Webcast
Face to Face - Face to Many Faces also known as Oral History and sometimes referred to as Teaching, Gossip, or Story Telling.
Life Lessons Learned by telling and hearing the stories. What is important is . . .
Who Is Telling The Story!
All of history is one long story. History is nothing more than story telling. Gossip turns out to serve a purpose afterall.
VIDEOBLOG / VLOGS
Video blogging Learn how to video yourself with your own webcam and then put it up online somewhere.
Video blogging Cheaper video recorders mean anyone can make videos, while anybody can watch clips posted online. As videos get streamed TV will be transformed and thought of as the days when you had to watch something that others chose for you.
Ready for your close-up? Here come the vlogs One approach is to create a videocentric version of the RSS tool that lets readers “subscribe” to multiple text blogs and view them in one place. A video version would essentially let viewers create playlists of vlogs, ideally all in the same digital media player with easy transitions between each.
Broadcasting Software Video Communicator Studio
from Serious Magic (http://www.seriousmagic.com) for green screen (or blue screen) broadcast productions. It runs well on good hyperthreaded Wintel machine. Power Director 4 http://www.gocyberlink.com is a very nice video editor with excellent picture-in-picture and powerful special effects. Together, these two products give Windows users tremendous video production capabilities.
Webcast Listings or Directories
Who Owns Big Media and how P2P will dominate the Media monopoly?
RSS
THERE IS NOTHING SIMPLE ABOUT RSS IT IS DIFFICULT. What is RSS? and Publishing RSS Feeds?
Dave Winer invented RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
RSS feeds will be the next major ICT literacy challenge for the general public, particularly when only five percent of people on the Net use RSS and they tend to be white, well-off, and very well educated, according to the folks at Pew.
Aaron Swartz is a teenage writer, coder, and hacker. He was a finalist for the ArsDigita Prize for excellence in building non-commercial web sites at the age of 13. At 14 he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, now used by thousands of sites to notify their readers of updates. He's a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group which is developing the format for the Semantic Web and Metadata Advisor to the Creative Commons. He's also the author of rss2email, xmltramp, HTML diff, and html2text. [More...]
Make an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosure tags which is then amended each time a new media file is published, including a URL linking to each enclosure. Client software (such as iPodder) is then used to aggregate the RSS feeds, automatically downloading the enclosures and organizing the files based on the user’s preferences.
Security experts disagree about the possible threat of computer worms transmitted via RSS feeds. While no virus has yet used this method, some worry that when any network becomes large enough it will become a target. Although it may not be an immediate threat, theoretically exploited RSS data feeds could direct users to malicious websites. Worms that could use RSS readers to spread are a more comlex threat that currently does not pose a practical danger as the feeds generally do not have large enough subscriptions.
The intersection of Broadcast and Webcast.
What is a Webcast, Podcast, blog, and audioblog?
Definition of Webcasting
(v.) (1) To use the Internet to broadcast live or delayed audio and/or video transmissions, much like traditional television and radio broadcasts. For example, a university may offer on-line courses in which the instructor Webcasts a pre-recorded or live lecture, or an enterprise may Webcast a press conference in lieu of or in addition to a conference call. Users typically must have the appropriate multimedia application in order to view a Webcast.
(2) To use push technology, to send Web-based information to an Internet user.
(n.) The data transmission that results from one of the above methods.
Netcast is another name for Webcast.
Webcast Associations
The International Webcasting Association
Media Cast http://www.mediacast.com
NATPE National Association of Television Program Executives
Summary of the Determination of the Librarian of Congress on Rates and Terms for Webcasting and Ephemeral Recordings
World Wide Internet TV
IPTV Poised to Give Cable and Satellite Television a Run for Their Money
This summary of a February 2006 poll explores "consumer awareness and interest in and the potential impact of IPTV [Internet Protocol Television], an upcoming digital television service that is delivered through Internet protocol over a broadband connection." Discusses interest in IPTV features (such as cost and on-demand options), IPTV service for home PCs, and potential effect on other television services. From Harris Interactive.
IPTV vs. Internet Television: Key Differences
This blog entry discusses the differences between IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and television distributed over the Internet. The entry notes that IPTV is television available over a broadband network and is generally supported by large media outlets, and that Internet television is based on the same open publishing model as the rest of the Internet. Includes links to related material. From a blogger who is "an online publisher and new media communication expert."
wwiTV: World Wide Internet TV
This independent guide to Web TV provides links to live and on demand television broadcasts from over 100 countries. Includes music, sports, and news outlets. Available in several languages.
What is the highest number of people that can "comfortably" log onto a webstream/cast?
That depends on several factors, the most important two being: what is the bandwidth of the streaming server that you are broadcasting the webcast with, and what is the bitrate of the video that you are broadcasting? The lower the bitrate of the video, the lower the quality, but the more simultaneous viewers you can have. Also, lower bitrates for your video allow viewers with slower connections to get much smoother video. Having more bandwidth on your streaming servers means you have more "space" to accomodate a higher number of viewers.
Most Webcasting hosts have a cut-off number that you
should use as a guide to their bandwidth.
Really, the bottom line for bandwidth consumption on
your end is:
- how heavy the media is that you're streaming (stillimages vs. 30 fps movies in powerpoint)
- how important it is for everyone to see information
simultaneously (keep in mind that everyone has a
little latency)? - What speed is your audience connected at?
These are a few of the factors I've experienced with
getting a Webcast off. And don't forget, 80% of the
people who view your Webcast will see its archived
version.
