http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ en-us 2005-02-16T16:01:34+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000565.html A couple of weeks ago we had the wettest ever day in Melbourne's meteorological recorded history. After it had stopped, we took the kids down to Dight's Falls, on the Yarra which wends its way through the green leafy (aka... Vogging Practice Adrian Miles 2005-02-16T16:01:34+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000564.html Just In Time Teaching. Semester starts Monday. One curriculum updated from its first iteration last year, one brand new second year to deliver. Bit crazy at the moment as a consequence. It is easy to map content, but when I... Teaching for Creative Industries Adrian Miles 2005-02-16T12:21:02+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000563.html When you work in a large institution you are subject to highly centralised IT policies. You can understand what happens in such cultures, as their mission is not innovation, research, or teaching, but to ensure that the network is there... Network Literacies Adrian Miles 2005-02-16T12:18:18+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000562.html This Melbourne blog explains how to use ID3V2 tags to add chapters to a MP3 file. Since I work in QuickTime I'd probably do this differently, using a QuickTime chapter track, but I'm not sure how that would affect... Vogging Practice Adrian Miles 2005-02-16T10:27:57+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000561.html This is Apple's H.264 FAQ. This is next generation MPEG4 codec that will be built into QuickTime 7, and is also adopted as the new DVD codec.... Vogging Tools Adrian Miles 2005-02-10T12:12:24+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000560.html There's a brief PR page up at Apple outlining some of the new features in QT 7. The most significant is probably they H.264 codec, which will deliver much higher frame sizes for very low data rates. This will make... Network Literacies Adrian Miles 2005-02-10T12:08:33+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000559.html Me-TV.com has become mefeedia, a seriously kewl name. It aggregates RSS from videoblogs, and is the brainchild of Peter Van Dijck. Seriously smart. It lets anyone add feeds, it seems to automatically create an appropriate feed with enclosures if your... Vogging Tools Adrian Miles 2005-02-10T11:17:41+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000558.html ANT development continues apace with another release today. Not sure when various features have been added but now ANT: has a link button that loads the url that any individual video feed is derived from (so the blog entry that... Vogging Theory Adrian Miles 2005-02-09T18:26:40+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000556.html No, not LA international airport (where the big jet engines roar), but as in slack. I haven't made any video for a while, so today I just found old footage on the tiBook that I hadn't done anything with and... Vogging Practice Adrian Miles 2005-02-04T16:32:07+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000555.html Geoffrey Rockwell has a nice collection of photos and observations about space, learning, and light. My own area might be moving to a renovated building in the next 18 months or so, and Jeremy and I have thought a lot... Adrian Miles 2005-02-04T13:27:04+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000554.html This is a project I saw a few years ago (unless it is different project with the same name? nah) which is out of the Uni of California at Berkeley. From their blurb: Garage Cinema is doing cutting edge research... Interactive Cinema Adrian Miles 2005-02-04T13:15:46+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000553.html On the videoblogging list there's been some light discussion about genre. I suspect it is pretty much time to recognise that blogs are not a genre. They might have been, briefly, but not any more. They're a medium (that's medium... Blog Theory Adrian Miles 2005-02-03T13:25:51+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000552.html Jay Deadman (with Josh) has been responsible for developing a video aggregator for OS X. The result is ANT, which is now in public beta. While there are issues that video aggregation raise (more on this later, it's nearly... Vogging Tools Adrian Miles 2005-01-28T16:02:41+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000551.html An essay I wrote for Metro has just appeared. In all seriousness it is mediocre work, much more a case of needing to get an idea out there rather than actually nurturing it properly. It's called Blogs: Distributed Documentaries of... Essays Adrian Miles 2005-01-27T17:31:04+10:00 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/vlog_archive/000550.html I'm on another week's holidays with my kids so there won't be much happening here for a while. Videoblogging is building hand over fist, so in a week's time we'll have had the first videoblog gathering and the lists will... Adrian Miles 2005-01-17T16:11:45+10:00