In this video titled “Hang On,” a boss takes a series of highly personal calls and keeps his employee waiting awkwardly. For an online video, it has a better-than-usual story, camera work and “punch” at the end. More of a “sketch comedy” feel than viral video, but done by amateurs. I think we’ll see more of this in the next generation of viral vids.
It’s been a while since I’ve hit the #1 comedy of the day, but I’m there as I type (if you click that link tomorrow I’ll be gone). Here’s the actual video. This my meeting with the writers that help create my Nalts show.
One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost? P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my…
I received this note this morning. Thought it was interesting… Hi Kevin. I wanted to introduce you to ugcDb.com and let you know we have a profile for you on the site. UgcDb.com is building the “who’s who of user-generated content” – similar to an imdb.com, but for Internet videos and other content. The site…
5 extra points to Tealium for remembering I downloaded a white paper, and shooting me a follow-up video (using campaign management tool). Just checked the “earls” and it’s Concentric). Hidden codes in URLs can be so informative. Negative 7 points for making the videos so damned boring… like a a cross between a dull conference…
Recently, YouTube requires having a Google account to register. That means you need a unique e-mail address for each YouTube account, and provides some unexpected benefits and problems. I’ve often advised people to establish separate YouTube accounts under different e-mails, since if one account gets “suspended” or “deleted” than other accounts with the same e-mail…
I’ve developed a fairly comprehensive list of my sponsored videos, and the case studies surrounding them. See this page on kevinnalts.com to review the brand goals and see the videos. I’m glad to have a TubeMogul profile so potential clients can see accurate, real-time details about my views and demographics (see chart below). My most…
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Hahaha! That reminds me of the time in Hollywood I tried to nutkick my boss and he ducked and I kicked the wall behind him and fractured my ankle and had to come in to work the next day in a leg cast but oddly enough, my boss never did call me in to his office after that, not the whole time I worked there.
…which was how many more days?
38 or 39. I was the only IT guy there and it took them a while to find another nerd who would work that cheap.
But I had rigged the networked harddrives (I had networked them) to automatically erase themselves if I didn’t enter a certain password by 9 a.m. every Monday morning, so they were calling me back to work a week after they severenced me.
I refused to come back as an employee, though. I came back as a $75 an hour consultant and re-installed all their operating systems. It took a long, looooong time, but I got anew car out of the deal.
Which brings me to my motto for the workplace: Revenge is a dish best planned far in advance of the anticipated bok-ta (dinner party).
I’m on DSL, but Revver still takes wwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy too long to load versus other video sites. Annoyingly long for a mediocre 4 minute video.
It’s that damned butt-ugly pixelated Flash, I tell you. It was never that slow on QuickTime-only.
But I love the Flash ads at the end, when there are ads at the end. The thing is, those beautifully crafted professional Flash ads make my video that was attached to it look like dog vomit on a hot steam radiator.
I know what you mean. I like to think of my videos as the necessary “pre-roll” content to get to the beautiful flash ad.
Do you think Revver would allow us, in our videos, to say, “please support our sponsors”?…I mean, we’re not telling them to click the ads…
Additional question. What’s “wwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too long” translate to in real time these days? I remember when it took like 5 minutes for a picture to come up (Oh dang! She’s wearing a bikini!!!) That was Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. I have DSL and now I get upset if there’s a five or ten second delay for anything. Or if I’m downloading and it takes more than 10 minutes. But really, I remind myself how far it’s come and must admit it’s fast these days. What do other people feel about internet speed these days.
Now that I’m multitasking with 5 or six web pages open at the same time in the tabs bar and Quark, Photoshop, Textedit, Quamana, MS Word, and QuickTime open in the background (with Firefox, Opera, Camino and Safari open back there, too), if a webpage takes more than 5 seconds to open I move on to another tab and do something else for a while.
My big fat mean daily drunk pigstye sister has a computer in her room she never ever ever uses for anything except shelving for overspilling ashtrays and it’s hooked to dialup. Once in awhile I kick a path out of the puke-soaked towels towards her computer, dust the ashes and pork rinds off the keyboard and crank up some dialup.
That’ll make a person appreciate broadband!
We need a video expose of her room. One of us can post it under our names so you don’t get caught. Please don’t turn on the smellocam.
One of the cable channels is buying my G stuff at $150 a pop so I’m concentrating on that right now (hey! Direct sales. How ’bout that!), but if the Hustler or Trashy Redneck Drek channels express an interest, I’ll start cranking up my Redneck Woes stuff again.
You remember those, right? The ones where my sister’s head grows to twice the normal size right there in front of my camera? Or maybe I should call that series “Unretouched Psysiological Phenomena of East Texas”. Naw, too clinical.