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Sharing Videos: Part 3
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/27/2005 - 20:57This Thanksgiving, I took a few more videos with my camera. Unfortunately, the camera died part way through. It appears to be the well know 'E18' problem with Canon PowerShots.
Nonetheless, I did get three short videos which I have uploaded to the various video sharing systems. During the uploading, I looked at how often my previous videos were viewed, if comments were added, how they connect to other blogs, to flickr, del.icio.us etc.
Based on this, here are my most recent experiences.
Sharing Videos, part 2
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/15/2005 - 12:15Brett concisely writes, “Amateur writers are a hell of a lot better than amateur videographers.”
I tend to agree with him. The way I’ve put it before, imagine being able to view home anyone’s movies whenever and wherever you want. Personally, I’m not all that interested. However, I know a lot of grandparents that may be really interested in that.
One of the things that I like about text blogs is the commenting, the give and take. Last year, David Weinberger posted this entry about the convention bloggers. I created a video comment in reply, however most of the comments ended up being in text.
Sharing videos
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/13/2005 - 22:12Colin’s class is covering vlogs this week. I haven’t really played with vLogs, but I did recently read TechCrunch’s review of free video sharing sites, so I figured now is a good time to play with them a little bit myself.
As background, I have a Cannon PowerShut S410. It can record very brief video segments. I took a brief video of Fiona and started uploading it to the various sites.
Youtube is the oldest and most established. They convert the videos to Flash and add their watermark to the video. They take a little while to convert the video. They do a nice job of pointing out similar videos based on tags. Perhaps this is the flickr of the vlogs.
Castpost gives a nice URL and is easy to use. In a lot of ways, it feels a bit like blogger.
The Video Divide
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/30/2005 - 09:07The other day, I wrote this blog entry about digital video. Since then, Jock Gill wrote an entry at Greater Democracy about Digital Video and Geoff Fox wrote this entry which also touches on digital video.
Digital Video
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 09/27/2005 - 22:32Today, Jon Lebkowsky writes about Google Video. He didn’t find it very compelling. I didn’t find it very compelling either. In a lot of ways, it seems like it is a lot archive.org.
Jon writes, “I'm waiting for someone smart with a lot of server power to put the jillions of television programs from the ‘golden age’ online.”
This provides an interesting contrast to Grant McCracken’s blog entry today about how the new Disney CEO, “Iger intends to ‘distribute Disney films and TV shows digitally on phones and directly to homes.’”
