living the fast-paced Asian life. kindergarten, mass transit, tourist destinations, shopping, and heaps of info on how to come and thrive in Hong Kong. we're a family who is doing it and want others to benefit from our experience. God called us to this place, and we know his plan is majestic and worthy of following with all our hearts...enjoy all Hong Kong and Asia have to offer
Quicktime video -- Download here
Windows Media Player DivX video -- Download vlog_intro7.avi
found a great travel blog site, named Real Travel, where heaps of people post their adventurous stories after going thru Hong Kong. one newly-wed couple absolutely loved their 5 days in "back to the future" HK, and they left some very relevant information for other travellers. Click here for story.
well, finally figured out what was wrong with getting iTunes to pick up my video feed enclosures from Feedburner. I just needed to include the actual video file's URL location within the blog entry, which I am storing on Revver's site, since they allow download. So Revver takes the bandwidth burden, the storage burden, and they compensate their video-sharers when their audience clicks on the ads placed at the end of videos uploaded on their site. no videos yet on my global finance page, but my video page and this main page have nearly all their videos available in the iTunes store in the podcast section. You can find a link in the sidebar on both pages to subscribe to my video updates via iTunes!!
take a look, i found many useful tools that helped me do things I already do and want to do-- like:
* connect to people with similar interests
* have news, videos, and blogs made available to me on demand
* organise information I need when I'm on the internet
seen this before? get a great explanation and background info on RSS feeds. Also what the author predicts is going to happen in the near future with feeds...
maybe you've seen this name many times before and have been annoyed like I have been. now is the time to check it out! I've found it quite useful and organised. it helps you save many different favorite things you find on the web, especially your "bookmarks" that you never really fully see anyway, because you don't want them cluttering up your browser space. And you can access it from any computer, share your profile with others, and post your stored favorites to your blog/website.
I will list my own del.icio.us info below:
I will be posting some new tutorial videos on how to use your videos to set up your first video podcast, videocast, video blog, vodcast -- whatever you choose to call it. Look for them on my video page. People are still deciding about what to call it when you post videos to your website/blog and allow people to subscribe to receive updates as your new videos become available.
Please bear with me as I also am learning right along with you. Most of my videos are finally available in the iTunes store, either under Happy in Hong Kong or Videos from Asia. I no longer recommend using FireAnt, as they are still working many kinks out of their new download-able viewer. You can also use other podcatchers if you find a better one than iTunes or Podnova. still trying to work thru how to use flash embedded videos from YouTube for iTunes podcasts. Anyone with ideas or solutions would be much appreciated.
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My blog will soon demonstrate this software, and a demonstration is also available at the link above.
I've found a unique and well-run blog monetisation site that pays bloggers via paypal to mention products/brands within their blog entries. I still need to check into it more, but from the looks of it, their idea is a well-developed one.
In order to get started with blogsvertise you must:
1 -- register your account and blog on their site
2 -- Once your account is registered you will then add your blogs for review and approval
3 -- A task is then assigned to you and you will be emailed a website url along with a brief note. Your task will be to mention the website in your blog and provide at least 3 links to the website in your blog entry. You only have to reference it -- either good or bad "talk" is ok.
4 -- After writing your blog entry, you will need to submit the blog entry back to them for review and approval via their online forms
Everything you need to get started videoblogging now -->
this is a great basic video blog dedicated to teaching people who are just starting out in making blogs and then adding videos to them. i just had to share it with you because it would have answered many of my Q's earlier if I had seen it sooner
These are all good feedreaders or podcatchers to use when reading all blogs/podcasts/videoblogs you've subscribed to. And of course iTunes is the granddaddy (see below)
For more info on setting one of these up, just click my SUBSCRIBE link in the left sidebar or any one of these above
Subscribe with iTunes -- a video podcast
this next phase of web development will be far more powerful than any other facet up to this point.
User content, user gets paid, and user informs. Videos, articles, and creativity extreme. As long as the content is policed and standards are maintained, I believe the sky is the limit.
See my Web 2.0 link in the right sidebar for introduction and "how to" basics.
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