I've been really getting into 12 Seconds over the last few days. Shooting & posting little daily moments that until now, have either gone uncaptured or have sat on a hard drive, forgotten and unusable.
I always thought 12seconds was just a Talking-To-Your-Webcam-Video- Twitter thing. But then last week, I saw some posts by Kath @aliak and Susan @kitykity of mobile moments, and it inspired me. There are lots of simple moments that I capture (or think about capturing) on my phone that haven't seemed substantial enough by themselves to make me want to post them to my blog. I still want to share them, but I don't - for fear that a mass of little throwaway things will drown out the things I've spent more time on, because of the chronological format of the blog. But actually, this kind of instant mobile videoblogging was really what I started Twittervlog for - shooting little things that catch my eye, using my phone, and sending them immediately to the web and to Twitter. So now I'm shooting and emailing to 12seconds straight from my Nokia N82 (either by wifi or 3G phone signal). And I have embedded a 12 seconds player in the sidebar of Twittervlog. So that the 12seconds clips are accessible from the vlog, but aren't superseding the other videos. Every 12seconds user gets their own RSS feed with MP4 and FLV files - so theoretically you could include your 12seconds videos in your blog feed (or easily add them to your Feedburner feed). I might do that. There's an iPhone app, and it integrates with Qik. You can upload from the site, or by email. Or use your webcam. The 12 seconds limit is also quite a good discipline. And you know that whatever you watch there won't be wasting your time! I recommend checking it out. My channel is at: http://12seconds.tv/channel/ruperthowe Rupert http://twittervlog.tv http://twitter.com/ruperthowe
