Re: [videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Irina
congrats!! On 11/23/06, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a wonderful gift on this day. Circles of connections always amaze me and this is fantastic. Congratulations Dierdre and Ryanne. Gena --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Deirdre Straughan

Re: [videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Jan / The Faux Press
Tapped for the Vlog Press Kithttp://del.icio.us/love_detective/vlogpresskit . Whoot! You guys rock. Jan On 11/24/06, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: congrats!! On 11/23/06, Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED]compumavengal%40earthlink.net wrote: What a wonderful gift on this day. Circles of

[videoblogging] Re: disturbing opinions (part 1)

2006-11-24 Thread Michael Schaap
Loaded Pun writes: Forget about Vlogging Â… for popularity An article by Penelope Trunk entitled Thinking of video blogging? You should probably forget it has caused a small stir in the videoblogging group. The automatic response has been that dear Ms. Trunk just doesn't get it. I think she gets

Re: [videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
Thanks, all. So far the effect on traffic to my site is less than impressive, but it's still a nice credential. -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

RE: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal

2006-11-24 Thread Robert Scoble
As someone who used to develop conferences professionally, I really HATED it when people tried to steal my work and my brand name. I wasn't involved in this group back in the Vloggercon days, so I don't know how that was organized. Just saying that the impulse to protect a brand name designed

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal

2006-11-24 Thread Ted Tagami
You want to get the most people there? This event would be inclusive not exclusive. Call it the Midwest Media Summit. Make sure you have a folks from outside of this Yahoo group, and underscore that it is an unconference ala barcamp style. A few corporate sponsors that understand the dynamics of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal/VloggerCon Midwest

2006-11-24 Thread Nox Dineen
Oh Canada! I have to selfishly back this suggestion. We're sort of culturally (sadly, not geographically) halfway between the US and Europe. Except Calgary, where I live. It's like a cowboy theme park. Nox On 11/20/06, Lan Bui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If vloggercon was in the midwest I

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal

2006-11-24 Thread CarLBanks
Heath, Paul, and anyone else interested: I'm still planning an event in Ohio. If we can't do Vloggercon then we'll do something else, but I guarantee that there will be an event in Ohio this year for Vlogging! On 11/19/06, R. Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess people don't get it.

[videoblogging] feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
The quicktime video from this post is not showing up in iTunes http://inspiredhealing.tv/?p=9 One thing we did differently was use Verdi's method of compressing the file to create a mp4 file, so the suffix is mp4 and I'm not sure if that is the problem. The feed is

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal

2006-11-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
FWIW, I am a very active alumna of an international school in India, a large proportion of whose older alumni happen to be in the US/Canada. They therefore have the biggest reunions among themselves, but people from other parts of the world also like to attend. So they move them around from year

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal/VloggerCon Midwest

2006-11-24 Thread Deirdre Straughan
Money spinner? LOL. We had a donation of $2000 from Node 101, which paid for an apartment in Milan to sleep six people for a week (1500 euros) - except they didn't sleep much, what with the high-speed internet access (60 euros) and all-night conversations (no charge). Another variable number

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Michael Verdi
Hey Richard, It looks like the server is not returning the correct mime type for mp4 files. You can try adding a line to your .htaccess file to change that. Since anything with a . at the beginning of the file name is invisible on a mac you'll have to duplicate the file on your server, remove the

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Michael, Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the .htaccess thing with both versions and it didn't seem to work. For the record I have used .htaccess sucessfully in the past for redirecting and also, for the record, using dreamweaver the files with a . do show up, maybe something special about

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Ok ... I've been experimenting more and it appears that the .htaccess file in the inspiredhealing.tv godaddy account does not work for redirects either, so it appears to be something wrong with my use of .htaccess in this account as compred to the other where I got it to work. ... so, well, I

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Michael Verdi
Hmmm, Maybe someone who uses godaddy can chime in here. I'm finding lots of people having trouble getting .htaccess stuff to work with Godaddy. Also it seems they might be caching the .htaccess files and it will take an hour for changes to go live. -Verdi On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Here's the weird thing. All these accounts are on godaddy unix servers. At godaddy you can click on something that forwards a domain so I forward http://makemedia.tv to http://richardhhall.org/makemediatv I set up word press blog inside /makemediatv and I wanted to redirect it so that someone

[videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Michael, Thanks. I was just searching godaddy help and found this: Changes made to an existing .htaccess file will be seen immediately. When a new .htaccess file is created or an existing .htaccess file is deleted, however, these changes will not be seen until the htaccess cache is cleared.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal/VloggerCon Midwest

2006-11-24 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
Den 24.11.2006 kl. 15:26 skrev Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (40 euros' worth of cellphone charges in five days on my phone alone! - I shudder to think of Andreas' roaming charges) Oh, no worries. I'm not going to look at my phone bill - I'm just going to pretend the whole thing

[videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Gromik Tohoku
Dear Ryanne, Great video, but since it was accepted and recommended by National Geographic, and they provide a link to your blog, you might want to remove the word [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$ up as this might not be considered appropriate. Just one cent worth of humble opinion. Nicolas

Re: [videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Markus Sandy
I prefer colorful language to censorship. That makes two cents :) markus On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Gromik Tohoku wrote: Dear Ryanne, Great video, but since it was accepted and recommended by National Geographic, and they provide a link to your blog, you might want to remove the

[videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Casey McKinnon
That's great! Congrats Ryanne and Deirdre. It's funny to read this because I caught a few minutes of a documentary about Angelina Jolie and I've always felt there to be a similarity between Angelina and Ryanne. Anyone else every think of this? Casey --- http://www.galacticast.com/ --- In

[videoblogging] Other community reflections

2006-11-24 Thread mccarty
Regarding that ten-minute montage, I can't compare it in terms of communities but can observe it from the outside as a longtime expatriate in Japan. First, imagine if it were just a podcast: it would have seemed so pointless. I'm not sure, for that matter, what was the point of the video and how

Re: [videoblogging] Re: something to brag about

2006-11-24 Thread Irina
yes, fuck censorship! On 11/24/06, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer colorful language to censorship. That makes two cents :) markus On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Gromik Tohoku wrote: Dear Ryanne, Great video, but since it was accepted and recommended by National

Re: [videoblogging] Re: feed not working Verdi's mp4 method

2006-11-24 Thread WWWhatsup
Is this change documented anywhere at Apple? What changed QT or iPod? Should we go back and re-encode all those earlier 'download' encodes? joly At 09:56 AM 11/24/2006, Michael wrote: Also, Apple recently changed something about what files will play on iPods (again) and there is a optimize

[videoblogging] Thumbnail frame

2006-11-24 Thread Clintus
I'm so glad I found this. My question is, when you upload a video and do not upload your own thumbnail, how does blip's engine choose a frame to use as a thumbnail? Is it at a certain mark? Is it random? Can I keyframe it?A few of my videos thumbnails have had images of me turning my head or

[videoblogging] Web 2.0 - A Conversation with Eric Schmidt

2006-11-24 Thread WWWhatsup
Web 2.0 - A Conversation with Eric Schmidt November 22, 2006 Google CEO Eric Schmidt joins Web 2.0 Summit 2006 program chair John Battelle for a conversation. They talk about Google's recent purchase of YouTube and the importance of video as a format. audio:

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Proposal

2006-11-24 Thread David Meade
On 11/24/06, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe Andreas meant that Ohio is shit to get to from Europe, not that the state itself is shit - it is a simple objective truth that, given connection times, it would take any of us longer to get to the biggest airport in OH than to