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Don’t DWV

I do a lot of my videotaping from the car. One-hour commute and a busy day-job plus kids. Gotta squeeze the stuff in. I’ve had a lot of warnings about DWV (Driving while videotaping) but this e-mail from my brother is my favorite. First his warning, then he recounts the conversation we had 15 years…

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Those 2 Seconds You Save Could Change Your Life (RocketBoom/LoadedPun)

May not seem like a big deal… learning to tie your shoe a bit faster. But what if it could change your life? Here’s Rocketboom’s spoof on Shernglee02’s “Tie Your Shoes Faster” video, with homage to Sliding Doors. Source: LoadedPun, which features the video and asks the question… Will cameos by internet stars hold the…

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The 10 Immutable Laws of Viral Video

So my joking reference to the “second law of viral videos” at the close of this “YouTube Viral Video Broker” clip resulted in this question from Joe Chapuis: What’s the first law of viral videos? Fair question. I hadn’t really considered the rules yet… I was spoofing someone that would have the arrogance to cite…

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There Goes My Chance to Run for Office… Ever

One of the things that’s always comforted me about putting my videos online is the power I maintain to remove them. Any of them. At any time. Whether they’re on YouTube, Revver or Google Video. Then I saw this report below from Google Video. Nearly 300,000 people have viewed my “Google Earth: Has it Gone…

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Are Your Videos DO Belong to Us (YouTube)?

Thanks to Joe Chapuis (WebVideoZone) for pointing this Boing Boing report out. It appears that the language around YouTube’s ownership of your content is getting a little tighter. Fortunately, they’re not trying to go for “exclusives.” Here’s a Boing Boing post by David Gulbransen that reminds us that a) we can always yank our videos,…