Hannukah may be over, but you can still groove to this hip hop a cappella parody, with lyrics about playing dradel by the candlelight, and the great menorah.
It’s the Jewish version of Dynamite (by Taio Cruz). No it’s not the Dalton Academy Choir performing, but the Maccabeats, an a cappella group from Yashiva University.
Weblebrities, also known as amateur “web stars,” are like the Gaddafi loyalists. They’re not done fighting, but odds favor Libya’s National Transitional Council headed by Abdurrahim el-Keib. (Sure he’s a former electrical engineering professor from the University of Alabama, but he’s the country’s interim prime minister). The new regime of YouTube is The National Transitional…
A lot of journalists will let their subjects wander aimlessly about a story. But you have to give Jamison Tilzner, of Tilzy.tv, kudos for getting right to the story. As “Hooking Up” writer Woody Tondorf waxes poetically about some of the second-rate YouTube weblebrities appearing in the HBOLabs web series (which is now featured on…
Hours ago I had someone tell me they didn’t know what social media was today. My brother-in-law told me his competitors are using Twitter, and looked at me like he’d just seen a pig fly. Then I stumble into this video. And I’m, like, yoooooo…. this is the stank baby. This is social media. Oh…
Jenna from YouTube asks the questions (in the comments from a recent post). The humble viral video genius gives the answers… Hey Nalts, I have some questions about the history of video blogging and the history of Nalts (you). Did the guys who made YouTube intend for it to be used as a video blogging…
According to “Always On,” MIT’s Henry Jenkins says that the success of YouTube is from the “creation of content around communities of interest.” It’s not voyeurism and xhibitionism, he says. Or individual self display or expression. And social networking, says Jenkins, is here to stay. In this short BeetTV clip, Jenkins talks about online video, and the…
Another online video article by WSJ: “Google to Distribute MTV Clips: Deal for Ad-Backed Videos Could Bolster Revenue, Broaden Viacom’s Reach” by Matthew Karnitschnig. How’d you like to have that last name and have to spell it to people 4 times in a row every single day? The Highlights Google will distribute video programming from…
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Hey Nalts, love the new site design. Chanukah isn’t quite over yet. We light all eight candles tonight (and an extra one in our house to commemorate 30 years since the death of John Lennon).
חנוכה שמח (Happy Chanukah) from Tel Aviv.