Hat’s off to Eddie, also known as TheMightyThor1212 and “Evil Willie Wonka.” When I arrived at this weekend’s DCTube Gathering (see my video about some of the freaks I met), I was cautioned by attendees that Eddie had his fair share of booze and had been asked to leave a Washington Post interview. Event planners…
Nearly 9 months ago I begged for an alternative to uploading my videos manually to multiple websites. But shame on me. I’ve been uploading to dozens of sites for nearly two years, and we’re talking about nearly 500 videos. So that translates to several thousand times of doing the mundane “title it, describe it, tag…
Dan Meth produced “Internet People,” an incredibly satisfying recap of some of the finest moments in online video. From Numa Numa to “Dick in a Box,” and all of the little moments in between. Misses a few highlights (like Pearl and Nalts) but it’s pretty comprehensive and entertaining. If you’ve come late to the online-video…
Most marketers and public relations agencies have “clipping services,” via which they receive copies of newspaper articles covering topics of interest. Say you’re marketing M&Ms. You probably want to know when the chocolate candy appears in the news. It occured to me that YouTube’s functionality can provide this service to you for free. Google Alerts…
News earlier this week suggested NBC pulled out of iTunes because it wanted to charge more per episode than iTunes felt comfortable. But NBC is now going with Amazon.com for the exact same price ($1.99 an episode) – source WSJ. So we can only conclude that NBC wanted a bigger cut of the action, got ticked at…
(This is my video rant on this subject) Note to public relations professions everywhere. Don’t let your company turn into the poster child for copyright insanity. In one of the more tasteless moves yet, the company used an independent film maker’s video on its hopelessly unfunny Web Junk 2.0 show without permission. Then when the…