Re: [videoblogging] Anyone see this yet? Video subtitling initiative by Mozilla...

2010-04-26 Thread Mike Meiser
Glad to see Miro is still kicking it and staying relevant. I noticed hat they also have conversion for practically any video device. http://lifehacker.com/5510682/miro-video-converter-easily-converts-video-for-your-android-psp-or-apple-device Been awhile since I used it. I also notice Boxee,

Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Meiser
This is not uncommon. It's a splog essentially. Just haven't seen it done in awhile. You're on the right track with DMCA. Don't freak out though... they're not hurting you directly... not like your blog getting infected with a virus, or your domain name being held hostage. (More common and

Re: [videoblogging] VLC making a video editor?

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Meiser
First of all I'm extremely pleased to hear the news. High hopes. That said I was just reading the comments over on DIgg. http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Creators_Of_VLC_Are_Going_To_Release_A_Video_Editor While I absolutely love VLC I have to agree with the commenter that points out that it's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: It was all a lie

2009-10-18 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:43 AM, ~ FluxRostrum fluxrost...@graffiti.netwrote: this sounds like a Net Neutrality End Around to me. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/ Now if you are Google, you might even begin asking Comcast to pay up to connect its

Re: [videoblogging] iPod Nano shoots video

2009-10-02 Thread Mike Meiser
I may be a little out of the loop on small town newspapers but I'd suspect that they're now evolving to be complete well rounded little media companies doing video and audio and even social media and social networking, in addition to their traditional photo and written word. Anything to get their

Re: [videoblogging] iPod Nano shoots video

2009-10-02 Thread Mike Meiser
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: It's strange to me that Nokia is open and Apple is closed, but developers have created many more applications for Apple than Nokia. Being a big fan of Open Source, it's just an example that usability will always win.

Re: [videoblogging] Lomography's Ten Golden Rules

2009-09-21 Thread Mike Meiser
Not to play devils advocate but I got a look at the Cannon EOS 5D Mark II. At only $2500 that thing is a steal. Still, I won't be buying one anytime soon. This is more on topic though. I'm waiting for someone to make digital backs... ccd's to fit old large format cameras. Imagine the

Re: [videoblogging] Lomography's Ten Golden Rules

2009-09-20 Thread Mike Meiser
Awesome to know I'm a lomographer as well. Well, a digital lomographer at least by philosophy. But yes, every single one of those rules are rules I aspire too. I'd even add one. 11) quality doesn't matter... it's not about the HD or megapixels We often get to obsessed wit the quality of our gear

Re: [videoblogging] Lomography's Ten Golden Rules

2009-09-20 Thread Mike Meiser
There is of course some background on Lomography on wikipedia as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomography This reminds me of some other small movements I've seen... the so called cheap camera movement, the cult Jam Cam groups based on a early very crappy quality camera. There is also the

Re: [videoblogging] Lomography's Ten Golden Rules

2009-09-20 Thread Mike Meiser
and create series based off similarities. There are many other lomo groups on flickr, but these are three of the best I see. -Mike On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@mmeiser.comwrote: There is of course some background on Lomography on wikipedia as well. http

[videoblogging] Modding the Canon 5D Mark II

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Meiser
Long time no write, but just because I'm lurking doesn't mean I'm don't love you. ;) For a while now there have been some impressive open source firmware alternatives for a whole range of Canon cameras. These enable all sorts of cool features, many Canon just hadn't thought of. However, being as

Re: [videoblogging] PBS Video - full-length episodes online

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Meiser
Wow, this is fantastic. You're using a hulu type model. I like it. I like it alot. Haven't gotten into the details yet. I hope you'll be encouraging integration with boxee!!?!? I hope also you're providing mediaRSS syndicated data to enable search, general transparency... and of course support

Re: [videoblogging] Plug-ins are like boxy islands of information on a page

2009-04-16 Thread Mike Meiser
Wicked cool. Pardon the bad pun, but this is some outside the box thinking. :) The basic concept here (in case people don't get what's so cool about it), is pulling what were once proprietary features of video formats like Flash and Quicktime and indeed military grade technology out of the video

Re: [videoblogging] Plug-ins are like boxy islands of information on a page

2009-04-16 Thread Mike Meiser
they can be used to control and work with it. This is just one example on a huge new frontier that goes well beyond being able to simply play/ pause control of videos. -Mike On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@mmeiser.com wrote: Wicked cool. Pardon the bad pun

Re: [videoblogging] reality/documentary videoblogs

2009-03-01 Thread Mike Meiser
Shot in the dark, but I've been sort of keeping tabs on The Rest of Everest. http://restofeverest.com/the-film.html Lots of material on their video podcast. You get a really good sense of who the people are, their interests, the economics, the day to day, their backgrounds, etc, etc. Then again,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Meiser
Sad to hear. :( I'm assuming he was running wordpress? I've seen way to many wordpress blogs hacked. The problem is just maintence, you have to keep wordpress constantly up to date to patch security holes. If you don't it will inevitably get hacked. Same goes for all server side open source.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Meiser
. Your unsecured site causes problems for everyone. If you dont change the oil in your car, dont cry when it's eventually sitting dead on the side of the road. David Howell http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@... wrote: Sad

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Meiser
1timstr...@gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: To use your car analogy most people simply take it to the dealer for maintence. There is no dealer for self hosting. Dreamhost nor any other provide that sort

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Josh Leo's site

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Meiser
:10 PM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@mmeiser.com wrote: Sorry Markus, Everyone fears coming home from vacation to find their website burned down. Maybe you can hire a website security company, buy some website insurance or find a website sitter. Seriously though, analogies

[videoblogging] 17 Macbook Pro 2.6 Ghz for sale... Ferrari of portable video editing machines

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Meiser
Howdy All, I don't normally post stuff for sale here except that this is so incredibly on topic. I hope if you're offended you can forgive me. It's that time of year again where my buddy upgrades to the latest greatest macbook. This means last year's model, less than a year old, goes on sale

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 17 Macbook Pro 2.6 Ghz for sale... Ferrari of portable video editing machin

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Meiser
: But the new 17 costs $2799 from Apple, so how can he expect to get $3k for it? What am I missing? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@... wrote: He's hoping to get $3k

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 17 Macbook Pro 2.6 Ghz for sale... Ferrari of portable video editing machin

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Meiser
a laugh at my expense. :) Let this be a lesson on how NOT to sell a macbook. Peace, -Mike On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@mmeiser.comwrote: Aha... umm... I guess I'm a big honking idiot. I failed to realize how cheap the top of the line macbooks were. $2800 isn't

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 17 Macbook Pro 2.6 Ghz for sale... Ferrari of portable video editing machin

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Meiser
to hear what someone with more video experience then I thinks. -Mike On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:41 PM, RANDY MANN themaddm...@gmail.com wrote: ill trade a cannon xl1 for it On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-...@mmeiser.comwrote: fail deal lol I meant to say

Re: [videoblogging] Boxee: open source media player

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Meiser
So, I finally got around to checking out boxee now that that it's in public beta. I like what I see so far. Love it actually... and I haven't even fired up the software. I have a couple questions though. 1) How in the world can it handle netflix streaming?? Netflix streaming uses silverlight.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: For those interested in Open Source video....

2008-12-10 Thread Mike Meiser
Thanks Jay! I'll just be happy when VLC has perfected transcoding videos from any format to any format. In the ability to play any video format VLC and open source are far superior due their ability to skirt hundreds of different incompatible licensing issues. THis also means open source will

[videoblogging] photo cameras that shoot decent video

2008-12-10 Thread Mike Meiser
Howdy all, I've been looking at getting a new carry everywhere / do-it-all camera. I need something that takes non-proprietary batteries (AA) so as not to be caught without juice, that shoots photos primarily but also does decent video. I'm looking at IS (image stabilization), high ISO (1600,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: from david weinberger

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Meiser
I second the surreality of it all. It freaks me out. Things have definitely changed... the potential is amazing, but also scary... I would have never thought in my jadded mind that educated non-special interests / lobbiest would ever be sought out as advisors. It's freaking me out man. ...but

Re: [videoblogging] Free Open Source Video Converter

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Meiser
Sweet news Schlomo. I love Handbrake. FYI. I noticed VLC was also putting in some transcoding options. Although the last time I checked it was still a work in progress VLC can decode and play back the most video formats of any player so it makes sense it could then transcode them all to another

[videoblogging] direct to ipone aggregation

2008-11-21 Thread Mike Meiser
So, It took 2-3 years but we finally have our direct to device aggregation through the iphone. http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/iphone-2-2-firmware-update-available-now/ (check out the last two screen snaps) I assume it does video podcasts as well as video podcasts. Now you don't need to

Re: [videoblogging] Revision 3 cuts back on shows including Epic Fu

2008-10-29 Thread Mike Meiser
Cool. Crowd Funding. http://crowdfunding.pbwiki.com/ http://www.google.com/search?q=crowdfunding I hope it works... would love to see more. -Mike flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2 mmeiser.com/blog On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe its time for some

Re: [videoblogging] Did you see my 82 year old vlogging mom on ABC World News

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Meiser
Millie 08'! Millie goes viral. I haven't kept up enough on the steve and millie. I guess I've been missing the fun. ;) -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your mother is so wonderful! On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Steve Garfield [EMAIL

[videoblogging] the latest on pocket sized projectors

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Meiser
Impromptu guerilla film screenings here we come. http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4269248.html The thing is the size of an ipod, but truth be told it's not bright enough or strong enough for screening anything much larger then your 17 macbook anyway. Not sure what the point

Re: [videoblogging] Re: qik.com, kytetv and Rober Scoble's post on TechCrunch

2008-06-15 Thread Mike Meiser
Followed this on techmeme.com and now here. I haven't had enough time to keep up on Qik and their competitors, so regardless of wether I agree or disagree with Scoble or Steve's posts the important thing for me is that the perspectives are most informative. Thank you both. On Sun, Jun 15, 2008

[videoblogging] streaming video from your iphone with Qik

2008-06-14 Thread Mike Meiser
Just wondered if anyone has seen this yet and if anyone's tried it. http://gizmodo.com/5016004/qik-finally-comes-to-iphone Qik has come out with an app that will let you stream video directly from your iphone. Am guessing at this point it still works only on wifi. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog

Re: [videoblogging] Reggie Watts - Out Of Control (was Re: go to hell)

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Meiser
to see something actually done in that fashion, using a sampler, check out Reggie Watts = http://www.vimeo.com/134034 Out Of Control. Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know what possessed me

Re: [videoblogging] Reggie Watts - Out Of Control (was Re: go to hell)

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Meiser
superb example btw. Happy to watch it again. -Mike On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, saw this when it was posted. The Vimeo crew did some sweet experiments with Reggie. -Mike On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [videoblogging] Video on the iPhone

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Meiser
in Installer.app and dont see it. On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]groups-yahoo-com%40mmeiser.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED]michaelverdi%40gmail.com michaelverdi%40gmail.com

Re: [videoblogging] go to hell

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Meiser
Don't know what possessed me to watch this since I normally only read about 1% of the videoblogging list, but I did. It's decently well done and it says live recording, but I HIGHLY doubt it. I think it's just a shooting technique using prerecorded music. For one thing it's a song from a recorded

Re: [videoblogging] Re: 720 x 400

2008-04-27 Thread Mike Meiser
On Tue, Jan 8, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be interesting Like a way to avoid scaling from 640 or something. I'm not familiar with, say Tivo frams sizes enought to know why 720x400 might be beneficial. That might just be the case... 640 is not

[videoblogging] Video on the iPhone

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Meiser
There was some talk recently about movloging (mobile video blogging) and the iphone, particularly in reference to flickr's new video features. Thought I'd provide an update. When last this came up there had been only some proof of concepts showing that the current iphone was at least capable of

Re: [videoblogging] Video on the iPhone

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Meiser
more then good enough. Better then most phone cams. Very odd about that rotation issue, it's got to be just a pure software issue. -Mike On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was some talk recently about movloging (mobile video blogging

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-14 Thread Mike Meiser
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM, schlomo rabinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My jailbroken iPhone has a video recorder that is really just a proof of concept: it records 5 seconds of video, no audio. Useless, but pretty damn exciting! Yeah, that's the last I heard of it. Would have hoped

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Meiser
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, you can use your email -- Flickr :) I'm doing that thru http://shozu.com Swet. Schweet jan. Looking into shozu.com now. :) As for Flickr, mobile video blogging, and mobile event coverage in general, please

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Meiser
I have to respectfully disagree about it becoming a stock video source even though the demographic does lean toward pro / pro-sumer / amateur enthusiasts. For one thing flickr hasn't become a stock photo source despite it's demographic. I personally think we're talking video twitterings and

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Meiser
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Ryan Ozawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rupert Howe wrote: Inspired by Lumiere videos, I shot a lot of moving snapshots (but with sound). Very short - 15-30 seconds, or at most a minute of nicely framed video of something I would otherwise have snapped as a

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Meiser
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Pat Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: Steve Watkins wrote: Just read about this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a-unique-experience/

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Meiser
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Lisa Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's another media that seems perfect for this 90-second format: audiophotography. I was rather entranced by it a few years ago. http://books.google.com/books?id=wkz3ULUXUmQC It's all about combining sound with photos.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Flickr adds video - max length 90 seconds?

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Meiser
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Rupert Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure they'll extend the length when they iron out the kinks. I'm quite psyched about it. I reckon it'll encourage a bunch of people to use the movie mode on their digital stills cameras. this is THE biggest issue in

Re: [videoblogging] very good videoblogging tool!

2008-04-01 Thread Mike Meiser
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is everyone here like 12? how is this funny? this is retarded.. Just in case not everyone got the joke, I'm not really an asshole... ok, I am, but that's beside the point, the above comment is an excellent example from

Re: [videoblogging] very good videoblogging tool!

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Meiser
is everyone here like 12? how is this funny? this is retarded.. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luckily, the Vlog Comment Generator can help you. Simply choose the type of comment you would like to publish and an appropriate

Re: [videoblogging] very good videoblogging tool!

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Meiser
videos anymore; maybe it'll help you out!:) On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is everyone here like 12? how is this funny? this is retarded.. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog -- Schlomo Rabinowitz http://schlomolog.blogspot.com http://hatfactory.net

[videoblogging] pocket sized projectors, the future of impromptu video blog screenings?

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Meiser
One of my favorite things about pixelodeon was not the set screening room sessions but the widespread use of 17 macbooks for impromptu screening of all manner of videos over beers, at party's or simply gatherings in hotel rooms. It's these shared interactive viewing experiences that really make

Re: [videoblogging] Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)

2008-02-17 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Feb 7, 2008 4:14 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, i forgot one part. here's what Iove to see as a user. --Andreas posts a video on his blog. --we all get excited by it and each post a video on our own blog. This happens without me having typing in a bunch of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Meiser
comments below On Feb 5, 2008 1:33 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the use of cite and rev/rel -- it's meaning that's already defined. cite a rel=enclosure class=comment href=... type=video/...img class=thumbnail src=thumbnail.jpg //a In Response to: a rev=comment

Re: [videoblogging] Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Meiser
Here here. I'm very pleased with where this is headed. I'd like to keep the conversation as open (non-technical) as possible. Where you say media agnostic... I completely agree. It would be cool to have images embeded in the responses as well... and of course audio clips. We could make the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Meiser
On Feb 5, 2008 3:50 PM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm yes. It makes sense to talk about it here, but only if it can be done in a way that encourages wider input. It may b hard at this stage as a working prototype might be a lot clearer to the masses than attempt to put it into

Re: [videoblogging] Conversation Tracking (was: Plugin for Video Comments)

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Meiser
these goals. What I see is a simple need to explore this video trackbacks idea and then to keep making incrimental improvements. -Mike On Feb 5, 2008 3:50 PM, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 3:12 PM, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problem with rel=cite

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Meiser
the mission, but it could be an opportunity to fill a few other gaps in the 'what wecan do without 3rd party hosted services' department. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thumbnails, embeded videos, visual presentation, that' the easy

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-31 Thread Mike Meiser
:22 AM, David Meade meade.dave@ wrote: It's included in wordpress feeds already. - but I dont think it is in blogger feeds On Jan 31, 2008 1:12 AM, Mike Meiser groups-yahoo-com@ wrote: Cool. Example of a comment feed reference from sull's blip feed: http

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

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

Re: [videoblogging] Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
Sweet work David, Jay and everyone who worked on it. Now all we need is 3rd party services, i.e. aggregators and meme trackers to start tracking video comments as well as simply RSS feeds. This has long been one of the biggest failings of aggregators. it' not just about the RSS... it's about

Re: [videoblogging] Re: VlogEurope 2008 date and time suggestion

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
Damn yahoo and google. The vlogeurope url again: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vlogeurope/ Google staight up censors yahoo groups. They're blacklisted from google. Asshole google. http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+groups+vlogeurope And yahoo with their stupid urls. Why not

Re: [videoblogging] Re: VlogEurope 2008 date and time suggestion

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
yahoo... or they're doing it because of the tremendous potential spam I assume yahoo groups gets. But I must shut up, we're so incredibly off topic. Sorry everyone. -Mike Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
/ moves in many different directions. Regards, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sweet work David, Jay and everyone who worked on it. Now all we need is 3rd party services, i.e

Re: [videoblogging] travel vlog email list?

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
I don't know about a mailing list. But I'm always looking for cool new travel vlogs. I have a fairly decent list going here http://www.mefeedia.com/channels/travel/ Please let me know of any that are missing. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Jan 30, 2008 8:16 PM, noel hidalgo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Plugin for Video Comments

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Meiser
, Frank http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sweet work David, Jay and everyone who worked on it. Now all we need is 3rd party services, i.e. aggregators

Re: [videoblogging] Re: VlogEurope 2008 date and time suggestion

2008-01-29 Thread Mike Meiser
Do they allow you to take your own peanuts on american flights? I thought that was outlawed do to potential penut alergy terror? Or are you intending to FedEx yourself? 7 months to figure out how to get to vlog europe. time to start collecting stamps -Mike (bad evil and pointless humor mike)

[videoblogging] iTV now supports direct to device podcast aggregation, no mac needed

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Meiser
I'm wondering if anyone caught this today. Apple not only dropped the price on the iTV to a very reasonable $229 but also (among other things) appears to have added podcast directory browsing and subscribing right in the interface. I watched the tour but apple glossed over the details on

Re: [videoblogging] who's got a good vlog archive?

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Meiser
brilliant :) Both the video and steve's mad skilz in finding it. -Mike On Jan 11, 2008 2:08 PM, Steve Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/20060309095322/http://www.aaronvaldez.com/a-powers_on.mov I viewed source on the fireant page and found the url and plugged it into

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why is YouTube so Damn Sexy?

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Meiser
Youtube is not sexy because of any technical detail. In fact, aesthetically, legally, ethically and in a majority of ways it's just plain ugly. The reason why youtube is sexy is because it delivers on a promise that anyone can have a voice, anyone can matter, and anyone can be a star. -Mike On

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Why is YouTube so Damn Sexy?

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Meiser
Sexy isn't 90's. Web 2.0 is sexy. Sexy is so 2007. Let's hope it dies with 2007. I'm sick of sexy. Sexy jumped the shark when web 2.0 became an aesthetic. Die Sexy. Die. There's a hiaku there. I just don't care to develop it. -Mike On Dec 21, 2007 5:55 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[videoblogging] video on the iphone

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Meiser
For those of you who don't read digg. The geniuses from Monster and Friends have created an iPhone application which can record video up to 45 frames per second. They are still working in the final version, but to give you a taste they have published Drunknbass, a beta which records 5 seconds of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: not your average gear question...

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Meiser
All I can say is watch out for the cheapo cameras. My bro bought my niece a little digital camera that shoots stills and video last Christmas and when the batteries die... which they always do with little kids... it erases the memory. How's that for less then useless. Little kids don't care

Re: [videoblogging] not your average gear question...

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Meiser
I miss my Fisher Price PXL2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000 Actually, I never had one. They were slightly before my time. I miss the idea of them... the stories of them, and all the videos I've seen shot on them by various art school types. I've never actually used one in fact. I will

Re: [videoblogging] not your average gear question...

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Meiser
The flip does fit the bill. Exactly the features I was decribing. Little/ no zoom, simple features, LCD playback, uses AA batteries. It doesn't have much memory, but then 30 minutes for the intro model is probably fine for a kid. I'm suprised it's so expensive though. But then I haven't used

Re: [videoblogging] Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
Well said rupert. On a side note, I just caught an episode of the latest Epic Fu, btw. It's amazing to see how far it progressed. When it started it was trying to hard to aim at a young audience, definitely not for me. Now that it's matured I think it reaches that same audience, but it's also

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
Jan, you're burtal. Mean. Brutal... but thanks for saying it. Someone had to. Just so you know... it's not always true btw... and it'll get better... after it gets worse. It'll probably have to become a complete cliche before we evolve beyond it. Then again, it's already a cheap cliche. Excuse

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
I disagrey respectfully with Tim Street. Promos my butt. Let the content speak for itself. Don't push promos everywhere, syndicate the content everywhere. Making promos for 3 minute shows is backwards. Instead just put the whole thing on youtube... yeah you'll never make a dime through

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
Ok, that was funny John and Richard. I'll give you that. There is some inherent irony in even participating in this thread... I don't know how i got so sucked in... it's not all bad though is it? We're not doing jason any real favors... not giving away any subversive keys to skip having to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want a genuine audience... an audience of makers, participators and creators... like maholo fundamentally needs to survive... you're downplay the overt sexiness of Veronica, and up-play her obvious street cred.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
The problem is not that Clacanis should be paying for such advice. The problem is this industry is so little estabished that there's no one he can call to pay for such advice. Where's the new media consultants section in the yellow pages.. or even online. Most people who could be consultants

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Advice on how to get to 100-250k views a day (quickly)?

2007-11-12 Thread Mike Meiser
in this space, but of course a little sexiness never hurt anyone's numbers. -Mike On 11/12/07, Bill Cammack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want

Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Meiser
On 11/4/07, Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On 11/2/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, what OS are you running on? I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like

Re: [videoblogging] Re: It is official (kinda/sorta): vlog - video blog - vlogging

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Meiser
Nope, Gena you're pretty much right on the money. Subscribe to google news alerts for vlog, videoblog or video podcast and you'll see bullsh*t PR pretty much everyday where clueless marketing people try to attach the buzzwords to some video of something on the net. In reality there's only a

Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks

2007-11-01 Thread Mike Meiser
Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On 10/31/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New update of Miro out. [snip] Sorry, but as long as Miro remains the same piece of BLOATWARE CRAPOLA as its predecessr (Democracy Player), it'll NEVER be on my system (I don't like

[videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks

2007-10-31 Thread Mike Meiser
New update of Miro out. Full details below. Happy to see the Ubuntu Gutsy support and the support for alternate channel guides (such as mefeedia). :) The ability to download individual videos without subscribing to a show is nice too. But what really makes me happy is they've brought the

[videoblogging] video blog, the term of choice

2007-10-31 Thread Mike Meiser
I hadn't thought to check into this in a long while. video blog vs. vlog vs. video podcast Which terms is winning out? http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+podcast%2C+vlog%2C+video+blog%2C+videoblogctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Alternate tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3b6j4u It would appear that

Re: [videoblogging] Re: another argument for Net Neutrality laws

2007-10-26 Thread Mike Meiser
To me this represents why net neutrality laws are so important. http://mmeiser.com/blog/2007/10/comcasts-leaked-talking-points-memo.html Censorship is freaking subtle as all hell. THere's no transparency to it. Your skype stops working or starts acting like crap nothing short of a network

Re: [videoblogging] Re: another argument for Net Neutrality laws

2007-10-26 Thread Mike Meiser
http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Mike Meiser wrote: To me this represents why net neutrality laws are so important. http://mmeiser.com/blog/2007/10/comcasts-leaked-talking-points- memo.html Censorship

Re: [videoblogging] Re:Miro

2007-10-01 Thread Mike Meiser
One line occurs to me as I read through all these. VIDEO WANTS TO BE SOCIAL. I'd challenge the Miro people to make it more SOCIAL of an experience. I think the move AWAY from the permalink button back to the website, and toward obtuse interactive favoriting system is what causes Miro to be so

Re: [videoblogging] Re:Miro

2007-10-01 Thread Mike Meiser
On 9/29/07, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: desktop aggregators are cold. Is that a reference to hot/cold media. Videoblogging is certainly a hot medium. An activator. It is an interesting way to look at it. Because videoblogging does seem to be at odds with desktop aggregators, set top boxes,

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