I like this idea. I'm even wondering how to make it happen for people's conversations on our site (CrowdAbout.us) Dang...my partner is out of town and probably not going to be available to code things like this for a bit. Was it hard to do? Something we could tell people how to hack themselves? Details!
Oh, and happy vlogiversary! But remember that life is in the smaller moments. Carter http://crowdabout.us/baby --- In [email protected], Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today is my 2 year vlogiversary. I haven't posted nearly enough in > that time, and most of my old stuff is offline. > > I've always wanted to post more inconsequential short moments, to > document cool, beautiful or interesting things as they happen. > > In the end, I just film a lot of moments, and never post them because > I don't want to clutter up my main vlog. Stupid. > > I got a Nokia N93 in January and thought that it would mean I would > film a lot of short Moments and post straight from the phone, but I > kept filming and not posting. More stupid. > > I thought I would try and use videobloggingweek to force me to do > it... but then there are other, longer-form things I also want to do. > > SO ANYWAY, I've only been Twittering for a week or so, but I love its > immediacy and disposability - and a lot of the text moments recorded > there remind me of what I wanted to do with vlogging, and with my N93. > > Seems to me that these video moments belong more on Twitter than they > do on a blog. They're for immediate consumption, and need the > immediacy and disposability and Now-ness of Twitter, rather than > being viewed later via feed or on a blog. > > So I checked it out, and there's a free browser-based tool at http:// > www.twitterfeed.com/ which takes any RSS feed and posts it to Twitter. > > I've set it up so that I can film a short moment on my N93, email it > (via regular wifi) to Blip, then Twitterfeed.com automatically takes > my Blip feed and posts it to Twitter - to http://www.twitter.com/ > twittervlog/ > > The result is a Tweet which contains the post title and a TinyURL to > the Blip video (and, if you want, a description in however many > characters you have left.) > > ALL FREE! ALL AUTOMATIC! ALL THE TIME! > > God damn, I love the web, and all the people that make these things > free. > > Twittervlog is a special video only Twitter account in addition to my > regular one, but you could just set Twitterfeed to post your Feed to > your regular Twitter account. > > Even better, we should set up a Videobloggingweek twitter account > which runs off a feed of all the videobloggingweek videos as they're > posted. I will set this up - which feed should I use? I'm confused > about all the different ways we'll be centrally aggregating the > vbweek videos. Let me know, if you have thoughts or concrete info on > this. > > When I have a moment, I will put my Twittervlog process on the wiki. > > Rupert > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe > http://www.twitter.com/twittervlog > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
