Video on DeafVIDEO.TV, your Wordpress blog and DeafThat
The above vlog was produced with Seesmic Video right from my Wordpress blog on the write screen. No longer do I have to upload a video somewhere and paste it in. It’s as simple as clicking “Add a video to your post”, recording and saving a video.
I’d been using Riffly Video on DeafVIDEO.TV for approximately 6 months. Video comments are all the rage: 10,500 video comments were posted. During this time, Riffly went down two or three times. Once, in February, it went down for 2 weeks. Visitors still came to DeafVIDEO.TV to enjoy the YouTube videos although they weren’t able to leave comments.
This past weekend, Riffly went down again. So I searched for another video solution and came across Seesmic Video. Funny thing though, I’ve seen it before but it didn’t have a Wordpress plug-in then. DeafVIDEO.TV isn’t entirely based on Wordpress, so it took customizing to get it to work. 3 or 4 hours of burning the midnight candle got it to work.
Early the next morning, it was clear that people liked Seesmic. In the first 24 hours, 550 video comments were made at DeafVIDEO.TV. People remarked about how they liked the improved video quality.
I knew DeafThat! would have to switch from Riffly to Seesmic. I just finished this afternoon. DeafThat! is re-launched with Seesmic Video.
If you have a self-hosted Wordpress blog (not Wordpress.com), adding the Seesmic Video plug-in works out of the box–granted the theme is written correctly. It wasn’t until a couple days later that I discovered Seesmic wasn’t only able to make video comments but also the vlog shown in posts. Is this going to change vlogging? Not everyone has their own blog running Wordpress.
Out of the box, the default video size is medium-sized. Increasing this size is possible–edit the width and height in the included javascript file.
Hopefully soon I will have the chance to test it on DeafRead Blogs.
Test out Seesmic here in the comments, at DeafVIDEO.TV or DeafThat!
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by tayler
May 14th, 2008 5:26 pm
Cool!
Question:
When vloggers use Seesmic Video to post in their self-supported wordpress blogs, where do the video be stored? in their WP or at Seesmic?
If at Seesmic, it could be disadvantage, because vloggers wouldn’t have backup copy of their vlogging entries.
May 14th, 2008 5:31 pm
It’s hosted at Seesmic. You are right, you don’t have a copy of the vlog for safekeeping. However, just above the video, clicking on the video title will take you to the Seesmic page where you can copy code to embed it anywhere.
(I took out the title. I felt it was unnecessary.)
May 14th, 2008 8:07 pm
Gold Nugget
May 14th, 2008 8:31 pm
history where?
May 14th, 2008 8:56 pm
Taylor,
Did you get my second reply via Seemsic? If not, apparently my “Alpha” software from Seesmic that have following tab (I signed history) Sorry I mean Following, did not go to this blog.
In Alpha version, where I can look at all my replies to different blogs in my panel. I don’t have to look for it and trying to remmy where I say in one of many blogs
Ecnarb
May 14th, 2008 9:13 pm
Hello.
I’m unable to leave any video comments because the screen keeps on coming up black. There’s no buttons for me to click to record or playback or submit. I wonder why it happens? It works and most of times it’d disappear. Hmm… I use firefox!
May 14th, 2008 9:39 pm
RE:History where?
May 14th, 2008 11:33 pm
Deafreckles - have you tried the usual things like upgrading Flash player plug-in to the latest, turning off the firewall, restarting Firefox, trying other browsers? Does the camera work with other sites (Deafologue which still uses Riffly). Let me know.
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May 15th, 2008 11:21 am
captioned from Cam Twist
May 15th, 2008 12:28 pm
I am much for any simplistic method of vlog postings, but not able to view the Seesmic-programmed vlog and video comment postings. All video postings appear “totally black” on this vlog posting.
Just let you know about some problematic technique within the use of Seesmic video postings. Okay?
I am very disappointed with my recently-bought laptop with videcam built-in. I have to record it first, then paste the posting somewhere. I never tried it thru practices. I don’t have much time of doing the kind of technical hassles for vlog posting(s). I really want to do vlogging, instead of blogging.
RLM
May 15th, 2008 12:58 pm
RLM, up above Deafreckles describes the same problem as yours–and also tells how she resolved it. It was her firewall. Try turning it off.
Vlogging takes practice. It doesn’t have to be Seesmic too, however I feel it saved a lot of time. But with every advantage, the disadvantage is that you don’t have a copy of the video on your hard drive.
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May 19th, 2008 5:15 pm
Hi Phillop!