Excellent! I totally agree. Many great vlogs have minimal characterisation & identity in their site design - the character and identity is in the videos. As for content, some of my favourite things that you've done were your mobile video posts, where you just shot moments with your phone. You don't have to try hard to make something - you are very watchable on camera.
I use the Blip playlist player to show my more popular old videos on my Greatest Hits page, and it works really well. It's not even really that necessary to have your own podcast feed - you can use Blip's iTunes feed if you're uploading everything to Blip. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 15-Sep-09, at 3:30 PM, hpbatman7 wrote: > I too have been looking at blip more and more. In fact I think I am > going to totaly revamp my site and just use the blip player and as > Verdi notes below use the blip player as a "visual" archive. I have > also found a few plugin's that help show related posts, and random > posts that I can put in the sidebar to help showcase older video's. > > As I have looked and looked and tried to find a theme that was "me" > I realized that it's not the theme that makes my site, it's me and > my content. People don't visit my site because it looks good, they > visit my site and watch my video's because they know me or are > subscribed to me, etc....it's the content that makes the site "me" I > am always going to have old video's, I will always have video's that > some like and some do not. And seeing as I post fairly often I am > always going to have a new video replacing and old one, etc...I for > one have decided to stop worrying about it and just create, I can > always repost an oldie but a goodie, I can always create a > "showcase" site to show off my favortie video's. I am just going to > focus on what I can do, instead of what I can't.... > > Long life the blog/vlog/multimedia thingy's... > > Heath > http://heathparks.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi > <michaelve...@...> wrote: > > > > We've had a number of discussions about the problems of the blog > > format for videoblogs which mainly centers around the lack of tools > > for discovering old videos. I've been working on a fictional web > > series and thinking about this problem and I find myself using the > > great tools at blip.tv more and more - especially the showplayer and > > playlists. > > > > Here's what I've doing. I found that we've made a number of 5 - 10 > > episode stories so I've made playlists for each of them and > embeded a > > showplayer for each at the top of my archive page. Check it out here > > <http://talkbot.tv/category/season-3/>. For a personal site you may > > not have stories like that but you could make playlists of a special > > group of related posts or maybe a playlist of your favorites and > stick > > them anywhere that makes sense on your site - archive page, about > > page, etc. > > > > -Verdi > > > > -- > > Michael Verdi > > http://milkweedmediadesign.com > > http://michaelverdi.com > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
