Using Ourmedia to store my projects

[Rasheed]

I have decided to use OurMedia.org to store my media files, both for podcasting and animation.

I wanted separate feeds for my animations and for my podcasts, but this doesn't seem to be possible with OurMedia, because there is only one RSS feed per OurMedia subscription. Another limitation for podcasting is that you cannot modify the RSS feed at OurMedia, for obvious reasons (the files are stored permanently). So I had to create a work-around to be able to produce a limited RSS feed (only a selection of the items present in the feed).

Well, that proved to be relatively easy. Just download the XML file in your OurMedia page, edit it with an editor and upload it to your homespace (e.g. the homespace supplied by your ISP). Of course, you'll need to know some XML to pull this off.

Here's the XML file at OurMedia:
http://www.ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/57572
(feed title: "aaipod@gmail.com's media")

Here's my XML file for Moho animations in my homespace:
http://members.home.nl/rene.van.belzen/ ... ations.xml
(feed title: "Moho animations" - which was my choice, not OurMedia's)

Here's the feed at FeedBurner:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MohoAnimations
(this feed is basically the same feed as "Moho animations", with some extra tags added — mostly for iTunes)

The .m4v animation ("Lazy animator's movie", iPod-ready) that is currrently in the feed is a bit lame, but it's just a test animation, which will be removed once I have created something better.

I haven't created an audio podcast yet, because I didn't have anywhere to put it until now.

I'm told to wait before publishing your feeds through iTunes (or whatever podcast directory) until the quality of the podcast episodes are high enough to show it to the world. Most people are put off by low quality recordings and such, but almost no podcaster is able to create high quality from day one. So experienced podcasters always give the advice to wait a few episodes before submitting your feed to iTunes. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it shouldn't be inaudible (or unwatchable) either.

I hope some of you will use podcasting as a means to publish your animations. I guess there more people interested in Moho animations beyond the viewers of the "Share Your Work" subforum.

[Rasheed]

I have already uploaded two more animations of a few seconds and it all works fine. As soon as I modified the RSS file on my ISP's server (my homespace), the feed in my aggregator was updated as well.

So I guess it all works and can now try to create a longer (and more entertaining) Moho animation.

[T]

Trying to sign up now. Ourmedia.org, and the other account you have to set up, archive.org, are both a little slow... hopefully they're saving the bandwidth for the files or something