I like YouTube. I really do. I use it, and credit them with blowing the doors off the grassroots video revolution by making it brain-dead simple to upload and share videos. But when author David Weinberger cited YouTube as a public commodity — "it’s ours" — it was a bit too much. I cornered David […]
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Web video beyond YouTube
Walt Mossberg (whom I ran into last week in San Jose) in the Wall Street Journal: It’s Not All YouTube — The Web Is a Trove Of Watchable Videos. Amen to that, brother. Excerpt: While YouTube is sometimes seen as synonymous with the Internet video revolution, there is a lot more to Web video. In […]
‘should i stay or should i go?’
With British Prime Minister Tony Blair set to hightail it out of office in a few months and the news that the Brits are pulling part of its contingent out of Iraq, it’s a good time for an encore of Rx’s should i stay or should i go?
How to attribute your work with Creative Commons
Cheryl Colan, a videoblogger and adjunct faculty member at Phoenix College and Scottsdale Community College in Arizona who teaches digital storytelling, multimedia and podcasting, raised an interesting question on the Spinflow list a couple of days ago. This is the thing that bothers me about the Creative Commons Attribution license. Using it does not specifically […]
Transcoding video into multiple formats
Two of my good friends — Steve Garfield and Zadi Diaz — are two of the videobloggers doing the best job at encoding high-quality video into different formats. The other day I asked Zadi how she creates multiple versions of the videos in her videoblo/video podcast JetSet, which has its own home here as well […]