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4 months ago
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Amen to that - I've unfollowed a whole lot of people this week for their nauseating obama-worship - people I thought had a brain. The convergence of politics and religion (and the kind of b$ zealotry I've seen ventures way into the realms of religion/messianic worship) is always deeply troubling and makes me think of Nuremberg. Whatever I feel about who would be the best scumbag for the job, I can't help remind myself that we are talking about *politicians* here. Given that the entry exam for becoming a politician involves defecating on your grandmother while signing your siblings into white slavery and simultanesouly drowning a barrel of adorable puppies (and that's just question one), I fail to see how folks can be so mindnumbingly uncritical. And if I hear the word "historic" one more time I'm going to vomit blood.
People, question the folks you vote for, and don't stop questioning them. Blindly following anyone is folly, let alone someone that has fought their way into the position of being a presidential candidate.
People, question the folks you vote for, and don't stop questioning them. Blindly following anyone is folly, let alone someone that has fought their way into the position of being a presidential candidate.
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6 months ago
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Scoble and highly engaging in the same sentence - ROFL.
His theory seems to work like this:
"I make incredibly long, boring videos. Because only 5% of the people reading my tedious blog are going to sit through my much more tedious, uber-niche videos, they are therefore clearly super-engaged with the subject matter and selling stuff to them with bloated TV-a-like 30 second commercials will be so much easier".
Surely the guy has just been waiting for an excuse to justify his under-edited, bloated, poorly made videos and this is as nice a way as any to go about it.
Long or short form isn't the issue here, as I think you point out - the issue is the quality of the content - it's "use value", consistency, ability to hold and play with some kind of form. There are people making money with from both long and short form video content on the interwebs (although let it be said, the creative ones tend to look beyond advertising alone as a source of revenue).
But beyond the issue of bucks - engaging takes a whole lot of forms. This video encouraged me to write a comment (and sit through it), which is more than I can say for anything produced by that narcissist and his wedding videographer pal.
His theory seems to work like this:
"I make incredibly long, boring videos. Because only 5% of the people reading my tedious blog are going to sit through my much more tedious, uber-niche videos, they are therefore clearly super-engaged with the subject matter and selling stuff to them with bloated TV-a-like 30 second commercials will be so much easier".
Surely the guy has just been waiting for an excuse to justify his under-edited, bloated, poorly made videos and this is as nice a way as any to go about it.
Long or short form isn't the issue here, as I think you point out - the issue is the quality of the content - it's "use value", consistency, ability to hold and play with some kind of form. There are people making money with from both long and short form video content on the interwebs (although let it be said, the creative ones tend to look beyond advertising alone as a source of revenue).
But beyond the issue of bucks - engaging takes a whole lot of forms. This video encouraged me to write a comment (and sit through it), which is more than I can say for anything produced by that narcissist and his wedding videographer pal.
11 months ago
in What Is Data Portability? Michael Pick Explains It In Simple Words - Video Tutorial on Robin Good's Master New Media
Thanks Fabrice! Much appreciated.