleans his computer it will keep sending those messages. Unfortunatly there is no way for you to find out George is sending it. Before you get confused the mailserver is just the mailsoftware running on your server and not the server itself. Do a search for netsky virus and you will see that it is a nasty one but not the only one, it will not destry anything except your joy. Blips http://vlogmatic.com http://vlogassist.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
Shane is awesome. I've send some emails with the headers to help figure out what's happening... Thanks! - jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Shane Robinson wrote: Aloha Jen, Shane here (Rox's secret cameraman). We have 14 servers around the country and manage thousands of accounts for our clients. All the suggestions above are great and definitely what should be done, if you have the know-how to do them and your hosting provider allows it. :-) Right now you don't actually know if your server has been hijacked or is operating as an open relay. Since your mail.jensimmons.com server is at Go Daddy, I really doubt it's an open relay. But it's possible. If you can send me, offlist, the full headers from several of those bounced messages, I can quickly get a sense of what's going on. The message itself isn't important but the entire header is. Send a few of them, each in its own email, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll let you know what I find. This is a problem and got to be so bad that we now use both a third party spam filtering system and a dedicated email hosting provider. We still manage it for all our clients 'cause they don't care how things work, they just want it to work. But we no longer have issues with spam (I get 2-3 leaking through a day while several hundred get snagged in the filter before it even gets to our servers and desktops) and I don't have to worry about patches and keeping the mail servers secure. It's definitely worth a few bucks a month to us and our client to not have to deal with it! :-) -shane http://www.beachwalks.tv http://www.barefeetstudios.com http://www.barefeetshop.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Speaking of Spam - blank trackbacks
Akismet. I have not been able to get it to work. It doesn't take my wordpress.com info... it just ingores it and tells me I need to go get a key from my wordpress.com account. Which I have. Over and over. Ideas? j jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: We get those constantly too. Akismet catches a lot of the shit, but these seem to get through. I just delete em, I don't think they're really doing any harm considering their content, er, lack thereof. On 5/18/06, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Blank trackbacks? What's up with them? I'm getting bombarded with them today. They look like this: New trackback on your post # QuickTime 7 Report [Disappointment] Website: (IP: , ) URI : Excerpt: Is there anyway to stop this? -Verdi -- Author of the book Secrets Of Videoblogging Me --> http://michaelverdi.com Learn to videoblog --> http://freevlog.org I'm Going To Vloggercon, June 10 11 --> http://vloggercon.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service . SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] silly iPod question
I don't think it's a straight count. I think it's a count of emails divided by the importance of the thing you are supposed to be doing, but are avoiding by responding to vlogger email. So the bigger the procrastination, the lower the count... or is it the higher the count? j jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: 1) hmmm, i better respond to each of your emails if I want to stay near the top. i recommend all other members of the top 20 poster clique do that same to keep Richard out. sorry Richard, nothing personal, trust me. ;)
Re: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic, but...)
I'm pretty sure I do not have an opern mail relay -- but instead the mail is coming from other servers, with labels as if it's from my server. Shane Robinson has been a huge help today read the headers of a bnuch of reject notices and confirmed that yes, those spam emails were being sent to people from computers in Canada/Oklahoma, the Netherlands, etc. Perhaps from people's home computers that are infected with spam, and made up emails from my domain are getting slapped into the from slot. I know this is happening because any email sent to any address on my domain gets forwarded to my real email account -- so people are lying and saying their spam is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a real favorite) or other bogus names. David's advice, seconded by Shane is to register my domain with my ip addresses with SPF technology... basically letting the world know, hey, all email from this domain can only come from MY box. (I thought the internet was already set up that way, but apparently not. Apparently anyone can say, yeah... I'm sending this email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's good to know spammers are NOT using my server's energy to do their work. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 18, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: you probably have open mail relay on your mail server. this lets anyone use it to send their email through from anywhere else, much beloved of spammers. URL: http://www.mail-abuse.com/enduserinfo.html should be able to help (if this is the problem). you need to ensure your mail server only sends from known (legitimate) accounts. -- SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Current Contradiction
don't be duped. the advertising companies have realized that the 30 second spot where they say buy this product, it's the best one, it will do great things for you is dead. No one buys the rhetoric anymore. (Compare that to 40-50 years ago when our culture was such that most people would say really? That's the best one? Oh I'll have to be sure to buy that. I remember my grandparents being very trusting like that. It seems so naive now, but that's how advertising worked several decades ago.) These days, given how skeptical we have gotten, and how quickly we change the channel / look away from the billboard, now the advertising companies are trying to figure out what technique is the new best way to get people to buy / get truly interested in/ be loyal to the object of their advertising campaign. Some are working hard at the product placement angle: so if viewers are going to change the channels when the commercials come on during The Apprentice, we'll make the product a major part of the show we'll get the viewer to imagine how they might sell this product in the streets of New York or design and event promoting the product... and then the idea goes, that viewer will be more likely to think -- hey I want that / I want to buy that when they are in the store. (Do you really think Trump + the executives cares about a badly-done party in a NYC bar to promote _X_? Hell no! It's the 20 minutes of screen time that _X_ gets while following around the group planning that party that matters.) Or Survivor... imagine being in a jungle for 23 days... you haven't had anything to eat besides some boiled snails. And then, all of a sudden you work your ass of and win a contest by a fraction of a second, and WOW for your reward you get a Coke and a Snickers !!! Man, wouldn't that taste good! Hey, I can go to the store across the street and get a Coke and a Snickers myself, right now, man that would taste good... yum, let me go buy that There are many other approaches -- I'm sure you see them everywhere, too. The text message / internet survey contest. The cool billboard with no ad that just has the URL to go to a website -- 16 zillion of them, all giving tiny clues, but none tying directly to an obvious product. Crazy MySpace promotions. I can see a push and pull between the advertising creatives and the corporate executives -- where the creatives are saying, hey, there's this cool new way to get to people, let's try this, and the conservative fearful executives are saying: why should we pay you to play on MySpace or to put up a zillion billboards that don't even have our product's name on it??? But as the fears of these executives subside, we will be seeing more and more and more and more of this kind of all-inclusive, 'secret' advertising. Infiltrating the independent film scene is just one more part of their 'try everything to find the next big hit' approach. I've seen film festivals that are all about getting indie filmmakers to create short films for major corporations like BMW and Nike and Dock Martin and American Express. The corporation gives the filmmaker $20,000 (or $5,000 or $50,000) -- which seems like a HUGE budget to us artists trying to make work on $0 or $500, but which is a total steal for a corporation use to paying _much_ more than that for a 30 second commercial. The terms of the deal is different every time, but it can be / is frequently like this: filmmaker gets to make any film they want, with a plot and characters, and a cute / cool / action-packed story. (right —any film they want. How about a film with characters who are gay or have lefty politics or ? ) Frequently the product of the campaign does NOT have to be in the commercial (although I see filmmakers putting the product in anyway, just out of 'love' / appreciation for getting such a 'huge' budget for their 'artistic' work). Then the corporation looks cool to the indie film world for 'supporting the arts' -- and buzz spreads via word of mouth and the internet about how cool this thing is. The finished films are put on the corporation website with a lot of dressing to make the whole project seem like its about filmmaking / the arts // like it's a film festival or something. Tons of traffic is driven to the site by all the cool buzz and oh, while you are at the site, hey, you know, like, check out the shoes. And when you are in the show store and are trying to figure out which shoe is cooler... well, you know. Sometimes specific filmmakers are hired to make a film, other times there's an open contest held, and anyone can submit a film, which serves to create even more buzz. Again, the contest isn't usually a contest for an ad (although sometimes it is) -- it's an independent film contest... but at the root, the entire thing is an advertising campaign. I think it's confusing for people -- definitely blurring the line between art and adverting. And hey, many
Re: [videoblogging] VideoBloggers out to lunch
This list was never exclusively about the technology. It has always talked a lot about what is this thing we are calling videoblogging? Is it filmmaking? Is is television? Is it text blogging? A diary? Home movies? All of the above? None of the above, but has something in common with each... What kind of videos are we making? Why? What kind of habits / expectations are we creating as a group by making the choices we are making? I see these recent discussions that you are calling politics, religion, or such topics as part of the meaty debate of what this medium is, what it could be, how it might be different than what we've seen before, how it can stand on the shoulders of everything that's come before. I don't see hardly any off-topic discussions that are irrelevant to media making and distribution -- I think there's always been a deep awareness by this group that we are collectively inventing a new medium that will have a deep and profound impact on the future of media globally. And we are having sometimes-heating discussions about what exactly we are doing and debating the results we are getting. I'm glad! The cultural shifts that we are making happen are as important to discuss as the technology tools. Awareness is always good. Representation, access, funding, creativity, oppression, promotion, corporate culture, mass media culture, film/television history, internet culture, open source movement culture... these are all _very_ much part of the discussion. If this list is wasting time that you'd prefer to use doing other things, than do that. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 16, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Dr Linton Hutchinson wrote: This list is just getting too out there well generally wasting my time. Is there a REAL blogging listserv somewhere about technical aspects of blogging, programs, techniques, creativity and ideas that does NOT involve, politics, religion, or such topics. With friendly greetings, Linton SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Which organizations are doing videoblogging?
Here are some... Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/podcast_help.shtml MediaRights.org and the Media That Matters Film Festival http://www.mediarights.org/ http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm05/ Brave New Television http://www.bravenewfilms.org/television.php Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/ jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 16, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: http://atheistviewpoint.tv/nowshowing.shtml On 5/16/06, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm doing a talk next week and among other things I get to show examples of different types of videoblogs. One genre is giving me trouble: Videoblogs from organizations. It can be non-profit, for-profit, small or big. Which organizations are doing videoblogging? I have a very loose definition of organizations like people working together for a common goal. It can be the local chess club or Walmart. I have found a small handful: General Motors video blog, Israeli Consulate in NYC, mediapolicyblog.org are some. Do you know any more? Feel free to promote yourself. I'm not looking for collectives who have gathered around creating videoblogs (their common goal being creating media). I have plenty of examples of that (the pan, rocketboom, human-dog and a million others). I hope you can help. You can also mail me directly with examples. -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service . SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[videoblogging] The Rebirth of Kevin Krutz
in case you missed it... http://questionsinblue.blogspot.com/2006/05/rebirth-of-kevin-krutz.html SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Questions: RSS, PSP, 3g, IP ...
yeah, well when you figure it out, offer the code to us as open source, with an in-depth tutorial !!! :-) you'll get lots of brownie points and well wishes as far as I know many of us have been wishing for something like this, but no one's yet done it... (ok, jump in to correct me if / where I'm wrong) j jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On May 8, 2006, at 4:34 AM, wazman_au wrote: Hmm, I suppose I was looking for a bit more than a Yes, it can be done/no, it can't be done answer; rather, someone who's done it, or done something similar, and might have a ready-made solution! I have no idea how WordPress logs the info about user agent, for example. Oh well, looks like i'm out on the bleating edge and it will be self-help and a crash course in PHP scripting for me. Waz www.crashtestkitchen.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use Explains YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Bravo Colbert
Fabulous!!! If anyone knows of a full length, quarter screen quicktime mov version, let us know. So far I'm seeing shortened versions / tiny versions / flash youtube versions... I'd love the whole thing good quality. And, p.s., for anyone who doesn't realize, since this is a C-SPAN recording, it is public domain! Everything shot / edited / produced by the federal U.S. government is automatically public domain, including everything from C-SPAN -- so we are all free to copy / redistribute / edit / etc this as much as we want without any worries or ethical considerations of copyright. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Deirdre Straughan wrote: For those who missed it, it's now on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61IIsearch=colbert%20roast On 4/30/06, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boy, that was biting. > > -- Enric > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Marquis [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For the politically engaged vloggers out there, and particularly those > > that like Steven Colbert of Comedy Central, this video > > http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104> is a must see. > > He was the headliner at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight in > > Washington, DC, and it was carried live on C-SPAN (they will be > > repeating it several times). I highly doubt that those who invited > > Colbert to do this had any idea how extensive his grilling of Bush and > > the administration would be. Bush was sitting about ten feet away, and > > had to grind his teeth through every excruciating minute. Colbert was > > at his satirical, fake conservative best. Bush left quickly after the > > performance, and was clearly uncomfortable. It was a beautiful thing. > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
>From today's LA Times: The Strange Web Saga of Emokid21: How an internet faker set YouTube on fire with haters, imitators and investigators URL:http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-spinoff-emokid,1,7057627.htmlstory?coll=la-headlines-entnews > jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com ___ x-tad-biggerThe Strange Web Saga of Emokid21 /x-tad-biggerHow an internet faker set YouTube on fire with haters, imitators and investigators. x-tad-smallerBy Deborah Netburn/x-tad-smaller x-tad-biggerIn a phone interview on Friday morning Benjamin Castelow Johnson, a 22-year-old International Politics major at the University of Whales said that the saga of Emokid21 Ohio began when Johnson decided not to go home for the Easter holiday. Bored at his near empty school Johnson decided to shoot a fake video blog as a character named Emokid21 Ohio -- a whiny, self-involved, American college student with a penchant for wearing knit caps and hooded sweatshirts. Some people say you don't even know what emo is, I'm like God, seriously, we do he said in the first blog post. /x-tad-biggerattachment: 23174545.jpg x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerx-tad-smallerClick to watch video /x-tad-smallerx-tad-bigger Johnson continued to post new Emokid21 Ohio blogs almost daily and they quickly became one of the most discussed videos on YouTube (mostly because YouTube users thought he was so annoying). At the same time Johnson told a friend of his from home about his project and she began her own fake video blog as a character named Emogirl who loves bad poetry and perpetually has thick chunks of hair obscuring her face. Over the next week Emogirl and Emokid21 Ohio received so much hate mail that CBS News (believing Emokid21 Ohio really existed) contacted Johnson to see if they could interview him for a piece they were doing about bullies. Johnson also got an email from MTVu (MTV's college themed website) to see if he would be willing to do something for their website and Johnson discovered there were whole message board threads devoted to his character on thesuperficial.com website. /x-tad-biggerattachment: 23174647.jpg x-tad-biggerAnd then the mockery started. People began to make spoofs of Emokid21 Ohio and Emogirl's blogs, such as this one from Emodog21. /x-tad-biggerattachment: 23181206.jpg x-tad-bigger But two weeks into the emo project the foundations began to crumble. YouTube sleuths began to suspect that Emokid21 Ohio was not from Ohio after all, and that he was actually from Britain. Trying desperately to defend himself against these accusations he filmed a vblog called, SO IM NOT FROM OHIO, EH and flashed a social security card and tax records at the camera to try to prove his point. But YouTube members weren't buying it. After some fancy video detective work a YouTube user named Kol Guild posted a video called EmoKid...The Brit Git: /x-tad-biggerx-tad-biggerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC66SMV0smb8search=Emo%20KolGuild%20Bitch%20Ohio%20Girl%20Comments/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger On April 26, three weeks after it all began, it ended. Somebody discovered Johnson's real life My Space page (which made it clear he was actually British) and began to circulate it around the Internet. Johnson said he wasn't disappointed. It was beginning to get a little silly, the amount of emails I was getting, he told us. I've still got so many I have to get through. He and his childhood friend ended the emo saga with two fake BBC newscasts. Following their lead, the voice of Emodog came clean too. It turns out he was some guy who used to work on The Howard Stern Show. /x-tad-bigger
Re: [videoblogging] Fair Or Not (was The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz)
Kevin tried to post emails to this list last night, but was having technical troubles. This is what he wrote... (the final paper he refers to is posted at (or will be once it uploads): http://teaching.jensimmons.com/videoblogging/spring06/research.htm along with video of his presentation.) x-tad-smaller hey, i got in late tonight and checked my email to find this fiasco unfolded. I am extremely tired and can't respond to the bits of this discussion i've read. i would like to say that this post was not meant as a hoax--as to what it is now, i'm not so sure. It was meant as a response to an argument i had with a fellow film student who attends Columbia University. I argued, as i did in my final paper, that the new logging medium--it's new for me--is an opportunity to potentially establish a new genre, the limits of film have been tested for over a century but vlogging is new. i was impressed with the believability of the vlogging medium, which was starkly different from what i've seen of reality tv for the last few years. I argued that if the conventions of vlogging could be manipulated then new artistic piece could be produced. I posted this to illustrate that point. I never thought it would generate such a debate because my audience has been about 20 people--all close friends since it's conception in feb. Regardless, i believe that i will feel guilty for causing any strife--this was not meant for you. I want to repond to any comments regarding this experiment, but i'm tired and need to sleep. I would like to say right now that, as to the excess of violence in my films and the films other my fellow students, there has been violence in cinema since Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery in 1903 and there will be violence in media as long as there is media. I also would like to point out that David Lynch, when asked about why he made EraserHead, said that it had a great deal to do with the violence of Philadelphia. My point is that Phila. is a violent place, that's the atmosphere that i live in, so some of that violence comes through. I also read a comment from...i can't remeber...anyway, he said that this piece was wrong because he felt a certain way and he didn't sign up for that. For this response i have no sympathy. I didn't sign up for the ideas i was exposed to when i started reading DeSade's Philosophy in the Bedroom yet my twelve year old eyes scanned the lines with horror and intrigue. I feel it's the same situation here. At any moment i could have put the book down, but morbid curiousity forced me onward. The people who were offended to reproach could have stopped watching this video, about someone they didn't know, at any time. I think this tendancy in humans to watch the atrocious (is that spelled right?) is what fueled this, to an extent. It's probably the same reason so many people watch those god awful reality shows. Anyway this was an experiment and perhaps it didn't work in the way i intended it to work, like i said, i'm tired. i would like to digest fully the comments made and respond when i'm less fatigued (I hate that word). Please email me with any comments. [EMAIL PROTECTED] late -- Kevin Krutz /x-tad-smaller jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com
Re: [videoblogging] Compression settings make a difference?
Vimeo's recommending Sorensen 3 and QDesign Music 2??? God. What is it 2001?? That's _really_ bad advice! The whole reason that internet video is taking off is because of the maturity of several technologies and the emergence of new tools. Video compression has improved tremendously since the days when Sorensen 3 was the best thing out there. That's Quicktime 5 technology -- and I have no idea why someone would recommend it now. Mpeg-4 compression like freevlog teaches is Quicktime 6 Player compatible. The H-264 codec that Apple is pushing needs Quicktime 7. Use one of these technologies. I use and teach the first. Other people like the second better. There's something to be said for not always using the cutting-edge newest technology because it takes a while for people to upgrade their software. But, hey, Quicktime 6 came out almost four years ago in July 2002. I haven't heard of anyone pushing the Quicktime 5 stuff!!! Sorensen (at settings that download over U.S. high-speed connection speed without waiting) has a lot of compression artifacts, and QDesign Music 2 usually sounds really really bad. In my opinion, that's the _worst_ advice of all -- that's pre-mp3 technology, from back before anyone wanted to compress music digitally because it sounded so bad! It's great you experimented to see which you liked better. Those are important skills to work on -- understanding what's happening and trying out a lot of settings for yourself. Try out mpeg-4 vs. h264, that will be more relevant to today's technology. And whoever runs vimeo should really change that advice! Come-on jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:43 PM, M. Mart wrote: To edit my videos using iMovie on my Mac I relied on the settings provided by Michael and Ryanne on their great Freevlog.org site. Those settings have served my site well, both in .mov and .wmv formats. Today I read on Vimeo.com’s Upload Guide different recommended settings. Following the Vimeo settings as shown below I reformatted an existing QuickTime video and played them side by side. The Vimeo settings worked well, with the only difference being the Vimeo settings produce a file size of 30.28MB vs 14.95MB for Freevlog. The two of us here differ as to which output is slightly better. Has any one here experimented with the two settings? Do these setting differences affect how videos appear in the browser? Vimeo.com: Under Video, click Settings. Compression Type: Sorensen Video 3. Frame rate: Current fps. Key Frames: Every 60 frames. Data rate: Restrict to 1200 kbits/sec. Quality: Best. Under Sound, click Settings. Format: QDesign Music 2 Channels: Stereo (L R) Rate: 44.100. Click Options and set the bitrate to 48kbits/s. Freevlog.org Compression MPEG-4 Rate frame: 15 Key Frames: 5 Compressor at: Medium Data Rate: 600 kbits Sound AAC Mono Bite Rate 24 kilohertz SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] .swf or .flv
.flv is to .swf as .psd is to .jpg. In other words -- the .flv file is the original huge working document that you make when you make a flash animation. Ie: open Flash the program, start a new document, do a bunch of stuff, save it. Then later you can open the flash document -- saved in the .flv format and change things, keep working, etc. Once you are ready to post to the web, you export a flash movie, and create a .swf file. The .swf file is much smaller, more efficient / compressed, etc. If for some reason you erased the original .flv, and then wanted to make changes to the move, you'd be stuck. You cannot open the .swf file that's been exported and make and changes to the original -- you need the .flv file. There's nothing to do with a .flv file on the web. Browsers don't know what the heck that is. It's just for working... Much like Photoshop. Make a doc in Photoshop and save it -- and you've got a .psd. You can make lots of layers and masks and effects... and then when you are ready, save for web to create a .jpg (or .gif) and then use the .jpg on the web. The original .psd is much to big for the internet + browsers have no idea what a .psd file is -- the .jpg is flattened and compressed and doesn't have any of the layer / mask / effect / text layer info in it -- so you cannot modify it the way you can modify a .psd. That's how it works when you've got the program Flash installed on your system and use it to make a project. These online transcoders don't make a .flv file (i don't think) -- I'm under the impression they just translate the .mov file (or whatever) straight into a .swf. (Someone correct me if i'm wrong.) It's cool because you get a flash movie .swf without needing to own Flash or take all the time to build a project. It's not as cool because the formulaic nature on the online transcoder isn't going to make the best possible flash movie --only by doing a custom compress will you get the best results possible. Also everyone should just know that Flash does about 200x as many cool techie things then simply pump video out in a format that is viewable by lots of browsers -- AND flash does much more than the stupid ugly animated billboards that seem to dominate commercial websites these days. That's the most common use of Flash, but not the best / most artistic / most creative use of it. It's a powerful development platform that can do much more. Another example of everyone copying each other so much that an utter lack of imagination has dominated a medium and crowded out the artistic possibilities. (Not killed them off completely, by no means, but has overshadowed.) jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Gene wrote: Hi Group, Gene here. I'm just getting started with internet video, and was wondering if flash video is the way to go. If so, can someone advise me of the difference, advantage or disadvantage between .swf format and .flv format? Which would you recommend. I have some video software, and can convert .avi files to .swf, but can't convert to .flv. I'd appreciate a little tip. Thanks, Gene YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] .swf or .flv
oh. Hey everybody -- change .flv with .fla in every instance in my email. And well, uh, realize I was answering a question that wasn't asked. Sorry. I recited a lesson I taughting someone else earlier today without realizing I had no idea what I was talking about .flv, hmm I don't know what that is. Oh, look, Michael does... On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Michael Verdi wrote: The Flash video files are .flv. Those can play in html (don't know if they'll play just linked to directly). Dierdre for example posts .flv files on her videoblog. The problem with the .flv by itself is that it doesn't really have a controller. You can right-click on the video and stop or rewind it. Now if you want a player you can make one of your own as a .swf or use the one that comes with the Flash program. Then you have two options: 1. you can link the .flv to the .swf with either an absolute or a relative link. If you use a relative link syndication in something like Fireant will not work. 2. you can embed the .flv in the .swf and distribute one file - a big giant .swf file. -Verdi Thanks for bailing me out Verdi. :-) jen YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] ten videoblogs for national (womens') magazine, quick!
P_LEASE!! http://ryanedit.blogspot.com http://smashface.com/vlog/ http://www.scratchvideo.tv/scratch/ http://missbhavens.blogspot.com/ http://spadesaspade.blogspot.com/ http://www.welcometoamyville.blogspot.com/ http://annieee.blogspot.com/ http://www.human-dog.com/sara/ http://fauxpress.blogspot.com/ http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/ http://trine.blogs.com/trines_lille_blog/ http://modernfeminist.blogspot.com/ all strong / feminist women craving/creating a space for us all in the vlogosphere... several of those vloggers are in new york -- perhaps you should take one of them with you - jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:01 PM, Lisa Williams wrote: Help! I'm visiting a well-known womens' magazine in NYC on Thursday to talk about blogging. Last minute email from hosts says, Show us some videoblogs! So, if you were going to see the editors of a magazine you've probably seen on the supermarket store racks, what would you show them? I'll love you guys forever for helping me out on this one! Lisa W. -- Lisa Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google Talk: lisatmh Places I blog: Lisa Williams' Blog: http://www.cadence90.com/wp/ H2otown, a citizen journalism site for Watertown http://h2otown.info OPML Fan, a blog tracking developments in OPML and the OPML Community http://blogs.opml.org/thisislisa/ SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
I'm wondering whether to chime in now, or wait and watch this discussion go for a while more. I find it fascinating. Kevin is fine and well. Probably tired and overwhelmed since it's the end of the semester, but he's otherwise perfectly fine. I just saw him this afternoon in class. I don't know if he meant the video as a hoax -- or a mean trick. I'd expect it was more of an experiment to see what would happen. It's definitely in the vlog dangerously theme that Stephanie started for videoblogging week. Perhaps this is over the edge for many of you?? Did Kevin stretch things too far? And cross some line into something unacceptable?? He's got two more posts due for class (one today that's late and one next Monday) so I'm not sure what he has planned... perhaps it would have made more sense for this to be his last post (if in fact he's planning to abandon the vlog after the semester is over). Mostly I'm interested in hearing more discussion about whether or not it was okay for him to post such a video. What buttons did he push? If you are offended or upset or disturbed or frightened or disgusted... then why? What is it exactly that caused your reaction? If you aren't any of those things, but have other strong feelings, what is your reaction? What do you think that's about?? And, well, thanks for all the sympathies and concern. Kevin's not on this email list, but I've forwarded him (and several other people) the link to the web-based archive, so hopefully he will chime in. You can also post comments on his blog! jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: still waiting for Jen Simmons to chime in, as she apparently taught him how to vlog. On 4/24/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com , Josh Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is interesting, given that there is a video that revolves around a > funeral only weeks before this video, I am not disinclined to think > that this is a joke. At the same time, it is possible that the video is > real, and assuming that it may, perhaps, be a joke is probably > insensitive to some extent. > > Josh I agree that simply assuming it's a hoax is perhaps a bit insensitive or callous, but wondering whether it's a hoax is understandable. There have been countless strange stunts on the Internet, and given Kevin's particular body of work, it almost has to cross your mind. Whether it's a hoax or not, it's probably just a matter of time before it catalyzes a media debate about the limits of Web 2.0 in relation to appropriateness, responsibility, news, art, etc... andy Yahoo! Groups Links *> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ *> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Sull http://vlogdir.com http://SpreadTheMedia.org SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
Well for one I have to disagree that this is worse than the insidious creeping take-over of the vlogosphere imagination by corporate or corporate-copy-cat consumption-oriented / advertisy / product-placementy / slick-is-better / we-all-want-to-be-like-the-media-on-tv trends. I find that WAY more dangerous and problematic. I am wondering myself why I find this fascinating. I am surprised by my own reaction. Perhaps it's because I know Kevin and there's something not-typical about his approach to all the violent weird stupid perverted content that I am way way tired of after teaching student filmmaking in Philadelphia for the last three years. He is handling the same subjects, but somehow there is something else going on too -- perhaps it's just that he's smart and it shows to me, while most of the other students make such work in such a mindless knee-jerk stupid/blind way. I think my reaction is mostly because of a workshop I've been in with Kevin taught by Ralph Lemon where we've been exploring danger and risk and fear all semester. Doing weird things like setting out to drop 40 lb weights on our feet to see how we can't actually drop it on our feet, but will naturally jerk the body out of the way it's impossible, truly impossible to explain this by text, but it's been a great investigation of the fear we who are artists confront every time we try to make art. Artists live on the edge of real danger all the time. Somehow I can't separate this video Kevin made with that process of exploration, and in the context of that very specific investigation, this is hilarious. But... yeah... I think in any other context I too would be deeply disturbed and offended. I think it's interesting to me because I'm trying to figure out what the difference is in my self. And I am also asking in a deep deep way: what is happening here. What social rules are Kevin violating? How will the reaction unfold? Will there be a huge outcry? Or will this all blow over fairly quickly? Will people react? Or just take this in as one more thing... I see your point that it may be numbing us to real pain. I find the 27 Law and Order and copycat shows completely irresponsible for exactly that reason. And find it completely ridiculous and amazing that NBC has gotten both super-christian in the last year and super-violent (come on -- an AMY GRANT reality tv show??? and more than one miracle reality tv show... and more murder investigations than I've ever seen.) I'll be just change channels zipping past NBC and get assaulted by a scene of a graphic rape and murder. It seems like an extremely perverted rape-by-proxy thing, what, letting the viewers fantasize about what it would be like to rape and murder someone?? It' very offensive to me. And I see no one talking about it. Why aren't the christians outraged about that?? Instead they are freaking out over a gay kiss or people talking about evolution... it's crazy crazy crazy. I also know that I am numb to the violence in my student's work because it's so horrible here at Temple. The most unbelievably violent films get made by the undergraduates here. And no one talks about it. After four years I think my perspective is totally warped. And having people on the outside say -- uh, no, this is not acceptable is a welcome breath of fresh air. So people, please everyone say what you think. I want to hear what people really think and get a sense of where different people are on these issues -- some how that is fascinating to me. What do people think is the line that we shouldn't cross when it comes to violence? Is Kevin's film too much because it is violent? Or because it is lying? Or... jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Chuck Olsen wrote: You find it fascinating - why? I find it tiresome and irresponsible. God, I must be getting old. I used to appreciate a good arty blog prank. The problem is this: Rather than using vlogs to enrich the human experience, and expand our exposure to the range of human experiences, pranks like this numb us to it. It numbs us to real death and real pain, and cheapens it. This sort of prank is worse for the vlogosphere than any advertisement. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering whether to chime in now, or wait and watch this discussion go for a while more. I find it fascinating. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Andy Carvin wrote: Meanwhile, given the fact that you're very uncomfortable with the constant violence on commercial tv, how do you react to Kevin's videos that show such violence towards women? (The eye-gouging piece and the Cronenbergesque surgeon episode come to mind.) Are these expressions of violence inherently better because they're independent and noncommercial, or somehow more authentic expressions of art? andy no - it doesn't matter to me that they are independent or expressions of an underdog -- films like these bug the shit out of me. On good days, I try to facilitate a constructive conversation with students questioning why they want to and do make work like this. On most days, I just retreat overwhelmed by the idea that I'm helping people make shit like this (they white balanced the camera...). Those specific videos of Kevin's he made for another class in a past semester, and the critiques he added to them is what he did for the class I'm teaching. I find the whole situation constantly problematic -- and is one of the reasons I am not going to teach in this setting again. Too many students, not enough time to talk about these issues, deep deep energies circulating that are sexist, racist, homophobic... many of you would not believe how horrible and offensive half the work made around here is. And it's defended in the name of not censoring the students. I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe in discussion. Thinking about all this driving home, I remembered that one of my strategies going into this school year was to make the _audience_ real for the students. To get them to post their films online for a audience of real people. Like chuck said: Needless to say, I felt pretty shitty after I hung up. I became wrapped up in my own prank, my own lie. This guy had an emotional response. I was manipulating his empathy. And that's just not fun. It felt wrong because empathy, I think, is part of our moral core and part our brain chemistry. Once it becomes real that your actions are affecting other people, we all tend to make better choices... I think one reason they make such irresponsible work is that they think it doesn't matter. They think no one is listening and that everything they do is meaningless. They are looking to have an impact / arouse some feelings, any feelings, at any cost -- just to make some kind of difference. I mean, as I type this my neighbors in the apartment below me are coughing like mad, collectively choking on the pot they are smoking. There's a desperation to feel, to break out of the fog they are in, and somehow blood and guts and gore and the subsequent adrenaline reaction is appealing. But I want them to see the consequences of their choices -- and so one of my strategies was to not just let them make work for each other, but to get it out to a real live audience where people outside of their world can react. Praise work that is meaningful and touching. Damn or question work that is irresponsible. So in many ways that's exactly what is happening now. So tell Kevin what you think, question his choices, make him think about them. And maybe he'll make the same choices again, but at least he'll have thought about: what kind of work does he want to make? why? what kind of impact or effect does he want to have?? etc... What I have seen this semester a higher percentage of students making work that they do find meaningful, and a lot of students who are realizing they don't know what they have to say as filmmakers. There is a real loss of meaning and vision. And I don't just see that in my students, I see it in the vlogosphere as well -- only there people are reaching out to the copy-cat model to fill the void. Copy MTV, copy tech tv, copy primetime tv show models, copy mass media economic models. It's the same lack of vision for something jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:34 PM, xicastmedia wrote: Jen, would you mind commenting on what the assignment was and how Mr. Krutz' video tied into that? The assignment was given back in January -- make a videoblog, and post weekly for ten weeks (or more). They could make their vlog about anything, but I did require them to come up with a theme / a plan / a purpose (because otherwise typically students flounder like crazy). Kevin had a plan to do these self-review/ commentaries on films he's made in the past for other classes. Then as time's gone on I've told them to feel free to deviate from the original plan, now that they know what a videoblog is, they've watched a lot of other vloggers, etc. So Kevin's video, well it's a video that was posted to his vlog... so it definitely fit the assignment. You can checkout the videoblogs of Kevin's classmates at: http://teaching.jensimmons.com/videoblogging/spring06 I'm especially proud of the work by: Andrei Litvinov Bethany McKenney Irene Goldstein Dominque Caron and others... If you want to read the assignment and syllabus, those are there too. Soon, I'll post videos of the presentations and research papers on videoblogging that they've done. jen SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: Since I sold my house a few weeks ago, I have been living with my in-laws until new house is ready for us. and they are very catholic and they love and watch every one of those shows!! Why do you think they love them? What's the appeal?? I get that the murder-mystery is a fun genre, because it's like a puzzle to solve at home. Murder She Wrote was very popular, and had the same kind of plot structure -- but nowhere near the level of gratuitous violence. What's the appeal of that same classic story + horrible scenes of torture and destruction of the human body -- usually the female body?? I think there's something really deep going on about repression and religion and this kind of fantasy of the ultimate act of acting out unrepressed. jen YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
I emailed him the URL to the yahoo webpage with the threat. He'll have to subscribe to respond. I'd like him to join in, for sure -- we'll see. Since it's the last week of school he may be way too busy to do anything outside of schoolwork. Any comments to on his blog will for sure get to him, or email him directly at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps he'll digest this conversation more later, once school is out. I'd really like to discuss the matter in the performance / process workshop lab we are participating in together (taught by Ralph Lemon - the one i was talking about earlier.) I've cc'ed Ralph on all this -- we could have the discussion + videotape it and post that! We'll see -- again, time is short 'cause it's the end-of-school crunch time. Classes are all final project presentation days and such these days. We'll definitely talk about it in my videoblogging class next Monday. I actually emailed the entire class and told them to read the listserv thread (are any of you reading this?? email me that you are and I'll give you extra credit :-) jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: Has Kevin been reading this thread? Is he willing to join in on the discussion? That might be a learning opportunity, too. Stan Hirson SPONSORED LINKS Fireant Individual Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
I emailed him the URL to the yahoo webpage with the threat I meant thread -- (what threat would that have been -- no no no) j YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: The Last Hours - Death of a Videoblogger Kevin Krutz
Didn't Nathan Peters eventually really loose his kids? I know he did loose one. And he turned his site into a all-video-porn site -- teasters for free, pay to get more. It definitely seemed like the 'staged' events were blurred with real ones, and that his life was deteriorating into a mess, even though it wasn't quite as bad as it seemed when he was first 'recording' the visits from child protective services and 'documenting' himself sorting coke with his kids at home alone... At what point does the sense of community and closeness that videoblogging creates turn into something real that lasts through a betrayal or crisis? At first Nathan's situation seemed like a real crisis where many people reached out to him to help. Then it seemed he was completely lying, and many people were pissed / dropped his feed, etc. Then after a while it seemed to come out that maybe it wasn't all lies, that he really was loosing his kids and getting too involved with drugs. It makes me think about how I've seen more than one person vlogging who seems mentally ill / unstable -- and yet, unlike an actual friend who lives in the same city with me, I don't have any real connection or investment or way to be there for them. Sometimes I watch, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I comment and hope my handful of words might be helpful. Mostly I just think, wow, that person is manic, or depressed, or a bit off right now. An online friendship / video exchange does not equal a face-to-face friendship. Online connections can turn into face-to-face friendships, as we've all seen over and over. But when the relationship says strictly in the realm of the internet, can it really provide the same kind of support?? So what happens when a vlogger who doesn't have face-to-face connections with the people watching their vlog, uses that space to cry out for help / confess a downward spiral into a mess / to reach out for connections to other people ... it's kind of a weird situation. Video is much more personal, yet it's just a form of electronic communication. It's not really a friendship all on it's own -- is it. Thinking of Nathan makes me wonder about all this. Many of us were all part of that journey of his with him -- and yet we weren't with him, and many of us bailed (with a kind of what-the-fuck?!? I'm out of here) when we realized how much lying was going on. When a person is in your family or is a real friend, we don't bail as quickly or detach as easily. We stick around and give more. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Josh Wolf wrote: Nathan Peters' videoblog was faked to a point, but then actual legal trouble struck him. At some point, the lines between what was really going on and what was staged got very much blurred. Now his site is not online... I don't know what the resolution was. Josh YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] flash or quicktime? Whats better?
Quicktime advantages:
- it looks better
- it plays back better / less stuttering, much better recovery from a slow internet connection
- viewers can drag the playhead back and forth after the movie has downloaded and scrub through the video / land on an exact frame / check out what's going on
- viewers can download it and re-cut the movie / remix it / share it (and videobloggers do this all the time :-)
Flash advantages:
- Most computer already have flash installed. PCs don't ship with the Quicktime Player, so the computer owner has to download it from Apple (for free), and if your viewers are watching on a borrowed computer (like at schools, libraries, internet cafes around the globe, etc) then there's a good chance they can't install quicktime.
- If you want to lock down your movie and prevent almost everyone from copying it (or if you are working for hire and your client demands this ) then flash is the way to do it. (There are ways around this, but most people don't know how.)
- If you want to add interactivity / put the movie into a funky interface, flash has a lot of tools and power to do that — if you know flash. Quicktime can do a lot too, but in my opinion, Flash is much more powerful, flexible and easier to program than a Quicktime movie.
It seems one trend these days is to use Quicktime as the primary file ('cause it's better), and then create a flash version and offer that as an alternative (linked in the same post, listed second so the Quicktime mov is what goes into the feed). Flash has certainly taken off in the last six months as the favorite over Windows Media for the PC-without-Quicktime-Player option. I think the popularity of YouTube GoogleVideo / plus the fact blip.tv will auto-transcode for you is why this is happening. (If you use blip.tv and upload your file there, the computers at blip.tv will make a Flash version for you, also store it there in your account, and you can link to both.) WMV files _really_ stink, in my opinion (as I try to watch them on my Mac, always waiting for buffering, never being able to scroll, fast forward / rewind / pause properly), so I'm glad to see Flash replace WMV.
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On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Jon Rawlinson wrote:
Hi guys,
What do you think is better embedding a flash video file or a quicktime video file?
Can you give me your opinions on both?
Thanks so much!
Cheers,
JON.
The Nata village blog
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Re: [videoblogging] why you now have an error on all your pages
Use this brand new page at Freevlog to avoid the problem: http://freevlog.org/popup/ It uses Javascript, not ActiveX. This fix is only needed for videoblogs that have been using technology to embed the movie into the page. Anyone who's just linking to the movie file isn't affected at all. Most blogs follow the simple freevlog techniques and therefore don't need to worry about this. I'd expect the IE for Mac won't have this problem -- in part because Microsoft isn't developing IE for the Mac anymore. IE 5.5 is the last version, and it's several years old. There won't be any new versions or updates coming out. jen jenSimmons http://www.jensimmons.com On Apr 15, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Ryan Ozawa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/15/06, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a terribly unfortunate e-mail about a new patch that IE is > using to avoid paying royalties to Active-X. This probably effects almost > all videobloggers and may require an update to all of our websites to > keep people from being stopped by a warning sign. Yipe. What code is it that this applies to? The object embed stuff? Is it only IE for Windows, or IE for Mac as well that's affected? I mean, will all browsers eventually have to pay up or turn it off? - -- Ryan HawaiiVog.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050) Comment: http://www.lightfantastic.org/pgp.txt iQA/AwUBREFbHs/o8udD/KcXEQJp3ACff/WQMWFDS3Coq0WK1DCyB694MSAAoOXB wSPa0EnKZm9kxUAQWUsMbA2D =ulZ6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS ▪ Visit your group videoblogging on the web. ▪ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
