Video from your blog

May 27th, 2008

Adding video to your blog can be really simple:

Easiest: Just link to a YouTube, or other, video you’ve found that might interest your audience. This one may or may not amuse you.

This is a link to a video

Easy: Copy the “embed” code from your favorite YouTube video and paste it into your blog post or page while you are in the HTML view.

Here’s the same video embedded


Still surprisingly easy: Shoot your own video with your web cam and post it to YouTube, then link from there.

Harder: Shoot and edit your own video and post to YouTube.

Hardest: Shoot and edit your own video and post it to a web host that handles streaming of video content (many of the more established hosts offer this free.) Here’s a video I did this way for Trust for Working Landscapes. It is a nearly 28 Mb Windows media file, so you’ll need to be patient. The nice thing about YouTube is that they compress the video, a lot of quality lost, but the videos load and play much more quickly… and it’s all free!

The big question

Is there anyone in your community who might enjoy adding video to your site? The power of the blogs is that the work can easily be distributed… so no one is burdened and many are empowered.

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