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Sure we’ve heard all of the excuses why you’re watching YouTube but not creating your own videos: I have nothing interesting to add I don’t have a camera I don’t want my life online Now YouTube has eliminated one of those excuses, giving people without cameras the ability to build videos via animation of existing…
A Nurse, Marketer and Homeless Guy Break Dance
Online video collaborations are probably my favorite part of online video. Probably the first online-video creator with whom I developed a parasocial relation was the affable homeless guy from Texas known as Marquisdejolie. He has a blog. Google it (anyone catch that reference?). Via JibJab, here’s him break dancing with me, and songwriter-nurse-YouTuber, ChristopherMast. Before…
Guy Proposes Via Movie Trailer
She was just a girl watching trailers. He was a country boy looking to go viral. But now…
His YouTube Rank Soared Today from #52 to #5 Most-Subscribed
Yesterday I was the #52nd most subscribed director on YouTube, but today I’m the #5th most subscribed comedian. How’d I do it? Read that carefully. I changed my “channel type” from the default “director” to “comedian.” This is something I’ve debated because I don’t consider myself a comedian. But I do classify most of my…
YouTube: “The River of Dung”
In the most thought-inspiring article since Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” award cover story that named me, Maxim writer John Walsh has written a piece called “You Suck!” in the August issue. “All that user-generated content you’re posting on the Web? Please stop,” writes Walsh. He likens browsing YouTube like “panning for gold dust…
Can a Word Cloud Change Your Mood?
I took a collection of positive/negative words from “Power Versus Force” (David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D), added some of my own, and created a word cloud of them using Wordle. I’d like to think I can explain Hawkin’s research on how certain words are tested/validated to calibrate on a 0-1000 “consciousness” scale, but I can’t. Most of the…
