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Here’s my contribution to NaVloPoMo2009, the brainchild of (RAAAA!) Rupert Howe where we all make videos together in November.

Our videoblogging community has worked on a number of group projects such as Videoblogging Week 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. There was also a couple years of Carp Caviar orchestrated by the quietly creative, Erik Nelson. The archive for these projects seem to be gone, but here are my two contributions: 2006 and 2008. There’s also NaVloPoMo2007. And of course there was Semanal where we all tried to post every week for all of 2008.

I’m really amazed at the quality of video I see these days. Either the video/film people have finally embraced the web…or regular people are just getting better at it. Probably a little of both. And it’s been less than five years since all this started.

Anyway here’s my contribution shot on an iPhone. My mom died a couple months ago. She has been sick for years and she was in a vegetative state the last several weeks. I’m glad Ryanne gave me the good advice to record what happened so I could remember these last couple days with her. It’s largely inspired by this video that my good friend, Michael Verdi, created. In memory of my mom, Nancy Jean Dedman, 1949-2009.

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.

"….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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So this is the latest email I received.
Its a perfect example of who is coming to the scene.
Read it, then I have a question for you.

>Hello

>I’m trying to know how I could start a video blog as
>I’m about to leave on a one year university exchange
>program from France to Japan. I’ve been surfing the
>web for the past days and yet haven’t really
>understood how blogs work.

>Thank you for your article on videoblogging.info which
>taught me how to export my video into Quicktime.
>But I haven’t figured out yet how to get started.

>Who should I pick to host my site? Which sites are
>free? But if I pick a free site will I have enough
>storage room? And do I need extra software?

>I’m just looking for a very easy and convenient way to
>share my iMovies and Final Cut Express movies.

>Thank you in advance for your time and any help you’ll
>be able to give me

>Sincerely,
>XXXX

She doesnt know anything about blogs. Wow.
You remember when you were lat the beginning?
See, this is where most people are…and I forget this because everyone I know online probably understands much more than I do.
But it’s the people who dont get into the programming and geeky stuff who will be the best creators.
They just want the tools.
So here’s my question:
how do you explain to her how to begin?

Now Mica says it best:
“this little interactive game has gone wordless primarily mummbles and grunts? but communicating nonetheless..using the tools to show yourself saying nothing….”

You could not have this interaction with anything other than videoblogging.
I have never met either of these people, but video lets me get to know them.
Sure the anonymity of text blogging is great. Writing lets us express ourselves in ways we don’t in person.
But with video added to text, our language is expanding exponentially.
It’s closer.
Like I said earlier, we are entering new places here with videoblogging.

Some of you may use TYPEPAD like I do to host your video blog.
They’re easy, cheap, and good at responding to questions.
The videoblog group has been discussing bandwidth issues.
So I had to ask them…..

_________________
On August 12, 2004 02:01 PM, you (Jay) said:

We are wondering what happens if our blogs become popular and our bandwisth is exceeded for the month.
does Typead automatically shut it down?
or are we hit with a huge bill?
many of us in our group host video and bandwisth goes fast…
videoblogging is on the rise.

thanks
Jay

On August 12, 2004 02:55 PM, TypePad Customer Support said:

Hi Jay,

Right now, we have the bandwidth and spaces monitors turned off to increase the speed on our servers. Until we have them
turned back on and prices made up for overages, we won’t be charging for going over. When we get this figured out, there will
be an announcement on the TypePad site.

Thanks,
Kristine
_______________

So this is cool for now, but for how long?
It couldnt have worked out better.
Basically we can explore and upload and post videos as much as we want.
Just what we need at first as we’re trying to develop the art of Videoblogging.
When the time comes to keep track of storage and bandwidth…we will have figured something out by then.

(please leave a comment if you have problems viewing this video….)

“I’ve got a new word, V-Span.
It’s like C-Span where we get coverage of events that are not
normally covered by mainstream media.

“V-Span is Citizen Journalists who are there with their video cameras,
documenting events as they happen.”

“When this gets popular, we’ll be able to see things that up till now,
we’ve just been able to read about in the newspapers.”

“I just drove by the Loius Boston, where the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
were performing.
I stuck my cell phone put he window and recorded the audio directly to
my blogger blog with the new audioblogger.”

“Listen to poor quality audio here:
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2004/07/red-hot-chilli-peppers-
drive-by.html”

“Just wait until we can stick out cell phone / video recorder and post
that directly to our blogs!
That’ll be amazing.”

Q: What’s the Japanese word for videobog?
A:ビデオブログ (Videoblog)

> You ask: ” I expected to find all these Japanese sites with videoblogs. Why?”
> Sheesh. They’re Japanese: 100 years in the hardware furture and 100 years behind in software.
> My standard Japanese company joke:
> Q: “What do you call a salaryman with an opinion?”
> A: “Unemployed.”
> Blogging is not as big in Japan because having an opinion is gauche.

Check out in English: Video Link Japan – Streaming Video Blog From Tokyo
Unfortunately the videos are only in Real and Windows Media. For whatever reason I really Quicktime because it’s so clean and loads easily.

Some Japanese translations….I really like the name “knowledge blog” or K-Log.
オーディオブログ（Audioblog）、写真ブログ（Fotolog）、法律ブログ（Blawg）、ダイジェストブログ（Digest blog）Warblog、マット・ウェルチ発明）、日記ブログ（Journal blogとDiary blog）、知識ブログ（Knowledge Log、Klog、K-Blog）、ニュースブログ（News blogs）、専門家ブログ（Pundit blog）、技術ブログ（Tech blog）、グループブログ（Group blog）、移動ブログ（Moblog）、などが挙げられる。

Maybe I missed them in my search.
Anyone help?

“Revolutionary Technology – The idea of a video aggregator has garnered some interest from diverse corners of the ‘Sphere. People who understand the technical side of aggregating video assure the Dowbrigade that the technology exists now, and needs only be made easier to use by non-geeks, and then marketed to the masses.

We will leave to others the working out of the details of the technical standards and rountines necessary to make this work. What we find more interesting is the rationale behind the need for even HAVING a video aggregator; to crack the monopoly that BigMedia, Inc. has on our nation’s TV sets….”

Here’s an obvious good article from 2/04. The premise goes…if regular people all over the world could put video on the web, we would all have the correct information to make informed choices.
The rub is that people need to be taught how to put video on the web.
We have to create an audience for it.
We need better tools to make it simpler.

Right now, probably the most watched video on the web is the latest guy getting his head cut off by Muslim fundamentalists.
Bad stuff, but very powerful.
These are guys who would get little airtime what so ever in the old media world.
Now they do what they want.
Are we ready for this?
What are you going to show us?

“I had a “VIDEO BLOG” on my personal web page back in 1995. I was also emailing video clips to my friends and colleagues too. Yes, this is when REAL Media was conquering the world with streaming AUDIO and there were no CDN’s or billion dollar streaming companies……”

These last 10 or so posts are from my researching videoblogging on the web.
I’m sunburned from sitting on a lake all day, but I’m slowly going through every page on the net that say “videoblog”.
Most posts aren’t really videoblogging.
Some blogs have ONE video on their entire site, then just kind of forget about video.
So the business people try to figure out where the profit is, the techy people try to figure out how to make videoblogs work better, and the bloggers are kind of ignoring the whole thing.
It’s good to see some of our videoblogging group in the comments on these different sites.
I haven’t found a videoblogging group anywhere.
I think this is important for people to come together and create a new process.
Videoblogging must be tested over time in a group.

Back than, Brook Byers (from KPCB) told me that there is NO money in the Internet when I approached him about several ideas I was working on around video, internet and e-commerce. We all know what happened next. Now, I try to really on myself and my own judgment when it comes to technology or life choices.

There are people who can express themselves well on camera; others do it by writing blogs. Tony can do both like a king I think that video and audio blogging is here to stay. We are just scratching the surface here people. I am now testing web tools, which will allow anyone with a web camera to login in, capture and upload their videos from any browser to their web sites, corporate portals or blogging spots. People with video phones will be able to send video blogs from anywhere around the world which will change the way we know news. Fast wireless networks like 3G will soon allow us to do live vlogging as well. All this is nothing new to me or the world. Video blogging and blogging in general for me is nothing more than a sexy name for web posts and streaming video.

If all of you guys our there who don’t believe in video blogging, why are so many people out there glued the Teli all the time? Why is a picture worth a thousand words? Why is the media not letting people see what really happened to Nick Berg. No blog can make you as sick as that video, believe me.

Blogging is changing, but it is up to us how we are going to do our blogs. If there is nothing else to blog about lets blog about vlogs, but I do think there are many and more important things to blog about.

Cheers,
Vassil Mladjov
Vassil Mladjov | POSTED: 05.30.04 @01:08

Somehow these kind of “group” experiments will always be kind of dumb.
Business guys trying to see how quickly they can make some money with new technology.
Put some video on the computer and think people will fall over crazy about it.

I think out Videoblog Week of 2004 was a complete success.
It was spontaneous and real.
These examples I’m posting of use the word “videoblogs” in such different ways.
I guess it’s really just a small video on a blog.
But the video itself is no big deal.
It’s what the video is about and the context it’s in.

This guy checked out some “videoblogs” and give shis honest opinion.
Seems he watched an almost 5 minute video clip of another busniessman talking.
He was bored. So Videoblogs suck.
See content is important. Having fun is important.
This is good link with the comments.
From May of 2004.

Here’s Jon Udell:
“I wish I could say it was easy to do this kind of videoblogging, but it’s just not true. What I hoped would be a quick, spontaneous thing turned into a chore. It’s frustrating, really — we’re so close, yet so far, when it comes to being able to sling video clips as easily as we sling text, still images, and even audio….”

“I started with Camtasia Studio, aiming to produce a Flash video. The first effort to capture the stream I was playing in the RealOne Player yielded blank video, a problem I solved using this tip to disable hardware acceleration in the player. Next I edited the clip down in Camtasia, but couldn’t figure out how to get Camtasia to make a highly compressed Flash video. So I saved as uncompressed AVI, and used Windows Media Encoder 9 and QuickTime Pro, respectively, to make the WinMedia and QuickTime clips.

After more futzing around that I like to admit, I had both clips in the can. But that wasn’t the end of it. I’m on Windows at the moment, and I’m having trouble with playback of the .MOV file in MSIE, and playback of the .WMV file in Firefox. All in all, I don’t have a high degree of confidence that a reader of this blog is going to have a good experience with the clips I’ve posted.

Of course all this reflexively underscores David’s point. I’m jazzed about the fact that it’s possible to do what I’ve done here, and at the same time annoyed by the hassles and limitations. In networked markets, customers who feel that tension resolve it through public conversation. “

—-After Web-logging became a news source for conventional media after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the next step, “Vblogging,” will enable those with a desire and a little technology the chance to write, shoot, edit and distribute video journalism on their own, even from the field,” forbes.com, the website of Forbes magazine, says. —–

The print magazines are getting into the idea of videoblogging.
It really is a no brainer.

so maybe we as a small group of videobloggers need to agree
on what we use.
Maybe we all agree on .MOV or MPEG 4 or REAL or WMV or whatever.
the people who are coding these players and need metadata and all that
should tell us what is best for them.
then we all start using it exclusively.
rigth now, we’re really the only ones on the whole web really doing
videoblogging to any extent.
also, we should make a list of what we like or dont like about certain
players and maybe we’ll can get some changes made.

Someone asked the right question: what if people start “deep linking” or “hot linking” to our videos.
That means our bandwidth gets used up without our permission.
Also, someone could link to your video in their website and give you zero credit. or use your video out of context.
We went back and forth.
Peter suggested you do this.

It’s a Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- Preventing hot linking of images.

So people can link to your page, but they just can’t link directly to your video.
I make note of these tools for the people who know how to program.
For those of you who are just interested in getting video on the web, encourage the people who can make our tools.
All the answers are out there waiting to be put together.

“It’s pretty exciting that open multimedia standards seems to be
gathering momentum: SVG, SMIL, MPEG-4… I hope to soon see the day when someone can throw together a video production app as quickly as hackers roll their own blogging tools today.”

I personally do not understand much of the language of programming.
What I do know is the tools I need to make a videoblog.
I know that I want to be able to surf the internet and see video everywhere made by people all over the world.
I really feel we’re inches away from being able to do this.

Programmers…this is a call to action.
http://momentshowing.net/2004/06/videoblog-essay-from-dec-31-2002/ BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis

“I’ve spent my holiday vacation playing with vlogs — video weblogs — to learn what this can do for work (I imagine high-school kids giving sports reports) and for pleasure (that is, this blog). The lessons come here and there and so as vacation ends, I’m pulling together the lessons and links in this post.”

Jeff Jarvis from Buzzmachine put up this page at the end of 2002.
He was calling videoblogging “vlogs”.
Interesting the questions he was asking back then.
He did some experimentation.
The community never really formed though except for a handful of videos.

I dont understand French too well, but a new member of the videoblogging group says these videos were made with a videophone and uploaded in real time.Not too bad.
NEC n400i i-mode phone
I hear they got these video phones in Japan that look like video cameras. Nokia supposedly has editing functions on a phone they’re releasing in Europe.
We need to do some research.
I went to the AT&T store yesterday to look at video phones.
All they had were two phones that cost almost 300$, and I couldnt really get the cameras to work.
The guy in the store didnt know much about it.