Switching to Vimeo for the last 10 days

• 
  ruperthowe 1 year ago

  I just posted this on my blog. It's a follow up to the video I posted earlier. It's a solution to something that's been really bothering me about just posting anything for Vimeo.
  
  ---
  I’m going to deliver on my commitment to make 30 videos in November, but I haven’t got the time to make any more videos with the same level of attention and quality that I’ve been posting for much of VloMo. So I’m going to post my remaining videos at Vimeo for the next 10 days. Why?
  
  Although I’ve been enjoying putting more time into my videos recently, and loving your responses, it’s just too time consuming and there’s too many important things that I *must* prioritize over it. And I want to be able to have time to *watch* as well as make - which I’ve failed to do again this year.
  
  I like it when I feel I can just spend a few moments recording a bit of video every day as a video diary - regardless of whether it’s ‘good’ or not - just sending stuff out there is worthwhile for its own reasons. That’s how Twittervlog.tv started - a video doodling pad for experimenting with my mobile phone. But it’s changed.
  
  And I’m not happy just posting 10 one-shot one-take talking head videos here on Twittervlog and drowning out videos I’ve made recently which I’ve invested much more in and like more. People only pay attention to the first few posts at the top of a blog.
  
  So I’m going to leave Twittervlog as it is, and post snippets on Vimeo to fulfil the rest of my VloMo commitment. It’ll give me much more freedom and less worry. And really, that’s what VloMo is about - sharing video, watching videos and communicating with other VloMoers - not spending hours alone in your bubble making lots of fancy pretty videos every day that will disappear the next day when you post a new one.
  
  The videoblog is a flawed format for this reason, I think. Discuss.
•  
• 
  kath 1 year ago

  yes I guess that's true. I suppose if most of your videos are just for yourself - memory triggers etc (which is what mine are) then having them on a blog is ok. I use drupal for my site - the categories/books/blogs/search & front page. so if for some reason other people want to view them there (other than me) there's multiple ways they find/reach them (mostly search engines if I check the stats)
  
  maybe you need a 'scratchpad' area / category on your blog too and a 'featured posts' or similar. though I guess vimeo is your scratchpad.
  
  I just find it easier to have them all on my blog too for later. last night I went back and looked at all my old NaVloPoMo07 videos and realised many were same as this year's though the countries were different. it was easy for me to do on my blog, but I'd have to find them all again on the old ning site (mixed in with others). but then I have some clips that just go to flickr and don't make it to my blog so they're not collated with the rest
  
  finding time to watch others has been difficult. perhaps december could be VloWatMo08 - Videoblog Watching Month ;) - where you watch / comment on at least one video per day
•  
• 
  Dennis 1 year ago

  Rupert...is there a way to add a Vimeo widget to your site? Then you can have your vids from VloMo on twittervlog (in the sidebar or something instead of the "main" vids?).
  
  Just a thought. THen people who visit twttervlog could also see what you're just uploading to Vimeo. Either way, I'm watching.
•