David - I completely agree with you! Sorta a long, silly conversation in my mind. As I've been reading this thread, I'm thinking to myself "I love Ice Cream... does that mean I have to mention the originator of it whenever I gush its praises?"
I love this list when it's giving advice to videobloggers, talking about new tools, new vlogs, creative ways to do stuff... i kan haz mor uv dat, pleez? David On Jan 14, 2008 4:13 PM, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Lord, Andreas ... > > Rox thanked those who "illuminat[ed] [her] about this art form." > > Who are you to so viscously deride her for that list being incomplete. > Those who illuminated her are not necessarily those you've listed in > some manifesto somewhere. > > Yes mentioning Brittany would have been nice, but you could have said > that in a more appropriate way. > > Do you even bother to learn anything about the people you deride > before you do so? I don't think Rox has a spiteful bone in her body .. > a simple "Nice video, by the way Brittany really deserves a shout out > here as well" would have been all it takes. > > ... and people wonder why the mood/usefulness of this list comes in to > question at times ... geesh ... > > ... here I'll do it for you: > > "Nice video, Rox! I loved the unexpected entrance of Lexi! By the > way, everyone, Brittany has worked really hard along with me at > http://videoblogging.info/lumiere/ and she really deserves a shout out > here as well. Thanks, and keep up the great work everyone!" > > ... geesh. > > On Jan 12, 2008 7:21 PM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <solitude%40solitude.dk>> wrote: > > Rox, > > > > I know the lumiere videos have not been discussed in this group (they > > don't have ads and there's no web 2.0 start-up involved, I guess), but > > it's still not very nice not to give credit where credit is due. Lumiere > > videos have been posted since May/June last year. Since the beginning it > > has been a two-person effort where Brittany and I have been collecting > the > > videos, encouraging people to create the videos and writing our > reasoning > > for pushing these types of videos. That's why both our names are on the > > front page of the website: http://videoblogging.info/ > > > > You may think this is a small mistake and in the amount of letters > missing > > from your email and blogpost it is. At the same time not doing this very > > basic research and thus leaving out the name of half the people behind > the > > project is extremely discouraging to those left out. Over the past 8 > > months Brittany and I have put in a large amount of work handling the > > lumiere videos and acknowledging my work, but not hers, is insulting to > > both of us. > > > > The collection of lumiere videos currently consists of 548 videos from > 78 > > different people. You can jump straight to the videos at > > http://videoblogging.info/lumiere/ If I must say so myself it is an > > amazing repository of creativity. > > > > - Andreas > > > > Den 11.01.2008 kl. 05:17 skrev Roxanne Darling <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]<okekai%40gmail.com> > >: > > > > > A little public gushing here, I hope you all will indulge me. I > learned > > > about Lumiere from Rupert. > > > I finally made one today, and I want to thank you publicly, Rupert, > (and > > > Andreas too) for illuminating me about this art form. > > > > > > > http://www.beachwalks.tv/2008/01/11/beach-walk-567-first-lumiere-for-rupert/ > > > > > > Love, > > > > > > Rox > > > > > > > > -- > > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > > http://www.solitude.dk/ > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
