It’s the Jingle Vlog Social Experiment. Join us as we see Jingle Bells… off key and offtime. Participatory collaboration for the Holiday Season. Visit the site, and add your version on Revver. This was inspired by Chris Pirillo and Steve Garfield.
MediaMoGirl debuted this weekend with its first news report. The site combines news and comedy with the motto that “first we make you laugh, then we make you think.” Read more in the “about” section of MediaMoGirl. So each of the approximately 5-minute videocasts includes some short bits followed by a story on something important….
I’ve decided to write a book on viral video — aimed primarily at marketers and advertisers since amateur videographers and film makers don’t have enough money to buy books. Naturally I haven’t written a book before, but I sometimes read them. So I figure I’m pretty qualified. The working title is: “The Profit (Prophet) of Viral…
Wowza. I thought I was on top of online video. I’m hanging my head in humility. Check out this post featuring a timeline of online video by Steve Bryant in his new blog, “ReelPopBlog.” Included is this dreamy graphic. Click to see it up close.
Blogging has been all the rage for a few years — with cover stories on major magazines, blogs about blogs, and some bloggers literally becoming credible media sources that rival legacy print and television brands. Interestingly, there’s a trend that appears to have accelerated far faster and more dramatically than blogs. Online video. Take for…
One of my wife’s tabloids featured an ad for Vitamin Water featuring American Idol star Kelly Clarkson (I guess she lost enough weight that the campaign is live). The ad is made to look like the cover of the tabloid and uses its masthead. Since it appears upsidedown and is marketed by tiny 10-point type…
Before there was the “long tail” theory, there was the 80/20 rule. Before that there was Murphy’s Law. I haven’t quite understood any of them, but I think this blog entry supports them. Why? Because 80% of you will not understand why this link is so funny. 20% of you will fall over and do…
I asked folks on the Yahoo Videoblogging group if they knew of good sites that review online video software. Josh Kinberg suggested FreeVlog.com. On this site, authors Ryan and Michael recently posted an entire chapter on video editing (from their book “Secrets of Videoblogging). The chapter is free and meaty. Here’s the PDF to download…
The irony isn’t missed by the creators, but here’s an audio podcast about online video blogging (aka vlogging). Courtesy of Steve Garfield’s “Off on a Tangent.”
Nice piece by ZeFrank on copyright law, YouTube, and Creative Commons. It’s not as funny as his normal daily blog, but very informative. Raises some important issues about consumer-generated videos and the implications of profit, copyright law and Adam Curry who steals stuff.