Apperceptions

The RichardShow Screencast

Richard made a screencast of ANT. 

All day long I've been griping to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group about the troubles with Archive.org accessability and the Apple Quicktime Fast Start option.

So I went to watch Richard's latest gift to humanity and guess what happened!

It's like waiting for that client call or meeting. 

I hate it.  I hate it.  I hate it.

So I made a screencast of Richard's screencast.  What else could I do?

I love the RichardShow.  I love Scratch Video.  I love ANT (FireANT). 

Thank you Richard.  Thank you Charlene.  Thank you Josh, Daniel, Erik, Jay and Ryanne.

Click the pic to view the vid.  Better if you use ANT, because this is a bit large (10 minutes, 36MB).

Will Work 4 ...

I'm desparate (so no apology needed). 

I need to get some money. 

It's time to take this to the streets.

Click the pic to view the vid.

To be continued...

49Media.com Podcast

I'm too stoked.  Chris Ritke was kind enough to ask me for an interview for his podcasts.  I had too much fun and it's now on the 49Media.com.

Please visit 49Media for the complete post.  Here is a link to the mp3 file.

"Chris speaks with Markus Sandy about Spinflow.org, video blogging, vlogifying people and organizations, Podcast Hotel, Spincasting, videoblogging street teams, Blogher & a Spinflow sponsored west coast vlogger meetup, SpinXpress and more."

Chris was also so kind as to put the podcast on the Internet Archive.  Thanks Chris.

Collaborative Video

I posted an article on "Collaborative Video" at spinflow.org, please check it out; I'd really appreciate your feedback (or pushback!  I like that word.)

It covers a wide rage of group efforts centered around video in general and videoblogging in particular.

Here is clip from yesterday's videoblogging video conference in which Nathan Peters is discussing music and video collaboration.

Just one of the many topics dicussed.

ANT's Not Television

Unfortunately, it's not for Windows 2000 or 2003 either and those are the the versions of Windows that I use the most.

Lucky for me, I've been using Ant for quite some time on the Mac already and so no big.  But I would like to review it.  I'm sure plenty of others will and I'm sure it's a great product.  It's by a great team.

My wife has an XP desktop.  I'll have to try it on that.  Whoopie.

What really interests me is: how will this effect the size of the videoblog/feed pulling audiance?

RSS Feeds for Videos

Hmmm.  I just tried to see if the RSS feed for this blog would work in ANT.  Nope.  Ant indicated an error downloading and parsing feed.  I've done this before successfully for webjay feeds, but not a TypePad blog. 

I was thinking about using Feedburner anyway as it will be useful for the new SpinFlow site.  Perhaps it will work better.  I notice it's use on other sites and I hear you can get good stats too. 

Ok, so more stuff to learn and do trying to get my message about SpinFlow out to you. I'll make notes here as I resolve things.  I'll probably have to learn more about RSS enclosures or something like that.

This is what SpinFlow is all about: helping to remove the barriers to self expression.

ANT's Not Television

I came back from my trip to find OVER 50 NEW Videoblog posts to watch!!!  Rocketboom, Ryanne, karmagrrrl and so many others to catch up on!  PLUS new blog comments from those great folks at ANT's Not Television are announcing a new release that adds new sorting capabilities.  Oh this is just too much for one day!  I admit it.  I'm a videoblog addict!!!  Where will I ever get the time to catch up?  Remember when you had to catch up on dozens of emails?  Well, now it's video!!!

I have to confess something: while I have nurtured and evolved my RSS newsfeeds for blogs (I use Thunderbird and am also trying out Bloglines), I have never added a feed to ANT.  I just let it automatically fetch the feeds that they had shipped the first version with!!!  Even though they had a great del.icio.us directory for feeds (see also here) I never got around to checking out any new ones, what with the amount of time I already put into my work projects and my IA Tonight work.  So here comes a new version and, probably, an update to the feed list.  I was gone for 5 days and had over 50 videos waiting for me.  What's next?  100?  I still need "better radio", but I love this stuff.  Thanks to all the videobloggers (especially you ANT people).  I love what you're doing.

ANT (Ant's Not Tv)

Here is the feedback I sent to ANT after using it for a few days:

"I love it.  I have had no problems what so ever.  Great install.  My biggest desire so far is (1) be able to  sort playlist and feeds (by name, date, etc) and (2) allow for easy import from del.icio.us (or directory when it is available) and (3) allow playing downloaded files in proper date order (i.e., if I download file1.mov and file2.mov and file1 was published before file2, then I have to rearrange the order of the files in the playlist if I want them to play in the proper order).  Item (3) could be effected by (2) if downloaded files where added to playlist in the proper sort order (i.e., if sorted by date ascending, then new files would be added to the end of the playlist in proper date order and playing "down" the list would play them in the correct order.  Hope all that makes sense and is helpful.  Thanks for a great product."

They say a Windows version (Linux too) is coming soon.  According to Jay Dedman over at Momentshowing, the name ANT is "a funny play of the GNU" (GNU's Not Unix) phrase.