[Newspoetry] Streaming Realnewspoetry

[bhagy at onthejob.net]

streaming video doesn't necessarily mean live video.  streaming means the
data is sent in a stream, and thus you can watch the file as you are
downloading it, rather than having to wait until it has finished
downloading, then watch it. Of course, this technology is really useful
for live video, but also it saves having to find something else to do
while
you're downloading Michael Jackson's (or the Spice Girls, or whoever the
fuck is popular these days) latest video, because everyone knows that
you just have to see it now, and not five minutes from now when the
cotton-pickin thing has finally downloaded, damn these 56K modems!. And
live video isn't any more difficult
to put on the web than dead video, it's just one has more expensive
equipment than the other (can you guess which one that would be?)

Gore is on the web?  sheesh, what will they think of next?

brian

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, William Gillespie wrote:

> > > -that's be pretty cool, wouldn't it, to put a video of us read
> > ing our po'erty on
> > > the web?
> >
> > How would people know when to watch -- or would it loop?
> 
> Well, I'm thinking not-streaming realvideo files. A real live webcast is
> I
> think a
> big affair. The people I work for paid thousands to put a streaming
> realvideo of Al
> Gore on the web. They lost sleep for months beforehand, afraid that they
> 
> would lose
> their web reputation in the early childhood education community. They
> sifted through
> numerous bidders.
> 
> It struck me, although of course I remained stone silent, as an
> astonishing
> waste of
> those precious, waning DOE $.
> 
> I mean: Gore. I can see wanting to hear a Gore education speech, but
> does
> it
> necessarily have to be live? See my point? Gore. Live. Y'know, live or
> Memorex, with
> Gore, either way is fine. Streaming RealGore. I'd probably click on
> something else.
> He's a good vice-president and all. Light years more sophisiticated than
> 
> Quayle
> certainly. But I don't know if he needs to be streaming.
> 
> He's not exactly Led Zeppelin.
> 
> Anyway, in Iowa, Chuck Aukema, Scott's terribly wonderful undergraduate
> fiction coach
> & mentorpal, took good care of us, and he had a snazzy videocamera that
> used DAT
> tapes, and he videotaped us cassetterecording ourselves getting
> photographed in front
> of or behind a flaming cheese appetizer in a Greek joint in Cedar
> Rapids:
> an honest
> touch of postmodern irony for the English & Philosophy professors who
> picked up the
> tab. Chuck's going to give us a couple CD-ROMs of the video files. My
> understanding
> is that they'll be web-ready, but, uh... well... I don't... uh, we'll
> they'll be
> realvideo I think as opposed to uh... quicktime movies... or
> something...
> 
> anyway we videotaped some fish heads in Lester's kitchen. They'll be in
> the Unknown someday.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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