Great post, Steve -- thanks for your feedback. Yeah, it kind of seemed to me that a couple of the attendees of that videoconference/chat were a bit nonplussed as to why you didn't post video...To me, it's a bit of elitism on their part, which I've noticed on this list quite a bit. Seems that some members of this group, individually, "don't take kindly to strangers"...
...which is itself all the stranger (pun intended, and the correct phrase would actually be "more strange") since you've been a member of this list for some time and aren't exactly a "stranger" anymore... There are alot of nice/seemingly nice folks on this list, with good intentions. But I also sense a bit of clique-ishness, which has solidified more and more over the past year. Time to start up a new list, perhaps, something fresh and more open to all... Harold still the Podcaster; lost the domain On 3/12/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tipoff, I watched about half an hour of it, hope I got > all the relevent bits. > > Great aim, I might be remembering wrong but I think part of the > original idea of vlogweek was to encourage others to vlog. Quite how > to achieve this is another question, I dont really know how many > lurkers are on this list that are potential vloggers who havent > managed it yet. As someone mentioned in the chat, youtube (and > similar) certainly lowered the ba to being able to put video online. > And Im not sure I can imagine too many vloggers going on youtube and > promoting this idea of videoblog week. I dunno, its something id like > to see, but Im really still unsure of the nature of any seperation > that does exist between the 2 groups. Would vlogweek seem silly to > some youtubers? Are there people who make videos but dont like the > term blog or think of themselves as bloggers? Scratches head and > wonders if youtubers will spontaneously do something similar > themselves, totally independently, at some unknown time. Or maybe not, > maybe every day is vlogday in youtube land. > > Anyway I never really helped with any education/awareness projects > myself, Im unaware of how active the nodes are these days. Off the top > of my head, if you want to make vlogweek alla bout getting new people > to start, some people have to go and promote the week in advance, in > places where people arent so aware of this thing, to focus all efforts > here or even youtube is preaching to the converted a bit. I suppose Id > also love to know some thoughts from any people who used to vlog and > have now stopped for whatever reason, and wheterh vlogweek can help > focus them to return, or just learn what put them off. > > I was mentioned in the chat as somone who doesnt vlog, and I agree > that I was not a good example of the people you are probably trying to > reach. Frankly it pains me that anybody really cares whether I am > vlogging, I did make 3 or 4 videos years ago, maybe it was even for a > vlog-week, I cant remember. One was me saying hello, one was fireant > being shown on a TV monitor (via tv out from graphics card on a pc) > and one was of NASAs world-wind which is an app like google earth. If > I can get myself sorted to make the sorts of vlogs I want to, then I > shall vlog during vlogweek. > > Funnily enough that stuff Enric was playing with in the chat, animated > avatar stuff, is something I thought might help me or anybody else > that suffers from shyness or self-image issues or something, to vlog. > I have pondered for some years as to whether such things built into > mobile phones, could be a saviour of the failed 'video phonecall', > maybe people dont want to be seen like that but wouldnt mind hiding > behind an avatar if it as ggood enough, and was based on live camera > input for facial gestures etc. Its taking a long time for any system > good enough to emerge on the desktop let alone the PC. > > Collaboration also came up and Im fascinated by the subject but I'll > start a new thread on that. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, " > Harold Johnson" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey clowns, > > > > We had a rather excellent videoconference the other day, especially > (in my > > opinion) when we begun talking about how we might be able to help > others to > > begin videoblogging during the upcoming Videoblogging Week 2007: > > > > http://somethingthathappened.com/2007/03/today-i-attended-another.html > > > > Follow the link for more links; jump into the Replay of the > videoconference > > and jump to 18:51 in the recording to see the topic we discussed. > > Essentially, I was thinking that we could come up with a way to assist > > others during our upcoming event. > > > > Harold > > http://videoharold.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
