I was writing this for my blog, enjoyed doing it, I love to write, but I gotta run... will come back later to proof read.
In the meantime, enjoy my mud. :)
It's definitely the end of an era. As many know Peter Van Dijck sold mefeedia.com the first videoblogging specific webservice ever. I have no doubt the new owner will bring mefeedia new direction and take it to new heights.
Mefeedia or me-tv as it was known when it started in December 2004 was definitely the start of something. It along with the yahoo videoblogging group and Fireant really defined the start of video blogging and with it this whole era of video sharing and podcasting. I'm just tremendously pleased to have been a around just to witness it.
Peter put together a beautiful brief and personal history of videoblogging over on his blog. A good reminder of where we were, what we were thinking, and how far we've come.
While Peter's selling mefeedia is definitely the end of one era for me personally, there are definitely going to be some very big things around the corner for videoblogging, mefeedia, and hopefully myself with them.
I have but one thing to say upon reflection.
Regardless of what happens the spirit of videoblogging has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, it is still very much alive, and it's definitely here to stay.
Regardless of where we've been in the last short couple of years, those early "pioneering" days are still with us.
For more people every day it is still that magical time when every step is a new one. That spark when they realize they can take their digital camera down the street to capture the world around them and then uploading it and share it with friends and strangers all around the globe only minutes later. For these people,, it is still the beginning and it is still as equally magical.
[find youtubers video!]
The truth is 99% of the planet has yet to even consider this possibility and what it means. Therefore we are fundamentally just getting started. We are still at the very tip of a revolution in communications of which videoblogging is only a small but integral part. That idea is not just about videos, it's communicating globally through all forms of rich and personal media including blogging, photos, audio podcasts and video sharing. This is the true spirit of web 2.0, not youtube, not mefeedia, not any webservice or piece of software, but the waking of the global mind to new possibilities. New capacity is being born, not just in the number of channels of video, but capacity to communicate, to share, to interact. And these new capacities like the systems of radio, printed news, and tv before us will reshape not only individual identity, but the world around us.
As fast as it has appeared to happen, as much as we lament the "good old days" when everything was "new to us"... when we were just grasping those possibilities and being changed by their very existence and the new perspectives they offered us ... despite where we as individuals are at we must all remember what it was like to be a newbie, to be a tourist in a new land, and to come to grips with what has and what has not changed.
The drug of change has worn of, but it has left behind new realities.
Back in 2004 you could count the number of videos on the web each week on one hand. I know because I watched them and I archived them. I new there was some magic there. For me it started with the Tsunami in Nov. 2004. Never before had raw unedited video footage beat cable and satellite to the masses. Right then who I thought I was, and what I thought my role in the world changed and it is still changing. It changes every time I watch a video of someone I KNOW from a far off land, and every time I bike down the country lanes of Michigan and listen to strangers in strange lands talk about their lives, their interests and their passions as if they were me speaking of my own life and my own interests which until now I thought were unique only to me.
[find link to chuck olsen's blog]
That connection was made one day when a comments sprung up over the first person Tsunami footage on Chuck Olsen's blog one day in November 2004 about the possibility of creating a application which could automatically aggregate videos on specific topics like the tsunami and download them to my desktop where I could watch them at my leisure.
No one else may have noticed it but I spilled some of ideas that I was sitting on for years in those comments and two weeks later the object of my ideas was born... not as a result of my ideas, but because of given the openness of the web, time, and the willingness to share of oneself, the opportunities for radical deep reaching new connections between people and minds can be made.
I'm driven on to share my words and ideas now just as I was then because of this possibility of discovery and opportunity. Not only to share my ideas, but to attract people with like ideas to me. This is why I blog, podcast, and vlog... why I write such gargantuan and flawed ramblings as this, because there is a huge vast untapped potential of what is called social capital in a world where the limitations of time, and geography no longer hinder or confine important ideas.
When fireant came out and me-tv started a month later there wasn't a video sharing site around, the video ipod and iTunes podcasting directory weren't even a glimmer in Steve Jobs eye, there were only a few audio podcasts, and even fewer video blogs and most people had never even dreamed of keeping in touch with their friends by sharing videos over the net.
Yet the idea of sharing your thoughts with the world was already born in blogging. All that need be done is to take that simple concept and exercise it in video, audio or photo.
Now there are at best guess 300 video sharing sites, and 100's of thousands of people who make, watch and share videos on a daily basis. Wether you call them youtubers, or videobloggers, or whatever, this is a REMARKABLE thing.
The scale and pace of the change has been overwhelming at times and despite the continued lawsuits over copyright media at it's core, the heart of these hundreds of video sharing sites is not "theft", or entertainment, or humor... it is still people picking up a video camera and sharing their thoughts, their stories, and the world around them. Just as early videobloggers and podcasters were inspired to do by blogging.
This thing, whatever you care to call it, where we all share our ideas and the world around us via video, or photo, blog or mp3 and offer them up as part of a global discourse is not only here to stay but it is truly just getting started.
As is often said the future is already here, it's just not well distributed.
It is a great time to be alive because this revolution in communications is going to unfold over our entire lifetime as access to the internet and the hardware get cheaper and cheaper and stretch around the globe to all people.
Yesterday there were "50 channels and nothing on", then cable and satellite brought that number into the hundreds, and today there are 10's of thousands. If you still haven't found anything worth watching, let alone anything worth pointing a camera at and sharing then just give it some time because tomorrow will bring millions of channels of media. One of them might be your sisters photo sharing feed bringing the latest pictures of a newborn. Another might be videos of your friend who's traveling in europe.... and by then no one certainly not you will be bitching about production values, or the preverbal person taking into a web camera, because those people will be your friends, your family, your peers and even YOU! To argue such nonsense arguments will be as silly as bitching about spelling in email and by then you should be either be convinced the world is going to hell or realize like a kiddy little kid, this what-ever-ya-want-tocall-it thing is the best thing every!
This new thing is a revolution and it is a revolution of mass communications. Not a revolution of using media to communicate TO the masses, but one of the masses using the media to connect with each other. A revolution at least comparable to mass literacy or the advent of the printing press.
Despite what others may think I still think that's an absolutely revolutionary world changing concept.
If you have access to and participate in these things you value as a human being just skyrocketed. It's called social capital and you should learn it love it and live it!
We have not even breached the generation gap between those of us who grew up in a world where people on tv were all paid actors... and that of this new generation still in high school and even grade school for whom blogs, video blogging, photo-sharing, and audio podcasting will be as fluent a form of communications as the telephone, email or IM.
And we have yet to breach the push the digital-divide beyond our own shores.
What happens when the whole world awakens to these new possibilities?
Well!
Regardless of what happens next I've had a great couple of years, I'm still writing fluid stream of conscious rants, and I'm still extremely excited about what's to come.
Peace, -Mike
Sunday, January 28
A brief and personal history of videoblogging
I was writing this for my blog, enjoyed doing it, I love to write, but I gotta run... will come back later to proof read.
In the meantime, enjoy my mud. :)
It's definitely the end of an era. As many know Peter Van Dijck sold mefeedia.com the first videoblogging specific webservice ever. I have no doubt the new owner will bring mefeedia new direction and take it to new heights.
Mefeedia or me-tv as it was known when it started in December 2004 was definitely the start of something. It along with the yahoo videoblogging group and Fireant really defined the start of video blogging and with it this whole era of video sharing and podcasting. I'm just tremendously pleased to have been a around just to witness it.
Peter put together a beautiful brief and personal history of videoblogging over on his blog. A good reminder of where we were, what we were thinking, and how far we've come.
While Peter's selling mefeedia is definitely the end of one era for me personally, there are definitely going to be some very big things around the corner for videoblogging, mefeedia, and hopefully myself with them.
I have but one thing to say upon reflection.
Regardless of what happens the spirit of videoblogging has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, it is still very much alive, and it's definitely here to stay.
Regardless of where we've been in the last short couple of years, those early "pioneering" days are still with us.
For more people every day it is still that magical time when every step is a new one. That spark when they realize they can take their digital camera down the street to capture the world around them and then uploading it and share it with friends and strangers all around the globe only minutes later. For these people,, it is still the beginning and it is still as equally magical.
[find youtubers video!]
The truth is 99% of the planet has yet to even consider this possibility and what it means. Therefore we are fundamentally just getting started. We are still at the very tip of a revolution in communications of which videoblogging is only a small but integral part. That idea is not just about videos, it's communicating globally through all forms of rich and personal media including blogging, photos, audio podcasts and video sharing. This is the true spirit of web 2.0, not youtube, not mefeedia, not any webservice or piece of software, but the waking of the global mind to new possibilities. New capacity is being born, not just in the number of channels of video, but capacity to communicate, to share, to interact. And these new capacities like the systems of radio, printed news, and tv before us will reshape not only individual identity, but the world around us.
As fast as it has appeared to happen, as much as we lament the "good old days" when everything was "new to us"... when we were just grasping those possibilities and being changed by their very existence and the new perspectives they offered us ... despite where we as individuals are at we must all remember what it was like to be a newbie, to be a tourist in a new land, and to come to grips with what has and what has not changed.
The drug of change has worn of, but it has left behind new realities.
Back in 2004 you could count the number of videos on the web each week on one hand. I know because I watched them and I archived them. I new there was some magic there. For me it started with the Tsunami in Nov. 2004. Never before had raw unedited video footage beat cable and satellite to the masses. Right then who I thought I was, and what I thought my role in the world changed and it is still changing. It changes every time I watch a video of someone I KNOW from a far off land, and every time I bike down the country lanes of Michigan and listen to strangers in strange lands talk about their lives, their interests and their passions as if they were me speaking of my own life and my own interests which until now I thought were unique only to me.
[find link to chuck olsen's blog]
That connection was made one day when a comments sprung up over the first person Tsunami footage on Chuck Olsen's blog one day in November 2004 about the possibility of creating a application which could automatically aggregate videos on specific topics like the tsunami and download them to my desktop where I could watch them at my leisure.
No one else may have noticed it but I spilled some of ideas that I was sitting on for years in those comments and two weeks later the object of my ideas was born... not as a result of my ideas, but because of given the openness of the web, time, and the willingness to share of oneself, the opportunities for radical deep reaching new connections between people and minds can be made.
I'm driven on to share my words and ideas now just as I was then because of this possibility of discovery and opportunity. Not only to share my ideas, but to attract people with like ideas to me. This is why I blog, podcast, and vlog... why I write such gargantuan and flawed ramblings as this, because there is a huge vast untapped potential of what is called social capital in a world where the limitations of time, and geography no longer hinder or confine important ideas.
When fireant came out and me-tv started a month later there wasn't a video sharing site around, the video ipod and iTunes podcasting directory weren't even a glimmer in Steve Jobs eye, there were only a few audio podcasts, and even fewer video blogs and most people had never even dreamed of keeping in touch with their friends by sharing videos over the net.
Yet the idea of sharing your thoughts with the world was already born in blogging. All that need be done is to take that simple concept and exercise it in video, audio or photo.
Now there are at best guess 300 video sharing sites, and 100's of thousands of people who make, watch and share videos on a daily basis. Wether you call them youtubers, or videobloggers, or whatever, this is a REMARKABLE thing.
The scale and pace of the change has been overwhelming at times and despite the continued lawsuits over copyright media at it's core, the heart of these hundreds of video sharing sites is not "theft", or entertainment, or humor... it is still people picking up a video camera and sharing their thoughts, their stories, and the world around them. Just as early videobloggers and podcasters were inspired to do by blogging.
This thing, whatever you care to call it, where we all share our ideas and the world around us via video, or photo, blog or mp3 and offer them up as part of a global discourse is not only here to stay but it is truly just getting started.
As is often said the future is already here, it's just not well distributed.
It is a great time to be alive because this revolution in communications is going to unfold over our entire lifetime as access to the internet and the hardware get cheaper and cheaper and stretch around the globe to all people.
Yesterday there were "50 channels and nothing on", then cable and satellite brought that number into the hundreds, and today there are 10's of thousands. If you still haven't found anything worth watching, let alone anything worth pointing a camera at and sharing then just give it some time because tomorrow will bring millions of channels of media. One of them might be your sisters photo sharing feed bringing the latest pictures of a newborn. Another might be videos of your friend who's traveling in europe.... and by then no one certainly not you will be bitching about production values, or the preverbal person taking into a web camera, because those people will be your friends, your family, your peers and even YOU! To argue such nonsense arguments will be as silly as bitching about spelling in email and by then you should be either be convinced the world is going to hell or realize like a kiddy little kid, this what-ever-ya-want-tocall-it thing is the best thing every!
This new thing is a revolution and it is a revolution of mass communications. Not a revolution of using media to communicate TO the masses, but one of the masses using the media to connect with each other. A revolution at least comparable to mass literacy or the advent of the printing press.
Despite what others may think I still think that's an absolutely revolutionary world changing concept.
If you have access to and participate in these things you value as a human being just skyrocketed.
We have not even breached the generation gap between those of us who grew up in a world where people on tv were all paid actors... and that of this new generation still in high school and even grade school for whom blogs, video blogging, photo-sharing, and audio podcasting will be as fluent a form of communications as the telephone, email or IM.
And we have yet to breach the push the digital-divide beyond our own shores.
What happens when the whole world awakens to these new possibilities?
Well!
Regardless of what happens next I've had a great couple of years, I'm still writing fluid stream of conscious rants, and I'm still extremely excited about what's to come.
Peace, -Mike
In the meantime, enjoy my mud. :)
It's definitely the end of an era. As many know Peter Van Dijck sold mefeedia.com the first videoblogging specific webservice ever. I have no doubt the new owner will bring mefeedia new direction and take it to new heights.
Mefeedia or me-tv as it was known when it started in December 2004 was definitely the start of something. It along with the yahoo videoblogging group and Fireant really defined the start of video blogging and with it this whole era of video sharing and podcasting. I'm just tremendously pleased to have been a around just to witness it.
Peter put together a beautiful brief and personal history of videoblogging over on his blog. A good reminder of where we were, what we were thinking, and how far we've come.
While Peter's selling mefeedia is definitely the end of one era for me personally, there are definitely going to be some very big things around the corner for videoblogging, mefeedia, and hopefully myself with them.
I have but one thing to say upon reflection.
Regardless of what happens the spirit of videoblogging has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, it is still very much alive, and it's definitely here to stay.
Regardless of where we've been in the last short couple of years, those early "pioneering" days are still with us.
For more people every day it is still that magical time when every step is a new one. That spark when they realize they can take their digital camera down the street to capture the world around them and then uploading it and share it with friends and strangers all around the globe only minutes later. For these people,, it is still the beginning and it is still as equally magical.
[find youtubers video!]
The truth is 99% of the planet has yet to even consider this possibility and what it means. Therefore we are fundamentally just getting started. We are still at the very tip of a revolution in communications of which videoblogging is only a small but integral part. That idea is not just about videos, it's communicating globally through all forms of rich and personal media including blogging, photos, audio podcasts and video sharing. This is the true spirit of web 2.0, not youtube, not mefeedia, not any webservice or piece of software, but the waking of the global mind to new possibilities. New capacity is being born, not just in the number of channels of video, but capacity to communicate, to share, to interact. And these new capacities like the systems of radio, printed news, and tv before us will reshape not only individual identity, but the world around us.
As fast as it has appeared to happen, as much as we lament the "good old days" when everything was "new to us"... when we were just grasping those possibilities and being changed by their very existence and the new perspectives they offered us ... despite where we as individuals are at we must all remember what it was like to be a newbie, to be a tourist in a new land, and to come to grips with what has and what has not changed.
The drug of change has worn of, but it has left behind new realities.
Back in 2004 you could count the number of videos on the web each week on one hand. I know because I watched them and I archived them. I new there was some magic there. For me it started with the Tsunami in Nov. 2004. Never before had raw unedited video footage beat cable and satellite to the masses. Right then who I thought I was, and what I thought my role in the world changed and it is still changing. It changes every time I watch a video of someone I KNOW from a far off land, and every time I bike down the country lanes of Michigan and listen to strangers in strange lands talk about their lives, their interests and their passions as if they were me speaking of my own life and my own interests which until now I thought were unique only to me.
[find link to chuck olsen's blog]
That connection was made one day when a comments sprung up over the first person Tsunami footage on Chuck Olsen's blog one day in November 2004 about the possibility of creating a application which could automatically aggregate videos on specific topics like the tsunami and download them to my desktop where I could watch them at my leisure.
No one else may have noticed it but I spilled some of ideas that I was sitting on for years in those comments and two weeks later the object of my ideas was born... not as a result of my ideas, but because of given the openness of the web, time, and the willingness to share of oneself, the opportunities for radical deep reaching new connections between people and minds can be made.
I'm driven on to share my words and ideas now just as I was then because of this possibility of discovery and opportunity. Not only to share my ideas, but to attract people with like ideas to me. This is why I blog, podcast, and vlog... why I write such gargantuan and flawed ramblings as this, because there is a huge vast untapped potential of what is called social capital in a world where the limitations of time, and geography no longer hinder or confine important ideas.
When fireant came out and me-tv started a month later there wasn't a video sharing site around, the video ipod and iTunes podcasting directory weren't even a glimmer in Steve Jobs eye, there were only a few audio podcasts, and even fewer video blogs and most people had never even dreamed of keeping in touch with their friends by sharing videos over the net.
Yet the idea of sharing your thoughts with the world was already born in blogging. All that need be done is to take that simple concept and exercise it in video, audio or photo.
Now there are at best guess 300 video sharing sites, and 100's of thousands of people who make, watch and share videos on a daily basis. Wether you call them youtubers, or videobloggers, or whatever, this is a REMARKABLE thing.
The scale and pace of the change has been overwhelming at times and despite the continued lawsuits over copyright media at it's core, the heart of these hundreds of video sharing sites is not "theft", or entertainment, or humor... it is still people picking up a video camera and sharing their thoughts, their stories, and the world around them. Just as early videobloggers and podcasters were inspired to do by blogging.
This thing, whatever you care to call it, where we all share our ideas and the world around us via video, or photo, blog or mp3 and offer them up as part of a global discourse is not only here to stay but it is truly just getting started.
As is often said the future is already here, it's just not well distributed.
It is a great time to be alive because this revolution in communications is going to unfold over our entire lifetime as access to the internet and the hardware get cheaper and cheaper and stretch around the globe to all people.
Yesterday there were "50 channels and nothing on", then cable and satellite brought that number into the hundreds, and today there are 10's of thousands. If you still haven't found anything worth watching, let alone anything worth pointing a camera at and sharing then just give it some time because tomorrow will bring millions of channels of media. One of them might be your sisters photo sharing feed bringing the latest pictures of a newborn. Another might be videos of your friend who's traveling in europe.... and by then no one certainly not you will be bitching about production values, or the preverbal person taking into a web camera, because those people will be your friends, your family, your peers and even YOU! To argue such nonsense arguments will be as silly as bitching about spelling in email and by then you should be either be convinced the world is going to hell or realize like a kiddy little kid, this what-ever-ya-want-tocall-it thing is the best thing every!
This new thing is a revolution and it is a revolution of mass communications. Not a revolution of using media to communicate TO the masses, but one of the masses using the media to connect with each other. A revolution at least comparable to mass literacy or the advent of the printing press.
Despite what others may think I still think that's an absolutely revolutionary world changing concept.
If you have access to and participate in these things you value as a human being just skyrocketed.
We have not even breached the generation gap between those of us who grew up in a world where people on tv were all paid actors... and that of this new generation still in high school and even grade school for whom blogs, video blogging, photo-sharing, and audio podcasting will be as fluent a form of communications as the telephone, email or IM.
And we have yet to breach the push the digital-divide beyond our own shores.
What happens when the whole world awakens to these new possibilities?
Well!
Regardless of what happens next I've had a great couple of years, I'm still writing fluid stream of conscious rants, and I'm still extremely excited about what's to come.
Peace, -Mike
Thursday, January 25
Google Video to re-focus on web wide video search
Wow, this is big news that changes the video search space dramatically.
From GigOM NewTeeVee - Google Video Transitions to Video Search
I've long noted that while google's core mission has been to make sense out of the ENTIRE world wide web that they'd foresaken this focus when it came to video and instead of focusing on web wide video search opted to create their own walled garden(s) with google video and Youtube thus leaving a huge whole in search, a hole yahoo video search is trying to fill.
The news is today that Google will be changing the direction of google video to focus on video search for the entire world wide web. I don't know wether to say "yipee" or be sad. On the one hand everyone stands to benifit from google's work in making sense out of the mediated web, on the other the value of a lot of innovators in video search just went down... unless google goes on a second buying spree that is to catch back up to yahoo in the web wide video search. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure how this will effect many search innovators in the video space. I guess for most pre-established players they've probably gotten a lot more valueable. For those not already established they're going to have a tougher time establishing themselves.
What is really interesting here though is that google has gotten sued several times for both their image search and news search in the past and has yet to generate any direct revenue from them with advertising. The theory was copyright issues were the reason they hadn't entered the web wide video search space, and indeed the legal perils in media search are much higher then even image and news search. So we shall see.
From GigOM NewTeeVee - Google Video Transitions to Video Search
Google writes today on its official blog that Google Video “[will evolve] into a service where you can search for the world’s online video content, irrespective of where it may be hosted.” That doesn’t mean Google has disabled uploads or taken down currently hosted videos, just added a second source to the Google Video search engine.
I've long noted that while google's core mission has been to make sense out of the ENTIRE world wide web that they'd foresaken this focus when it came to video and instead of focusing on web wide video search opted to create their own walled garden(s) with google video and Youtube thus leaving a huge whole in search, a hole yahoo video search is trying to fill.
The news is today that Google will be changing the direction of google video to focus on video search for the entire world wide web. I don't know wether to say "yipee" or be sad. On the one hand everyone stands to benifit from google's work in making sense out of the mediated web, on the other the value of a lot of innovators in video search just went down... unless google goes on a second buying spree that is to catch back up to yahoo in the web wide video search. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure how this will effect many search innovators in the video space. I guess for most pre-established players they've probably gotten a lot more valueable. For those not already established they're going to have a tougher time establishing themselves.
What is really interesting here though is that google has gotten sued several times for both their image search and news search in the past and has yet to generate any direct revenue from them with advertising. The theory was copyright issues were the reason they hadn't entered the web wide video search space, and indeed the legal perils in media search are much higher then even image and news search. So we shall see.
Monday, January 22
"It’s a hatchet job, but it just might work."
Revisiting one of my favorite vlogs of 2006. Expedition360. In this episode what happens when you're traveling aroung the world and break a rim on your bike in Tibet. And wearing out rims is what happens when your burning your breaks with a 100+ pounds of gear and descending from some of the tallest mountain passes in the world.
Original post on October 06, 2006 from Expedition360.com: (RSS feed)
Lhatse, Tibet
(Via Mefeedia)
"twilight", Amsterdam, HDR
twilight, higres version
I'm so hooked on HDR photos recently. It's Flickr's fault. I already blogged the counterpart to this photo but I wanted to blog it anyway. View it large.
BTW, I don't like all HDR photos, hate most. Most people go to far, it ends up being like cheesy fantasy photos. The trick is to suspend reality. Subtlety is the key. Not to simply break from reality. Unless of course... that's what you're going for. :)
Sunday, January 21
Man Man - Banana Ghost
Most creative music video I've seen in a while.
Original post on January 21, 2007 from DVblog.org: (RSS feed)
Banana Ghost (2006, 24MB, 3:15 min.) Music - Man Man. directed by Jeremy Mayhew. from del.icio.us:media:video. Bit Max Ernst-ish, eh?
(Via Mefeedia)
Friday, January 19
Amsterdam HDR photos
Damrak, higres version
An amazing HDR photos of amsterdam. Be sure to view this one full size, and check out the birds. Perhaps the best HDR photos I've seen, balancing that fine line between reality and the surreal.
If you like it be sure to check out the whole set.
Thursday, January 18
Improv Everywhere - no pants commute
no pants commute, higres version
Steph Goralnick has a great set of pics from the latest improv everywhere event on the NY subway.
Thursday, January 11
Trending gay
Why? Because it simply made me smile.
Advert from Life, May 14, 1956
Via: Trendy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Advert from Life, May 14, 1956
Via: Trendy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
RIMM vs AAPL
Apple and RIMM pretty much swapped shares on Tuesday.
It's a pretty clear story.
iPhone +7
Blackberry -7
From: RIMM vs AAPL on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
It's a pretty clear story.
iPhone +7
Blackberry -7
From: RIMM vs AAPL on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
RIMM vs AAPL
Sorry, blogger.com double posts again... for the real post visit
http://mmeiser.com/blog/2007/01/rimm-vs-aapl_11.html
On a side note, I've got to stop using blogger.com. It freaking blows, this is something like the 8th time blogger has double posted a post, and it's certainly not anything I'm doing.
http://mmeiser.com/blog/2007/01/rimm-vs-aapl_11.html
On a side note, I've got to stop using blogger.com. It freaking blows, this is something like the 8th time blogger has double posted a post, and it's certainly not anything I'm doing.
Vlogging, podcasting and Steve Jobs keynote
Steve Jobs demoed four videoblogs at the keynote. ABC, Comedy Central, National Geographic... and Rocketboom, sort of. Rocketboom is there, but Steve Jobs didn't demo them or mention them. They've been downgraded from last years keynote.
Still it rates a congrats to Andrew and the rocketboom crew, but I can't help but wondering about what Steve Jobs intentions are for for videoblogging and podcasting that's NOT made by the same old mainstream media. And yes, I'm still damn ticked off apple hasn't put linkbacks, aka. permalinks, in the iTunes interface back to videobloggers and podcasters.
From: Podcast browse on Apple TV on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Still it rates a congrats to Andrew and the rocketboom crew, but I can't help but wondering about what Steve Jobs intentions are for for videoblogging and podcasting that's NOT made by the same old mainstream media. And yes, I'm still damn ticked off apple hasn't put linkbacks, aka. permalinks, in the iTunes interface back to videobloggers and podcasters.
From: Podcast browse on Apple TV on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Wednesday, January 10
Everyone is a winner in web 2.0
The face of rejection.
That's ok, I've still got Flickr! Everyone is a winner in web2.0(TM). :)
Besides I've also been published mulitple times in Schmap!
P.S. JPGmag! I most love exclamation. Thanks JPG mag! It's OK, I'm just glad you had the honesty to tell me. Golly you're swell!
:)
Greetings, Michael!
Thanks so much for submitting to JPG Magazine Issue 8. We received 6,914 photos by 4,129 people for this issue - the most ever. The editors and the community have spent the last few weeks reviewing them. 422,346 votes were cast by 11,225 people. There was so much great work - it wasn't easy.
You submitted:
""big baby"" to Tourist
http://jpgmag.com/photos/6568
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Besides I've also been published mulitple times in Schmap!
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Tuesday, January 9
Coffee with Chou: Steve Garfield
Steve Garfield was a guest on the fabulous video blog Rabbit Bytes. All I can say is, Communists!? I thought videoblogging was just a bunch of hippies? New media hippies. But like my grandmother used to say, "Always listen to the what the rabbits have to say. They're very wise, despite what the turtles say."
Original post on January 05, 2007 from Rabbit Bites: (RSS feed)
Join us for Coffee with Chou. This is Chou Chou's talk show where she is interviewing a few of the internet's key people and the hot hot celebrities of today! All things come full circle in this episode when Steve Garfield joins Chou for a chat about internet video and it's future. He is a video pioneer having been among the very first to exploit new video technologies available on the Web. He has his own show Vlog Soup among others, and is a contributor to Rocketboom. Steve's a very nice guy and an asset to online video. Grab a steaming mug of Java join in!
(Via Mefeedia)
Saturday, January 6
An open rant to MyHeavy and the vlogging community
I just posted this to every blog I blog at and several mailing lists. Even if it isn't good it's still the most important thing I've writen in a while.
MyHeavy.com is the latest in a long line of offenders to commit widespread copyright infringement against videobloggers.
How: They displayed hundreds of videobloggers videos from hosts like blip.tv and google video on their website... watermarking them with THEIR logo... and putting preroll ads on them, and ads around them directly profitting off their work.
Reaction this far: Reactions have been widespread ad heavy through the blog space and the primary mailing list for vloggers. It's ranged from talk of class action lawsuits... to technical disussion about ettiquette, copyright and the creative commons... luckily more of the later.
What's the hell is this ridiculous post about!? Where there is strife their is opportunity... Wht I lay the groundwork for in this rant is that maybe vloggers should be actively seeking out middle men like MyHeavy.com that are providing services... like new market exposure, aggregation, search, filtering, directories... and all sorts of intermediary services and embracing them... and working with them on distribution models and profit models for their videos. There is tremendous opportunity. Opportinity to grow an industry... and to get everyone PAID.
Search has always been THE backbone of the internet... since day ONE search has been the key industry behind the internets success. That said search and related infrastructure such as that mentioned above and to be mentioned below is VERY sorely lacking in the video space which has exploded in the last 2 years.
Because of the lack of good web-wide search and intermediary infrastructure for video the space has collapsed in on one major player.
Ask any person on the web... where do you go to find video... they'll tell you youtube.. but youtube ISN't a search engine... it's just one of thousands of sites that host videos... yes the largest but it only represents a fraction of all video makers.
If as independant media makers don't back intermediaries like MyHeavy and others (mentioned below) to make the video search space a dynamic, competitice and profitable space then we can stop worrying about net neutrality in this space... because to the degree one or two players dominate the video space the internet has already STOPPED coming to our front door!
I posted the following mailing list response to: videoblogging : Message: Re: [videoblogging] CALL TO ARMS! was Re:MyHeavy
Disclaimer: This is stream of conscous and not proof read, but I hope you'll enjoy it none-the-less.
Well there you go people! I hope you're all listening!
Distribution is about more than just having a video on the internets. Or having it in RSS.
The future of distribution... and profit!
May well lie in these social sites, aggregators, search engines and the key may be creative commons copy left licensces that encourage such actions combined with a little hard work and forgievness in this conversation to establish a little netiquette for such things.
Look! If you don't want all the power to go back to big media whom will be lining up to make deals with these middle players and are getting played to... then it's about time you start working a little more progressively with these middle players yourselves.
The future might just lie in turning these players like MyHeavy into our allies... or in just realizing they ARE on our side... and perhaps forgiving them... and establishing an opt-in relationship and revenue share deal to reach NEW markets... their market... to make a little money on the side without cannibalizing or effecting your direct fans. You string enough of these syndicators and market middle men together that can bring you a bit of exposure and money to audiences you wouldn't reach otherwise and some of you just might start making a living.
In fact I dare say these middle men may well be an as yet undiscovered key to the future business and industry of the media networks of tomorrow. Looking backward at cable, sattelite and film they were key... and they haven't completely lost their utility yet it would seem.
After all the key to the world wide web has ALWAYS been in search... just ask google, yahoo, and every other giant mo-freaking company. Do these middle players NOT fit into that category? Are they not filterers? Are they not a part of searching, finding and discovery? Is that not ESSENTIALLY what social networks are? Directories? Aggregators?
I'm not just blowing smoke out my ass here. I truely think that the space between... the bubble up space is in trmendous need. I say that not just as a guy who's invested his time in mefeedia and many other aggregators in this space, but as a designer, an architect, a producer and a developer of web services... there MUST be better infrastructure in netween your blog and the next guys.
Think about it this way... the reason youtube is kicking the open vlogosphere's ass in attractiveness is it's the one place you KNOW you can go to find all the latest and greatest videos online.
Mefeedia has failed to meet that demand... but who the hell else is trying? And why not?
Blogdigger.com/media is the only other place I know to find video and audio in the open vlogosphere.
Google has COMPLETELY failed when it comes to video what is in their core mission statement... which is to make the ENTIRE world wide web searchable... in EVERY other arena google lets you search the entire world wide web... news, images, files... but in video all google searches is it's own fucking pool. And if that's all it searches then we're fucked... the road has stopped coming to our front door and we MUST battle our way back there.
Yahoo search is the biggest player whom because of media RSS covers the vlogosphere and the world wide web when it comes to video search... but even they have incredibly bastardized and skewed their results toward their own videos... you want your net neutrality... well it isn't just abotu the fucking pipes... it's being swiped from you right under your noses and you don't even seen it.
Youtube DOMINATES the web video space because of a failure and a loss for any competing company to successfully launch a search for video that covers the entire web.
Ironicly mefeedia I think is the closest to covering the entire web for video, and we only cover about 1.7 million items from the last two years in the vlogging and audio podcasting space. Sadly we haven't had all the time and resorces to make our video search kick ass like it could... sorry... we're stretched really thin, but we're working on it.
It's really ashame everyone is so damn obsessed with hosting. I think the real huge untapped potential is in the video search space and noone's doing it well at all. We've got digg video.. we've got dabble... we've got mefeedia... vlogdir... videobomb... fireant... who else is in the search, filter, socialize video space... the pickings are very slim when you consider there's several hundred video hosting sites. How's one to find a video on ALL those sites!?
Copyright is partly to blame... google got their ass sued off in image search just for making thumbnails... and for displaying news headlines for google news search. But slowly we are forging a new more copy-left stance to allow middle players in video... and let me tell you middle players that make sense out of the world wide web... that make the freeways and biways that come to your front door are the most important thing in this space... because without this infrastructure... without you embracing these middle players and building opportunities for them AND you to make money... these players like MyHeavy... or Network2.tv....or blogdigger... then the market IS going to go to the biggest walled garden... it is going to swing away from you... Where is this spaces technoratti? Where is it's bloglines? Mefeedia as much as I would like to believe cannot carry all that weight... it just can't... dare I say it's starving for lack of direction and attention that competition brings and I'm sorry I couldn't do more for peter... and for that matter more for fireant and dabble.
I'll tell you what... I'm sick of going out and recruiting new videobloggers.. it was damn fun. From now on I'm going to create a new list of aggregators, social networks, middle men... people that make stuff get found... buble it up... directories too.. and I'm going to go recruit those mother fuckers... because I look around... and maybe I am preachign to a bunch of content people that feel powerless to do anything about it... and maybe that's the problem... maybe we need more developers and more techies.... oh! did I mention webjay... them too.
So the next time we're all at vloggercon or the vloggies and have the attention of large crowds of people and we're bitching about the paultry numbers of independant vloggers next to the huge amount of youtubers... remember this and scream....
Where is the youtube of the independant videobloggers space!?
Where is the technoratti of the independant videoblogging space!?
Where are the video search engines that search the entire fucking web?
Where are the companies that make sense out of all the videos all over the web... and all the videoblogs and make shit findable and searchable.
And realize that where there's shit going down with middle players stealling your videos... or using them improperly... or pointing to them... or playlisting them... or "socializing" them... maybe even though they're totally fucked up... maybe in MyHeavy's space they totally deserve to be sued... but maybe they just need some tough love and for some vloggers to say...
Heh MyHeavy... you do great fucking advertising... but you got no content... You know what! We've got great fucking content here but we're not making any money! I smell opportunity! Let's get together and do the same thing your doing but make it opt-in.. and decide on a revenue share! What have we got to loose! You're already doing it with our content anyway! And I think you owe us one.
Peace out!
-MIke
mefeedia.com
mmeiser.com/blog
evilvlog.com
intermediated.com
Inspiration: Four Eyed Monsters - Net Neutrality Short (MOV) (43.9mb)
From:
MyHeavy.com is the latest in a long line of offenders to commit widespread copyright infringement against videobloggers.
How: They displayed hundreds of videobloggers videos from hosts like blip.tv and google video on their website... watermarking them with THEIR logo... and putting preroll ads on them, and ads around them directly profitting off their work.
Reaction this far: Reactions have been widespread ad heavy through the blog space and the primary mailing list for vloggers. It's ranged from talk of class action lawsuits... to technical disussion about ettiquette, copyright and the creative commons... luckily more of the later.
What's the hell is this ridiculous post about!? Where there is strife their is opportunity... Wht I lay the groundwork for in this rant is that maybe vloggers should be actively seeking out middle men like MyHeavy.com that are providing services... like new market exposure, aggregation, search, filtering, directories... and all sorts of intermediary services and embracing them... and working with them on distribution models and profit models for their videos. There is tremendous opportunity. Opportinity to grow an industry... and to get everyone PAID.
Search has always been THE backbone of the internet... since day ONE search has been the key industry behind the internets success. That said search and related infrastructure such as that mentioned above and to be mentioned below is VERY sorely lacking in the video space which has exploded in the last 2 years.
Because of the lack of good web-wide search and intermediary infrastructure for video the space has collapsed in on one major player.
Ask any person on the web... where do you go to find video... they'll tell you youtube.. but youtube ISN't a search engine... it's just one of thousands of sites that host videos... yes the largest but it only represents a fraction of all video makers.
If as independant media makers don't back intermediaries like MyHeavy and others (mentioned below) to make the video search space a dynamic, competitice and profitable space then we can stop worrying about net neutrality in this space... because to the degree one or two players dominate the video space the internet has already STOPPED coming to our front door!
I posted the following mailing list response to: videoblogging : Message: Re: [videoblogging] CALL TO ARMS! was Re:MyHeavy
Disclaimer: This is stream of conscous and not proof read, but I hope you'll enjoy it none-the-less.
Well there you go people! I hope you're all listening!
Distribution is about more than just having a video on the internets. Or having it in RSS.
The future of distribution... and profit!
May well lie in these social sites, aggregators, search engines and the key may be creative commons copy left licensces that encourage such actions combined with a little hard work and forgievness in this conversation to establish a little netiquette for such things.
Look! If you don't want all the power to go back to big media whom will be lining up to make deals with these middle players and are getting played to... then it's about time you start working a little more progressively with these middle players yourselves.
The future might just lie in turning these players like MyHeavy into our allies... or in just realizing they ARE on our side... and perhaps forgiving them... and establishing an opt-in relationship and revenue share deal to reach NEW markets... their market... to make a little money on the side without cannibalizing or effecting your direct fans. You string enough of these syndicators and market middle men together that can bring you a bit of exposure and money to audiences you wouldn't reach otherwise and some of you just might start making a living.
In fact I dare say these middle men may well be an as yet undiscovered key to the future business and industry of the media networks of tomorrow. Looking backward at cable, sattelite and film they were key... and they haven't completely lost their utility yet it would seem.
After all the key to the world wide web has ALWAYS been in search... just ask google, yahoo, and every other giant mo-freaking company. Do these middle players NOT fit into that category? Are they not filterers? Are they not a part of searching, finding and discovery? Is that not ESSENTIALLY what social networks are? Directories? Aggregators?
I'm not just blowing smoke out my ass here. I truely think that the space between... the bubble up space is in trmendous need. I say that not just as a guy who's invested his time in mefeedia and many other aggregators in this space, but as a designer, an architect, a producer and a developer of web services... there MUST be better infrastructure in netween your blog and the next guys.
Think about it this way... the reason youtube is kicking the open vlogosphere's ass in attractiveness is it's the one place you KNOW you can go to find all the latest and greatest videos online.
Mefeedia has failed to meet that demand... but who the hell else is trying? And why not?
Blogdigger.com/media is the only other place I know to find video and audio in the open vlogosphere.
Google has COMPLETELY failed when it comes to video what is in their core mission statement... which is to make the ENTIRE world wide web searchable... in EVERY other arena google lets you search the entire world wide web... news, images, files... but in video all google searches is it's own fucking pool. And if that's all it searches then we're fucked... the road has stopped coming to our front door and we MUST battle our way back there.
Yahoo search is the biggest player whom because of media RSS covers the vlogosphere and the world wide web when it comes to video search... but even they have incredibly bastardized and skewed their results toward their own videos... you want your net neutrality... well it isn't just abotu the fucking pipes... it's being swiped from you right under your noses and you don't even seen it.
Youtube DOMINATES the web video space because of a failure and a loss for any competing company to successfully launch a search for video that covers the entire web.
Ironicly mefeedia I think is the closest to covering the entire web for video, and we only cover about 1.7 million items from the last two years in the vlogging and audio podcasting space. Sadly we haven't had all the time and resorces to make our video search kick ass like it could... sorry... we're stretched really thin, but we're working on it.
It's really ashame everyone is so damn obsessed with hosting. I think the real huge untapped potential is in the video search space and noone's doing it well at all. We've got digg video.. we've got dabble... we've got mefeedia... vlogdir... videobomb... fireant... who else is in the search, filter, socialize video space... the pickings are very slim when you consider there's several hundred video hosting sites. How's one to find a video on ALL those sites!?
Copyright is partly to blame... google got their ass sued off in image search just for making thumbnails... and for displaying news headlines for google news search. But slowly we are forging a new more copy-left stance to allow middle players in video... and let me tell you middle players that make sense out of the world wide web... that make the freeways and biways that come to your front door are the most important thing in this space... because without this infrastructure... without you embracing these middle players and building opportunities for them AND you to make money... these players like MyHeavy... or Network2.tv....or blogdigger... then the market IS going to go to the biggest walled garden... it is going to swing away from you... Where is this spaces technoratti? Where is it's bloglines? Mefeedia as much as I would like to believe cannot carry all that weight... it just can't... dare I say it's starving for lack of direction and attention that competition brings and I'm sorry I couldn't do more for peter... and for that matter more for fireant and dabble.
I'll tell you what... I'm sick of going out and recruiting new videobloggers.. it was damn fun. From now on I'm going to create a new list of aggregators, social networks, middle men... people that make stuff get found... buble it up... directories too.. and I'm going to go recruit those mother fuckers... because I look around... and maybe I am preachign to a bunch of content people that feel powerless to do anything about it... and maybe that's the problem... maybe we need more developers and more techies.... oh! did I mention webjay... them too.
So the next time we're all at vloggercon or the vloggies and have the attention of large crowds of people and we're bitching about the paultry numbers of independant vloggers next to the huge amount of youtubers... remember this and scream....
Where is the youtube of the independant videobloggers space!?
Where is the technoratti of the independant videoblogging space!?
Where are the video search engines that search the entire fucking web?
Where are the companies that make sense out of all the videos all over the web... and all the videoblogs and make shit findable and searchable.
And realize that where there's shit going down with middle players stealling your videos... or using them improperly... or pointing to them... or playlisting them... or "socializing" them... maybe even though they're totally fucked up... maybe in MyHeavy's space they totally deserve to be sued... but maybe they just need some tough love and for some vloggers to say...
Heh MyHeavy... you do great fucking advertising... but you got no content... You know what! We've got great fucking content here but we're not making any money! I smell opportunity! Let's get together and do the same thing your doing but make it opt-in.. and decide on a revenue share! What have we got to loose! You're already doing it with our content anyway! And I think you owe us one.
Peace out!
-MIke
mefeedia.com
mmeiser.com/blog
evilvlog.com
intermediated.com
Inspiration: Four Eyed Monsters - Net Neutrality Short (MOV) (43.9mb)
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