riding the crest of a wave in a space that’s about to explode…
I really love YouTube. I mean, I know it is full of crap and cheap titillation, but then you come across something like this and it just makes your day.
"Jason McElwain, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester NY, served as the coach’s assistant and spirit leader for several years. On the final game of the season the coach let him finally put on a jersey with the rest of the team. Watch what happens then…"
Here, for your edification and enjoyment, is my first instructional video - "How to Recognise When the Bin (or Trashcan) is Full". Although made for internal Headshift reference, I believe it could be applicable in the wider world. If you like it, please click on the ad at the end, because if you do, I get paid, such is the magic of revver.com. Expect MANY more useful videos from me in future - I think I’m hooked…
My friend Ancient Clown from Toronto has a new blog: Ancient’s History. You can read his stories and poems, and you can learn how to make Wire Trees. I’m looking forward to seeing how it progresses, AC. Good stuff so far!
MyHeritage.com is amazing. You upload a photo of yourself, and find out which celebrities you most resemble. Me? Well, I look more like Yngwie J. Malmsteen than I do Kevin Spacey. But most of all, I look like Gillian Anderson. Result! See for yourself. My lovely wife looks most like Courtney Cox (can’t see it myself), quite a lot like Annette Bening and 50% like Franz Beckenbauer. heh.
Holy Crap! This multi-input touchscreen demo is jaw-droppingly cool:
Last week I was geeking out about YouTube.com, which allows you to upload, share and tag your videos and hosts them for free. There are quite a few of these video hosting and tagging services now, but this morning I learned - via the print version of the Guardian (!) - of Revver.com, which does pretty much the same as YouTube BUT (and it’s a HUGE but), you get paid when people watch your movies! How awesome is that? Based on the tags you apply to the movie, a ‘relevant’ ad is appended to your movie file - whenever someone clicks on the ad, you get paid! Here’s the really clever bit:
"Since the ad (called a RevTag) is permanently embedded in your
video, you get paid no matter where your video may go regardless if it
is:
Pretty clever, huh? Now I just need to find a decent .3gp to .avi or .mov converter so I can upload my marvellous cameraphone movies. I hope it doesn’t totally crappify the framerate like YouTube does (see my skating through Shad Thames video, for example). I hope my movies will look better (as in actually be watchable) if I convert them prior to uploading.
Anyway, Revver looks very promising - this looks like a great way to get some revenue for your ‘user-generated’ content. If only I were a hot coed girl…:D I expect the problem of ‘tag spam’ (’sex’, ’sexy’ ‘hot’ ‘girls’ etc for content which contains none of the aforementioned) will rapidly become apparent. If it isn’t already.
I often lie awake at night, wondering to myself - “who would win a fight out of a flying dog and a metal cat?” Let the jury decide:
FLYING DOG
METAL CAT
So, who wins? Cast your vote via the magic of comments!
I love the ‘how a squirrel might look nibbling on a rock of crack’ callout.
YouTube is awesome. It’s, like, Flickr, for video! That is to say, for non-geeks, it is a social-tagging enabled video sharing and hosting website. So you can upload a video you have made (or just have lying around…) and then you and others can tag it with meaningful words. Which is really great. I mean, I know I want to see as many videos of people krumping in their bedrooms as I can. You too, no? No? Okay, well search for whatever you DO want to see, chances are you’ll find something there that takes your fancy, all of humanity is on there. Or will be soon.
Until that happy day, my colleague recommends the Family Guy Ipecac clip. It’s unbelievably icky and funny. Don’t watch if projectile vomiting doesn’t amuse you at some (incredibly puerile) level. It’s easy to even embed videos in your blog post, like this:
Wow, eh?
Overheard recently in the Soul Tree club in Cambridge, from one of those West African guys who set up a little hand-towel and After Shave/Cologne concession in the toilet of nightclubs, as he liberally sprayed a slightly bemused punter pretty much from head to toe:
"Have some Joop! De punani love de Joop!"
So now you know.
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