LOL, Well put Verdi. It's definitely a huge improvement. Atleast they've learned something from the success of youtube.
It's atleast a video in a page, witha bookmarkable and referenceable url, not a popout window, or some monolithic "rich media interface" And they've used flash, which improves the experience. Also, the video itself is pretty cool. Just a guy talking to another guy. Lost is any subscription mechanism... anyway, to say, "heh this is cool I'd like to be notified about future pieces like this"... wait I retract that they have an RSS feed of some sort They also have a mechanism for bookmarking the video on NYtimes... so you can find it again, that's cool. Searchability and findability is greatly improved by the fact that it is embeded in a page and their is atleast some accompanying meta information. Just about the only things I see are 1) they're missing is a downloadable, podcastable version of the video. That's not actually that bad. 2) their RSS feeds are contain no enclosures, extremely sparse textual discriptions of the videos, and no media RSS... pretty much not so useful. 3) they fail to acknowlege or encourage embedding their videos in a blog or linking to them directly. Anyway, it's not great, but it's a thousand fold improvement from recent history. All in all... it's not something I'd ever bother to watch though. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 12/26/06, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is amazing! Wow! The NY Times has caught up to where people in this > group were in 2004! > > -Verdi > > On 12/26/06, contactmica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A far cry from where they started earlier this year. > > This one should not be missed: > > > > > http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=7f5f12d1d283eab9a377567c6ee362b6cc76ceb7&rf=bm > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > http://spinxpress.com > http://freevlog.org > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
