I feel its likely that the non-enclosure feed and popup stuff is part of ABC business strategy rather than technical boob.
I would think the lack of enclosures reflects a desire to control distribution, ensure adverts are watched, and monitor viewing figures. The popup gives all the video on the site the same technical backend and frontend. It allows them to squeeze in another ad banner, and providae linkage to all the other video sections they have. It enables them to not have to think too hard about what impact the video will have on the rest of the main site pages. I think it will be hard to get them to change most of this, unless they change their online video strategy in general. Do ABC currently do any true podcasts/video podcasts at all, in the true downloadable sense? >From a technical standpoint they could slightly reduce the hideousness of using popups if they used a 'virtual popup' which is something that looks like a popup window but actually is part of the main page, so it doesnt get blocked by popup-blockers or cause a mess by opening more actual windows on the viewers computer. Same tech as lightbox/thinbox etc use, eg the excellent vPip can work in a thinbox mode (for example click the 'play in thickbox link on this page: http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/ ) But I still think the adverts are far more annoying, although I was unlucky as the first tiem I watched it was a hideous animated ad banner that jiggled at the bottom the whoe time and distracts the eye from the video portion of the screen. I havent really checked out whether feedback/comments etc are going to be a weaker experience for your ABC viewers than it was for your rocketboom viewers back in the day. at least ABC are promoting the idea of viewer feedback via video to some extent. Its quite interesting to me in that you are the first 'new media' person I have seen cross over into an area of mainstream media where they are trying to adapt to what new media has been doing for years. Your experiences with how creative control issues, as well as technical limitations imposed from above, pan out will determine just how much both you and your viewers will get to enjoy this experienced. Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Amanda Congdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Jez, > > We will definitely have a subscription option. Right now they have one, but it doesn't > support enclosures. This is my #1 priority. > > Oh, and Adam, you are right. You don't know me. And it's clear you don't Andrew very well > either. Interesting that you automatically take what he says as fact. Maybe because I'm just > a dumb blonde. > > I'm with Josh. The lawyers will unearth the truth in the end. > > > --- In [email protected], "Jeremy Rayner" <jeremy.rayner@> wrote: > > > > Good to see you on techie topics again Amanda, any chance > > the RSS feed could be fixed so that I can subscribe with fireant > > (Error parsing channel feed http://blogs.abcnews.com/amanda/index.rdf ) > > > > Ciao > > > > Jez. > > http://jez.blip.tv > > -- > > Groovy Engineer > > http://javanicus.com/blog2 > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
