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Some great talks.

Not a big deal, but I'm curious: why are the Clojure conj videos always on Blip.tv?

Probably just historical reasons. The original Clojure videos from Rich Hickey were put there, so I suppose it makes sense to consolidate them all in one place.

That, and they handle transcoding to all kinds of different formats for us.

The nice thing about Vimeo is people can download the videos (at least I can); easier to view them anywhere. I'd pay the $60/year for Vimeo Plus, if it turns out to be a good solution. (http://vimeo.com/plus)

[Edit: Ah, thanks scottjad! I was starting to search for ways to download them off blip.tv, you saved me lots of time.]

You can download from blip.tv too, but it's not obvious how. You can either get the urls from http://blip.tv/clojure/rss or you can use a program like #{youtube-dl movgrab cclive}

I use the 'Screenshot Pimp' add-on for Firefox; it lets me download any embedded video whether it is on Blip, YouTube or wherever.

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