Justin.tv has given Sprkus.com it’s own channel.
The site, touched on in this earlier post, gives people their own live Web cam channel to broadcast as little or as often as they wish. Some channels try and broadcast 24-hours-a-day, while others choose to broadcast only on special occasions.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the Sprkus channel yet. I’ll probably just break it out during any sort of social gathering so I can broadcast it live on the site. Or any time Baumann comes over.
The link to the channel is www.justin.tv/thesparkus. I don’t know when I’ll start broadcasting, but that’s where it will be. I’ll also embed the feed on Sprkus.
The video section of Sprkus.com has finally been retooled.
Instead of linking directly to the videos which forced a visitor to the site to have to wait for the whole video to download before it could be played, I’ve uploaded the videos to Google Video enabling me to stream the videos on my site similar to how videos are handled on YouTube.
The video’s are unlisted, so nobody can find them by doing a Google search. They’re still only available on my site. But by using Google Video, visitors can view them instantly.
I first tried using YouTube, but the functionality was very sporadic. Most often, the video would never play. It would just provide a loading symbol and never actually load anything.
Google Video, even though it’s still in its beta testing, performed perfectly for me. There were some server errors when uploading videos, but they play perfectly on the site.
There are no new videos on the site, but classics like the “Dickey Chronicles” and Baumann and Van Culin on The People’s Court never get old.
Hello and welcome to my blog. That’s right, my blog. The idea of a blog seemed appealing to me, so I thought I’d toy with the idea a little, then a little more, then more still, until finally, I ended up writing the words you are reading right now. I’m not sure where I’ll go with this exactly. It’ll probably always be a work in progress, if it gets off the ground at all. But it’s something.
The main section of Sprkus.com doesn’t get updated as often because I’m not going out four nights a week anymore. Good for my wallet, bad for my Web site. And the Message Board is dead. Was always dead, really. Most days if you looked at the topic lineup where it tells you who the last to comment was, it would be a vertical line of “Rick”s all the way down the page. So it makes sense to share things in the form of a blog as opposed to message board topics.
I always felt I needed a venue to talk about certain events in addition to posting photos of them. With this blog, I can link to and from pictures at will and not be confined to the small “This Just In” section, which I’m sure will be replaced. This blog might replace the message board entirely — one decision of many I have yet to make. Additionally, even if nobody reads the blog, at least I’m writing in my spare time — a skill I should always be improving. After all, that’s a large part of how I earn a living.
Whether or not anyone SHOULD be paying me… well, that’s another matter.
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