On 01/02/2008, at 4:28 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > I think the biggest challenge is getting creators to actually make > video comments. > Youtube has the only video commenting system Ive really seen used. > Most times though, people are just linking to their own videos so they > can ride out the popularity of someone else's video. > Youtube is the the city wall where everyone wheatpastes their flyers.
I know some here are unfamiliar with my short tempered rants on this particular subject, but Jay is 100% on the money. The web works by its porousness and permeability. Small bits and the rest of it. Video still flies in the face of this. Sorry for dot points, I'm supposed to be working for my employer at the moment.... 1. why can't I use QT plugin to copy and paste a part of your video into my QT player? (just as I can copy text straight out of a web browser). 2. why treat video as little closed media objects online? 3. for example if you have a credit sequence, but I quote the middle of your video, what point is your credit sequence? 4. we do this with text every day. just look at what my email client has done with Jay's email as an everyday matter of course: quoted it, changed it tyopographically to indicate this, and let me add to it. It retains his name, and clearly indicates that some of the text here comes from somewhere else. I still haven't seen much that does this for video. 5. blogs solved all of this for online writing with permalinks, a post structure, trackback. I don't think much of comments. They seem old skool to me. I know I love to get 'em, but that's just vanity. Comments are aggregating others views to my own identity, I much prefer people to write something in their blog and link to me - so I rate trackbacks way above comments (which is why every now and then over 8 years I've had comments on, comments off, etc). So while video comments are interesting, I think a much more interesting (and harder thing) to do would be to quote some of your video in my video and for your video or video blog post, to know about this (video trackback) so it is as much of an almost palimpsest (wrong word but suggestive) as a good blog with its quotes, links out, links in, etc... cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
