Shooting People » blogs http://shootingpeople.org/blog Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Web2.0 in Plain English http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:28:56 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=90 If you need a little help sorting out your RSS feeds from your Wikis then check out the videos on The CommonCraft Show. Lee LeFever explains the basics in a wonderfully clear way and will get you started with some suggested links to try out. Topics include:

Twitter
Social Networking
Social Bookmarking
Blogs
Wikis
RSS

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/feed/ 2 syndicate yourself http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/syndicate-yourself/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/syndicate-yourself/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:47:13 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/2007/11/30/syndicate-yourself/ ...]]> RSS (really simple syndication) feeds let you syndicate your online content – blogs and podcasts for example – by allowing people to subscribe to the feed which means that they don’t have to keep checking back to see if you have posted something new. This is a great way to make it easy for people to stay involved and interested in what you are doing and it also increases the chances of new people discovering you and your work.

If you have a blog or other content you would like to syndicate you can control, optimize and track your feeds with a tool like Feedburner (some of their services are free and others cost money).

If you want to read somebody’s blog or keep tabs on their latest podcasts, you can aggregate all the feeds you are interested in following in a number of ways. I personally use Google Reader to keep tabs on all my favorite blogs and iTunes to download podcasts. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds through an email client like Thunderbird or embed them on your website or blog.

The joy of RSS if you are a content creator is that your content is embedding and spreading and you don’t have to do all the work!

Read more on this in the Lessons in DIY article in Filmmaker Magazine.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/syndicate-yourself/feed/ 0 Always in Beta http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/always-in-beta/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/always-in-beta/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:39:04 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/2007/11/14/always-in-beta/ ...]]> This blog itself is a work in progress. We have set up a very simple blog for now but we plan to add lots of plugins and other good things as we experiment with what is possible. Would be great to hear about blog tools that you have found useful.

And of course there are always the blogs about blogging which are really great if you want some tips and tricks for your own blog. I like bloggingpro – and I haven’t really read it but I hear JohnTP is good too.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/11/always-in-beta/feed/ 0 Errol Morris is blogging! http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/07/errol-morris-is-blogging/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/07/errol-morris-is-blogging/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:59:42 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip2/?p=45 ...]]> I love Errol Morris. He makes films that make me gasp at the wonder, magic and horror of this planet we call home. And now he is blogging for The New York Times! His first piece Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire is about what pictures can tell us and, specifically, whether they can tell us the truth. He writes that “there is nothing so obvious that it’s obvious.” I like this quote because his films show us this, time and time again.

Read the long list of comments for some rigorous debate about the nature of truth, meaning and context.

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