The Jason Salas Experience

If a still picture is worth a thousand words, the Internet's got a million more conversations thanks to me. I spent the better part of this afternoon at work uploading several of my company's VOD and streaming clips to Google Video. I got the go-ahead from one of their engineers to test it out with some news footage and special productions, so I sent in a pair of 45-minute specials as WMVs and five other segment-y pieces as MP4s.

I'm glad to be contributing to the collection of videos representing Guam. I don't much care for 40-second videos, and the 13-second variety drive me nuts, so I put up some stuff that people can sit and enjoy for a bit. Browsing to the page and waiting for the buffering takes longer than it does to play back the clip. By my calculations I figure I uploaded around 300MB of video makin for a good two and a half hours of content.

I was very impressed with the web-based utility with which I could describe the clips, categorize them and credit those who were involved with its production. But the part I liked best was the ability to include a transcription of the show. Because we're a news organization, all the clips I uploaded have corresponding permalinks and articles, so you've truly got a full story.

I was hoping to be able to do this all from the Google Video Uploader utility I downloaded, but that wouldn't be very Web 2.0 of them. I got an e-mail shortly after posting the first clip, which led me to a command console where I could describe the clips and then wait for them to be posted.

I'll be posting links on my blog when the clips are available, or lookout for my del.icio.us bookmarks tagged with "kuamvideo".