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Sales of My Free eBook Skyrocket Due to TechCrunch Coverage

ByNalts

Well, you loyal WillVideoForFood.com readers, please reserve your front row seats, because the auditorium may be filling with some TechCrunch visitors. They actually crunched about my eBook. Here’s my original post about the book, titled “How to Become Popular on YouTube (Without Any Talent).” Here’s my video reaction to the coverage. Or maybe TechCrunch didn’t…

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New Weekly Show Featuring 50 Interesting Online-Video Personalities in 2008: The Bubblegum Tree Show. Yey!

ByNalts

Had enough of horrible big-media interviews of your favorite online-video “weblebrities”? The same questions over and over? The 7 hours you spend, as a video creator, meeting with a television network, only to find your interview has been reduced to a 12-second soundbite? Well it’s time for The Bubblegum Tree Show! Yey! (See trailer). It’s…

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“How to Become Popular on YouTube (Without Any Talent)” – A Free eBook

ByNalts

Thank you, dear readers, for your help finalizing this version 1.5 of “How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent.” Honestly, if I look at this document another moment I’m going to boot. If you’re looking for my real book, “Beyond Viral,” published by Wiley & Sons in 2010, please click here. (Warning- clicking…

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Sneak Preview: “How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent” (Free eBook)

ByNalts

[NOTE- THIS POST IS OLD. FOR THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THE BOOK, SEE THIS POST] On Friday I’m releasing a free eBook titled “How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent.” I won’t make any money for each copy downloaded, but I’ll make it up in volume. Below is a draft that still…

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Brotherhood 2.0: Two Brothers Using Only Videos for One Year

ByNalts

It’s nearing the end of John and Hank Green’s experiment called Brotherhood 2.0. They’ve used video to communicate each day for the past year… each posting a video on alternative days, and communicating in no other way. And they’ve invited the world to watch… The two recently helped initiate “Nerdfighter Power: ’07 Project for Awesome”…

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Research About Online-Video Viewing

ByNalts

More research about online-video and television viewing. This Harris study tells us so much and yet so little. What I was hoping (based on the lead) is that it would talk about how online-video is cannibalizing, if at all, television viewing. Certainly for me I spend far more time watching video on my monitor than…

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YouTube’s First Public Statement About Earning Potential for Creators

ByNalts

YouTube is expanding the once-selective* “Partners” program so that more video contributors can monetize their work. We’ve already seen the “requirements”* drop so that amateurs with fewer views have been invited to join in recent weeks. YouTube released this in a press release (and its blog), and the most interesting statement concerned the potential revenue…

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Top Ten Stupidest Moments of Online Video in 2007

ByNalts

It’s time for the first annual WillVideoforFood.com’s Top 10 Stupidest Moments of Online Video in 2007. This list is my first draft, so I invite and encourage moments I’ve no doubt missed. I haven’t kept a notepad besides my bed all year, and I try to suppress these moments. That said, I did review hundreds…

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Watch Free Episodes of The Office

ByNalts

Thanks to a banner on Revver, I discovered that you can watch free full episodes of The Office at NBC.com. This is a big step forward for traditional media, and hopefully the studios compensate writers for this. Parenthetically, I still haven’t heard from The Office about my pitch to be in one of the shows….