Sorry, I should have included that in the original email. As I said, I'm still experimenting with presentation/quality etc., but these show the basic format.
http://wordpressmodder.org/how-to-add-a-sticky-post-to-a-wordpress-category-archive-page-719.html http://wordpressmodder.org/secondary-html-content-plugin-video-overview-728.html Sincerely, Adam W. Warner http://LearnWebTools.com http://WordPressModder.org My Recommended Web Hosting ________________________________ ________________________________ From: "mich...@rosenblumtv.com" <mich...@rosenblumtv.com> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 9:38:48 AM Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Where to Host Videos Now that My Beloved Blip.tv Doesn't Love Me Anymore Adam Where can I see some of the video tutorials? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Adam Warner <awarne...@yahoo. com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:24:09 To: <videoblogging@ yahoogroups. com> Subject: [videoblogging] Where to Host Videos Now that My Beloved Blip.tv Doesn't Love Me Anymore Hi all, I'm disappointed to learn that Blip.tv is discouraging me from hosting my videos. I'm especially disappointed because I have been using Blip since the beta days (under two accounts). I feel like I've just been kicked in the gut. This email to the group is intended to ask your opinion on whether I should continue with Blip.tv and if not, I would really appreciate your opinions on alternatives for hosting my videos as it relates to my requirements to keep some private and some public. Here are the details. I am developing a new site which will contain a lot of video. While I was poking around in my Blip.tv account I happened across their FAQ and saw something that I wanted to get some further information on before I started hosting hundreds of videos. I sent Blip.tv this message through their contact form: I have a Pro account and have been using it mostly for testing some video tutorials I've been making. The reason (I'm paying) for the Blip Pro account is because of the private feature and the ability to turn off embedding in the player settings. While browsing around in the Dashboard today I came across the content policy and it has me a bit worried as it may relate to my intended usage of Blips service. I hope you can clear things up and advise. My intention is to utilize my Blip account to continue to host my tutorial videos for a learning site in development. The site is named LearnWebTools and is located at http://learnwebtools.com. The site's focus will be to provide video tutorials on various web technologies. My desire is for some of these videos to only be available on this site (ones marked as private), and some to be available to through the show page (ones marked as public) and to take advantage of your video distribution service. I am looking for verification from Blip as to whether or not my intended usage constitutes a "show" in Blip's terms and if not, what steps I would need to take to become compliant. The first reply from Blip Support: Thanks for reaching out. We are a free platform, provided your content meets our terms of service. We are not a good solution for marketing or commercial videos. See our Terms of Service: Prohibited Content section, fourth bullet. You can read this at http://www.blip. tv/tos It looks like you have a really interesting business, and I hope you find a good match for a service provider. Best to you in your endeavors! ***Fourth Bullet of the tos says this*** Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of Blip.tv, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community. Blip.tv may allow the uploading of some such content for a fee, at its sole discretion. Such advertising content may be treated differently than other content (i.e. through indications that it is an advertisement, or exclusion from some indices or searches). I replied with this: I'm not sure I was clear on my intent. My intent is to create a show that showcases my video tutorials. It wouldn't be a show in terms of actors and such, more of a helpful "Reality" show. It is not to market commercial videos. I was asking if this would be considered a "show" under the Blip tos? I really do hope I can continue to use the Blip.tv service. ...and received this response: We're not a good solution for screencasts. If it is determined a tutorial is meant as advertisement for a product the account would be removed. Is it just me, or am I being misunderstood by this support person? If you do a simple search for "tutorials" or better yet "screencasts" , you will see many examples of tutorial screencast shows. Maybe the issue is that I actually asked permission? I'm just so disappointed. I plan to reply to the latest response with some further questioning (and perhaps begging), or maybe someone from Blip will see this and chime in (Mike do you still read these threads?) I welcome your thoughts everyone, and if I'm just plain wrong in my thinking that I should be able to continue using Blip, then so be it. I'll start looking for alternative ways to host my videos. Maybe I should go with the FlowPlayer route and just host my own? Sincerely, Adam W. Warner http://LearnWebTools.com http://WordPressModder.org My Recommended Web Hosting ____________ _________ _________ __ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
