2007-10-03
Updated 3 October
Yesterday I have initiated another new section on the site, this one holding a collection of videos.
Work on this section started only yesterday and I'm quite proud to mention that all set-up work plus posting fifteen or so initial videos took only a bit more than two hours. Something like this has never happened to me before as a webmaster... I feel know that this site is finally residing on a solid platform and that the results may indeed translate to increased editorial efficiency. Good news. I will certainly continue to explore these possibilities.
I must admit that I haven't initially planned for an excessive video library on this site. However, I felt that providing sights and sounds of the Spitfire, particularly in the air, was important to make the user experience of the Spitfire complete. Only later when the site was already published I took time to examine YouTube's enormous library of video clips and its use policies and noticed that there were many interesting videos which could be embedded in a site like this one. And so the idea was born.
Selecting and posting videos from YouTube and other sources (and admittedly, some of the better ones are not very easy to find), I will apply my normal editorial standards in terms of video quality, credits, and copyright policies.
The initial set of 24 videos represents a wide range of subjects, from airshows through documentaries to RC models and computer animations. This breadth is intentional. One of the interesting aspects of the Spitfire and its wartime history is the impression it has left on the collective mind of the society and popular culture, through things like movies, gaming, art, memorabilia, modelling. Therefore, rock videos or anime with the Spitfire have their place on this site, too - even if they, in the strict sense, could not stand the test of historical accuracy. We have one such video uploaded already.
- The Video Section has been initiated with 24 video clips in categories: Airshows, Computer-generated, Flight simulators, Museums, Radio-controlled, Warbirds.
Work on this section started only yesterday and I'm quite proud to mention that all set-up work plus posting fifteen or so initial videos took only a bit more than two hours. Something like this has never happened to me before as a webmaster... I feel know that this site is finally residing on a solid platform and that the results may indeed translate to increased editorial efficiency. Good news. I will certainly continue to explore these possibilities.
I must admit that I haven't initially planned for an excessive video library on this site. However, I felt that providing sights and sounds of the Spitfire, particularly in the air, was important to make the user experience of the Spitfire complete. Only later when the site was already published I took time to examine YouTube's enormous library of video clips and its use policies and noticed that there were many interesting videos which could be embedded in a site like this one. And so the idea was born.
Selecting and posting videos from YouTube and other sources (and admittedly, some of the better ones are not very easy to find), I will apply my normal editorial standards in terms of video quality, credits, and copyright policies.
The initial set of 24 videos represents a wide range of subjects, from airshows through documentaries to RC models and computer animations. This breadth is intentional. One of the interesting aspects of the Spitfire and its wartime history is the impression it has left on the collective mind of the society and popular culture, through things like movies, gaming, art, memorabilia, modelling. Therefore, rock videos or anime with the Spitfire have their place on this site, too - even if they, in the strict sense, could not stand the test of historical accuracy. We have one such video uploaded already.
Labels: site updates, videos, warbirds, webmaster
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