Congratulations, dear reader. We’ve made the cut. We’re one of the top 25 most digital publishers (David Garland “Rise to the Top”). Scoble made it too, so we have some good company. I use “we” in a collective sense, since I probably wouldn’t be in my 5th or 6th year of publishing without you. Yeah…
What happens when you take a somewhat effeminate male voice and overdub a National Geographic video about honey badgers? You get this hysterical clip that examines — no judges and condemns and celebrates — the absurdly brave behavior of the Honey Badger (courtesy of the good users at Reddit). Whether he’s eating snakes, climbing into…
Are you noticing the same ads chasing you on YouTube and other blogs? For me it’s these Keurig ads that seem to be constantly becoming. If you haven’t experienced this, turn on cookies, turn off your egregious ad blockers (stalkerofnalts), and visit the CafePress Nalts store. With luck, you’ll find ads by CafePress surfacing everywhere. Why? Google owns…
There has been lots of recent news and opinions about two “video-on-demand” alternatives for those of us looking beyond cable television or those cute round things you call DVDs. In one corner, Netflix’s ubiquity with its “all you can eat” buffet of 10K movies for about $10 a month. In the other corner, Amazon is offering “Prime”…
Heh, heh (in Beavis & Butthead impersonation). A “Featured Video Fail.” It won’t soon make 4Chan, but it made us giggle. It won’t come as surprise to you WVFF loyalists that I’m not a big fan of prerolls. Sure only about 16% of us skip them, but my ADHD “instant gratification” tendency, like maybe yours,…
Okay I forgot I had a blog again. The past two weeks have included trips to (in sequence) Virginia, Minneapolis, NYC, Washington, D.C. and NYC again. Enough about me. Let’s focus on YouTube today, since it’s turned 6 (that’s a near-death 94 years in TechCrunch years). If you missed the comment stream on my last…
Send someone you love this cheap-ass Valentine’s video. It’s packed with bad poetry, cheesy stock footage, and a fat bloke running with horses. At least it’s classier than the greeting card Tiger Mother’s daughter sent to her. Happy Valentine’s Day from WillVideoForFood.
Several trends are causing many independent “YouTube Creators” to sign with “new establishment” (web studios) such as Makers Studios (good luck finding its website), Next New Networks, The Station, Howcast and Machinima. Many early web studios were formed to create and promote custom shows for wide distribution. But the high investment ($1-$5K per edited minute)…
On a visit to Smosh.com, I noticed the fellas had a little widget that recognized me as Nalts and had a subscribe button. So I snatched the HTML iFrame thingy, and managed to insert it as a wordpress widget. iFrames usually make my blog puke, but they’re working okay. Here’s the code: <p><iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=nalts” style=”overflow:…
RIPFilms with the ScarySnowman series. Very funny reactions. At the risk of appearing unintentionally racist, I’d observe that African Americans seem far more prepared to kick ass on pranks like these. For further evidence, observe the well-dressed midget in the suitcase at the bus stop (can’t seem to find it), or the Halloween prank (where…