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
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http://www.mortaine.com
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