Extremely ironic since I cut my first “Vlog” and it checked in at 39 minutes and the lighting sucks. I have dedcided to simply kill it.

Long time collaborator Brian Flemming writes in response to my open source media find. (And hello to Brett for checking in and clarifying a bit of that fuzziness… )

Wayne Porter on open-source cinema. (Once in a blue moon Wayne writes something I can comprehend instead of stuff like this. WTF? I don’t understand the value of Twitter. I hate being left out, but I’m too lazy to figure out why it’s the greatest thing since the last greatest thing I didn’t understand.)

Just to make it clear in the example above- I was talking about virtual gateways- a project a colleague and I had put together to let someone make a note in say the metaverse of Second Life and send that note as far as a cell phone from inside the virtual world using a heads up device. Neat huh?. It it full duplex too. In the long term I hope to see it mixed with scripts to simulate disabilities and the HUD as a research device.

So Brian to make it easy- Twitter is to Blogging as your argument, based on this piece, here about the temporal aspects / challenges of vlogging to blogging (see below). It is a function of attention and how much of our finite time we want to give up before we are dead.

Brian said…

The challenges of a temporal medium

I agree with this critique of video blogging. A major flaw in the vast majority of vlogs is that they take, say, 10 minutes of rambling to say the same thing that would probably take me 2 minutes to read…
April 01, 2007

Think of twitter as “micro-blogging” or even “nano-blogging” (here is a sample of one of my twitter accounts in RSS format)- think of our usual blogs changing in the future and becoming “canons” for these micro-streams and other “micro-chunks”. Actually if you think about it our “blogs” will probably contain a number of different type of media sources from RSS to Photos, to video chunks to graphics, to text, to tweets, widgets, to our friends stuff, etc, so forth and so on. A good read would be colleague Sam Harrelson’s take on the Tumblr and Twitter as disruptors…also note Google’s move into CPA and the rise of the attention economy and “new metrics”.

As an aside- another neat use of twittering and blogs are plugins for Word Press (notably Alex King’s) that allow you to “twitter” to your stream the second a new blog post is made. I would not be surprised to see a search engine acquire twitter, because it makes perfect sense to search for things, and twitter about what we find in real time. WE WILL RELY ON SEARCH LESS and MORE ON SOCIAL INTERACTION.

What Would Help the Revolution…

To Brian: I have no doubt that you would be able to whip out very cohesive, and poignant vlogs- perhaps a post on how to do that for the rest of us? A crash course in micro-film production. I mean do you story board it? After having just cut a long piece on the history of Revenews, I realized that I meandered around- which ilong beta podcasts ok- it was a beta cut. Sam and I actually did a that went almost two hours and to our surprise it had quite a few downloads- not sure how many (I’ll ping him on that) but we went in with no real agenda except to talk and let it go until we felt “done”.

To Brett: I liked your collaborative project, even more so I am curious if you would “open source” the platform in which we used to assemble it? I have been looking at ways to collaborate with other filmmakers in such a manner and it would seem what you have cobbled together a neat technological platform to do this. Are you willing to not only “open source” the media, but open source your collaboration platform?

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