Comments for vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs]

Comment on iCal to gCal Sync by Emily

Emily — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:44:37 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been thinking about how to sync them and didn’t realise it was so simple.

Comment on How to Write? by dpwolf

dpwolf — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:23:30 +0000

It may not have been what you set out to write, but I like the idea of a hypertext work which is centred around a single, solid ‘trunk’ node and various shorter, interconnected branching nodes.

For the reader it can provide an accessible overview of the ideas which can be read or skimmed before links are followed and individual nodes/ideas explored.

Comment on How to Write? by kath

kath — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:58:26 +0000

sounds like a dilemma but I’m sure you’ll come to the best solution. one option to just get it out there on paper (or pdf) is maybe to make a zine. so the words and formatting can be adjusted without having to fit to the essay structure. maybe different backgrounds could be written sideways or coming out of the paragraphs or different columns/pages or different typefaces etc. have some more white space to let the ideas sink in & the reader breathe whilst they take it in. perhaps like a printed version of hypertext/website – with visual links (word design layout) rather than clicking on actual links and being taken to a new page. then you do a series of these – #1, #2 etc

(& even better, post them out to people so they receive your ideas in a “slow” manner/delivery method. there’s the thrill of receiving mail, then reading the physical copy and following the links & reading them, and having to wait ‘time’ for the next installment of thought. having a web copy also would be useful for some people who like that)

Comment on Interactive Digital Storytelling by Rupert

Rupert — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:01:45 +0000

I’m going to try to make it to this. It’s not far from here. I’ll report back for you…
Glasgow’s cooler, but Edinburgh has the festivals :)

Comment on I Thought of the Novel by Chris Weagel

Chris Weagel — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:05:45 +0000

I’m not sure what would be made but a lot of this is ringing familiar – or feeling familiar – with much of what I’ve been working on for years. As much as film and especially TV has influenced me, over the years what I’ve really longed for is the experience of a comic book. BUT Specifically the experience of a small paperback of collected Mad Magazine comics from the 1950s. I’ve returned to that experience time and again in consuming and producing work.

I really admire the life the solitary newspaper strip cartoonist able to bring forth a little world from their hand. They touch the same little boxes the reader does.

TV did this for a while but I don’t find that intimacy from TV much anymore. The shift has been further and further towards the spectacle. Even serialized drama on TV seems more operatic and cinematic rather than informal and contained.

There’s many reasons the traditional Soap Opera is dying off.

Comment on HTML 5 by Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:00:30 +0000

Both Opera and Firefox arrived with experimental support for the video element around 2 years ago (I remember seeing a demo at reboot in Copenhagen in 2007). It has taken a long time and it will keep taking a long time. The problem is mostly licensing issues. Unlike image formats video formats are all bogged down with different patent issues. Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora are finally getting to the points where they are usable—the next step being support in consumer tools (e.g. Ogg export from QuickTime) out of the box and direct support in the browser.

I have worked with the Quicktime javascript API and it is pretty good in the browsers that support it. It will be nice to have a standardized API in browsers to code up against and having native support means that the video will become a part of the page canvas (so you can do overlays and other things that are not possible with the Quicktime plugin).

Exciting times.

Comment on Tama’s New Job by Tama

Tama — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:18:24 +0000

I hope there will be some really interesting things coming, too! ;)

Comment on Update by Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:17:41 +0000

Such a different world. We’ve been around freezing this entire week. It is almost as hard getting work done with your fingers are trembling from the cold.

Comment on Post Christmas and Age by chris

chris — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:35:22 +0000

Your coreself never feels much different does it? I remember my grandmother remarking the same to me when she was in my eyes ancient.

I’ve had the same frustrations with my V1P, it seems you have to use a laptop attached to a camera to get an old style intervalometer level of control. I went through a long period using mine for timelapse though and found it very useful. Spent ages trying to do HDR ones by combining the auto exposure bracketing with the lapse settings with sometimes good results.

Comment on Annotate Digital Video Exchange on the Net (ADVENE) by Olivier Aubert

Olivier Aubert — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:14:17 +0000

Well, I would rather say “a little bit of French amongst the English”, since apart from the general presentation in the main page, which is available in both English and French, the rest of the website is in english.
As a side note, the wiki link is invalid (spurious terminal i).
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