Yes, twitter recently released an API... David
On 4/5/07, Mike Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>> > 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] <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>> > 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] <basykes%40gmail.com>> 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
