Verdilicious - Points well taken. I think the blog format isn't for everyone. I've switched one of my three videoblogs back over to standard site because I found I didn't need things like commenting, permalinks, or categories. I use my blip acct to update RSS subscribers on this site. My other two sites that include a big chunk of text and photos along with video in their posts are meant for a blog format.
Like anything I think people should evaluate what they are doing, what they want to do and find the best suitable format. (It would be nice to have a customizable player sort of like wordpress widgets where you can pick and choose what elements are included on your player.) AV --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Michael Verdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaron & Steve - you bring up some good points. I do think options for people > are important and I do like the ability to look through an archive but the > price is that you loose all the other benefits of a blog - permalinks, > comments, context, choice of video size and formats. That player is really > built on the idea that your blip.tv blog is your blog. So it only shows and > links back to your blog posts on blip. Comments? They have to go on the blip > blog (as long as the viewer know to click through to the blip blog to leave > a comment). Plus you have to have the blip hot shows menu. That thing pulls > in stuff completely out of context that you have no control over. Of course > you do have control in that you certainly don't have to use the show player > at all. I just think the blog part of videoblogging is important and > desirable and I feel a little sad when people are so excited about dropping > it. > > - Verdi > > On 4/15/07, Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I put the new blip.tv player on my 'homepage' this morning. > > > > http://www.stevegarfield.com/ > > > > I blogged about it here: > > > > http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/04/blip-video-player.html > > > > In the blog post I say, "vlogs are dead. ;-)" > > > > It's a joke, but also ironic since the reason for initially using > > blogs to post video in the first place was a technical one. > > > > There wasn't any easy way to post video to the web. > > > > Once I figured out that I could put video in a blog post, I got a > > very easy way to publish videos, along with the added benefits of > > that video being included in a blog post. > > > > But that method, over time, introduced the problems of old videos > > getting lost in archives, and not having an easy way to browse > > through videos. > > > > There are a lot of companies now bringing to the market ways to make > > it easy to surf videos and I'm glad that blip.tv has given me a way > > to allow people to browse my archives that are hosted with blip.tv. > > > > --Steve > > > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Steve Garfield > > http://SteveGarfield.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > http://spinxpress.com > http://freevlog.org > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
