Warning: You Will Sing This Song All Day
Go ahead. I dare you to click.
A Nightmare of a Sears’ Whitegoods Manager
Hurra Torpedo’s “thang” is spanishing appliances while singing what BoingBoint.net calls “stunning and mournful.” Check out this toasty little number. If you’re under 18, please shut your eyes when the butt crack makes its cameos.
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Moguls of New Media According to WSJ
If you want a quick crash course on the abscure talent that have become famous from online video, blogs, podcasts and the like… check out this nice WSJ article by John Jurgensen. It’s titled “Moguls of New Media.” Highlights from the piece Christine Dolce, whose MySpace page boasts nearly one million friends — making her…
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LucasFilms To YouTube: Put ‘Fan Films’ BACK On
Thanks to a comment by TK42one, we’ve picked up on this post by Rebelscum. Seems YouTube pulled some fan clips, and the Star Wars fans raised it with LucasFilms. Here’s the announcement from LucasFilms: Lucasfilm has been informed that YouTube recently removed from its site several fan-made Star Wars spoofs and parodies. We would like…
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Yet Another “Share Revenue” Video Site
The online video market is getting more crowded. Here’s another revenue-sharing model in the lines of Revver and Eefoof and Motion.tv. It’s called Flixya. I discovered it from some self-promotional comments posted on popular YouTube videos. Looks interesting, but the proof is in the pudding. I’ve asked Marquis to post his earnings to date on…
Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View” Discussing Morning After Pill
No comments about the pro-life/pro-choice debate please (there are many blogs for that). But what’s intriguing about this clip from “The View” is that it’s all the buzz in the media. And even in the TiVo world, few of us would have access to this clip but for YouTube. Even if ABC posted it, you’d…
The Four Requirements for Viral Video
Meet Des. Here’s the bit… an Australian dad talks crap and his son animates it and posts them as Podcasts. Here’s what appears to be the first one, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I want more of them. For now online video is about four things… stupid, real, funny, short. If I…
ZeFrank, The 80/20 Rule & Long Tails
Before there was the “long tail” theory, there was the 80/20 rule. Before that there was Murphy’s Law. I haven’t quite understood any of them, but I think this blog entry supports them. Why? Because 80% of you will not understand why this link is so funny. 20% of you will fall over and do…
Editing, MovieMaker and VideoBlogging
I asked folks on the Yahoo Videoblogging group if they knew of good sites that review online video software. Josh Kinberg suggested FreeVlog.com. On this site, authors Ryan and Michael recently posted an entire chapter on video editing (from their book “Secrets of Videoblogging). The chapter is free and meaty. Here’s the PDF to download…