On 15 Nov 2005, at 15:39, Joshua Seiden wrote: > I set out to start a multimedia blog to explore the idea that when > you present content in a given context, the content itself is > changed when you change the context. And though I was thinking > multimedia, the path of least resistance with the current tools led > me to a video blog. Nothing wrong with that. But it's not a > "multimedia blog."
Yes, indeed, Josh! That's was exactly the point I was trying to make - although I'm not claiming to know what a "multimedia blog" is. At best, I'd say that I'm trying to explore the parameters - in the hope that, out of my experiments, and thos eof others, something coherent takes shape. Like you, I'm here because I want to be aware of the development of blogs with media other than text as the "entry point" to the material. > For example, take a look at my post called "Annotation." <http:// > more3.blogspot.com/2005/11/annotation-roll-um-easy.html> In this > post, I took an MP3 of a song I like, imported it into a movie, and > used the titling capability (of iMovie) to present a textual > commentary about the song that runs as the song plays. Sweet! > It's encoded as video, so of course the search engines have no idea > what's going on in the clip. Another file format would allow the > underlying MP3 to expose it's metadata--when you search for this > song or the band, search engines could find the post. Similarly, > another file format could expose the text in the titles sequences > that I used (as a hack) to provide commentary. And perhaps another format still might give some sense of the synchronisation of the text with the music. Some of the single words you use on-screen would carry far less meaning without the music that's playing at the time they're being displayed. I suppose SMIL was intended for this kind of thing, but it does not seem to have been widely adopted. > The point is that if we were really building a storytelling medium, > we would conceive of the building blocks in a different manner. But > the video blog--as cool as it is--is only secondarily a > storytelling medium. It's early days for all the varieties of the blog format (I read somewhere that, even now, only a small percentage of the population knows what a blog is) and it's my hope that exploring the boundaries of the form may lead to something that does allow us to tell the stories of the future in ways which go beyond the current hype surrounding one form or another. Bests, Christian ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/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/
