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Like through FB flyers? Or just giant media buys on their homepage?

Thanks for commenting. The problem with Vimeo and all the rest is they don't offer those list of features I mentioned that are very important to a business moving forward. Maybe they will in the future. Not sure why Youtube would want to let a competitor move up and take this piece of the pie though.

As for kids putting their skateboarding videos on YT business. Um, nope. Nobody except a real business is going to shell out $100/month. Especially some kid.

The potential is huge, isn't it?

Yeah, as long as it's fun it's great.

Haha, yeah. She's going "ad and tip" free for the first few months if possible.

Yeah, everything is a learning curve, but you have to innovate and try, in my opinion, as a marketer if you want to stay ahead.

Thanks!!!

I still haven't gotten mine yet!

I record with a utility called Pamela.

Sometimes you gotta lose to win, eh?

If the polls by end of August said 70/30 Obama. You still think this would be far fetched?

It matters, because you're part of the collective of bloggers, with me and everyone else. I think my comment came off a bit too accusatory. I was speaking in generic terms of course, not at you Steven.

Perhaps one of the reasons bloggers still get a bad rap is that they don't do their diligence. For example, instead of writing this blog post so you could get on Techmeme linked to Scott's story, you could have emailed Scott first and asked him to clarify. Just saying.

I ran for the video blogging hills, almost off the exact same sentiment, and I've only been text blogging since 2001.

I'm with you. Gary's video(s) really hit home as a reminder of the things I learned years ago, fortunately for me. Gary kills it everytime. Must watch/listen stuff. He's an inspiration, even if you're already on the track he's preaching.

So true about the Flip cam batteries. I've lost a bunch of vids that way. I keep an entire pack of backup batteries in my backpack at all times for my Flip. You make that mistake once...

I like your analogy of the flowing river, good stuff.

Thanks for the mention Scott, and I feel better about swearing now that you did it too. You Jangro'd yourself, ewww.

To talk about it as you suggest is the first step to solving the issue, agreed. Problem is, there's lots of people who don't want that to happen, for many reasons, mostly bad.

I agree, you're going to get hammered for this post because most people won't really read it. Should have done it in video for quadruple effect.

Happy b-day Wayne!

I own it, yeah, but I don't make any money from it. Goes straight to the jingle maker. I get nada. More fun than anything. You going to order? You need a jingle.

Scott, it was a great first video. Nice work. The first time is always awkward, heh.

You need a jingle though. I just got one.

http://www.makemeajingle.com

Well written RG. I'm on the same page as you!

Congrats Sam! Cool award to win, I should know!

Well, I've officially done it. I'm quitting text blogging and doing only video/audio in 2008.

http://www.jimkukral.com/announcement-making-th...

Sit down and talk to some college students, or 20-year-olds. Ask the about the media they consume. The future is going to be fun with the new devices and bandwidths... Online video is just the start.

Steve's point is well taken to me. If you really, really look around, you'll see that the blogs out there that have all the sponsorships and thousands and thousands of readers... They all have the same thing.

Well thought-out, original content and ideas.

I struggle with producing that type of content myself. Why? Because it's hard. It's "easier' for me to piggyback off a techmeme story and add my contribution.

If I would just stop doing that, and instead work on more, better high-quality content I would be in better shape in terms of my monetization and readership. No question on that.