> Thanks for the good feedback and input, everyone! And send me links to > any videos for which you'd like to get wider visibility.
That's very cool. You've just taken it from 'they're taking my stuff' to 'how can I get my stuff up there', and you did it without a contest or promotion. I have not thoroughly investigated Ourmedia (soooooooooper slow cel internet connection is killing me!) but am on my way over there right now to check it out. Cheers, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://pawsitivevybe.com/vlog http://pawsitivevybe.com On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:38 PM, JD Lasica wrote: > Just a quick note to let you know that we listen to the community and > put some time into tweaking our UI to make it clear whenever we revlog > a video from elsewhere on the Ourmedia home page. > > Markus Sandy of Outhink's development team dove in and added some new > functionality to our editing tool suite so that whenever we point > offsite to a cool video elsewhere, we have a short bit of text > explaining what this is or why we liked it, along with changes to our > standard wording. It now says "Revlogged From:" and says "Producer's > page" rather than "Member's page." (As before, we don't touch the > media or put it on our servers.) > > We sent a note to United Vloggers last night telling them we featured > one of their clips, and they replied a short time later saying they > were already getting lots of inbound traffic and appreciated the > shoutout. > > We'd like to do this more often in the coming weeks and months, so > that Ourmedia isn't just about media on the Internet Archive's servers > but also about highlighted socially meaningful or creative videos on > other sites as well. One idea is to give users the ability to create > channels or playlists of media regardless of where the media files > actually are hosted. > > NewTeeVee may be posting something about all this in the coming days. > > Thanks for the good feedback and input, everyone! And send me links to > any videos for which you'd like to get wider visibility. > > jd lasica > co-founder, Ourmedia.org > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
