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.
Yahoo showed a fairly large increase in last month’s online-video viewing. How? I’ll give you a hint: it’s news. Since most of the monthly comScore data is predictable, the blogs have jumped on this… Search Engine Watch called it “colassel as a giant squid,” and TubeFilter called it “massive.” While 20% growth on a low…
Social media pioneers have long advocated honesty, disclosure, bacchanalianility, transparency and authenticity. First there were CMP.ly codes for standard disclosures. Then WOMMA came out with its disclosure guideand hashtags like #spon, #paid, #samp. Today the world’s most widely read blog that is called WillVideoForFood announced a new short URL you bloggers, social-media whores and YouTube stars…
The New York Times reports that this ‘I Heart Huckabees’ outtake is the “talk of of YouTube.” The video clip from the filming of the 2004 existential comedy directed by David O. Russell surfaced on YouTube and several gossip blogs last week. The 2 1/2-minute video shows the actress Lily Tomlin expressing her frustration at Russell,…
Rocketboom tapped some of the PhDs of the meme world, asking the greatest minds from ROFLcon about what makes a meme go meme. Only the most observant and cerebral viewers of this in-depth Rocketboom report (hosted by Caitlin Hill) will notice that McDonald’s Grimace walked by. Grimace, once thought to be evil, was dismissed from the…
Naturally the major networks (ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, Disney) monitor this blog daily for story ideas. On slow news days, they either make up stories or fish blogs for anything that can boost viewership- even if it’s a pancake video. Turns out all of the energy around the recent scandal on the NSA Eavesdropping…
Via PaidContent.org, we have news from the UK’s Times Online that MSN is launching a video sharing site this summer. “The Microsoft site will launch this summer as the world’s largest software developer moves to increase the reach of its MSN portal by tapping the explosive growth of social networking sites such as MySpace.com. It…
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I want my sister to have zefrank’s baby.
I don’t have sex except with myself.
If you hook up with MY sister that’s how it’ll seem to you.
I haven’t gotten much done recently. I don’t care. My life’s been basically boring these days. Whatever. More or less nothing exciting going on lately, but pfft.