The Last Minute Blog

Some video blog stats

The most awesome folks at and Lean Back Vids put together a list statistics for Video Blog RSS feeds using the Feedburner Awareness API.  The below statistics basically show you how many people are watching a given video blogger's feed over the last 6 months.  I'm not a video blogger per se so I'm stoked that I'm even on the list.  I had no idea that many people we're watching my feed.  More juicy nerdiness over at VlogMap.  These stats are limited to people who have Feedburner Awareness API thing enabled.

	FeedBurner ID	Circulation	Hits
1	MichaelVerdi	32777	191486
2	mmeiser-blog	31671	171951
3	SteveGarfieldsVideoBlog	27737	147757
4	RyannesVideoBlog	27497	135534
5	ericricevideo	26599	143603
6	Karmagrrrl	25033	236366
7	Momentshowing	24140	107035
8	dylanverdi	21448	118884
9	SecretVlogInjection	18916	85406
10	TheLastMinute (yay me!)	18500	181938
11	thevoiz	15712	75741
12	thisorthat-video	14655	91735
13	joshleo	14364	81568
14	TheBlogOfGabeGabe	13163	88045
15	Dltqvlog	12796	53062
16	annievideo	12533	86472
17	Hello	12114	45886
18	ChrisKoehnsVideoBlog	11110	42850
19	lofistl	11105	49436
20	thisrevolution	9423	53644
21	AntiUpsTheAnte	9072	85804
22	MinnesotaStories	8371	35456
23	IMakeThings	8345	69275
24	diaryofafauxjournalist	7626	46506
25	clintsharp	7555	78666
26	xolotv	7377	35797
27	29DaysToShowTheWorld	7085	35395
28	EchoplexPark	5971	33956
29	BigTimeTV	5726	30216
30	leanbackvids	5362	29156
31	nordark	5251	29145
32	Luxomedia	5158	30913
33	clarksworld	5123	23796
34	Apperceptions	5095	31949
35	Jonnygoldsteincom	5069	25698
36	zudfunck	5046	41656
37	ModernSingleDad	4860	38684
38	JoelArt	4784	25829
39	BottomUnion	4780	29623
40	bitlabmalmo-video	4695	29777
41	AlexandersVideos	4548	24354
42	The05Project	4363	62980
43	ChrisDanielsVideoBlog	4349	28815
44	symbiopsychotaxiplasm	4271	33123
45	kellybelly	4053	28585
46	richardshow	3882	19773
47	LeGarage	3798	41956
48	WeAreTheMedia	3741	23420
49	tilt	3672	28453
50	TaylorStreetStudio	3491	25145

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This screencast from Rocketboom does a good job of explaining how to watch video blogs in iTunes. Direct link (~16 MB .mov) I did a really hack version of this about a week ago so I'm glad he did a better version. Looks like other people are getting into it as well...

Thanks for making a better screencast Andrew!

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syndicated me (us)

Doesn't it seem like text posts seem so quaint these days? It's been a while since I did a regular old fashioned blog post so here's some stream of consciousness for those of you who care. I was just thinking about how this site has changed over time. My presence online has gone from "my personal internet web page" to a full blown syndicated multimedia stream. In the beginning my brother and I made some web pages that only exist now as digital archeology in the waybackmachine. My sites we're so crappy but I learned quite a bit from it. I can still remember my brother showing me FTP before most people had even heard of this new thing called "electronic mail". Websites we're hard to make and pretty boring for me so I stopped making them. My brother started his career as a web designer and this launched him into other things. But he has also since started blogging again.

I eventually got back into making websites when my friend Bill showed me Blogger in September of 99. I made some sites which have also long since expired and completely disappeared. Then finally I decided I was going to have a blog for good. So I made thelastminute.blogspot.com with blogger because it was finally easy to maintain a site over time. At this point the blog has evolved (or de-evolved) from political link sharing, to anti bush whateverness, to personal journaling, to even more link sharing, to videoblog / video filtering. The current phase of (d)evolution of this site is syndicated me. The content has been ripped mixed and burned away from the format/design of the site and injected into one stream. With one feed you can passively/automagically obtain all the the text posts I've created, any video blogs I've made or linked to, any music I've linked to, and any photographs I've taken. All of that from one feed!

If you don't understand any of that just think of this. My feed is like a picture frame. You go and put that frame on your wall (subscribe to my feed) and the content of that picture frame changes from my words, to my pictures, to my music, to my video, whenever I update it. You don't have to do anything other than put the frame on your wall. You can also paint on this frame or write your own words in response to whatever it is that I've put there. Tell that to Guttenberg!

But you don't care about any of that stuff... You want videos, podcasts, and interesting stuff to read while you pretend to be work. So put my feed into your aggregator, whether its Bloglines, Fireant, iTunes or whatever. Plug it in, lean back/forward and enjoy the juicy media that comes out the feed.

Totally unrelated: I woke up this morning at 4AM and went down to the local wifi watering hole. It's a strange crowd up and about at this time of night. It's like the core finance dudes getting up for the market on the east coast and homeless people being woken by the sun and the Jaguars. I like to think successful people get up early.

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Video Blogs in iTunes 4.9

Nerds: (me) Want to know how to plug an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures (videoblog) into iTunes and watch them there?  FireAnt is the best video aggregator and it's far more useful than this but I still think it's cool that you can even do this...  Pete from Tinkernet figured this out and wrote the following:

In iTunes 4.9 go under the 'Advanced' menu to 'Subscribe to podcast...' and paste in the URL of your feed.  It'll do it's iTunes magic and show you the feed, and start to download the most recent item and display the rest of the items.  Under the 'Edit' menu make sure you select 'Show Artwork' to display the part of iTunes that usually shows cover art.  In the little row of buttons on the bottom left of the iTunes window, the last one on the right will show the video playing in full-screen mode.

I hope that makes sense... (Anyone wanna do a screencast of this?)

UPDATE:  I made a really crappy screencast of this. (300 k file)  I compressed it down way too much but it does the trick...

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Odeo

Podcasting just got so much easier. I played around with it last night and it's pretty sweet. I like how you can listen to all the podcasts right on the site no plugins or anything...

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My First Podcast

I was down at Bryght to pick the brains of the geniuses that work there and  Roland Tanglao (Chief Blogging Office at Bryght) asked me if I wanted to do a podcast after the meeting.  I was like hells yeah!  Thanks for letting me geek out with you Roland!  It was fun doing my first podcast.

Check it out over on Roland's site.