I was just thinking about fixing up my crowdabout.us feed with twitter instead of blip to utilize your cool stuff. I think it should just work with your episode feed. And also with the conversation feed, but that might get more confusing on twitter. maybe not though. i will play a little tomorrow and see. Yours ever the crowdabout fan, Rupert
--- In [email protected], "caroosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 <rupert@> 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] > > >
