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6/08/2007


Evening Reading: 6/8/07

Louis Gray says the biggest blogs aren't really blogs any more.  He's right.  The good ones are the new old media.  The bad ones are pro sports:  all about the money and the bling.

Darren Rowse on building your personal brand through blogging.  Good, common sense advice.

@Rick: I'm not on the Vlog wagon (yet), but FYI the video doesn't show up in feeds.  That seems to me to be a big drawback.  As far as the video blogging thing goes, I like TDavid's Hmmmcasts (which has an enclosure in my feed, but won't play).  A couple of minutes.  Good information.  Someone should invent an application that allows people to do remote video podcasts, with little Brady Bunch boxes for each participant.  That would be very cool.

I wish someone loved me as much as Scoble loves Zooomer.

Seth Godin has an interesting post about coaching.  I have done a fair amount of coaching and, for me, being coachable all comes down to one trait: the ability to listen as opposed to just hear.

@Tony: Why are you feeding the troll?  Starve him.  Like a cold.  Or is that a fever?  I can't ever remember.  As usual, Amy gets it.

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Yikes an enclosure that won't play? What RSS Reader do you use, Kent? I'll go check it out and see if I can troubleshoot the issue.

By Blogger TD, at 6/08/2007 8:44 PM  
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TD: Bloglines

By Blogger Kent, at 6/08/2007 9:00 PM  
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Wow, I see what you mean, Kent. Thanks for the head's up.

If you have the QuickTime player you can click on either the 'mp4' link or the 'enclosure' link and it will open a new window and play just fine (is that what you've been doing?), but it would sure be nice to have the embedded video like it shows up in other players right there where all you do is click play.

If you look at the RSS feed in say Google Reader you'll see the video embed right there and you don't have to download or click back to the site. Much more viewer friendly and as the experience is intended to be.

It would seem there are issues with embedded video enclosures in Bloglines unless they are Flash. See:
http://www.bloglines.com/forums/read.php?8,554

I do have a flash embed but not as an enclosure. Going to play with this one and see if I can't generate a better experience for Bloglines readers than what exists now.

By Blogger TD, at 6/08/2007 9:16 PM  
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Kent, thanks for pointing out the video issue in my RSS feed. I'll be working on figuring that out so it works properly. I also went into Google Reader to look at my feed and saw the same problem - no video.

Again, thanks for the heads-up! :)

By Blogger Rick Mahn, at 6/09/2007 8:46 AM  
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