Media Rich versus Rich Media (Or Why Video in a Blog Is Not the Same as a Video Blog)

1. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au Media Rich & Rich Media (granularity, blogs, video and bankrupt content models)

2. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Blogs are granular

3. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Blogs are granular! • this has inﬂuenced what conventions have developed

4. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Blogs are granular! • this has inﬂuenced what conventions have developed! • this has inﬂuenced what tools have developed

5. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Blogs are granular! • this has inﬂuenced what conventions have developed! • this has inﬂuenced what tools have developed! • such granularity is a major affordance of blogging

6. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Video is granular

7. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Video is granular! • once published it is not

8. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Video is granular! • once published it is not! • this is absolutely the case in videoblogging

9. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Video is granular! • once published it is not! • this is absolutely the case in videoblogging! • video needs to be as granular as a blog post after “publication”

10. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Video is granular! • once published it is not! • this is absolutely the case in videoblogging! • video needs to be as granular as a blog post after “publication” (and for that matter video should be as granular as video)

11. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Linking is granular

12. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Linking is granular! • blogs epitomise this

13. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Granular video

14. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Granular video! • we need to be able to link from parts of video

15. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Granular video! • we need to be able to link from parts of video! • we need to be able to link to parts of video (quotation)

16. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 Granular video! • we need to be able to link from parts of video! • we need to be able to link to parts of video (quotation)! • this is a combination of technical and social practice

17. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 To follow from Mark this morning. I am a small ‘t’ small ‘d’ technological determinist. Our tools constrain and enable.

18. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 I have made three prototypes that are a part of the published hypertext. These are the academic (or research) centre of the work. Think of them as probes. (Questions, problems, not solutions.)

19. adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au B l o g T a l k D o w n U n d e r S y d n e y M a y 2 0 0 5 http://vogmae.net.au