Jenna Wortham writes a balanced piece about the controversial Vloggerheads.com website, spawned by Renetto (a popular YouTube creator). My previous post on Vloggerheads generated more comments than any other post I’ve written. And, for that matter, brought controversy among a tight-knit group of regular WVFF commenters that usually play off each other like a well-oiled…
Thanks for the notes inquiring about my back My sciatica. My spondilolythesis. My herniated discs. My fractured sacrum. My psychosomatic illnesses with a dose of hypochondriacism. If you have back problems or are considering manifesting your psychological pain via your back, here are the 7 stages of grieving you can expect. If you’re like me,…
I’ve written many times about compressing videos for YouTube, but it continues to be the most-frequently asked question. Many of the previous articles on this subject assume you can’t upload more than 100 MB files, but YouTube now permits files to be 1 GB (1000 MB). If you’re still uploading 10 MB files (as I…
When it comes to new-media news today, lots of rivers lead to the ocean. Steve Rubel (Micropersuasion) told me about this phenomenon two years ago when we hired him to speak at Johnson & Johnson, but now I’m seeing it first hand. I get all my news about cool stuff from you guys- the brooks…
The nice thing about focus groups is that even when you learn nothing, you get to spend some time out of the office eating M&Ms, stealing facility premiums, watching YouTube videos, and blatantly ignoring customers on the other side of the glass. What if cavemen took the concept of fire to a focus group before…
Josh Chasin, Chief Research Officer for comScore met with ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell caught up with at the adtech conference in Chicago last week. Streaming, beacons and something else that Ambien muted. Mmmm… bedddd. Here’s the video. Embed aint working. Well here’s a photo of my aphthous ulcer.
Wired Magazine writer Meghan Keane isn’t very funny at all. Neither is the author of the article she echoed by Fast Company Writer Carlye Adler. You know what? I’ll save you the trouble of reading these sobering articles. Comedy sites aren’t attracting sufficient advertising online. Except for College Humor, which is niche enough and maintains an…
Verizon, the company with the worse logo since the human race started cave painting, just sent me the creepiest letter. It caught my attention because it was in an envelope that looks like it was printed on a discarded 1985 dot matrix. Inside was no letter- just a 3×5 brochure that began with “your privacy…
“What’s it like? Having all those people watch you and comment on your life,” iJustine asks iChannel‘s “i,” in one of the last episodes since the show went on hiatus in May after 40 episodes. “It sucks,” he replies. “From what I hear there are people that do this voluntarily.” The irony, of course, is…