Creative Commons & Video Splogs
This is a quick post about recent events on the videoblogging' yahoo list serve... This morning I woke up and had some time while drinking coffee to read some of the zillion posts that get posted there by the most active pioneers of what has become known as videoblogging. OK. let me back up for a second. I think I actually AM a videoblogger. I think I maybe became one when I joined the high-traffic list, and actually am taking time to follow the intense discussion there and think about how I might be able to contribute. But, I have been posting video on the web since 2000. Very early renditions of this very website (back in 2000) had small video clips embedded and I was posting videos of Whirl-Mart and other protest activities on Indymedia . But videoblogging involves a bit more of a grasp on rss technology and the capabilities of aggregation and syndication that the combination of blog software and internet TV plat forms make possible. SO - WHAT'S THE STORY HERE? Well. the big thread today on the afformentioned email list was myheavy.com and how they were aggregating videos from google and blip.tv and posting them on their site wrapped in pre-roll and post-roll advertising AND in a special embedded player that was surrounded by ads. The folks from Galacticast were maybe one of the first to point this out (i lost track), so i decided to search for the show I have been puting out for several months now, My Survival Kit . Sure nuff! there it was... clad in ads. Well this story is getting longer than it needs to be. There are a couple points to make, though:
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