Archives for October 2005
November is Remix month at we Are the Media
Remix culture comes to film at the Internet Archive:
“You are warmly encouraged to download, use and reproduce these films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. You are also warmly encouraged to share, exchange, redistribute, transfer and copy these films, and especially encouraged to do so for free,” according to the Archives’ website. “Any derivative works that you produce using these films are yours to perform, publish, reproduce, sell, or distribute in any way you wish without any limitations.”
Download and remix to your heart’s content.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive.
Published by Steve Garfield on October 30 .
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Towards A Literacy of Cooperation
Bre Pettis declared “collaboration” the word of the month and I ran into some great videos that fit the theme perfectly. Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs helped organize a series of lectures on cooperative studies earlier this year through Stanford University and the Institute for the Future. Video recordings of several of the lectures in the series titled “Towards a Literacy of Cooperation” are available on the Internet Archive and may be of interest videobloggers and others interested in all forms of collaboration. Click here or on the picture to view an excerpt from this great series of lectures on cooperation, social networking, community building and collaboration. In the clip, Rheingold explains how we have been telling a story of competition for many years, but have the chance to tell a new story that empahsizes the importance of cooperation. There are many excellant speakers in the series, including Ross Mayfield of SocialText Wiki and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. Even Darwin’s writings on survial of the species is examined to see how he viewed the roles of cooperation and competition. Did Darwin get it wrong? The answer is as surprising as it is interesting.
Published by Markus Sandy on October 30 .
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An Outsider’s Opinion of Videoblogging
As a videoblogger I’ve often wondered what others think this new wave of media. I’ve always been of the opinion that videoblogging is the next big thing. I’m ecstatic about new forms of independent media. Other videobloggers share my opinions. But are our views skewed since
we are a part of this revolution? I asked Jared Lunkenheimer, a college student who does not videoblog, some of his opinions.
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Published by Bre Pettis on October 30 .
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Halloween Videoblog Festival
The season is right, the ghouls and goblins are making mischief, and so are video bloggers. Zadi has started compiling a nice collection of all the spooky, eery, or Halloween-themed videos from the vlogosphere in a Halloween Videoblog Festival. So put on a costume, grab a bag of candy and go trick-or-treating from vlog to vlog.
Published by Josh Leo on October 30 .
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Vlogs on TV with NewsGator Media Center Edition
Looks like you can now watch vlogs on TV after installing NewsGator Media Center Edition:
“Designed for machines running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 or SnapStream Spotlight, NewsGator Media Center Edition will display your selected content from syndicated RSS and Atom content feeds on your TV. The interface is designed for across-the-room use with the remote control. And this goes beyond just text content - audio and video-enhanced feeds are fully supported, truly delivering video on demand to subscribers.”
Published by Steve Garfield on October 29 .
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Scrubs Video Blog?
The TV show Scrubs now has a video blog.
The only problem is that it doesn’t have permalinks, comments are not enabled, posts are not in reverse chronological order, and there isn’t an RSS 2.0 feed with media enclosures to subscribe to.
One other small thing that bothers me. They call each post a video blog. Each post is not a video blog, it’s a video blog post. Well, it is a video blog post if it was in a video blog, which these posts are not. They are just video on a web page.
Oh, and one more thing. When you click over to watch the video, on a Mac, you are prompted to download a 65 MB file to watch the 320 x 240 QuickTime version. Oh my!
Cross posted from Steve Garfield’s Off On A Tangent: Daily weblog on pop culture and technology.
Published by Steve Garfield on October 28 .
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Easy conversion to your vPod
Want a nice easy way to convert any of your movie files and make them Vpod enabled or don’t like getting into the guts of Quicktime Pro? Podner from Spasm software will do the trick. It even supports AVI conversion. Movies can be converted to .mp4 or that crazy new .m4v format. A cool feature is that your movies will end up in a special iTunes playlist so they can synch up to you iPod for automatic downloading.
Best news of all for Vloggers is that as long as you keep your files under 2.5 minutes it is free.
On the flip side, it is a Mac only product right now. It also seems to load your movies into the “unknown folder” in iTunes (even when I tried a file that included meta data). And hopefully, future updates will include batch processing so you can convert multiple movies all at once.
I just got a vPod so this little app will find a lot of uses.
Published by Graham Walker on October 27 .
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Stats for your Vlog
So you signed up for a free blog account at Blogger. You got free hosting at Ourmedia, and now you want to be able to track your stats for free too. No problem.
Sign up for a Statcounter.com account and you can see some pretty cool info about the people visiting your vlog. The only catch is that it just tracks the last 100 visitors (you have to use the pay service to get more), but if your vlog is just starting out it might be all you need to get a little bit of insight into where your traffic is coming from, what pages are popular, and how long people stay at your site. I find it a great way to simply track referal sites so I know which sites are generating traffic my way. Set up is really easy too.
Published by Graham Walker on October 27 .
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150 Bronx Teens Will Learn to Vlog
Published by Jonny Goldstein on October 27 .
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Typepad Focuses on Video
Recently, Six Apart, Inc., the owners of such blog publishing tools as Typepad (used and loved by yours truly) and Livejournal, has partnered up with internet start-up New Haven, CT based VideoEgg to make publishing video media as easy as the click of a record button.
If you’re a Typepad user, you now have the opportunity to visit typepad.videoegg.com, log in as you would at Typepad.com, and upload video that will be saved to your Typepad vlog. The interface is set-up just like the normal Typepad interface, except there are several options on how you can import video directly into your post. VideoEgg software accomodates uploading of videos from your computer’s harddrive, directly from an attached video source, a webcam, or a mobile device.
Currently VideoEgg is in it’s beta testing phases which means a couple of things. One - PC users only (sorry guys!). Two - in their own words, “While there’s no technical limit to the length of video the Publisher can post, long videos are expensive to store and stream.” That means no videos over two minutes until they figure out how to pay for bandwith.
Overall, the program itself seems to work well, especially if you aren’t interested in storing your videos on large public archives. It took about 3 minutes to completely upload a 1min. 47sec. movie clip. Not bad at all. VideoEgg has a great deal of potential, and I look forward to seeing it grow.
For more specific information, check out the VideoEgg FAQ.
Published by Tim on October 26 .
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