Remember those bullies from the 1980s movies with the big blond hair, that ridiculed us — I mean the protagonists — in so many movies? Huffington Post & Film Drunk offers a montage of the best “dork” insults courtesy of the Woot blog.
As you’ve no doubt heard, the new YouTube channel design is available for us unwashed masses. You shall like it, so proclaims some YouTube luminaries in this promotional video. So how do you activate the new “YouTube One Channel” and customize it? First you need to activate the new channel. Visit YouTube One’s overview page (which…
Are those two beautiful words. Just soak in them. Viral Videologist. Bruce Haring of DIY Convention asked if I’d speak about YouTube success stories on Sunday, February 11 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Mark your calendars, folks. Free beer with admission. Anyway it turns out I was scheduled to be presenting 6 miles from there that same…
Just when you thought pre-rolls were dead, both Hulu and YouTube are embracing them in recent weeks. Hulu has officially rolled out an “Ad Selector,” where viewers can choose among several ads from a single sponsor. And YouTube, whose parent Google once chastised online-video pre-rolls for causing 75% abandonment rates, is now quietly experimenting with…
Here’s my wife and I testing her iPhone (AT&T) against my Palm Pre (Verizon) to see which one could shoot and upload best to YouTube. Turns out my Palm Pre failed to post after an hour, so I had to do it manually. Her iPhone compressed the video, and had it live in minutes. Winner:…
RIPFilms with the ScarySnowman series. Very funny reactions. At the risk of appearing unintentionally racist, I’d observe that African Americans seem far more prepared to kick ass on pranks like these. For further evidence, observe the well-dressed midget in the suitcase at the bus stop (can’t seem to find it), or the Halloween prank (where…
Take it from the author of “Beyond Viral,” dear reader. Viral video is like fire. It can create a toasty fire or get people burned. Today we learned out the Times Square billboard hack video was part of the campaign for the film, Limitless. The deception was the brainchild of the viral-video maker “ThinkModo,” according…
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I feel nostalgic now. My glasses are steaming, my lack of muscular structure trembling, my nose becoming an oozy spring again…
…NOT! I was one of the those big cool guys who used nerds for toilet seats, toilet paper, toilet newspaper, toilet flushing water and as a toilet clogger if I had a really loaded day!
Z-lot I think I remember you. Did you kick me in the chest when I was getting off a bus once?
I vividly remember that one occasion, it was in our younger years before I bought my chick magnet cabrio as the first stud in school. You thought you could outsmart my brutish muscular self and prevent me from giving you a goodbye buttkick off the bus which made you roll out instead of stepping out… it was so good I decided to turn that one into an integral part of the goodbye protocol!
But that wasn’t nearly as fun as the time when you had an arm and a leg broken (due to another locker mishap), trying to walk out with those crutches… oh how those things flew in the air! BANG!