> > got too busy for a while? > myself, this space, life in general.... yes. :)
dont want to regurgitate through a 3rd round either ;) what's a vlog? sull On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it's interesting that there are half (or less) as many posts here > each month as there were a year ago. > may was amazingly light. combination of Twitter and wikipedia > fatigue, maybe. > maybe a good thing? got too busy for a while? > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv/ > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > On 5 Jul 2007, at 19:47, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > ha. i dont do much ranting here these days.... > > yeah i used to run my own rssfwd server on vlogdir.com. > i worked with the developer to include rss enclosure support (linking to > file in the body of message). > on my version, the link to the video enclosure also included a link > to open > a vlogdir player page, which i was going to make nicer with useful > metadata > and sharing features etc. > > anyway, busy with new things. but the core concept of leveraging > EMAIL for > RSS to me is still very logical, especially if you are a more passive > media > consumer.... where you might watch/listen to media sporadically > throughout > the day, as opposed to having long sessions in Democracy or whatever > else... > a marathon of media consumption. I never have time for that. If I want > media for remixing into other projects, then I might make use of desktop > aggregators. Depends. > > Long Live Email :) > > Sull > > On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org>> > wrote: > > > > Yeah, I'd almost forgotten that I'd heard you evangelize... but it's > > only just sunk in that this is how I want to do it. And I'd also > > forgotten the site you said you used. > > RSSFWD.com > > It's genius. It's so easy. > > It's the future. And the past. All wrapped up together like a great > > big present. > > Thanks, Sull :D > > > > Rupert > > > > > > On 5 Jul 2007, at 18:06, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > I concur and have evangelized rss to email forwarding back when i > > added the > > feature to vlogdir a few years ago. > > I also contrib'ed a section in jay Dedman's "Videoblogging" book > on this > > topic. > > > > Today, I still subscribe to all my feeds via rss to email > forwarding.... > > using rssfwd.com and my gmail account. With Labels and Filters > applied, > > gmail IS my RSS Reader. It never made sense to me to use another web > > service for feeds. > > If I need to download a channel's media locally, I will run > Democracy or > > some other apps. But day to day..... it's all about email. > > > > Sull > > > > On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org><rupert% > 40fatgirlinohio.org>> > > wrote: > > > > > > RSS readers and aggregators are not working as well as they used to > > > for me at the moment. I've subscribed to too much stuff. > > > > > > Most of my viewing at the moment is of things that are hot off the > > > press via links on Twitter or via email subscriptions. > > > > > > And I can't persuade any of my non-geek friends and family to even > > > think about using readers or aggregators. The only thing they > > > understand is email. > > > > > > So I want to shout about Subscribing By Email for a second. > > > > > > I strongly urge anybody who hasn't done so to install a > Subscribe By > > > Email form in their sidebar and feature it prominently alonside the > > > link to your feed. > > > > > > Feedburner provide it in their Publicize section. It looks a bit > big > > > in its original form, but you can strip out the CSS easily and > > > customize it a bit (I have). If you don't use Feedburner, you can > > > get one for your site from Feedblitz. > > > > > > You can always set up rules, filters and folders in your email > > > program to pick up feed emails and put them into a separate folder, > > > to stop them clogging up your inbox, if you're worried about that. > > > And, of course, you can always just delete them. > > > > > > It just *must* be the best way of reaching out to civilians, no? > > > > > > Rupert > > > http://twittervlog.tv/ > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > > > [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] > > > > > > > > [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]
