Amy Winehouse Fail: Belgrade
Looks like they didn’t yank all of the videos of Amy Winehouse performing intoxicated in Belgrade… It’s not as tragic as Weird Al doing Lady Gaga, nor as entertaining as the break-dancing gorilla.
Make Your OWN YouTube “Life in a Day”
Sure you’re not thrilled that your clip wasn’t selected for the “YouTube Life in a Day” film by Ridley Scott. Who wouldn’t be offended? I was even though I helped promote the “call for clips” with this video seen by a quarter of a million peeps. I mean, common. My neighborhood was burglarized that very day…
Deplorable Comedy Insults Handicapped, Ice Cream People & Grease
Get ready for the Lawsuits. In a horrible satire at the expense of handicapped people and ice-cream men, the comedy channel “JustForLaughsTV” created this atrocity below. In addition to stigmatizing one-handed people with “claw hands,” it defaces all ice cream people everywhere. And rips off the soundtrack from “Summer Loving” (Grease). Parenthetically, the lawsuit by…
Tom Hanks Demands Pulitzer for Onion
Tom Hanks isn’t alone in his plea for a Pulitzer for The Onion. See the rest on the AfakpOnline channel. Affiliated with Afajp? We can’t be sure. But it must be real because The Onion is reporting on it. We’re inclined to agree, considering The Onion was first (in 1996) to predict the demise of…
Man Arrested Due to YouTube Post of Crime
He kicked his dog. It ended up on YouTube. He was arrested. Interesting timing since I was recently contacted by the SPCA about my 3-year-old video where Spencer (Farting in Public) took a hamster on a walk on a leash. While I’d been assaulted by PETA activists before (claiming I hurt the rodent), I’ve always left the…
Do YOU Know What The Students Are Doing?
Do you know what your student is doing? What if you strapped a camera on his/her head and then crunched the numbers to compare activities like reading, videogaming and watching television? The answer, my friends, is on the tip of the head. Thanks for the contribution, Jan.
The Ultimate Portable VideoCam: The ZeeCam
Dear electronic manufacturers. You’re doing the best you can in a crowded marketplace, but I present to you a free design for a new portable videocam lineup, and the following brilliant ideas are yours to ignore (or exploit without royalties). I give you… the ZeeCam! Problem: The portable videocamera space is crowded with complex models…
Online-Video: Stats and News Roundup
According to a recent comScore report (May 2011, released June 17, 2011), Hulu was the last-place site in the top ten for unique viewers, it had the highest number of ad impressions of any site included in the survey. Tremor Media Video Network ranked second overall (and highest among video ad networks) with 700.8 million ad…
10 Commandments For YouTube Cause Marketing
The Social Media for Nonprofits conference series kicks off in SF w/ @kanter, @GuyKawasaki & @jdlasica. bit.ly/lWLDQO #nonprofit #nptech http://socialmedia4nonprofits.org/ Perfect timing for what I’d planned this week… The 10 Commandments for YouTube/Viral Marketing for Causes and Non-Profits… 1. Though Shall Not Stop With Text. If you blog, also vlog. Use video to simplify your…
More Tips on YouTube Marathon
What’s it take to sustain as a YouTube weblebrity? Going viral is a sprint, but staying vibrant is a marathon. In part one we heard from BrittaniLouiseTaylor about passion, RhettandLink about the power of two, and CharlesTrippy about community. In part two we heard from Michael Buckley, VenetianPrincess, MysteryGuitarman and Happyslip. As VidCon2011 approaches, it’s…