Rupert, I've been seriously enjoying your twitter vlog. You'll have to forgive me for just wagering in on this thread if seemingly by random I didn't feel like starting a new thread.
I've long been an outspoken evangelist of mobile vlogging. Theorizing it would enhance the value of vlogging as a means of communications rather than as a means of episodic or entetainment. I do believe everyday communications (that just so happen to be public) is the most important value, the height of vloggings purpose... though many in the outside world are blinded by the flickring bubbling surface of viral videos, cheap laughs and so on. This is not to knock episodic content or viral video... merely to say that vlogging can be SOO much more... that people don't realize. In many ways I've often said videoblogging is ironicly fullfilling on the misplaced hype and promise of the last 30 years of "video telephony" that never materialized. Many are just beginning to realize that syncronous realtime explicit one to many communications is not perhaps ever going to be a mainstream part of video communications... and that maybe, just maybe, asynchronous, one-to-many communications... most easily understood when put in the perspective of photosharing, as on flickr, or simple blogging... perhaps IS the future of the mass use of video in communications. What I see in twitter vlog is nothing less than another step toward the fullfillment of that promise of vlogging. There are dozens of other movlogs, but never have I seen it done so effectively and fluidly. What I like most are that the trappings and cruft of the vlogging interface and aesthetic seem to fall away. Twitter brings this same aspect to blogging by stripping it down to 140 characters... but by bringing videoblogging to the twitter context you've done the same with videoblogging. My question is on process. I see that you're basically going from your Nokia N95, over wifi I presume, to blip.tv to twitter. What I'm wondering about is all the details inbetween? How much if any on camera editing do you do, how hard is it to publish the video? Do you add the video intro on the camera or is it happening as part of the publishing process? Twitter vlog does remind me of Jan of Faux Press's movlogging style... but she seems to be using an older Nokia video phone with only first gen 3gp support and no wifi which seems to pose quite a bit of technical and time constraint which seems to limit the fluidity and easy with which she can communicate with the device. What I'm interested in is workflow. There is both the producing workflow and the consumptive workflow. Right now while the N95 does do aggregation there are as of yet only primitive mobile consumption options. I imagine if I had an N95 I could actually watch your twitter vlog with all my other friends twitterings via wifi... but mobile vlogging will only reach it's full potential when there is a critical mass of both mobile video production and transmition, and mobile consumption. In short... I'm waiting for the day when my mobile phone beeps... and I can flip it open... watch a video from my friend rupert half way around the world in london... and then immediately record a response, click a one click publish button and know within minutes it will be on my twitter or other vlog being enjoyed by my friends wherever they may be. Of course it's about more than video, ultimately it's about communicating fluidly with photo, audio, text, and video... whatever the situation demands... to participate in a fluid near real-time conversation with one's friends. Twitter has started to lead us down the next leg of this path by turning text messaging from and explicit 1:1 and text only medium to a one-to-many model... and allowing through simple urls the inclusion of elements of photo, video and audio. So... I also wonder if anyone has tried doing audio blogigng or photoblogging explicitely with twitter. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 4/3/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I wanted to go look, then come back and write, but I got sucked > into your video mountain never to re-emerge. > Amazing. > And that doggie cam video is great. > Rupert > > Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > > On 3 Apr 2007, at 18:36, schlomo rabinowitz wrote: > > Exactly Bev! > > You have more drive than 90% of us lazy videobloggers! An impressive > collection of videos to be sure. > > Schlomo > http://schlomolog.blogspot.com > http://winkshow.com > http://hatfactory.net > http://evilvlog.com > > On 4/2/07, Bev Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Videoblogging WEEK? Hey, pikers, I have managed to post a video a day > > since > > August of 2005, with very few missed days. Granted, they aren't > all up to > > the standards some of you set, but still I'm rather proud of that > > accomplishment. Not bad for an old lady. > > > > http://basykes.blip.tv/ > > > > I am presently dealing with a broken DV camera, so am back working > with my > > digital, and I'm concentrating right now on interviewing my 87 > year old > > mother and recording stories of her childhood, so there is a lot > of that > > kind of stuff. > > > > But if you don't watch all 552 of the videos on Blip, at least > take a look > > at my favorite, > > > > http://www.blip.tv/file/84092/ > > > > -- > > Bev Sykes > > http://funnytheblog.blogspot.com > > http://funnytheworld.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
