Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
So I'm Thinking About Moving to YouTube....
Seriously.
Part of it's just my natural restlessness and inability to maintain doing the same thing for a long period of time.
But another part of it is that, besides my faithful friends (thank you, Sanguine, for your consistent checking and commenting on my inconsistent reporting), no one has found this thing after a couple of years.
And that's not a great surprise. There are millions of blogs across the Internet without any real organization or connection.
But YouTube is another matter. People search for videos and find literally almost anything. Videos related to something you are already watching or other videos by the same user are highlighted across the side of the screen.
These connections have propelled over half of my 40 Cornerstone video clips to over 100 views in just a week. On the political side, my random clip that I recorded of Ron Paul on a radio show over a month ago is nearing 12,000 plays, and my recording of Mike Huckabee on NPR last night got 200 views within the first 24 hours. Even my Roller Coaster trip on the Boss (still idling at the Myspace vids) is up to 148 plays in a week (the one dud: my Coldplay stick-figure compilation, still at 7 views in 6 days).
The point is, if it's on YouTube, people find it. They really find it if it's about stuff that interests them. It would be different to "blog" in video form, and it would take more time. I fear that it would become drastically infrequent. But, admittedly, I'm hungry for viewers. And I'm already getting them without even trying at YouTube with my live shows and interviews...
Part of it's just my natural restlessness and inability to maintain doing the same thing for a long period of time.
But another part of it is that, besides my faithful friends (thank you, Sanguine, for your consistent checking and commenting on my inconsistent reporting), no one has found this thing after a couple of years.
And that's not a great surprise. There are millions of blogs across the Internet without any real organization or connection.
But YouTube is another matter. People search for videos and find literally almost anything. Videos related to something you are already watching or other videos by the same user are highlighted across the side of the screen.
These connections have propelled over half of my 40 Cornerstone video clips to over 100 views in just a week. On the political side, my random clip that I recorded of Ron Paul on a radio show over a month ago is nearing 12,000 plays, and my recording of Mike Huckabee on NPR last night got 200 views within the first 24 hours. Even my Roller Coaster trip on the Boss (still idling at the Myspace vids) is up to 148 plays in a week (the one dud: my Coldplay stick-figure compilation, still at 7 views in 6 days).
The point is, if it's on YouTube, people find it. They really find it if it's about stuff that interests them. It would be different to "blog" in video form, and it would take more time. I fear that it would become drastically infrequent. But, admittedly, I'm hungry for viewers. And I'm already getting them without even trying at YouTube with my live shows and interviews...
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Famous People Playing Music Can Save the World?
So apparently there's a big deal about these Live Earth concerts going on all over the world this weekend... something about benefit shows for a climate in crisis with Al Gore smiling for the cameras.
I'm guessing that all the Police and the Linkin Park did for Earth was add more carbon dioxide to the air with their singing.
I mean, seriously, this is such a stupid idea. It convinces the MTV-educated masses that global warming is a conclusive issue, and even worse, that somehow by listening to this music they are doing something about it.
I've only looked into the controversy enough to know that there's some very good arguments for all of these positions: Global warming is caused by human activities; global warming is real but not caused by human activities; global warming is not all real. It's a complicated issue, and I bet even I know more about global warming than half the stars on the stages across the continents.
Oh, excuse me, it's climate change now, because sometimes it results in global cooling. Gotta have our terms straight to convince the masses that we really know what we're talking about.
This blog is pretty much devoid of substance. I'm just casually ranting over the simultaneous obvious worthlessness and perceived effectiveness of "Concerts for Climate Change."
Puh-leez.
Edmond the Hun
I'm guessing that all the Police and the Linkin Park did for Earth was add more carbon dioxide to the air with their singing.
I mean, seriously, this is such a stupid idea. It convinces the MTV-educated masses that global warming is a conclusive issue, and even worse, that somehow by listening to this music they are doing something about it.
I've only looked into the controversy enough to know that there's some very good arguments for all of these positions: Global warming is caused by human activities; global warming is real but not caused by human activities; global warming is not all real. It's a complicated issue, and I bet even I know more about global warming than half the stars on the stages across the continents.
Oh, excuse me, it's climate change now, because sometimes it results in global cooling. Gotta have our terms straight to convince the masses that we really know what we're talking about.
This blog is pretty much devoid of substance. I'm just casually ranting over the simultaneous obvious worthlessness and perceived effectiveness of "Concerts for Climate Change."
Puh-leez.
Edmond the Hun
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