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The webolution is here ... and on TV

mndoci — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:11:23 -0500

I am obviously biased, but I am in love with video. The tools have become very convenient and the ubiquity of Flash only make video that much more appealing.

What would I call my video blurbs ... I guess videocast is as good a term as any.

Adding YouTube channels to Miro

pansapiens — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:45:15 -0400

You can add "channels" (ie videos of a particular YouTube user) to Miro by getting RSS feeds like this:

http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username here]/videos.rss

You can also get RSS feeds for all videos with a particular tag, like:

http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/science.rss

Where this would be all the videos tagged science.

Google Video search results also have an associated RSS feed. In fact, in more recent versions of Miro (mine is 0.9.8.1) you can use the in-built video search to find Google Video, YouTube, Revver, blip.tv etc videos and click "Save this Search as a Channel" at the top of the results.

It looks to me like JoVE doesn't provide any type of RSS/ATOM feed, which is a shame. I might just have to get busy with Dapper or openKapow and help the JoVE team out by making one :).

scivee - miro support

dalloliogm — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:58:02 -0400

ok, now you can watch videos from scivee in miro:

I'm not sure what to make of

Greg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:54:28 -0400

I'm not sure what to make of all this yet. I did notice that Depak has a video blog (videocast ?).

The Webolution Will Not Be Televised

Duncan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:25:35 -0400

I'm never quite sure wether to love or hate flash technology, its good and bad all at the same time. Since writing this, I remembered the Royal Society also have some good scientific video streams currently only in Windows Media Player / Real player though.

Adding to Miro

dean — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:19:53 -0400

This would be difficult -- one of the downsides of flash players is that they obfuscate the video file and make it difficult to video podcast (or use in Miro). Flash does the same thing to text -- it hides the text from search engines.

--Dean

miro - democracy player

dalloliogm — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:37:34 -0400

Do you know how to add these sources to Miro [1] (ex democracy player) ?

[1] http://www.getmiro.com

The Webolution Will Be Televised

Duncan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:19:13 -0400

The American poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron once famously remarked that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [1]. Science has undergone its own quiet revolution since the invention of the Web back in 1990. This has slowly but surely changed scientific communication, not just a Revolution but a "Webolution" [2] if you like. The recent addition of television to the Web means that, to paraphrase Gil, the Webolution will be televised. You can now watch some of the webolution in science, thanks the likes of JOVE (The Journal Of Visualised Experiments), SciVee.TV, Google Video and YouTube. What are these sites like and is their scientific and technical content any good?