Wow, that's a complex chain of events Rupert, but once it's set up it sounds very simple to use.
I can't believe you run if through blogger on top of everything else. I hope blip fixes whatever problem there was so you can go directly from blip to twitter. I'm suprised that you're able to add the intro and outro right on the phone. Supercool. I can't imagine how the editing process works, got to get my hands on one of those n95's. I was hoping... actually thinking that blip had already implimented an automated system whereby an intro and outro could automatically be added to incoming videos via mail, and that blip already had twitter cross posting. Maybe that's something in the near future at blip... cross posting to twitter. I haven't checked into it but I wonder if twitter has an API... might be great for cross posting photos to from flickr so you can mobile photoblog through flickr to twitter as well. Then there's audioblogging. I don't think blogger does call in audioblogging anymore, but I believe eric rices hipcast and a few other services do. The idea being that it'd be like calling in and leaving a voice mail, but once posted to twitter if can not only be listened to by any friend via mobile but also the web. -Mike On 4/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Bill and Mike! And everyone else who has commented and got > involved. It's SO MUCH FUN. > > I am suddenly out of time to reply as fully as I want to, sneaking > time on the computer in the kitchen while pretending to make > dinner... :) > > The frequency of my text and video twittering has been hit today by > work and Kate returning from holiday... but hopefully I'll get back > on song tomorrow. She totally doesn't get why on earth I would want > to do this, and glazes over when I enthuse to her - so I thought it'd > be fun to ask people from the community to explain to her why it's > cool, since y'all are the reason. So if you fancy dropping her a > line here or via the twittervlog comments section, I think it'd go > down well.... or not ;) > > As far as what you said Mike, I'm totally with you. As always, you > put into words what I can't. > > And being as brief as I can, the workflow is that I film and edit in > the phone, then send by email, using my home or café wifi to Blip's > mobile upload. They then automatically crosspost to my Blogger > blog. The feed from that then goes to feeds.feedburner.com/ > twittervlog/ Then a free online service called twitterfeed.com > automatically checks my feedburner feed updates and sends them to > twitter. > > The phone will make titles, but not very beautifully, so I made a 2 > second start and end title in iMovie, compressed to MP4 and > bluetoothed it over to the phone. Now I just add them in the in- > phone editor. Which gets better the more you use it, but is pretty > far from FCP! > > Ideally, I'd like to have done the publishing without the Blogger > step, just Blip, but there was a boring technical problem with > twitterfeed and twitteriffic (the mac desktop reader) not encoding > the Blip feed. Won't go into it - suffice to say that with the > amazing Charles Hope at Blip we figured out to use RSS2Twitter.com > instead of twitterfeed.com - which is what he now uses for his > vlogweek2007 updates (what a service!) But by that time I'd set the > whole thing up to run with Blogger, so I thought I might as well keep > it that way. > > OH NO, the dinner. Help! I should be vlogging this :) > > ...and help me convert kate! > > Rupert > > Twittervlogging during Videoblogging Week 2007: > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ > http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > On 5 Apr 2007, at 14:57, Mike Meiser wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
