Two potentialy huge projects are in the works. If I have attracted a reader or two, do you like the idea of space travel? I will be contracting experienced Vlogger(s) to join me. More about this position after the storage shed is built in my backyard. Curious now aren't you? Storage shed? Space? I Need to make the rooms in my home liveable again. Space is just what it means, except we will remain here on earth. Sorry, but it is still a very cool project.Josh Hallett of hyku.com , is interviewed by Kyle Kennedy for The Ledger Online in a article titled "Another Way to Profit Off The Web"
Kyle poses five questions and Josh answers with his opinion, much of it I share.
Hmmm. A fancier title is needed:
Implementing ideas: avoiding brain candy / brain crack.
Time for me to share a little of what I am working on.
Vloggertising™ & Vloggertizing™ are one and the same at the moment. I have a vision that needs a staff, so for now I'll combine the two to make my life simple. Vloggertising is the place where the focus is on the community, it's movers, shakers and inovators. It will try very hard to stay abreast of the news, industry trends and emerging technology. It is for and about the users/contributors.
Vloggertizing is all about the word that many video bloggers avoided or cursed ... monetizing. I'll save my history for the coming bio but making money is part of it.
This could be the start of something...
Gone, but still good practice, is the "old school" days of video production. Big budgets, adhering to broadcast and technical standards, large crews, slick psychologically researched and targeted advertising are not as important or necessary. Why does Kerr McGee or Lockheed Martin advertise on television, when a majority of us will never buy anything directly from them? My guess, a little brainwashing and a little tax write off.
Just an example for starters:
Until recently average Jo/anne might make a home video. And that is where it stayed, home, unless copied or carried around. Suppose that home made video has footage of the day a swing set for a child was bought and assembled. Now that person has to move and wants to sell that swing set. We, vloggers, can assist and make money helping others. Monetizing? No, Vloggertizing!
I will be testing this very soon with my own items and will post them to a blog titled "on sale now".
I like cooperatives and barter groups. So once something I have doesn't sell, (either yard sale, craig's list or on ebay,) my next option is bartering.
Bartervlog™ is my solution. Within the Videoblogging group I have learned that several members have particular hobbies (or obsessions). I have items that my virtual friends might just want. Those items I'd post direct to Bartervlog. If no takers, then I will try to sell.
If no luck with selling or bartering then it goes to a cooperative or freecycle. Same video, just different links to it, targeted to a interested audience.
This will satisfy my urbancoop jones and avoid the brain candy/crack pit.
Big props to zeFrank for his Brain Crack piece, enjoyed it very much.
Well I think I have coined enough terms for the week. I plan on posting on my namesake site, the definitions of my new words, so be sure to check back if you have a future "Spelling Bee" champion in your house.
My (first) weekly nod to the node101:
Yaron posted a notice to the Yahoo group"Videoblogging," announcing a new monthly meet up group of New York-based Broadband video startups and video producers.
www.nyvideo.org
Hi Everyone,
I've started a new monthly meet up group of New York-based Broadband
video startups and video producers. If you're in the area, we'd love
for you to join. Our goal is to showcase and discuss emerging trends
in video creation, distribution, monetization and consumption online.
Group details here: www.nyvideo.org
Our first meeting is next week - Weds July 26th at 7:00pm. We're
meeting in the Screening Room at the Tribeca Film Center. blip.tv and
Dragonfly are slated to demo so far. If you're interested, please join
the group and RSVP at www.nyvideo.org.
If you have something you'd like to demo, email me at yaronsamid@yahoo.com Cheers,
Yaron
Sorta like SMPTE time code, anyone can now direct others to points on a video you produce yourself or one you want to share with others. This is great news.
And the innovative technique that provides a way to link directly to a point in a video is done using a Google Video feature. Google has titled this a "Link within a Video." Personally this is going to be a big advantage to smaller retail and individual video blogger's advertising campaigns. This feature has changed how we plan to produce future videos. In discussions prior to this option we were resigned to upload as many as 40 separate videos clips to make navigating to a specific item, question or point (in the case of educational seminar footage), specific to the visitors needs, easier.
Google explains how to create the URL here: http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-feature-link-within-video_19.html
"Now you can email links to specific points inside a video! All you have to do is add the time you'd like to share to the end of a video's URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).
For example, Invisible Board is a 1 min 46 sec long video but I believe the coolest part is at 1 min 26 sec, so all I have to do is add #1m26s to the link I'm going to send to my friends! Just like this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6396990712930217422#1m26s
Here's another example. Music and the Mind is a really interesting lecture from UCTV, but I don't want my friends to have to sit through the first half hour to get to the best part. So all I have to do is add #35m24s to the end of the URL and send them this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1267626298712917200#35m24s
Happy sharing!
Posted by Google Video team at 6:00 PM
Check back early August to see how we utilize this most excellent time saver.
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Welcome to Vloggertising™℠.
I know full well I am going to take a few hits of criticism for titling my vlog "Vloggertising". I can take it. I have been working towards this day all along.
So where is the video? It's coming. I have to figure out how to use what I have, a old iMac (new hard drive but within week CRT began to fail), my cameras, a mac-mini, a old powerbook (the center of my video universe) then make them work together. While I work out some of the minor "technical difficulties" associated with updating to a new OS, I'll tell you how this name came about. I like the idea of community involvement. Blogging is great for folks that can write. Me. I am a visual dreamer-upper. I can imagine a lot more then I could ever put to words. I enjoy helping people and good causes. My background is entertainment. I am not content to just be interested in one thing and do it well. I like to try a bunch of things. Do them as best I can and look for new opportunities. Some things I have just not grown tired of trying. When I look back I have been accumulating everything I need to be happy. I now need to implement that accumulated pile of knowledge I call my life into a resource. Al Gore, thanks for the internet. I know you had no idea you were laying pipe for the next generations. Patiently I have followed (and I mean I couldn't afford to own a server, or the computer that I really wanted, needed) anticipating the day when I could easily make video and internet one. And then the "one" day came as I watched c-span I could be putting my video in the tubes of the internet. The coolest thing since the invention of ... mentos !!! A.nd that is what this whole site is about.
Mixing it up. Experimentation. Collaboration. Recognition.
I am a lucky member of the Yahoo group Videoblogging. A great group of the absolute friendliest and helpful people from around the world.
This past week I followed a thread of real interest to me. In a nutshell, how to be a vlogger and sell or not sell out to advertising. I don't think there is a debate here. Vlogging is personal. It is up to the individual whether or not use advertising for revenue or to make a purchase decision. I believe that the power of advertising and the future of Vlogging are interconnected. Some of you may really hate me now. I have had this floating in my head for a long time. A symmetrical thing. A real tele vision. A way to use video and mass communication, word of mouth style.
Video + Blogging+Advertising=Vloggertising
So that is it in brief. I had to start somewhere and sticking my neck out tonight seemed like as good a time as any.
I hope you enjoyed this rather mundane vlog entry. I will have taken a little more time on my next post and with any luck have a video or two.
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