VideoBlogging Wiki: Me-TV.org

Welcome to the community Video Blogging Wiki. (What Is A Wiki?)

Popular:

• Press Articles: Forbes, The Guardian, TIMES, Wired and Businessweek all wrote about videoblogging.
• We created an active mailing list
• Video Blogging Timeline lists important events in the world of videoblogging.
• Vlogger Con 2005 January 22nd, 10am-5pm, Parsons School of Design, NYC.

Contents

How To's

VideoBlogging

Tools &Technologies

VideoBloggingPeople

Websites

About This Wiki

How To's

How To: overview page
Videoblogging is still kind of complicated. With videoblogging we're where HTML was in 1996: there are few tools, a lot has to be done by hand, although it is getting better FAST. Here are practical tutorials.

• Getting Started With Video Blogging: set up a blog, get a camera,
• Videoblogging With Typepad
• Videoblogging With Wordpress
• Videoblogging With Movable Type
• Videoblogging Templates: html templates for embedding and so on
• Buying A Videoblogging Camera

And:

• Free Tools Useful tools for videoblogging
• How To Host Bit Torrent Files
• How To Embed Short Quicktime Videos
• How To Optimize Video
• How To Link
• How To Change Video Without Editing
• How To Video Blog From Mobile Phone Moblogging with video.
• How to Videoblog with Blogger
• How To Link Your QT Fileto Internet Archive

VideoBlogging

What is the new language of videoblogging? Is it just about people making bad home movies and putting them on the web? The meaning and language of this new medium (in our opinion) is what this section is about.

• Short Movies Versus Long Movies
• Personal Tv Networks
• Video Blog Manifestos
• Video Blogging Week
• Video Blogging Timeline
• Types Of Video Blog Entries
• Deep Linking To Video Etiquette
• Video Blogging Week
• Example Policy
• Example Screenshots
• Be The Media

Tools &Technologies

Videoblogging is enabled and constrained by technology. Even though the technology is not the biggest challenge, it's important.

Tools:

• Desk Top Tool Requirements for a videoblogging desktop tool to be developed.
• Video Encoding Tools Preparing video for the web 
• Video Editing Tools
• Flv Player A Flash based video player useful for embedding video in a webpage.
• Torren To Cracy Combine your TV, Bit Torrent and RSS
• Flash Based Videoblog templates
• Browser Based Smil Editors
• Riva Producer Lite the new and easy way to bring video to web or blog.

Technologies:

• Bit Torrent A technology for reducing bandwidth used.
• Bandwidth Cost?
• Codec List A list of the different types of video files you might run into.
• Quick Time
• Sm Il A markup language for adding text and links to video.
• Video Search
• Rss Enclosures A technique to distribute a video channel with RSS.

VideoBloggingPeople

People who are working on this new language of video on the internet. Feel free to add names. (Order them alphabetically.)

• Richard Bluestein has been creating video journals and putting them on his web site.
• Drew Baron produces Rocketboom a three minute daily video weblog cast. Promotes file-specific enclosures and Bit Torrent.
• Adam Curry Pioneer in enclosing MP3 links in RSS feeds.
• Jay Dedman Works at a community TV station in Manhattan.
• Dr. Hugo 'Body Language Sequences' Ultra-short video moments.
• Bob Doyle
• Steve Garfield Boston based video producer, as seen in TIME magazine, promoting the use of video blogs as a way to present Reality News by Citizen Journalists.
• Sean Gilligan is a software developer and entrepreneur who lives in Santa Cruz, California. He is the founder of vblogcentral.
• Tim Hall early videoblogger
• Leslye James makes videos, websites, films and other stuff too.
• Justin Johnson Travels the country, makes vidblogs, runs websites.
• Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
• Geek Jihadi let the darkness swell in zis cave brethren
• YancyLind is a middle-aged technology refugee from Silicon Valley currently recovering in Bend, OR.
• Karma Grrrl? tales of a karmically challenged life.
• Joshua Kinberg is helping develop ANT ("ANT's Not Television"), a desktop videoblog aggregator. Joshua used a videoblog to document his Bikes Against Bush protest during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
• Daniell Krawczyk at LTC in Lowell, Mass. Director of the Digital Bicycle
• Adrian Miles Pioneer in videoblogging, experiments a lot with the language.
• Michael Manoochehri out of Oakland, CA, – a sexy linux goofball who hates for-profit media. Makes fun of internet people who call themselves 'pioneers'. :-)
• Andy Roberts includes video entries amongst others on his Movable Type blog
• Charlene
• Yaron Samid Designing videoblogging tool and distribution network
• Mica Scalin
• Jon Udell? Pioneered linking within video.
• Paolo Valdemari
• Peter Van Dijck
• Chris Weagel runs the Human Dog Laboratory
• Dave Winer Author of RSS.
• Marc Canter – proud to have my nam ebelow Dave Winer's – I used to Video Blog but then I grew up.....
• Robert Scoble and teh rest of the Chan 9 team
• Eric Rice
• Adam Quirk, Bullem Head
• Thomas Winningham, and Our Media contributor, nerd
• Mark Randall Chief Magician at Serious Magic Inc. maker of Vlog It!, Visual Communicator and other video tools
• Sean Keane – educator

Websites

Useful and interesting websites for videobloggers.

• Kedora TV offers services for independently produced tv shows.
• Meta Video Blogging Thinking about videoblogging.
• Video Bloggers Doin' it.
• Press Articles
• Video Sources
• To find videoblogs.
• makes video blog creation software

About This Wiki

• This website is a wiki. That means that anyone can change any page on this website, or add new pages. Click on the “Edit this page” link at the bottom to get started. Try it out in the Sand Box.
• Useful pages: Orphaned Pages, Wanted Pages, Text Search, My Pages, My Changes, Wiki Formatting.