Gnomedex in 1 Week!
Posted: June 16, 2005 Filed under: Gnomedex 1 Comment »Gnomedex is in 1 week! See you there!
On another note, Vloggercue, formerly known as Summer of Vlog, is gearing up for multiple meetups across the country that we’re going to tie together via a Flashmeeting. Mel and I will be at the New York meetup, staying a Adam Quirk’s. Gnomedex and Vloggercue within two weeks of each other! My brain is going into overload from excitement!
links for 2005-06-16
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a UNIX OS written in javascript. Awesome! Need to check out the code sometime.
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Links to various ideas about what Web 2.0 is
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Class talk by Tim O’Reilly on the network as the computer
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Another promo from Eric Rice. Awesome. How does he do it?
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Citizen Journalism at its best. Steve Garfield at the US Army’s birthday celebration in Boston. I can respect the protestor’s motivations, but it certainly seems like they would have better things to do on a weekday…
links for 2005-06-15
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Patch to add hooks to WordPress RSS feeds. Essential for my media RSS plugin that I need to write.
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Original page of the WordPress patch. Wonder why these guys are so damn unresponsive? The bug page has absolutely no feedback. Need to talk to Matt at Gnomedex.
Google Video Search
Posted: June 14, 2005 Filed under: New Media 1 Comment »The real news behind Google’s video upload program is here. Appears they’re only going to offer snippets of the video you upload to return as search results, unless you want to enter into a pay-for-play agreement to host your video. This would mean your subscribers pay to watch your videos and Google takes their cut.
A good quote:
“The ultimate endgame is streaming video, otherwise Google can’t get video advertising dollars,” said one source. “They have to figure a way to get video into their world to capture those dollars.”
When are people going to get it through their skulls that streaming video is not it? Besides the poor experience generally offered by streaming video (due to a lack of QoS deployed on the Internet), people like to be able to take stuff off-line.
Another good line:
Unlike Yahoo, which already has submission deals with companies such as Reuters, Google will avoid mining the Internet for video clips and will use only video clips that have been submitted by their producers.
What kind of strategy is this for a search company? They’re not going to mine the Internet? Isn’t that their business? I’m not all that interested in uploading my video to Google when it’s already being made freely available from my website. This leads into yet another quote which totally blew me away:
Eventually, Google plans to leapfrog its competitors by creating a “walled garden” of video content hosted on its servers. The content will originate both from independent and A-list video producers, sources say. That way, Google can eventually sell access and video advertising, or online commercials.
Google plans to leapfrog its competitors by becoming a video portal? Is that what they’re saying? So the company that destroyed the portal plans to beat its competitors by becoming what its competitors used to be? I’m thoroughly confused. I’m becoming more and more convinced that Google had a couple of hits and the best is not yet to come. Seriously, they’ve destroyed Blogger, the new Google Groups is way more confusing than the original, Google New still offers no syndication making it almost useless, and their Fusion project is a joke.
Jeremy Zawodny has some good comments as well.
links for 2005-06-14
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Good new vlog entry on Arrested Development and a PTC complaint against them to the FCC
Eric Rice mixes his media
Posted: June 13, 2005 Filed under: Blogging 1 Comment »Looks like Eric’s having the same problems I am. I posted about this to the videoblog list a while back. How should I present my content to my users? Should my videos go one place and my blog another? How do my users, which are blog readers and videoblog watchers, get my content? They’re two different audiences aren’t they?
In the end, I’ve decided to leave it all up here at clintsharp.com. Eric looks like he’s going to be using his blog as a pointer to where he exists other places. That’s a pretty good idea, and I might end up doing the same. I’m setting up a wiki on my site as well as a place to put my well-formed ideas and a place where people can edit those, refine them, and make suggestions. Blogs are just poor content management systems for anything than what they were originally intended to be, which was a log of what you found on the web.
So, in the end, mix your media I think. Throw it all together, mash it up, let the consumers sort it out. If it’s too messy, we’ll clean it up later. Your subscribers are coming to see about you, and if I’m interested in reading what someone has to say I’m also interested in watching what they vlog and listening to what they podcast. That’s the beauty of the blogopodovlogopshere. It’s about individuals and authenticity. Way to go Eric! Best of luck.
links for 2005-06-13
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A link from Michael Meiser… need to remember to read this
links for 2005-06-12
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Don’t be fooled, it’s no Kenny Rogers in his Underpants, it’s only Adam.
links for 2005-06-11
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I’ve been revlogged! Cool.
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Josh got a new car. Congrats Josh.
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Behind John Edward’s Vlog with Michael Verdi. Cool.
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If anyone can help out Estabon Choy, please do! I’ve heard also if you help random people in strange countries that Bill Gates will give you $1,000,000.
Feedburner – Playing Nice
Posted: June 10, 2005 Filed under: Blogging 2 Comments »Rick Segal over at his blog Post Money Value The writes about FeedBurner’s new efforts to allow you migrate off FeedBurner. Cool! I was just talking to Markus Sandy about my objections to FeedBurner. This answers a lot of my concerns about their service. Maybe I’ll start throwing my stuff over to FeedBurner now through a 301 redirect.
