Slowly, I’m moving more into the realm of video blogging. This evening, I made a brief clip of Fiona talking about Monsters. I put it up on YouTube, which is where I’ve been putting a lot of my videos. This is in part because the Ned Lamont group there is so strong.

However, friends have been encouraging me to do more with Blip.TV. The complaints about YouTube are that they have some weird legal language about ownership of the videos, they don’t support RSS, video podcasts, or the ability to get the video out in any usable format.

I had tried Blip.TV before with mixed success. It used to require a separate step to create the thumbnail, but it handles that better now. I’m still having problems with its connectivity to my Drupal based site. I also wish they would be a little more accepting of Windows formats. They don’t like ASF files, which is one of the few formats that my primitive tools can generate. I can save things in MPEG-1, which is about twice as big as the ASF format I can use, so I’ll probably just have fairly short videos on BLIP.TV

However, it does work nicely with del.icio.us. It has a nice RSS feed which I’ve subscribed to in Bloglines and with iPodder.

Blip.TV also supports movlogging, and I’ve set it, and Kim’s camera up for that. I’ll give it a test a little bit later.

So, I currently like YouTube for the community, especially Ned supporters, but I’m really liking Blip.TV More updates as I play more.