Vlogging Getting Started

What Is Vlogging (and How to Get Started) by Joshua Paul -- Short for "video blogging," vlogging is another way to take advantage of the RSS enclosure tag. Josh Paul, author of "Digital Video Hacks," explains vlogging and shows you how to get your videos into the iTunes Music Store.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my vlog. This is the place where I will share all of my videos on the web. To play my videos you can either click on the picture of the video or click on the link that says "Click here to play video" Both methods will take you to the page where the video will play. If you are curious how to create your own free vlog check out freevlog.org
This is a very good website with lots of tutorials that take you step by step on the process to creat your own free vlog. If you watch the video tutorials and do exactly what they say then you will have your own vlog. I would suggest that you do what they are saying while the video tutorial is playing. You can pause the tutorial after they say something to complete the step and then contine playing the tutorial when you are fished. I don't know any html and I was able to create my own vlog. It is very simple and I think that anybody can do it. It will take a little bit of time and some of the steps are a little bit challenging. However if you stick with it I think you will find that it is worth the effort because in the end you know how to create a cool vlog without paying a dime. So money isn't an excuse in this situation. One last thing, if you want to subscribe to my site there is a little button on the right hand colum of this page just to the right of the counter. The button says "powered by feed burner". Click on this link to subscribe to my rss feed using a feed reader software. If you don't know what all this means don't worry. When you click on the link it will take you to a page that explains it all. With that said I hope you enjoy watching my videos and thank you for visiting my site.

Starry Night

This is an album that I created with Bubbleshare. Bubbleshare is a free service for uploading and sharing your photos. If you are using a Mac you can download a plug-in that allows you to upload albums directly from iPhoto. You go to file, export, and click on the Bubbleshare tab. When your pictures are uploaded you are sent an e-mail with a link to your album, which you can forward to all your friends. They also give you a RSS feed, which is similar to what iPhoto does. They even call it photocast. Click on the photo below to view my album.

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New Podcast

I have created a new podcast using the GarageBand 3 and iweb. I created the feed with feedburner. Here is the link: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/mac/XfQW. You can copy and paste it into your browser.

Mac World/New Year

Another year is in the banks and now we have the excitement of Macworld to look forward to. I can't wait to see if the rumors about the new intel macs are true. If they are then the Mac mini could become common place as the home entertainment center. With Front Row 2 and a possible DVR application users could record television shows to their computers hard drive or external drive similar to a Tivo device. With Front Row being the application as your one stop place for media you could organize your shows. Also the Mac mini would be a great computer to hook up to your TV to play back your video podcasts. One thing that I think would be really fun would be to have a video chat with one of my friends on my 50 inch Sony Grand Wega. This reminds me of Star Trek were Captain Pecard talks to his enemies on a video screen.

Macworld

If you live in San Francisco or you are going to be around from January 10-13 you can download a free pass to get into the mac expo. Click here for a direct link.

Christmas

Christmas is just a week away. It's hard to believe that it's already this time of year. I guess when your busy and having a good time things go by fast. I still don't know what I am going to get for Christmas. I haven't asked for that much because there aren't that many new things that I want. However, I wouldn't mind a new ipod. However I have already got two ipods from my aunt so I am not expecting to get a new one, and if I did get one I wouldn't know what to do with the ipod that I already got. What I want even more than a video ipod is one of the new mac minis that Apple is probably going to announce at the Mac-Expo. That would be totally awsome, especially if they decrees the price a $100 so it could be competitive with the Xbox 360. I am really looking forward to all the new products that Apple is going to release. I read an article published by Think Secret that Apply may have made media agreements which would allow them to make videos, and TV shows available. You may not actually download the new media and instead you will have the media streamed to your computer. This will help keep space on your hard drive and you won't have to worry about loss of quality from downloading. We will find out more at the Mac-Expo.

ipod video, and Mac-Expo

In October Apple announced the 5th generation ipod that could play video, and a update to Apple's flagship computer the iMac. Both of these products are a preview of what is to come.

I wrote the following paragraph in October and for some reason it got left as a draft, so I am publishing it now.

Wow, Apple did it. After all the rumors and Steve Jobs announcing that he would never make an ipod video, it happened. The new ipod is still not called the ipod video, "simply", it is just the fifth generation ipod, replacing the fourth generation white ipod. The new ipods are both thinner, than their predecessor the 20 GB white ipod and still comes in two sizes, 30 GB ($299) and 60 GB (399). Obviously, the big deal about the new ipod is it's ability to play video. Now, with itunes 6, users can download a load of video content from video podcasts to TV shows. Currently Apple only has 16 shows available from the itunes music store; including "Lost" and "Desperate House Wives". Steve Jobs suggested in his keynote that a 1 hour episode of "Lost" takes about 15-20 minutes to download if you have a high speed internet connection. A couple new features of the new itunes music store are the ability to preview and buy music videos, which cost $1.99 a piece and include both the video and the song. The new music videos can be downloaded and played on a the new ipod. A typical music video is about equivalent to 6 songs. Other feature of the new music store are the ability to gift songs and music videos, and write reviews. You can even review podcasts and video podcasts!

If all of this isn't enough there are still the rumors about the upcoming Mac-Expo. Apple may release a re-vamped version of the mac mini, which will include an intel base, a DVR Tivo killer, and Front Row 2.0. Plus Apple has been negotiating business deals for media content so we could see more media solutions available. This could be a very exiting year for Apple and expect a lot of great new products.