Re: [videoblogging] The Friday Dialup Challenge
My blog Hold My Beer and Watch This! (mortaine.blogspot.com) has quite a few that are fewer than 2 MB, in particular the early ones and more recent ones (Day 1's .mov format, Day 2, Day 3, Day 5, Day 9, Day 38, Day 42, Day 43, and Day 44-- under 1 MB are Day 9, Day 3, and Day 42, as well as the Day 1 .mov file). After Meet the Vloggers, I realized I was letting my vlog entries bloat too much, and I've slimmed things down a lot recently. I gave myself an upper guideline to keep anything embedded below 10 MB, with a goal of 3 MB for most entries; if I have a rare entry that's more than that, I'll post it as an enclosure, but not embed it into the entry (so if you view my vlog at the website, you won't be tearing out your hair while your browser hangs). On 8/4/05, R. Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/5/05, Philip Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to issue a challenge to everyone on this list. You all seem like nice people--I just wish I could actually watch some of your videos. But I'm stuck out here in the woods on a 56K modem and there are only so many megabytes in a day. One might argue that video-over-the-web just isn't for a dialup audience. I know that sounds... cruel? Elitist? Whatever-- it's the barrier-to-entry, and not one that vloggers have a whole lot of control over, like web browser preference. When my husband was working on the Kerbango internet radio, the question came up repeatedly-- what about dialup users? The radio didn't have a phone cord, no modem inside the device at all. What were they going to do for those who didn't have a high-speed internet connection? The answer was pretty obvious-- if you didn't have high speed internet (this was 3-4 years ago), you weren't going to be streaming audio onto anything. Streaming audio, like video today, took too much bandwidth to reasonably download on a dialup. Frustrating for you, perhaps, on dialup, but there you have it. There's a design consideration that the content-producers (the vloggers) aren't going to take too seriously, because the dialup audience is small and getting smaller, not larger. Join the 21st century. Get a high-speed Internet connection, directional wireless, cable/satellite, whatever it takes, if you want to actually watch vlogs. You'll never regret it. Or, upload your own vlogs from within a viewing vacuum in which you post-only and never really get to see what others are doing. I started out that way, not really watching any vlogs until the second week or so, because I wanted to develop my own thing first, and it can be kind of refreshing to not be influenced by others' voices. But it means you'll be in a creative vacuum as well, so unless you have a steady source of inspiration (like I do), you may find yourself floundering for things to say/do. --Stephanie -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mortaine.com 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] The Friday Dialup Challenge
Here's a 1.3 mb lightweight hot off the compressor URL:http://www.24x7.com/blog/2005-08/pizzafridays/ -r -- URL:http://r.24x7.com On Aug 5, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Stephanie Bryant wrote: My blog Hold My Beer and Watch This! (mortaine.blogspot.com) has quite a few that are fewer than 2 MB, in particular the early ones and more recent ones (Day 1's .mov format, Day 2, Day 3, Day 5, Day 9, Day 38, Day 42, Day 43, and Day 44-- under 1 MB are Day 9, Day 3, and Day 42, as well as the Day 1 .mov file). After Meet the Vloggers, I realized I was letting my vlog entries bloat too much, and I've slimmed things down a lot recently. I gave myself an upper guideline to keep anything embedded below 10 MB, with a goal of 3 MB for most entries; if I have a rare entry that's more than that, I'll post it as an enclosure, but not embed it into the entry (so if you view my vlog at the website, you won't be tearing out your hair while your browser hangs). On 8/4/05, R. Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/5/05, Philip Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to issue a challenge to everyone on this list. You all seem like nice people--I just wish I could actually watch some of your videos. But I'm stuck out here in the woods on a 56K modem and there are only so many megabytes in a day. One might argue that video-over-the-web just isn't for a dialup audience. I know that sounds... cruel? Elitist? Whatever-- it's the barrier-to-entry, and not one that vloggers have a whole lot of control over, like web browser preference. When my husband was working on the Kerbango internet radio, the question came up repeatedly-- what about dialup users? The radio didn't have a phone cord, no modem inside the device at all. What were they going to do for those who didn't have a high-speed internet connection? The answer was pretty obvious-- if you didn't have high speed internet (this was 3-4 years ago), you weren't going to be streaming audio onto anything. Streaming audio, like video today, took too much bandwidth to reasonably download on a dialup. Frustrating for you, perhaps, on dialup, but there you have it. There's a design consideration that the content-producers (the vloggers) aren't going to take too seriously, because the dialup audience is small and getting smaller, not larger. Join the 21st century. Get a high-speed Internet connection, directional wireless, cable/satellite, whatever it takes, if you want to actually watch vlogs. You'll never regret it. Or, upload your own vlogs from within a viewing vacuum in which you post-only and never really get to see what others are doing. I started out that way, not really watching any vlogs until the second week or so, because I wanted to develop my own thing first, and it can be kind of refreshing to not be influenced by others' voices. But it means you'll be in a creative vacuum as well, so unless you have a steady source of inspiration (like I do), you may find yourself floundering for things to say/do. --Stephanie -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mortaine.com Yahoo! Groups Links 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] The Friday Dialup Challenge
On 8/5/05, Philip Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to issue a challenge to everyone on this list. You all seem like nice people--I just wish I could actually watch some of your videos. But I'm stuck out here in the woods on a 56K modem and there are only so many megabytes in a day. I am game! FDC? Oh yeah! http://www.dltq.org/?p=547 Best regards, Raymond M. Kristiansen http://dltq.org 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.
