My post for another week at The Blogging Times was on video (again)…and naturally I had some fun with video editing 🙂
Enjoy:
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I see red
Nick Carr on the growing communist tones in Web 2.0. He’s not the only person to have seen it. You can see it in Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail book as well. Web 2.0 shouldn’t be about ideology in terms of being a purist pursuit, it should only be about freedom of choice and anything that empowers the user. Whether or not YouTube allows downloads of clips or not is totally irrelevant: at the end of the day they empower the user, the consumer, the individual who wants to upload their own videos, and for me that makes them a Web 2.0 company. The flip side of the debate however is a dire one, because if the Web 2.0 purists win it will actually result in driving people, and for that matter companies and capital away from Web 2.0 in the same way the red flag waving in the Open Source community scares corporations away from embracing everything from Firefox through to the various distributions of Linux. Web 2.0 should be about inclusiveness, and in deed in practice it is a broad church. Let’s hope that some of those ideologically driven types dont win the day. -
This is fucking hillarious
Scoble reports that Tim Bray of Sun fame is in strife after dropping the f word.
OK, so sometimes even humble I self censor myself here at duncanriley.com at times, after all you never really want to offend people too much, however sometimes there really is no reasonable alternative to using fuck, or even fucking when your trying to describe somethings, no matter what the do gooders might suggest. There’s some uniquely strong about the use of the word. And here’s another thing: isn’t blogging suppose to be about reflecting our thoughts without censorship, about being honest and open?
When I think about my everyday interactions with people, the f word is in common usage, and it has been really for generations, indeed even baby boomers use it (although admitedly their parents didn’t). Sure, there are some bounds to reasonable taste, for example I’d never use the c word on this blog, and it’s not something that I’d use regularly in everyday speach either (although she who must be obeyed has dropped it on occasions..but again to make a point, after all, some people really can be c’s), but for one man who is passionate about what he’s talking about, to say that it’s fucking cool shouldn’t really be cause for morality based attacks from others. I’m rooting for you Tim, and I’m sure a fucking lot of other people are as well. 🙂
Tags: Tim Bray, Robert Scoble, Sun, fuck
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The bandwidth conundrum
First, the videos I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m putting up are around 200MB a piece. The bandwidth distributors I know are charging $.14 or more PER GIGABYTE to distribute those videos. So, that comes to $28, or more for 1,000 downloads (if my math is right).
Wait a second here. We?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re going to collect $10 in advertising to pay $28 in bandwidth? Who said video is a great business? We?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢re losing money, but I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m sure we?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll make it up in quantity. Heheh.
Here’s the thing, I think it’s a similar issue with Podcasting as well. It’s why services such as YouTube are so popular, even with people doing their own video blogs. Revver is the company to watch though: did you know that even ZeFrank’s The Show is on Revver? Yep, despite the inherent risks anyone takes in not hosting their own content (copyright and control are the biggies), most people are using “free” services to host video because the economics don’t yet work properly in hosting it yourself. It should also be noted that it’s also not costing the big free hosting firms the sort of money Scoble is talking about either in terms of bandwidth costs…strength in numbers I guess.
Tags: Robert Scoble, Revver, Zefrank, YouTube
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Why the Pay Per Post folks are rubbing their hands with glee: it’s all free publicity
Jeff Jarvis ways in on Pay Per Post via Jason Calacanis, who brings it up (yet) again. I know Jason has called Pay Per Post a cancer, and whilst I’ve previously disagreed on some levels (essentially I’m not against others using it, but they should force disclosure), if it is indeed cancer, Jarvis and Calacanis writing about it is like continuing to smoke when you’ve got lung cancer, it only makes things worse. Every single time Pay Per Post gets mentioned as a company, it’s free publicity for them: there is no such thing as bad publicity really, sure a few people might decide that they don’t like you or your product, but statistically more people will actually discover the product for the first time….and are more likely to use it, after all, people do tend to be able to make their own decisions of various products, no matter what I, or any one else for that matter has to say about them.
Now here’s throwing something to the wind: even the fake blog/ astroturfing scandal surrounding Eldeman at the moment is actually going to HELP Eldeman write more business. The fact that they did the wrong thing is pretty much a given, but the publicity and name exposure Eldeman has received as a result of it is something that even money would find difficult to buy. How many firms out there looking for PR advice now know the name Eldeman as a result of whats occured? How many potential clients now know that Eldeman can and does delivered strategies that include blogging? Sure, a whole pile of people already did before the scandal, but chances are a lot more do now…and trust me, 99% of the time the net result is positive long term even when the publicity is the result of a scandal, not negative. Indeed the only real negative scandals are those that either result in the company closing down (there can be no positives from ceasing to trade), or it’s directors facing legal threats, including jail.
Tags: Jason Calacanis, Jeff Jarvis, Eldeman, Payperpost
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OMG They’ve seen the light: Daylight Savings in WA?
This from The West. We might even get daylight savings by December 1. Now if only they’d allow the shops to open on a Sunday we could really join the
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So the YouTube secret is out: the big guys took a stake as well
The Blogging Times has the scoop:Universal, Sony BMG Music entertainment and the Warner Music Group have all taken small share holding in YouTube. In you can’t beat them, join them I guess, but on a deeper note are the big record and movie houses finally changing their tune? (pardon the pun 🙂 ).
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The numbers still don’t add up 2
SEOmoz has a brilliant post researching metrics using real log file data and comparing it to available metrics. Their conclusion:
“This survey represents only a tiny sampling of sites in a niche sector, albeit a relatively popular one in the blogosphere and webdev/tech space. Based on the evidence we’ve gathered here, it’s safe to say that no external metric, traffic prediction service or ranking system available on the web today provides any accuracy when compared with real numbers”
Halayuya brother!
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From the Arse end of the world to the rest of it
Darren posts about our forthcoming trip to Toronto. Darren gets the easier of our trips. Bunbury is roughly 2 1/2 hours South of Perth, and Perth is literally at the arse end of the world…they say it’s the most remote capital city in the world, and they aren’t lying. Unlike Darren’s trip, god must of been on my side when I booked the flights because despite trying to make sure I went the cheapest route, Craptus..sorry, Qantas wasn’t the cheapest option, nor the easiest in terms of flights either, so I’m heading to Toronto via Hong Kong flying Cathay Pacific, which I’m told has won awards for being the best airline in the world or something similar.
For anyone in Toronto who might want to say g’day, I’m in Toronto from 12 November through to 23 November. I’ve also got stop overs in Hong Kong both ways due to the way the flights worked out. Look out shops, here I come. 🙂
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Free TV?
Viidoo. This is probably illegal…but the quality is amazing. A full review at Web TV Hub (via Digg). Free US TV channels…Im sitting here watching as clear as day NBC11 from the West Coast of the States…it’s apparently warm there at the moment, not that I’ve got any idea what the temps are in Celcius..worth a look :-)…PS, if you’ve got problems viewing the channels turn Skype off to use it, Skypes a bandwidth hog.