With little else scheduled to do, I worked on editing and correcting the music slide shows for Anna all day Monday, and when we were both satisfied with the results, she uploaded them to You Tube for viewing. At choir practice on Tuesday evening, she made sure we took note of how to find them. It's not easy to find them at first, when there are almost no views, and before Google's bots have checked the content and flagged them for basic search. By trial and error we found that Googling 'Fountain Choir Cardiff' helped locate them reasonably quickly. I can't imagine having a business and a career that involves the constant promotion of video content in a market lace which is by nature global.
Lat week there was an interesting item on Radio 4 about a curious feature of YouTube, I hadn't heard of before. Apparently millions of videos have been uploaded of the years since digital video recording became a feature of every camera and phone, which get almost no views. Some people use it to document their lives or their creative output, with no concern to promote it to others. If they do get views it may be because there's another legion of YouTube users who want to be entertained by randomly selected videos, material curated by chance, you might say.
In addition, there's a variety of sites where interesting collections of randomly selected videos can be viewed. Featured in this programme was a website called Astronaut.io, brought to life by two San Francisco based techies. It features random clips of a few seconds length, and weaves a unique tapestry of images and sound. Here's an American feature article about it. I guess it's the equivalent of what we used to do as kids, turning the tuning dial on the Long Wave radio to catch the sounds of broadcasts from Europe and the rest of the world through the hiss and crackle.
It's said the internet abolishes distance, in the sense that you can communicate with people anywhere, and be informed or entertained by material without knowing where it's been produced. We home in on themes and places that catch our attention and interest, and in narrowing our attention may miss out on much more. Astronaut.io allows the flow can be halted on any video that captures attention, and let it play play to conclusion which invites viewers to be more than passive. There's something quite contemplative about just looking and listening openly, letting yourself be surprised by what's out there.
Lat week there was an interesting item on Radio 4 about a curious feature of YouTube, I hadn't heard of before. Apparently millions of videos have been uploaded of the years since digital video recording became a feature of every camera and phone, which get almost no views. Some people use it to document their lives or their creative output, with no concern to promote it to others. If they do get views it may be because there's another legion of YouTube users who want to be entertained by randomly selected videos, material curated by chance, you might say.
In addition, there's a variety of sites where interesting collections of randomly selected videos can be viewed. Featured in this programme was a website called Astronaut.io, brought to life by two San Francisco based techies. It features random clips of a few seconds length, and weaves a unique tapestry of images and sound. Here's an American feature article about it. I guess it's the equivalent of what we used to do as kids, turning the tuning dial on the Long Wave radio to catch the sounds of broadcasts from Europe and the rest of the world through the hiss and crackle.
It's said the internet abolishes distance, in the sense that you can communicate with people anywhere, and be informed or entertained by material without knowing where it's been produced. We home in on themes and places that catch our attention and interest, and in narrowing our attention may miss out on much more. Astronaut.io allows the flow can be halted on any video that captures attention, and let it play play to conclusion which invites viewers to be more than passive. There's something quite contemplative about just looking and listening openly, letting yourself be surprised by what's out there.
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