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I am testing Enric’s new version of vPIP which automatically generates embed code that shares my videos on other sites. Then it generates the embed code on that person’s site. Viral and open source! Do all the formats play for you? Can you embed this video on your site? This is all a project of showinabox.tv.

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Since 2004, we’ve been teaching people how to videoblog using Blogger. Just check out the tutorial at Freevlog. Blogger was super easy to use, but always frustrated us because it didn’t provide a lot of the features we needed. RSS enclosures, video uploads, etc.

Now things are changing in a big way.
Eric Case recently became project manager, and he understands that people shouldn’t have to go to Youtube to post video. In my opinion, blogs do a lot of things much better than social networking sites (like control the look of my page, moderate comments, gather a specific audience). Eric came to Pixelodeon and listened to what videobloggers had to say.

You can now help test video uploads and RSS enclosures on your Blogger accounts.
You must be logged in through http://draft.blogger.com
It’s pretty freaking cool.

Now someone brand new can make a blog in 10 seconds, upload a video to Google video IN the post, and have an RSS feed that anyone can subscribe to in iTunes. That’s what we always wanted.

Blip.tv and Wordpress.org are still the places for serious videobloggers who want complete control over their work. But this new and improved Blogger helps open the door for the newbies, especially since they’ve localized it in 8 different languages.

Steve Garfield is becoming a real media activist.
He tells a good story about a reporter who recently came to a podcaster meet-up.
Link: "What’s wrong with this picture?"

"….the reporter started taking pictures.
Nothing
unusual about that. People are taking pictures all the time, at blogger
meetings, podcast meetups and at videoblogging meetings where video is
taken too. So that’s pretty much the way life is these days. We all
take pictures of things and people that interest us and post them up to
flickr, where we can then share them and then post them on our blogs.

So
as the reporter started to take a picture of the people at table, I
brought out my camera to get a picture of her taking a picture of us.
Pretty standard operating procedure for a flickr photo loving blogger
who is also into documenting the way media is made.
As I raised my camera, she shielded her face and said that she didn’t want her picture taken.
She was upset. She fled the room and hurried into the next room, out of sight."

There could be many scenarios as to why the reporter reacted in a stealthful way. We shouldn’t make generalizations about mainstream journalism based on this one incident. But it does show how blogging(text/audio/video) wakes people up to how reproters operate….picking and choosing their information.

Journalists are paid filters. Bloggers are usually unpaid practitioners. The difference between what you see on a blog and in the mainstream media keeps blurring. The playing field keeps flattening.

Ben Sheldon has created a very, very cool tool to help organize public access TV stations in the US.
Link: Mapping Access.org

Public access TV has existed for over 30 years in this country, yet no one seems to really know how many stations exist. Strangely, these stations have never worked as a network…until now. There is a growing group of access workers who are bringing the experience of Web 2.0 to an aging and threatened community media community.

Imagine if you connected these 500+ independent TV stations together.
In the "old days", stations needed satellites and Fed Ex to move programs around.
Now we can share and distribute video easily through the web.
Cliuck, click, and you’re nationwide.
Democracy Now has done a great job of harnessing these stations.

Another cool project is the emerging Digital Bicycle, a system for delivering independently produced TV programs through torrents.

I’ve been on a Josh Kinberg kick the last week.
Check out this short interview that Josh gave Daniel Steinberg for O’Reilly’s "Distributing the Future Podcast".

Segment: distributing-the-future-2006-02-03_josh.mp3
Original link here: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/distributing_the_future_podcas_1.html

I’ve gotten to know Josh over the past couple years, and it’s funny hearing him in a "show" context. I’m always impressed how well-spoken he is.
No one can deny his passion for videoblogging.
I think that’s what keeps FireAnt going.
We know that the video that all of us are making needs to be found, watched, and interacted with. It helps information flow and changes things.

The day is 12.5.04.

Fact: Over the weekend, Peter Vandijck built the first working VogBrowser.

CHECK IT!!!

This amazingly simple little tool is a RSS reader for video only.

It allows you to finally subscribe to your favorite videoblogs and scan through the new videos.

Just sign up and take a look at the preloaded video feeds of the Videoblogging Group.

The VogBrowser lets you see the video AND the text post.

Nothing is taken out of context.

Peter was inspired by the prototype that Kenyatta Cheese is working on.

It is still in the alpha stage…and he is actively debugging it.

Right now, it only recognizes .MOV files in your RSS feed.

He says it will soon accept enclosures.

He says you will also be able to add feeds into it…but right now, email him the video feed you want added.

I cannot stress how incredible the VogBrowser is.

I believe when a person sees all the videoblogs in the VogBrowser….the “CLICK” will happen.

“oh…wow..you mean i can add a video to my blog and then scroll through them?”

If you are reading your blogs through Bloglines, Newsgator, etc…its the same thing…just for video.

RSS lets you subscribe to blogs, and the Vogbrowser lets you watch them.

All in one place.

This is why Blogs are so much cooler than dull websites.

This is a case of a tool being built to “scratch our own itch”.

We videobloggers were frustrated with clicking around to different blogs to watch everyone’s videos.

Very difficult to keep up.

The Stage is now set for us all.

This is a benchmark.

And a real quick moment of perspective.

I met Peter about 2 years ago…when he moved to NYC from Europe….and sublet one of the rooms in my apartment for a couple months.

We ended up having wierd conversations about robots and our deep desires to talk to our computers…and the computers talk back.

These conversations eventually led to getting video on the internet.

And now i see him helping to build the infrastructure to make it happen.

He does this for free my friends…because he believes.

The best way to repay him(though im sure he’s like $$$) is to create video and post it.

Join the conversation whoever you are.

Insert video here.

For the past month I’ve been watching in awe as videoblogging takes a slow shape.
Let me give you some highlights.

Charlene taught me how to make pumpkin soup in 5 installments.
Mica shows me how to cry.
Shannon showed me what its’s like to hang out with his kids….
and then Charlene and Mica totally revogged it.

Andreas made his first videoblog.
Notice that there are links in the upper right above the video.
He did this by creating his own tool, "the Quicktime thingie".
Now it’s ours.

Andreas was inspired by our very own Australian, Adrian Miles.
He created this video with hyperlinks embedded in his videoblog.
We call it "hypervideo".
Kenyatta bought a little digital camera and posted his first videoblog.
Big deal for me…because he’s one of our biggest advocates…now doing it.

Eric Botticelli is a new guy who popped into our videoblogging group.
He made this great videoblog out of CSPAN material.
Michael Manoochehri just joined up with his videoblog…he’s the first person I’ve seen who videoblogs using Linux.
Ro also just popped up.
His Geek Jihad has begun against everything insane.

A Danish magazine wrote an article on videoblogging…but we cant read it.
We got a mention in Metafilter.
Then, Commander Taco gave a shout out to videoblgging…with a rush of intensely negative comments.
So Chris Weagel, of the Human Dog, did a powerful response video.

Our videoblog group split up between creative talk and tech talk(hosted by Lucas Gonze)..

Want to videoblog for free?
Jon Hoem posted a "how to videoblog with Blogger" page.
Then, the incredible people at Creative Commons created this tool to EASILY upload video to the Internet Archive which hosts original content for free.

To get involved, check out the videoblogging website and subscribe to the video feed.

Blogging is just an easy way to distribute video.
More and more people are using video to show us life, their craziness,and their ideas….
Personal seems the most powerful.
So big up to everyone who’s laying down the groundwork.
It’s working.