Five on Fridays (Floyd Hayes)
This is pretty interesting stuff… a summary of the week's news about advertising and gadgets. It's like this guy was creating a news summary based on my interests. I love the fragmentation of media!
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Real Estate Agents Use Online Video Too
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My mother-in-law is a real-estate agent in Abington, PA., and is selling her house. Months ago she showed me a trade magazine that advocated that agents post their listings online. Now, via VidYourBiz she’s listing her own house. Yes, folks, you can own the lovely house in Clarks Summit, PA where Wifeofnalts was raised.
No Need for Agencies Anymore
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There’s the “Ad Generator.” Courtesy of WelcometoWallyWorld, this site generates ads automatically. Click here to go directly to the generator. The ad generator, says the site, is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These…
Can Amateur Online Video Power Health Community?
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I’ve been saying for years that I’d trust 100 patients’ diagnosis and recommendations over one doctor’s. It’s the power of the masses: a large set of less educated opinions are more likely to be informative than one educated professional. As an example, I posted a video last night called “5Ks are brutal,” and described some…
(The Out Takes Are Funnier)
ByNalts
I’ll get the out takes up soon. They’re much funnier than this spoof of a worker trying to get laid off for the severance. Pretty cool that my real boss agreed to helping on this. And she managed to not crack up once… even while I was eating crayons.
RIP for Paid Content (bring on the ads)
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It’s pretty clear that consumers are hesitant to buy professional video content much less amateur content. Given that I’ve sold exactly 13 copies of my “best of Nalts DVD” it’s no surprise to me to see that Brightcove is abandoning its “pay for content” model: On July 31, 2008, we plan to discontinue the Pay…