Month: June 2006

Updated QuickTime Embedding Plugin

QuickTime Embedding Plugin

Due to overwhelming demand (1 person), I updated my QuickTime Embedding Plugin for WordPress to support Auto Play and Hiding the movie controller.

Just thought you might like to know.. ;-)

Oh yeah, John has been very hard at work on the next version of our Video Commenting Plugin. Prepare to be impressed (I am). It should be released over the weekend.

Video Comments, Video Comments, Video Comments

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At this session at Vloggercon 2006, I presented the video comments plugin which this video is using.. Check it out. Click on “Watch Video” after the jump. (Warning, the video is long and big)

make TV

makeTV
Despite that I absolutely loathe people calling webcasting, streaming and the like “TV” this site is interesting.

From the site:
MakeTV to Watch TV: MakeTV is a live broadcast channel open to both viewers and producers. (Wish I could copy & paste but they used Flash for the site so I can’t. Oh well..)

Essentially, anyone can plugin and stream to anyone watching the content from this site.

Strange that the stats show 0 Total Broadcasts and 0 Viewable Archives.. Wonder what the deal is..

British community webcasting

Webcast Guide: Home
From the site:
The webcast guide is a central interactive hub for webcasting users, viewers and suppliers in the United Kingdom. The site has been funded by the Local e-Democracy National Project and aims to help civic leaders discover webcasting and guide them to appropriate solutions.

What’s Offered:
What’s Live: Links to webcasts currently broadcast in the public sector
Equipment Exchange: A place where people can rent out equipment
Ideas Exchange: A place where people can swap ideas
Resources: Research documents and guides about webcasting
Guide: An interactive needs analysis engine with automatic PID generator
Solutions: Links to vendor webcasting solutions with customer reviews

What is Participatory Media?

Clay asked me, what my working definition of Participatory Media is. Since I didn’t think he would like my riff on his jello and nails comment, I came up with this:

Broad definition:
A participatory medium is one which encourages audience participation in the creation, distribution and consumption of itself.

My specific spin:
A medium with similar properties to mass media (audio and video) with the addition of social interaction interwoven into the creation, distribution and consumption of it.

Even better might be how Wikipedia defines it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Media

I suppose that after having taught a course called “Producing Participatory Media” a couple of times, a definition should just roll off of my tongue. Fortunately, the concept itself has changed and grown quite a bit since then (ahh, the sweet pace of change in this interwebbed world).

Perhaps one of my former students would be better at answering this question?

Videoblogging, The Book

Amazon.com: Videoblogging: Books: Jay Dedman,Joshua Kinberg,Joshua Paul
Jay, Josh and Josh’s book, up on Amazon..

From the description:
Amazing, isn’t it? You’re on equal footing with multibillion-dollar TVand movie producers. Videoblogging lets your audience see your cause,your story, or your personal creations—and you can distribute your showto anyone with Internet access. And since the videobloggingcommunity is all about sharing, more than 20 expertshave kicked in tips and ideasto make this book the ultimatevideoblogging crash course. So head for the checkout, grabfresh batteries for your videocamera, and let’s get started!