Chris Weagel pointed my attention to a videoblog called New Roach Motel, run by Josh in Iowa. Josh asksed some questions about internet video yesterday that are worth taking notice of. It reminded me of some old posts of my own, for instance "The House", which is from december 2004.
Why are we so compelled by these bits of video from others? Why do we keep watching them? On a larger scale, what does this do to our culture, our media, and the way we communicate? Josh talked a bit about culture, and that struck a bell. What culture? Our new, global culture? Sub-culture? Our national cultures? What happens when the TV goes online, and we no longer have just the choices some of our own TV companies offer us? What happens when there are a millions of channels to watch, to subscribe to.
From a comment to Josh's video:
Our attention span is maybe shrinking, but try sitting down a chap from days of yore in front of a screen and making him watch hours of no-context video. not gonna happen. but yeah, bitesize. i hear ya. the internet IS the godfuckin World's Fair of forevermore.
Bitesize media, yes, but also the media needs to be open for recontextualization. At least for me that is important. This is where quicktime movies trump flash-encoded files. Flash files, as they are on for instance youtube, cannot be remixed easily. Cannot be quoted easily. But .mov files can.
There are a lot of people out there who work on building bridges between the different forms of media. They put DVDs online (clearly illegal), they put tv clips on youtube, and they do loads of flash -> avi conversions.
We now have a zillion channels, a lot of 'rooms' as I talked about in my video from 04, but we still need some infrastructure. We still need to be able to find them. Use them. Re-use them. Tag them. I know that Peter is working hard on Mefeedia these days, and I will make a screencast about Mefeedia as it is today some day soon.
Today and tomorrow I will, however, be mostly offline, visiting a friend, being in ze countryside. I won't bring a camera. However, I will write some notes on a piece of paper. Also, I will finally be talking about a few projects I have been involved in. Be better at sharing what is going on here. I cannot lose the questions.
Why are we so compelled by these bits of video from others? Why do we keep watching them? On a larger scale, what does this do to our culture, our media, and the way we communicate? Josh talked a bit about culture, and that struck a bell. What culture? Our new, global culture? Sub-culture? Our national cultures? What happens when the TV goes online, and we no longer have just the choices some of our own TV companies offer us? What happens when there are a millions of channels to watch, to subscribe to.
From a comment to Josh's video:
Our attention span is maybe shrinking, but try sitting down a chap from days of yore in front of a screen and making him watch hours of no-context video. not gonna happen. but yeah, bitesize. i hear ya. the internet IS the godfuckin World's Fair of forevermore.
Bitesize media, yes, but also the media needs to be open for recontextualization. At least for me that is important. This is where quicktime movies trump flash-encoded files. Flash files, as they are on for instance youtube, cannot be remixed easily. Cannot be quoted easily. But .mov files can.
There are a lot of people out there who work on building bridges between the different forms of media. They put DVDs online (clearly illegal), they put tv clips on youtube, and they do loads of flash -> avi conversions.
We now have a zillion channels, a lot of 'rooms' as I talked about in my video from 04, but we still need some infrastructure. We still need to be able to find them. Use them. Re-use them. Tag them. I know that Peter is working hard on Mefeedia these days, and I will make a screencast about Mefeedia as it is today some day soon.
Today and tomorrow I will, however, be mostly offline, visiting a friend, being in ze countryside. I won't bring a camera. However, I will write some notes on a piece of paper. Also, I will finally be talking about a few projects I have been involved in. Be better at sharing what is going on here. I cannot lose the questions.
Watch the Video
Update: If you can't view the QuickTime-file, there is a flash-file you can watch here.
It is monday july 10th, and the weather has cooled down dramatically the last days. Even though I hope we get more sunnysunny days, I am in a way glad we don't have 28 degrees celsius anymore.
I made this piece originally for Evilvlog, a groupblog I am member of, but I figured I might just as well publish it here as well.
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I am sharing the apartment with a good friend of mine from the US. She will be a returning student here in Denmark while I will be working with blogging and videoblogging. We got our DSL line last friday, finally, and I am slowly getting up to speed again.
Watching the footage in this video again while editing it, I realized how tired I was in that time. I was in one way imprisoning myself in that room as well as in front of the monitor. I talked about shifting gears earlier, and I stand by that. Since I came to Copenhagen, I have started running, I tend to spend the nighttime sleeping instead of staring at a screen, and I eat more healthily than in ages. The shift is also a shift away from mere egocentric documenting of my own processes to a documentation of what is happening out there - what people are doing, or might be doing. The questions are out there, not just in here.
I will split my media in different channels:
DLTQ.org : Centered around iscussions about blogging, podcasting, videoblogging and how this is done and can be done in Scandinavia as well as around the world. This will also be my own personal blog so I will add in some of the more personal updates on what is going on.
Intermediated.com : A group blog exploring more closely the use of tools in the space.
Evilvlog.com : Off-topic, random, group blog with currently over 3600 posts. A total mess that will celebrate its 1 year anniversary at the end of this month.
Tomorrow: A first look at the state of the danish blogosphere.
I made this piece originally for Evilvlog, a groupblog I am member of, but I figured I might just as well publish it here as well.
Watch movie
I am sharing the apartment with a good friend of mine from the US. She will be a returning student here in Denmark while I will be working with blogging and videoblogging. We got our DSL line last friday, finally, and I am slowly getting up to speed again.
Watching the footage in this video again while editing it, I realized how tired I was in that time. I was in one way imprisoning myself in that room as well as in front of the monitor. I talked about shifting gears earlier, and I stand by that. Since I came to Copenhagen, I have started running, I tend to spend the nighttime sleeping instead of staring at a screen, and I eat more healthily than in ages. The shift is also a shift away from mere egocentric documenting of my own processes to a documentation of what is happening out there - what people are doing, or might be doing. The questions are out there, not just in here.
I will split my media in different channels:
DLTQ.org : Centered around iscussions about blogging, podcasting, videoblogging and how this is done and can be done in Scandinavia as well as around the world. This will also be my own personal blog so I will add in some of the more personal updates on what is going on.
Intermediated.com : A group blog exploring more closely the use of tools in the space.
Evilvlog.com : Off-topic, random, group blog with currently over 3600 posts. A total mess that will celebrate its 1 year anniversary at the end of this month.
Tomorrow: A first look at the state of the danish blogosphere.
One of the people I was pleased to see again at VloggerCon last week was Mary Hodder. I met her at Katz' Deli in NYC the night before VloggerCon 2005, and she also came out to VloggerCon this time around. She participated in a panel on Mashups and Remixing for Vloggers, which I found to be an interesting debate. Unfortunately, as with most other sessions, there was not enough time for discussion and Q&A.
. When I met her, she mentioned "octopus", one of the screenvlogs I created last summer to play around with screencasting software, in this case Camtasia Studio.
Tonight I went and looked at 'Octopus' again, it is actually a bit funny.
I hadn't checked out on Marys activities a lot last months, but apparently she is working with Dabble now as their CEO. Dabble looks interesting, I will check it out once I get registered. I have always enjoyed remixing and recontextualizing content, and I wonder how Dabble solves some of the challenges that is bound into that endeavour.
. When I met her, she mentioned "octopus", one of the screenvlogs I created last summer to play around with screencasting software, in this case Camtasia Studio.
Tonight I went and looked at 'Octopus' again, it is actually a bit funny.
I hadn't checked out on Marys activities a lot last months, but apparently she is working with Dabble now as their CEO. Dabble looks interesting, I will check it out once I get registered. I have always enjoyed remixing and recontextualizing content, and I wonder how Dabble solves some of the challenges that is bound into that endeavour.
Watch the Video
This is my edited video of 160606 with my comments as text on top of the original images. If I added images and footage myself as well you could wonder where the commenting stopped and the remixing begun. Are they not two sides of the same coin? Recontextualizing...
While I was editing this movie, I noticed a discussion on the videoblogging yahoogroups about commenting in videos. At VloggerCon one of the sessions was about commenting and interactive videoblogging. One of the approaches was by Joshua Paul that proposes a system where you can add your own comments after the original video. Thus the original video becomes the head of the video and the comments constitute the tail. Some people thought this would not work due to spamming and used youtube as an example of that, where I think youtube really isn't the prime target group for our kind of commenting. Spam will always exist on larger networks like that.
Anyway, I will try out some video commenting systems and see how they work for me.
Watch the Video
I am testing out production time of videos that are quotes from other videos. This video has quotes from: Mary Beth, Nathan Miller and American King.
Now: Commenting/contextualizing
One way to do it would be to do simple comments within the video. Another would be to add comments here in text along with the video. Now, this is the original video of quotes. I will now make a video with in-video comments.
Here is my first video from San Francisco, including footage from my travel there.
Yesterday morning I took the aiport train at 5 AM, and spent too many hours on a frigging plane before I finally arrived SFO. It is now friday, almost noon, and we are going to the Swedish-American Hall to help set up the space for this weekend's VloggerCon.
More video soon
Yesterday morning I took the aiport train at 5 AM, and spent too many hours on a frigging plane before I finally arrived SFO. It is now friday, almost noon, and we are going to the Swedish-American Hall to help set up the space for this weekend's VloggerCon.
More video soon
In December 2004 I started almost immediately after I discovered videoblogging to talk about political videoblogging. Here is a video from a post back then.
Video
Seeing these old videos is quite interesting. I still agree with most of what I said in this post. Political parties really could use videoblogging, but it would also take a lot of effort. Time and resources I think most parties currently wont use on this new technology.
Give it a few years, though.
Video
Seeing these old videos is quite interesting. I still agree with most of what I said in this post. Political parties really could use videoblogging, but it would also take a lot of effort. Time and resources I think most parties currently wont use on this new technology.
Give it a few years, though.
Today is May 17th, the Norwegian Constitution Day. Last year, I made a video from this day, and since I spent most of today inside I can just as well just re-use the video from last year. Besides, the weather wasn't that good today.
Watch it - here is the original post from last year
It is always amusing to me to see how patriotic we are on May 17th. At least we don't have tanks and F-16s on display on the street on our National Day - we have marching children instead - but still it becomes a tad too much for me. The singing, the cheering, the waving flags, the pompous speeches. Celebrating ourselves, our riches, our culture, our people.
Watch it - here is the original post from last year
It is always amusing to me to see how patriotic we are on May 17th. At least we don't have tanks and F-16s on display on the street on our National Day - we have marching children instead - but still it becomes a tad too much for me. The singing, the cheering, the waving flags, the pompous speeches. Celebrating ourselves, our riches, our culture, our people.