Tuesday 12 August 2008
Temporary Absence
Anticipating a trip to Brisbane next week I've leapt ahead to next week's YouTube exercise. Posting will resume ASAP.
YouTube, Google Video and the birth of a radical!
The Slow Learner's Web 2.0 video experience was a revelation.
Choosing the Olympics as a topic (duh!) I soon decided to see if there was any footage of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics on YouTube.
I found this clip Pequeños clips de la ceremonía de inauguración that is a 9 minute video of the opening ceremonies of the 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and Melbourne Olympics.
Thinking that it was a bit long for the blog I wondered if I could download the video to edit it on my computer.
YouTube does not offer a download facility, but a quick Google search soon found a free program that does download from YouTube (www.dvdvideosoft.com).
After downloading, I edited the Melbourne bits in Windows Movie Maker to create this 5 minute clip that I posted to Google Video:
While searching YouTube I had come across a clip that outraged me.
Someone had made a 30-second clip of the current state of the 1956 Olympic Rowing Course at Lake Wendouree with their mobile phone.
What started out as a YouTube exercise finished up as my first ever public political statement.
(I said I was a slow learner.)
Victoria's Olympic Disgrace :
Choosing the Olympics as a topic (duh!) I soon decided to see if there was any footage of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics on YouTube.
I found this clip Pequeños clips de la ceremonía de inauguración that is a 9 minute video of the opening ceremonies of the 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and Melbourne Olympics.
Thinking that it was a bit long for the blog I wondered if I could download the video to edit it on my computer.
YouTube does not offer a download facility, but a quick Google search soon found a free program that does download from YouTube (www.dvdvideosoft.com).
After downloading, I edited the Melbourne bits in Windows Movie Maker to create this 5 minute clip that I posted to Google Video:
While searching YouTube I had come across a clip that outraged me.
Someone had made a 30-second clip of the current state of the 1956 Olympic Rowing Course at Lake Wendouree with their mobile phone.
What started out as a YouTube exercise finished up as my first ever public political statement.
(I said I was a slow learner.)
Victoria's Olympic Disgrace :
Monday 11 August 2008
It doesn't stop!
This time when I posted the previous blog there's an invitation to try "Blogger In Draft" which is a beta version upgrade to the standard Blogger of all of my previous posts.
I've not explored all the new options - I'm too anxious to find out what happens when I publish this post!
I've not explored all the new options - I'm too anxious to find out what happens when I publish this post!
Yet another discovery
When I published the previous post a message from Google's Picasa appeared beside the "Your post published successfully" message.
It tells me that every picture I've uploaded into this Blog has also been uploaded into a Picasa Web Album!
It may be because I use a gmail account, or because I already use Picasa Web Albums, but I am impressed.
This Web 2.0 stuff is so smart that I'm doing things that are a good idea without even having the idea in the first place, or knowing that I'm doing them!
http://picasaweb.google.com/dunneb0/SlowLearner?authkey=XtClFQPwHIU
It tells me that every picture I've uploaded into this Blog has also been uploaded into a Picasa Web Album!
It may be because I use a gmail account, or because I already use Picasa Web Albums, but I am impressed.
This Web 2.0 stuff is so smart that I'm doing things that are a good idea without even having the idea in the first place, or knowing that I'm doing them!
http://picasaweb.google.com/dunneb0/SlowLearner?authkey=XtClFQPwHIU
Problem with dumpr.net
My perceived problems earlier were caused by a problem at dumpr.net.
Some of my "artistic gems" on last week's posts would not load.
It turns out that was because the server at dumpr.net was down.
I guess this highlights a potential concern with relying on magical Web 2.0 gizmos for content on blogs/myspace/facebook etc. - Your pages are dependent on something beyond your control actually working at the instant one of your readers comes along.
This blog, for instance, would look even sillier if flickr, librarything (or Amazon on who they in turn rely on), and slide.com all had problems with their servers at the same time.
But, having pondered that for 10 seconds, that's the risk well worth taking to get the magic they do provide.
So, while I was checking dumpr.net, I just couldn't resist trying one more gizmo!
Created with dumpr.net - fun with your photos
Some of my "artistic gems" on last week's posts would not load.
It turns out that was because the server at dumpr.net was down.
I guess this highlights a potential concern with relying on magical Web 2.0 gizmos for content on blogs/myspace/facebook etc. - Your pages are dependent on something beyond your control actually working at the instant one of your readers comes along.
This blog, for instance, would look even sillier if flickr, librarything (or Amazon on who they in turn rely on), and slide.com all had problems with their servers at the same time.
But, having pondered that for 10 seconds, that's the risk well worth taking to get the magic they do provide.
So, while I was checking dumpr.net, I just couldn't resist trying one more gizmo!
Created with dumpr.net - fun with your photos
Feedback Request
As I'm concerned that the Blog may now be a bit "heavy" with images, widgets and gadgets etc., I'd really appreciate some feedback on how quickly or slowly it loads on other connections and computers.
The LibraryThing book covers apparently load randomly into the Blog directly from Amazon.
That's fine by me with my cable broadband but I don't wish to have a blog that never loads!
The LibraryThing book covers apparently load randomly into the Blog directly from Amazon.
That's fine by me with my cable broadband but I don't wish to have a blog that never loads!
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is another potential worthwhile-but-time-consuming distraction.
A definite project for full exploration after the completion of the Web 2.0 course.
(As FlickR is - if I get involved in any communities I won't find out all the other communities I didn't know about!)
It was very easy to use and work within LibraryThing.
Its contributions to the blog were a bit difficult to experiment with - requiring resetting all options after trying each variation of the widgets.
The strip in the sidebar and the Tag Cloud below will have to suffice.
A Tag Cloud thing from LibraryThing :
A definite project for full exploration after the completion of the Web 2.0 course.
(As FlickR is - if I get involved in any communities I won't find out all the other communities I didn't know about!)
It was very easy to use and work within LibraryThing.
Its contributions to the blog were a bit difficult to experiment with - requiring resetting all options after trying each variation of the widgets.
The strip in the sidebar and the Tag Cloud below will have to suffice.
A Tag Cloud thing from LibraryThing :
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