I removed all embedded videos from this blog, as part of the ongoing mission of ensuring no third parties can track readers of this blog. There were 4 types of video embeds in this blog.
- Qik.com embeds of live streaming I did on occasion. Qik is no longer active and I simply removed all embeds.
- 23Video embeds, which E used for FabLab related videos. While 23Video still exists, E’s account is no longer active, so I simply removed those embeds as well.
- YouTube embeds, which I all replaced with a still image and a link. Some videos were no longer online.
- Vimeo embeds, which I also replaced with a still image and a link. Interestingly enough, Vimeo embeds were not working for videos Vimeo listed as ‘unrated’. In those cases you would need to be logged into Vimeo to see them, defeating the purpose of embedding them. There were also Vimeo videos where I am certain noone has access to the account anymore (as they were channels for projects I was involved in). I wonder what will happen to them over time.
This was a straight forward effort, as I hadn’t embedded many videos here in the first place (40-50 in total).
What stood out to me was that of all those videos, two videos were no longer on YouTube because they were moved to a self hosted environment (videos of the C3 conferences, no surprise given the background of its organisers). A good move, but probably still hard to do for many, and without the easy reach YT and others provide.
I went through a similar process, hitting similar walls. The one place I departed from your practice was that I downloaded all my YouTube and Vimeo videos and serve them directly, self-hosted, using HTML video markup.
Those are videos you created yourself, right? I don’t have those really (apart from the old Qik live streams, which are no longer online at all), the videos are all by other people.
Yes, they’re all videos I created myself, other than a few public donation ones. For others, I did as you, and removed the embed and replaced with a link.
@ton I should do something similar on my blog, thankfully the Broken Links plugin makes it easy to find all the posts where I’ve linked to or embedded YouTube / Vimeo content.
@wearsmanyhats should have thought about the Broken Links plugin! 🙂
@ton , did this several years ago to stop YT-cookies invading my site.
It was a pretty regular working week, with a burst of great late summer weather, allowing us to spend time in the garden. It was very clear people have returned to work after the summer and are doing with renewed energy. A very different tone and pace than before the summer holidays.
This week I
Spent most of my time on my work w.r.t. the EU data and digital strategies
Had a conversation about potentially taking on a role as treasurer of the Dutch Mensa entrepreneurs association
Discussed my contribution to a data conference organised by the ministry for infrastructure and water management next month
Had a conversation with the Province of Limburg as part of a market consultation for their data and infomration management
Did the monthly invoicing
Finished removing all Amazon links from this blog, as well as all YouTube and Vimeo embeds. Still working on changing Flickr embeds to locally hosted images.
Visited a frame maker with E to get five things framed. Two posters we bought at the Louisiana Museum this summer. A print of Hockney’s Arrival of Spring from the Royal Arts Academy which was my globetrotting birthday present for E, and two large Magnum photo prints by Elliot Erwitt framed. We saw an Erwitt exhibition in Lucca in 2015, and I kept an eye on prints sold through Magnum since, until they became available earlier this year. Should be ready in a week.
Packed up the car with camping gear for the annual get-together of E’s mother’s extended family this weekend. It was good to see everyone again.
Today at 14:07 it is exactly 19 years ago I published the first post on this blog. Back then I already mention how connecting to others, conversation, is the key thing I’m aiming for. I’ve always been a prolific note maker (going back to primary school even, buying my own notepads). With the launch of my weblog it became a more public thing as well as a means to engage with others.
In recent years I’ve marked the occasion by reflecting on my blogging and practices (see the 18, 17, 16 years edition), and long ago I marked the 3rd and 5th anniversary both extolling the value of the conversations and connections this blog helped create.
This year, as most of last year was spent working from home. It meant a similar internal oriented focus when it comes to my note making and blogging.
I haven’t spend time on IndieWeb community organising for instance, didn’t feel the energy for it either. I did make steps towards making this blog much less dependent on third parties:
I stopped embedding Flickr images in my blog, replacing them with locally hosted copies while linking to the original. Most postings now no longer have Flickr embeds, some 150 still do, which I am slowly bringing down to 0.
I removed all video embeds, replacing them with stills and links
I slowly replaced a number of Slideshare decks, but not all yet. There are no actual slideshare embeds active anymore on my blog, as I deleted my account, but the now non-functional embeds still ‘call’ those web adresses. I’m self-hosting my slides on tonz.nl (Dutch), and tonz.eu (English)
I experimented with sharable bookshelves for my blog, but there’s a connection missing with my internal note taking. I’d very much like to directly generate my book lists and book posts directly from my own notes. I haven’t actually posted about books here since January, a fact I dislike.
That brings me to the note making part. I have completely removed myself from Evernote, replacing it with a local collection of notes in markdown. I’ve kept them separate of the notes collection I actually work with, but import specific notes when I need them. I also, based on an example from fellow Obsidian user Wouter Groeneveld, started scanning my paper notebooks from over the years, creating indexes for them, and thus making them connect to my ongoing work and notes. My use of Obsidian to maintain those markdown notes continues undiminished. The speed of creating new conceptual nodes has slowed a lot, having mined most of my old blogposts for their content. I am now slowly evolving my ways of digesting and adding new knowledge and thoughts. In terms of volume, there are now some 5k notes, of which 1k6 are conceptual, 1k are ‘collected stuff’ with just a few added remarks of why I find them interesting, and some 2k5 work related notes.
In general I would like to see a more direct connection between my notes and my blogging, and ‘wiki’ pages on this site. I’m not sure yet what I’d like so I need to experiment. In the past months I have been contributing to two GitHub hosted sites using Respec, where the site is directly created from my notes. This works really well, but as those are public pages I do keep the corresponding notes in a different place than my ‘real’ notes. I do want to maintain the difference between public and private, as it influences my writing, but I do not necessarily want to keep the public notes in a separate location from the others.
Coincidentally, around note making, I did do some outreach and hosted two ‘Dutch language Obsidian user meet-ups‘. The third is due to take place in two weeks.
For the coming time this note-to-blog pipeline, and making it easier for myself to post, will be my area of attention I think. Let’s see next year around this time, when I hit the two decade mark with this blog, how that went.
How I took notes in 2006, on a locally hosted wiki
Soms wil je een ‘still’ van een Youtube video bewaren. Bijvoorbeeld om vanaf je website door te linken. Of om in een presentatie te verwerken.
Vandaag heb ik geleerd dat je heel eenvoudig een screenshot van een Youtube-video kunt bewaren.
Open de video in Firefox
Zoek het frame dat je wilt bewaren en pauzeer de video
Klik rechts op de video. Er verschijnt nu een menu van Youtube.
Klik direct nog een keer rechts op de video.
In het menu dat nu verschijnt kies je voor “Momentopname”
De browser vraagt dan waar je het screenshot wil bewaren. Klaar.
Hieronder vind je als voorbeeld een snapshot van een video van Kurzgezagt over klimaatverandering.
Soms wil je een ‘still’ van een Youtube video bewaren. Bijvoorbeeld om vanaf je website door te linken. Of om in een presentatie te verwerken.
Vandaag heb ik geleerd dat je heel eenvoudig een screenshot van een Youtube-video kunt bewaren.
Open de video in Firefox
Zoek het frame dat je wilt bewaren en pauzeer de video
Klik rechts op de video. Er verschijnt nu een menu van Youtube.
Klik direct nog een keer rechts op de video.
In het menu dat nu verschijnt kies je voor “Momentopname”
De browser vraagt dan waar je het screenshot wil bewaren. Klaar.
Hieronder vind je als voorbeeld een snapshot van een video van Kurzgezagt over klimaatverandering.