Think you have a viral video in hand? Plan ahead, using this guide from Amy Gahran.
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Think you have a viral video in hand? Plan ahead, using this guide from Amy Gahran.
This should be a great tool for tons of news organizations without a method in place for gathering video from their community. Also worth noting: It’s incredibly disruptive to the few companies that already do this for news orgs. With YouTube’s brand behind it, this should take off quickly.
YouTube Direct Gives News Orgs A Way To Accept User-Submitted Videos
Seriously, this is probably my all-time favorite video I’ve seen on YouTube.
“A wordpress plugin that lets your blog subscribers to attach flickr photos and youtube videos to their comments!”
Damn. I had forgotten how awesome DJ Premier is. This makes me want to pay attention to hip-hop again. via Stella.
KANYE WEST, RAKIM, KRS-ONE, NAS & DJ PREMIER: CLASSIC – YouTube
Remember the whole ‘Should schools podcast lectures / will kids show up for class’ question? So 2005. Here’s UCB lectures on YouTube. In full.
Best. Thriller. Ever. Hundreds (thousands?) of prison inmates in the Philippines.
[yourtownnamehere] YouTube video of the week. Smart. Works as a topical thing, a la the IBA political blog’s Schwarzenegger Video of the Week, or as a geographic thing on a community site.
A look behind the curtain at YouTube’s compression settings and how to make the most of them. via Angela G.
5 important things that happened in the last 10 days
In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept: