hi mike, good idea! that's just the kind of community endeavor i was thinking of - something concentrated and experimental. nice.
anne --- In [email protected], "Michael Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for what its worth, i have this list of things i want to do and offer... > around the vlogdir project. > now granted, being just a single person with no 'team' i only get to an item > every once in a while.... sometimes i spontaneously do something that was > never on my list ;-) like changing the UI this month. > > one of my agendas, as per the email i forwarded from July (see what i mean!) > back to the list regarding a vlog host fund, was to do basically what you > are suggesting. > ironically enough, this month i am finally moving to a dedicated server to > host vlogdir.com and a few other related projects that I am working on. > > i have not refrshed my ideas on this much, but i think i will go ahead and > offer it to a limited group of vloggers at first and see how it goes. maybe > we can all benefit. > > vlogdir will be hosted on same service as rocketboom... which is > datagram.com. see this: > http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2005/10/rb_05_oct_05.html > > if i host media/blogs/sites for vloggers, i wouldnt expect the collective to > pay the entire expense of course.... only a fraction and much would depend > on additional costs of bandwidth incurred (but that would be at my cost, not > anyone elses). > you would have a subdomain on vlogdir.com and optionally your own domain > (new or transferred). > i'd also offer several media and publishing management tools that you could > optionally take advantage of. > > not looking to be a blip.tv.... or any other similar service.... so it would > be phases... maybe, depending on interest, 10-15 videoblogs at a time, see > how it goes... then open up the offer again etcetera. this isnt about > vlogdir competing or being compared to other hosting services... > this is a concentrated vlog community experiment.... and i usppose it would > become a sub-network of vloggers. > > i didnt plan to talk about this until i had a more formal offering.... but > whatever. > > if interested, further discussions can be had over on the vlogdir-users > group: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vlogdir-users/ > > cheers. > > sull > > On 2/18/06, Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hi all. lurker here... > > > > i have been reading this thread with interest. > > > > could not a group of like minded vloggers get a host with lots of > > bandwidth that they each pay into and name a domain. then, the main > > domain could be used to list the contributing videoblogs and maybe a > > blurb about them (how about a most recent upload from each of them > > too?) then, each of them would have a subdomain off of the main one > > that they could use as their own videoblog. > > > > eg: coolvids.com (intro to the project and it's participants) > > > > ed.coolvids.com > > vic.coolvids.com > > sandy.coolvids.com....etc. > > > > each subdomain should be able to track their own stats, etc, shouldn't > > they? i'm not a technical person by any means. i don't know how many > > subdomains are allowed, etc. is there a limit or does it depend on the > > package? > > > > ...unless you're talking about something that encompasses many > > participants. then i would think that a paid service would be better. > > > > i would be very interested in seeing small groups of compatible > > videoblogs working together, however. i think it would be much more > > successful that way. > > > > anne > > > > --- In [email protected], "davecircumnavigator" > > <david@> wrote: > > > > > > I'll noodle it and post again. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <jay.dedman@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Since videobloggers have high bandwidth requirements and ISPs give > > > > > discounts for planned large bandwidth consumption, would anyone be > > > > > interested in a server cooperative where we negotiate as a group > > > for > > > > > server space and bandwidth? Has this been tried on this group? > > > If > > > > > every member of this group is paying a monthly basic web hosting > > > fee of > > > > > $5, that's almost $10,000 a month and that buys A LOT of > > > bandwidth. > > > > > > > > good idea Dave. > > > > this was briught up a long time ago...but never acted on. > > > > > > > > can you come up with some scenarios and workflow? > > > > if we had a target to shoot for...itll be easier to get people to > > > jump on board. > > > > > > > > How much storage for each person? > > > > how much bandwdith? > > > > how would stats work? > > > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Adventures in Videoblogging > > > > <http://www.momentshowing.net> > > > > <http://FireAnt.tv> > > > > <http://node101.org> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > - - - - > Sull > http://vlogdir.com > Yahoo! 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