Thanks Mike, I appreciate the advice from the source! andy
--- In [email protected], "Mike Hudack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andy, > > I would definitely suggest having separate blip accounts for each of > your vlogs. The way blip is designed, it's best to have one account per > show. > > Yours, > > Mike > Blip.tv > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andydragt > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player > > Can I just ask a clarifying question... > > It's seems like conventional wisdom has recommended against using a > seperate blip account for each vlog. However, with the new show > player, it makes sense to have your content in seperate accounts. > Otherwise it's pretty much useless. > > Heres the question: Is this "two weeks" comment about a solution to > this problem or should I begin to seperate my content into different > accounts so I have the option of using the player on one of my sites? > > Am I right in understanding the "best practice" has been to have only > one account and cross-post to different blogs? > > thanks all, > > Andy Dragt > > www.developinggr.com - a vlog about development in GR, MI > www.developinggr.com/house - a vlog about my home renovation... > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Mike Hudack" <mike@> wrote: > > > > Two weeks. :) > > > > Yours, > > > > Mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattfeldman78 > > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:36 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone found a way to control the order of the episodes within the > > player? Is this something that Blip is planning on offering? > > > > > > -Matt > > http://neovids.tv > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Michael Verdi" <michael@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Yes - point taken about it not being a replacement. It's also good > for > > > things like user profiles on various social networks. > > > - Verdi > > > > > > On 4/16/07, Bill Cammack <BillCammack@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > "Steve Watkins" <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Offering both makes a lot of sense to me. I dream of this stuff > > being > > > > > pushed to the extreme and for it to be possible for a blog like > > > > > experience to be completely available from within a flash > player. > > > > > Complexities quickly arise when the people providing the player > > are > > > > > hosting your videos, but are not responsible for the rest of > your > > > > > blog, it leads to an understandable focus on the video hosting > > page > > > > > rather than your blog page. This may not be considered a probem > > > > > because the expectation may be that you embed their player in > your > > > > > site, and your site provides all the other bloggy stuff you > > want. But > > > > > this doesnt cover scenarios where our show player may be > embedded > > on > > > > > another site or used as a widget. > > > > > > > > > > I see the guide button is optional, and its easy to rebrand the > > player > > > > > so that its got your own site in the bottom right hand corner, > > which > > > > > is a clickable link pointing to the URL of your choice. > > > > > > > > Thanks for mentioning that. I had those pointing to the blip > shows, > > > > basically by default, but I've switched them now so that they > point > > to > > > > the blogs for the shows instead of the blip pages. > > > > > > > > This helps out the permalink situation A LITTLE BIT, but it still > > > > takes the viewer to the most recent post in the blog. The only > thing > > > > that seems to update with the individual video is if you click > > "guide" > > > > and then "read more about this on blip.tv", which takes you to the > > > > individual video's page on blip. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bill C. > > > > BillCammack.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > Id love to see the creative commons stuff thats been requested > > in the > > > > > past, be rolled out into this show player in the future, whether > > it be > > > > > through a little cc icon on the bottom bar of the player, or the > > > > > inclusion of this info in the popup 'about this episode' tab. > > > > > > > > > > I agree about the font size, hmm this stuff starts to get a bit > > > > > tricky, a big decision to break away from the player being > > 320x240. I > > > > > see that Veoh's player is rather large now, but this makes it > look > > > > > quite good and leaves more room for additional info overlays to > be > > > > > displayed in a larger font. Some other services have really wide > > > > > players with separate episode bars to one side of the video. > > > > > > > > > > Personally Im fascinated by the idea of a flash player for > > wordpress > > > > > that can display the entire blog, text video etc, in the flash > > player. > > > > > I was looking at WPF/E but I think I'll ignore that technology > for > > > > > now, and go buymyself a copy of flash and join the fun. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > "Mike Hudack" <mike@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > > > > > > > For some people the blog format is really important. > > Cross-posting, > > > > > > copy & paste and everything else we've built to support the > blog > > > > format > > > > > > aren't going away. We're going to keep those features, and > we're > > > > going > > > > > > to keep improving them. It's just that the blog format isn't > > > > right for > > > > > > everyone. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: [email protected] > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > > > > [mailto:[email protected]<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>] > > > > On Behalf Of Michael Verdi > > > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:09 PM > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] New blip.tv show player > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 <steve@> 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links >
