Archives for March 2006
Videoblogging Week 2006!
You may have heard of Videoblogging Week before, well this year is going to be even bigger!
April 3-9, seven days of vlogging. One video a day!
Get involved and get ready to do some serious vlogging!
Be sure to tag your videos with
videobloggingweek2006
Published by Josh Leo on March 31 .
6 Comments.
Say Hello to Online Video Editing!
Have you ever found yourself at a friends house with some footage that needs to be instantly seen by the world but find that your friend has no editing software installed? Have you ever wanted to do a spur-of the moment remix while using the computers at the public library? know someone with a camera who can’t afford editing software? Well this may be a solution to all those problems.
I have stumbled across two services that offer online video editing software for free! Both Eyespot and One True Media allow users to import clips, rearange, trim clips, add music and publish to your blog. This could be a quick and simple way to get people vlogging without needing really any knowledge of editing software. Another nice feature of these services is that you don’t need to worry about compression or hosting, since the video is already online!
I tested both of these services using the stock video and music provided on their sites. Read the rest of the most for my review
(more…)
Published by Josh Leo on March 27 .
9 Comments.
Keep those Vids
Sick of not benig able to save any of those movies from those Flash based sites like Google Video and YouTube? Came across this little website called KeepVid that allows you to easily download and save these clips simply by throwing in the offending URL.
But as easy as it is to download these videos, actually watching them seems a little more dificult (at least to me). It downloads them as .flv and I was not able to watch it at all in vlc media player (as they suggested).
Published by Graham Walker on March 26 .
2 Comments.
Testing Grounds
Deirdre and Devlon and Anne have partnered on a project called “Testing Grounds.” This blog features a growing list list of video-sharing services. (currently 30) The blog offers comparisons of each service and allows visitors to supply their own reviews and comments
“I used the same video (the trailer for my videoblog) throughout, starting from the same WMV version wherever possible, to level the playing field.”
For people who are still deciding how they want to share video on their blog, the Testing Grounds is a valuable resource!
Published by Josh Leo on March 20 .
2 Comments.
New Corespondent: Eric Rice
After hearing Eric talk about his passion for Machinima, animation movies made from video games, I had to get him to join watm and share his passion for this new evolving medium. Eric is a mover and a shaker and has his hands in most media formats online.
Check out the latest article about Eric over at Net-Squared.
Published by Bre Pettis on March 18 .
1 Comment.
Bronx Youth Vlogging at BX21.org
In the Bronx in the 21st century, everyone will be able to be a media producer and channel. I have the honor of mananging a program where dozens of youth in the Bronx are leading the citizens’ media revoloution by putting their vids and audio up on BX21.org. claymation, horror, video game reviews, it’s all there.
Check it out. And be sure to leave a comment. I am really excited about connecting these teens to the greater vlogosphere.
Published by Jonny Goldstein on March 17 .
No Comments.
Vlog Digest with Clark Saturn: Lingual Tip
VlogDigest with Clark Saturn: This time we take a look at a few videoblogs/ podcasts from which you can learn some language skills! Perhaps one of the biggest possibilities for this technology is the expansion and spreading of knowledge, not just entertainment?
Show links:
FrenchPodClass.com with Sebastien
MyGermanClass.com (teledeutsch.blogspot.com)
Learn Japanese! japanese.libsyn.com
MccTV: Mayan Calendar TV
Tschüs! Sayonara! Au revoir!
Published by Clark Saturn on March 17 .
No Comments.
BREAKING BLIP NEWS
Published by Bre Pettis on March 13 .
4 Comments.
Help decide the winner
All of the submissions for the Luz.Camera.Enter Spanish videoblog contest are in, and it’s time to vote for your favorite. The contest closed last Friday, and according to the rules of the contest, the winners will be announced on the 29th of March. So, you better break out your Spanish dictionary and get voting for your favorite video before all the fun is over!
Published by Dennis on March 13 .
No Comments.
Rocketboom Blasts Into A New Era In Advertising
Today with Rocketboom’s episode 349, the rules of advertising have changed forever. Rocketboom has created a new, spellbinding advertising format.
Rocketboom is an entertaining video-blog with a news-format that hundreds of thousands of people download every weekday morning at 9AM EST. I’ve been staying with them as they burn the midnight oil putting the finishing touches on the internet ad that ushers in a new era in advertising. I’ve watched the team of crackerjack media-makers, Andrew Baron, Amanda Congdon, Mario Librandi, and Kevin Chapados edit long into the night putting the finishing touches on their first episode with an advertisement.
It was only a month ago that they sold their first advertisement package on ebay. The highest bidder, an atm company, gets an advertisement put at the end of every Rocketboom for a week. Rocktboom gets complete creative control and retains the creative commons copyright on it and so if their client likes the advertisement and wants to show it on tv, they have to buy !
Today’s one minute advertisement shows up at the end of their 4 minute show and this is no ordinary advertisement. Normal television ads know that they have thirty seconds to get their message across. They have to rely on simple powerful messages that give a one-two punch to the audience’s reptillian brain.
Rocketboom changes all that. Because they are not limited to television’s thirty seconds, they have added subtlety and intruigue and a great narrative story to the advertisements that will make Rocketboom subscribers sit on the edge of their seats waiting for the next days advertisement. When people download Rocketboom every morning, they have the episode on their computer and the Rocketboom team have taken this advantage and scored a touchdown. They made a commercial where the idea is simple, but the story is full of intruiging and subtle details. If you want to get it, you just watch it once, but if you want to really get it, you have to watch it over and over for all the easter eggs and cool details that lie just below the surface.
Rocketboom can track how many times it’s downloaded, but there is no measure for the millions of times that people around the world will watch this commercial over and over again getting new subtle insights into the clever masterminds of Rocketboom’s creative team.
Advertisers, I speak to you when I say that your day has come. You are no longer bound to make your advertisements fit into the square holes of the old media. With video-blog advertisements your world has opened up and the creative possibilities are endless.
Advertisers, the time is now to go forth and find your favorite video-blog and pay creative people to make provoking narrative advertisements that people will watch over and over again. Now is the time to make the investment in video-blogs and internet media, while it is still fresh and the barrier to entry is low and the playing field is wide.
Crossposted by author from I Make Things
Published by Bre Pettis on March 13 .
14 Comments.
