This group was instrumental in helping to innovate the standards of delivering online video. However, I would argue, most of the conversation on this list had almost nothing to do with content production, it was mostly all tech talk.
Its no longer about what you can do with the tech (e.g. look at me, I have video on my blog and I have enclosures in RSS feeds!), and now its mostly 'bout what you can do with it. Content. Content. Content. On Jun 18, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: > I still read a few messages here every week. And I still see this > as the > best place to come if you're just starting out in web video. The > amount of > expertise here is staggering. I'm actually confident that I could > get a > number of good answers to any problems I run into technically from > this > group. Especially the more hyper-specific issues like which > codec/bitrate/framerate works best for screencapturing animation, or > something like that. > > I haven't spent as much time here socially because of Twitter and > Tumblr. > I'd say 90% of the web video I watch in any given week is sent to > me via one > of those networks. It's a great filter. > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Robert Scoble > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > For me, a few reasons: > > > > > > > > 1. Videoblogging has changed. Many of the practitioners have gone to > > cell > > phones, or streaming video. > > > > 2. The idea of videoblogging never culturally caught on the way text > > blogging did. > > > > 3. There's a lot of other things taking our time up, like Twitter > and > > FriendFeed (a) > > > > 4. (b) Those things are where we now discuss our video problems. > > > > > > > > I still lurk. Generally I'd rather talk about this stuff over on > FriendFeed > > where more of the new media types are hanging out. > > > > > > > > Robert Scoble > > > > Fast Company TV > > > > > > > > > > > > From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Tom > > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:37 PM > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [videoblogging] Decline in posts to this group. > > > > > > > > I've noticed that I don't get as much email from this group that I > > use to, so being really bored tonight I looked at the home page for > > this group to check on the number of posts. Seeing a large decline > > in posts over the last year, and being too much of a geek, I decided > > to plot the posts vs. months in a spreadsheet and graph it. The > > graph is at: http://tinyurl.com/5jcwgo > > > > Our monthly posts are now at the same level they were when the group > > started four years ago. So, a few questions come to mind: > > > > Are people vlogging more, but posting less? > > Are people leaving the group? > > Like me, have you become a lurker, not a poster? > > Did you loose interest in vlogging? > > Or, just don't have the time to keep it up? > > > > I started off all gung-ho a few years ago, but with family > > obligations, job, etc. just don't have the time to vlog these days. > > > > Just a few thoughts. > > > > All the best, > > Tom aka Irish Hermit > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
