Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

Nablopomo is a project similar to videoblogging week where videobloggers are posting daily. But this time they’re following some rules.

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A brief and personal history of videoblogging: “Since memory is fickle, and these days, and blogs - not news - are the first draft of history, I wanted to note down my personal history of videoblogging before I forget most of it.”

And indeed, I have forgotten most of it. So that was my 2007 draft of videoblogging history, here’s my 2005 draft of videoblogging history which really lays out things month by month.

Today, I could write another one but it’d be totally off and consist mostly of personal memories that didn’t really happen that way, like those people that, asked about their meeting Bugs Bunny at Disneyworld, recalled vividly the details of that meeting (Bugs Bunny isn’t a Disney character). That’s memory for you.

ElseWhen: get your head around that graphic!

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease - video blogs, vlog, or podcast on Mefeedia - Most of my old videoblog stuff is there. Even though I sold it, Mefeedia is still going strong, and the *archive* aspect of it is becoming more important every day.

A video podcatcher in Nokia phones: “The Nokia Video Center comes pre-installed on new Nokia Series 60 devices such as the newly announced N95 and N93i but also available as a separate download for compatible devices. You can load videos onto the phone through your home computer or receive updates over-the-air at HSDPA speeds or using open WiFi while you’re on the go.”

This is a big step. Supports H.264 and MediaRSS. Wow.

In an IM conversation, Raymond asked me why I quit mefeedia, and after a few tries I think I nailed it: “I’d rather dance in the party than organize it.” There are a lot of positive things to being just a hobbyist.

A good list of RSS feeds with videos of the Superbowl of 2006 and 2007

Cool new stats coming up at Blip.tv.

Although Joost is annoyingly focused on television, there seems to be some videoblogging DNA in Joost after all: Jay says
Daniel Salber, the original mac developer for FireAnt, is now the lead developer for the mac version of Joost.

Another note on editing interviews: with English interviews, I can increase the playback speed to 1.5, in Spanish interviews (my Spanish isn’t as good), I can’t, I need to play things at speed 1.0 to understand everything.

Sull follows up with his personal history of videoblogging.

I like personal histories. At least there’s not the presumption of being *the* history, it’s just a personal account. And by reading various ones you can kind of make an infered overal history. I encourage others to chime in too.

Mike also wrote a brief and personal history of videoblogging.

This page has a mixed list of all the podcasts (video and audio) of the BBC.

In the spirit of good citizenship, it also has an rss feed, but all the links in the RSS feed point back to the BBC as much as possible, instead of republishing stuff and pointing back to mefeedia as seems to be the norm with directories these days.

Why the hell would this post for the search query whotel send me lots of traffic to this page: curry: podcasts and videoblogs about curry?

That’s just weird. I can’t even figure out what a whotel is?

And here’s a list of secondlife podcast rss feeds

Momentshowing: We’re going to India: Jay is going to videoblog a conference in India in Dharamsala where the Dalai Lama and his governement in exile are using wireless tech to communicate.

“Ryanne and I got a grant to help make a videoblog for the AirJaldi Summit in Dharamsala.
This is where the Tibetan “government-in-exile” is located headed by the Dalai Lama. The conference is all about how to “empower communites through wireless networks”.

The Tibetans have created a very sophisticated wireless infrastructure using inexpensive/used euqipment. The interesting thing is not just that they can communicate with the outside world….but that they can communicate with EACH OTHER over basically a huge intranet. The conference will help spread their experience so other techically-developing societies can use the web effectively.

It’s exciting for me to try to help spread the idea of videoblogging in cultures usually out of the Western conversation. Imagine if the Dalai Lama used a $200 camera to post a video each day to Blip.tv. It’s so simple. The revolution is here…now people just got to find out about it.”

Good luck Jay!

Digital Influence Mapping Project: Get Involved in the Video Storytelling: “All she needs is $2100 to pull the trigger on the trip. This kind of crowdfunding is infectious.”

You can donate here, we’re almost halfway!

UC Berkeley on Google Video: Berkeley releases lectures via Google video:

“The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation . From classic literature to emerging technologies, the curricula of our 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge. Supported by the people of California, the university has embraced public service as an essential part of its mission since 1868. The content on this page —drawn from campus seminars, courses and events—is just one part of UC Berkeley’s commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.”

I was chatting with Mike from blip.tv, and pointed out their feeds don’t geocode the channel, just the items.

Mefeedia’s next release will support geocoding, that’s why.

Within minutes, Mike fixed it.

That’s the shape collaboration between services takes: it consists of respect and IM. Or, alternatively, of long negotiations and laywers. I like the first approach.

Apple’s iTunes podcast directory is incredibly 1.0 and selfish, and denies the ecosystem that created it. Mike nails it here:

mmeiser blog: Apple threatening Podcast Ready over use of the term Pod: “With Apple all traffic is inbound, none outbound.

Bloggers and Podcasters everywhere are driving thousands and thousands of users to iTunes via thousands of inbound itunes links… I’m willing to bet we are THE number one driver of traffic to the iTunes store. I challenge you… who else is driving traffic to Apple? Apple is using YOU.

There is not a single permalink or linkback anywhere where our content is being watched and listened. Not one link in the media playback interface back to our own sites! There are plenty of links from the iTunes interface into the iTunes Store.. but no links to OUR websites… where we conduct OUR businss.. sell our content… or just discuss the podcast episode you’ve just listened to in iTunes.

I’d call it a slick bastardization of podcasters interest… but it’s NOT slick. It’s sickening… an outrage.”

Video blogger gets two days to return to prison | CNET News.com: “Video blogger and freelance journalist Josh Wolf was on Wednesday given two more days to either turn himself back in to prison or cooperate with a federal grand jury seeking unpublished footage he shot during a protest that turned violent.”

Maria is starting a videoblog/ethnography project about Colombian migration.

She’s using havemoneywillvlog, a pretty interesting approach to funding small videoblog projects like this. The havemoneywillvlog people handpick projects and promote them to raise a certain amount of money to help get a project started.

Donate a small amount here now, this project really deserves it: Colombia Migration Project

And send some linkylove to http://colombiamigrationproject.net/

VideoJug - Life Explained. On Film.. Videojug is a great idea, a videohost for how-to movies. Excellent. The only problem is that I can’t seem to find RSS feeds anywhere.

Momentshowing: Amercian King: “Let me tell you why I like American King:
Daily shows are becoming very popular in the Videoblogging world. I think the TV industry really gets into the idea of short, daily content. I’m personally not so interested because it reminds me of “distraction entertainment”. It’s the “i’m bored at work. Make me laugh.” There is certainly a place for this kind of video. Topical. Breezy. Light. Fun. It’s here and then forgotten. Next thing.

Chris has made a name for himself creating the universe of Human Dog. Like an HBO series, the story is told in parts. Each part informs the later videos. A rich, complex world is formed. The stortelling of Amercian King assumes that the viewer will follow along and learn the world. Like an HBO show, the story begins and will eventually end. Complexties and subtleties are the highlights.”

Widespread CCD problems in consumer imaging products: my Canon elph camera that I love suddenly developed this problem.

I am calling Canon and they say that if this is indeed the problem, they will replace it for free.

The problem looks like this:

So if your camera suddenly looks like that, call the manufacturer.

loadedpun » Podshow scrapes feeds in a Veoh re-run: “First there was Veoh, a video hosting company that was found scraping content from other hosting sites as well as individual vlogs and hosting them on their own site. An outcry caused them to amend their policy and withdraw the stolen content.”

My keynote at vloggercon is now live. Remembering vloggercon is a bottom-up conference, organized by the community, it’s amazing that for 2 years now it’s the absolutely best archived conference in existence. ALL talks are available online as videos, for both years. And were streamed live. And this is on the cheap!

Download my talk (Quicktime)

The film of tomorrow (Quicktime)

ion solo (experimental) is one of the most exciting developments in videoblogging. It’s an open source java app that plays rss feeds with videos in a beautiful, full screen UI. Check it out!

When I was in Laos, I sprained my ankle badly, and the village doctors tried to heal it by calling out to the spirits. Maria made a great video: thevillagedoctors.mov (video/quicktime Object)

The We Media people insisted on my feedback, so I wrote them this:

I was dissapointed with the conference because of the way it was set
up. Instead of having people who truly understand “we media” on the
stage, it was filled with representatives of old media. The
discussions on the stage staid on the surface. A good example was the
section about citizen media: it was illustrated not by a true citizen
media video, but by a video from the BBC. A video that totally
misunderstood what citizen media is.

The “assasin” section was cringe-worthy. Invite a blogger to your table! The whole conference felt patronizing to anyone in “we media”. We got to sit in the back, and listen to old media people who didn’t really get that: we don’t need them! They need us.

I won’t come back unless we media is on the stage, not old media’s interpretation of we media.

Oh, and please don’t invite people just for their star power. Richard Dreyfuss’s section was irrelevant.

We have a world to change, and I don’t have time to be the token blogger at a conference that makes us the “audience” and old media the
“voice”. It’s the other way round.

It’s harsh criticism, but this is how I felt.

A good movie overview of what’s new in Drupal:

4.7-whats-new.mov (video/quicktime Object)

TechCrunch: “I’ve heard from three independent sources that YouTube may have very quietly raised another $25 million in venture capital [...] Forbes reports that YouTube’s bandwidth fees are approaching $1 million per month.”

Hey, Yahoo is going for the TV space as well. Yahoo! Go - TV - What Is It?

I say why not? Microsoft is doing it, Apple is doing their darndest best, and all the old school tv players are doing it.

Whatever happens in the coming years, somehow internet tv will find its way to your television set. And if it’s somewhat open (and they’d be stupid not to be), that means videoblogs will too. I can’t wait.

Rolling Stone : The Rise of the Video Blog: “Rocketboom may be the vanguard in the march of the vlogs, but it’s hardly alone. Video-blog monitor Mefeedia.com currently lists more than 6,900 vlogs. And while the vast majority are essentially home videos glorifying children, hobbies and pets, vlogs are beginning to infiltrate the mainstream media, part of the increasingly seismic shift in the way we get our news and entertainment.”

Big Media still struggles to understand what I like to call authentic media. It’s not just about homevideos or funny dogs.

Famous Hollywood People are starting to videoblog now. Here’s Jack Black’s videoblog.

Those crazy Famous Hollywood People!

Ryanne made a promo video for vloggercon2006: Peter Van Dijck is going (Quicktime Movie).

Seriously though, if you want to get in touch with the grassroots of online video, go to Vloggercon. And sign up now, coz I have a feeling they’ll be sold out very soon.

If you want to see how bottom-up media is being spread, check out the new Freevlog. Michael and Ryanne are doing a (ahem) “kick-ass” job of spreading the word.

SB Forum on Digital Transitions Vlog: this is a great example of the power of videoblogging to humanize conversations. (via Jay)

But is it just me, or did Michael Jackson take over Mena Trott’s body? And should that worry you if you have a Typepad blog? Mm. The plot thickens.

loadedpun: Veoh (a VC-funded video company) is pulling in videos, re-encoding them and hosting them on their blog with no link back. This kind of “re-hosting” (I just made that up!) should be done through an opt-in mechanism, Veoh doesn’t use opt-in. It is probably quite illegal, and the videoblogging community is up in arms. We’ll see how it goes. In a world of fuzzy content rights, this should prove to be an interesting case.