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JimH

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Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« on: June 28, 2006, 06:52:35 pm »

I've been watching Rocketboom (www.rocketboom.com) since about episode 340.  They're on about #410 now.

I know about a few other good ones, but is anyone else out there watching them?  If so, what do you like? 

We've collected a view audio and video podcasts here:

http://www.perbcast.com/
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs)
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2006, 09:48:43 pm »

The only ones I've been watching with anything approaching regularity are the ones at Kevin Rose's Revision3.  Some of them are awesome though...
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs)
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2006, 04:37:47 am »

I am not into video podcasts yet. There is only so much time and watching videos takes about all of your concentration. I'd rather spend time with DVD movies when I can. (Though, Carolyn's reports are nice and not too long.)


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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs)
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2006, 08:41:32 am »

I should say... Much like Podcasts are the future of radio, I think VideoCasting is definately the future of television (and probably movies too).  ...Much to the chagrin of the "Infotainment Industry" I suppose!
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs)
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2006, 09:10:15 am »

I should say... Much like Podcasts are the future of radio, I think VideoCasting is definately the future of television (and probably movies too).  ...Much to the chagrin of the "Infotainment Industry" I suppose!
Podcasts can include audio, video, or images.  I think they may be the "object oriented programming" that will partially replace TV and radio. 

Is videocasting different, in your mind?
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2006, 11:19:31 am »

Not at all!!  In fact, I think we'll see new types of "*casting" in the future, including Machinima-casting and "Fusion-casting" which will include a blend of video/audio/text/still/hypertext elements.

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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2006, 01:07:03 pm »

Miss Cupcake is the only one I subscribe to.
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2006, 10:43:43 am »

 >:(   :'(

She's not on vacation.

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It's, of course, just a guess but... I would guess that the remaining "partner" of Rocketboom will come to regret this move.
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2006, 01:38:33 am »

Don't miss the show with zefrank - www.zefrank.com/theshow. It's become my favorite three minutes of the day.
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2006, 04:08:25 pm »

I thought I'd mention.... I've gotten fairly into a few Video Podcasts recently.

One of my favorites is DL.tv.  This is hosted by many of the people you might remember from the old TechTV Screen Savers show (before G4 bought the network and ruined it completely), including: Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, and Roger Chang (and Kevin Rose visits every so often).

The video cast is available in a variety of formats, including DivX, MPEG4, and MOV-wrapped H264 (and plain old MP3 for listening on those long commutes).  Works great with MC.

http://www.dl.tv/

A couple others I like are: Diggnation from Kevin Rose's Revision3 and This Week in Tech from good old Leo Laporte at TWiT.tv
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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2006, 05:38:27 pm »

I am not up on the latest standards, so tell me if this is possible today.

A big problem I have with both both Podcasts and VideoCasts is, as someone mentioned, you need to give your full attention.

If I had a long train/metro commute every day, I would load up and it might be worth the effort.

But one drawback I have had with many podcasts and videos is that the content creators package a whole "show" or episode.  I would like a very clear "table of contents" and the ability to quickly jump to the next story (track or bookmark) in the episode.  It seems most podcasts give you a description, but then you have to fast forward to find the bits you want.  I think Audible content has bookmarks, but not sure how that works.

So I would want much more granular pieces ("nuggets"), each with a good description and meta data, and an RSS aggregator (or MC) that pulls them in based on keywords, other users ratings, social networking relationships (i..e my friends are watching something), rather than the bundles of content in many current podcasts.  Basically to pull in GoogleTube video clips regardless of source, rather than me subscribing to a given source for every one of their episodes.

I think some of that is here today and some is coming soon.

I would be curious of those watching video casts as to what device you are watching on: PC, main television or iPod.

Just some thoughts.

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For example, i went to Revison3 to see Kevin Rose et al, and one episode has this:

REVIEWS: "Science of Sleep" "Heroes" "Studio60"; TRAILERS: "300"; NEWS: Reitman's Juno, Altman Hard Body, Wargames2:the dead game, Die Hard 4 Villain? new Myazaki film; COMICS: Ed Brubaker's "Criminal"; VIDEO GAMES: Sonic on 360, Fear, Fuzion Frenzy 2; FORUM: Has a movie or tv show ever motivated you to do anything?

Out of all of that, I wanted to first see their review of Studio60 (I happen to like it and wanted to see what they think).  The file is 360mb.   So I stopped.

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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2006, 08:41:23 pm »

dl.tv

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Re: Video Blogs (Vlogs) AKA Video Podcasts
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2006, 11:04:07 pm »

I would be curious of those watching video casts as to what device you are watching on: PC, main television or iPod.

On my HTPC, which I guess means my answer is: TV, but using MC.
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