vog (a BETA videoblog)

about

This videoblog has existed in various locations since 2000 and is being consolidated here. The work is made by Adrian Miles and is experimental, which means it might not work for you. I have written extensively about video blogging and what I have called 'softvideo' and this site is a blog come portfolio of my softvideo practice.

I have used several CMS's, including Movable Type and WordPress, and after experimenting with a new template (style) in WordPress decided it was just making everything too complicated. So I've returned to storing all the content in Tinderbox with good old fashioned export of static html and then just synchronising it via FTP to my host. Is this still a blog? I'm not sure. I am not offering comments, but I think comments get in the way of blogging. However, via this method I can't support trackback but if I pay attention to referrer information via something like Google Analytics then you can usually see who links here. However, this is only going to be video and I have an active blog (vlog 4.0) where I do my writing and more usual blogging.

The biggest change I expect to happen in the near future will be to migrate everything to HTML 5. This is trivial to do using this publishing model. HTML 5 can enable a lot of very interesting things with video, but to date all of the interactivity in these vogs is scripted internally in the video, as a part of the QuickTime architecture. However, I would imagine the next step will be to start to develop vogs that take scripting out of the QuickTime container and put it out there as what I guess you'd think of as vog apps.

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written in Tinderbox, sometimes use of BBEdit.

Regular reliance on Photoshop, QuickTime Pro, LiveStage Pro.

Server hosting via Dreamhost, rollover image script DOM Image Rollover by Chris Poole - http://chrispoole.com, lightbox script courtesy Shadowbox - http://www.shadowbox-js.com/