Kvifor.com

I told the students that replying to my own posting would be somewhat pathetic, but now I’m doing it anyway :-). I talked and showed the system as well as a couple of vlogs for like 7-8 minutes. I talked about vided.org and videoblogging and was hoping for some of the students to want to try vided.org, or even go to like www.videoblogging.info to explore their possibilities on their own. All in all, I got to way a lot. I’m still not completely satisfied with my talk, for several reasons.

1. Unclear; what do I really want from you? (I want to inform, encourage, and I want you to try vided.org. And world peace.)

2. Why not give the students a webpage where they could sign up right away? Good idea, but I want the students to fill out a questionnaire _before_ they start using vided.org. This isn’t finished yet, I’m sorry! (signup is coming to a webpage near you THIS WEEK).

3. I’m not experienced in talking to like 150 students. I hope my nervousity wasn’t too obvious…

OK. What I would want to talk more about was:

1. Vlogging as a new medium, new possibilites, enabling vodcasts in iTunes as well as FireANT. And possibly also directly to your living room TV in a few years time.

2. I would describe vlogging/vided.org as an excellent tool for a media student for learning about media, publishing, getting responses, cooperative editing, getting better at writing.

3. The vlog community. The creativity. The fantastic work that’s beeing done both by programmers and media creators.

Hopefully, I will get the chance when appearing at a few study-groups, as well as a few actually reading this.

I'm doing a presentation to media students right now.

My route to work by bike

I’ve tried the new Opera Mini. I’ve read a couple of reviews of it, and it hasn’t exactly been praised. But it works for me, even though I have a small 128*128 screen on my Nokia 6230. I even tried vided.org on it, and… well of course it is a lot of work navigating here and there, but it actually works nicely. Highly recommended by me!

I don’t know if I’m allowed to publish the address to the Norwegian download here. But on the net, the rule “better safe than sorry” doesn’t apply. Her goes: http://mini.opera.com/tv2/. It’s a 60KB download

The starting page is locked to a Norwegian broadcaster, TV2.

Today I've been messing around with CSS stuff again. I'm certainly a beginner, but I'm starting to learn. Bear in mind that I'll never be good at design, but as noone voluntered to help me out, I had to improve the rather …uhm.. crippled design. I also changed the video editing user interface, you no longer need to scroll horizontally, it's more like a cartoon now.

I guess you all know about http://ag.vided.org/rss. I’ve also created another XML test:
This works in iTunes, just select Subscribe to Podcast from the Advanced menu. Enter the URL http://ag.vided.org/podcasts/ and click OK. You’re done.

Remember it’s a test stream, not all fields are complete, etc.

Update: You need at least iTunes 4.9 to do this. You also might need to press one or two of the five buttons on your down left corner in iTunes in order to view the video. One (the fourth button) is labelled “show or hide song artwork” for some reason. It will show the videos in stamp-format. The other one (the fifth button) is for fullscreen showing.