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Warner Music Pulling Videos off YouTube

“Google got some more bad news today about YouTube. 
Not only is Warner Music Group pulling all its videos off YouTube - it’s in talks to create an alternate to YouTube for music videos. 
According to a report at Silicon Alley Insider:
A source familiar with the negotiations tells us that Warner and the three other majors  — [...]

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1. John Pemble December 22nd, 2008 7:15 pm :YouTube can benefit more from indy folks putting up their own videos which is how the site became so popular in the first place. The flash video world is getting bigger and there is enough room for a WB stream service just like Hulu. YouTube users can collectively continue to make a great service work with their own videos assuming they use good metadata. There are many not so great videos on YouTube but you can find great ones. I’m all about using YouTube for my own videos and for finding new ones. It doesn’t bother me that WB is leaving and it doesn’t bother me they’ll want items yanked for using their music. Producers need to find other music for their videos besides copyright music. I have found the synchronization rights issue (among others) not to be a roadblock but a pointer for me to find a solution that is more specific to my voice. My products come out better when I have to develop a workaround or find ways to use my existing material to make the vision work.”

YouTube Cracks Down

“YouTube today announced a variety of changes at the site that are designed to help you view content that’s relevant to you and avoid content that isn’t. While YouTube’s focus is on making it harder for uploaders to trick people, the changes they’ve made affect everyone.
Here’s a rundown of the changes, from YouTube’s announcement:
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“YouTube today announced a variety of changes at the site that are designed to help you view content that’s relevant to you and avoid content that isn’t. While YouTube’s focus is on making it harder for uploaders to trick people, the changes they’ve made affect everyone.

Here’s a rundown of the changes, from YouTube’s announcement:

* Stricter standard for mature content - While videos featuring pornographic images or sex acts are always removed from the site when they’re flagged, we’re tightening the standard for what is considered “sexually suggestive.” Videos with sexually suggestive (but not prohibited) content will be age-restricted, which means they’ll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older. To learn more about what constitutes “sexually suggestive” content, click here.
* Demotion of sexually suggestive content and profanity - Videos that are considered sexually suggestive, or that contain profanity, will be algorithmically demoted on our ‘Most Viewed,’ ‘Top Favorited,’ and other browse pages. The classification of these types of videos is based on a number of factors, including video content and descriptions. In testing, we’ve found that out of the thousands of videos on these pages, only several each day are automatically demoted for being too graphic or explicit. However, those videos are often the ones which end up being repeatedly flagged by the community as being inappropriate.
* Improved thumbnails - To make sure your thumbnail represents your video, your choices will now be selected algorithmically. You’ll still have three thumbnails to choose from, but they will no longer be auto-generated from the 25/50/75 points in the video index.
* More accurate video information - Our Community Guidelines have always prohibited folks from attempting to game view counts by entering misleading information in video descriptions, tags, titles, and other metadata. We remain serious about enforcing these rules. Remember, violations of these guidelines could result in removal of your video and repeated violations will lead to termination of your account.

The changes make it harder to game the system with tricks like editing your video to create sexy thumbnails.

But the changes will also pose some new challenges to all posters. It will be harder to optimize your video’s thumbnail, because you can’t control what YouTube chooses for your thumbnail options. And, if your video features content that others consider suggestive or profane, it’s more likely to be buried on the site than before.

What do you think of the changes? Are the changes common sense - or censorship?”

Above from New Media Update

Cross your fingers

I am making changes to this site.  I hope I do not mess things up.  I just added a nice new comments feature.  We will see how it works out.

I am making changes to this site.  I hope I do not mess things up.  I just added a nice new comments feature.  We will see how it works out.

Working with the site

I have been working with ShowMeBlog.  I did an upgrade and am running the WordPress beta software right now.  I had a problem before the upgrade and I still have the problem.  I can not drag off the stuff on the sidebar.  I can delete them or update them but not drag them off [...]

I have been working with ShowMeBlog.  I did an upgrade and am running the WordPress beta software right now.  I had a problem before the upgrade and I still have the problem.  I can not drag off the stuff on the sidebar.  I can delete them or update them but not drag them off the side.  I will keep working with it.
This site needs a lot of work.

Can not decide on the name

I guess you can tell that I have no idea what I am doing with this blog.  I can not even decide on the name.  Today it is called HNB Video Blog.  My idea, today, is that it will be the place for my video blogs and for information about video and video sites.
Because [...]

I guess you can tell that I have no idea what I am doing with this blog.  I can not even decide on the name.  Today it is called HNB Video Blog.  My idea, today, is that it will be the place for my video blogs and for information about video and video sites.
Because I am interested in those subjects.

Wordpress Bogs Taken Down by DDOS Attack

“It’s the hosted blogging platform of choice for sites ranging from CNN to Scobelizer–so it’s a big deal when Wordpress.com goes down. A number of sites using the Automattic-owned blogging service were taken down for a short while this morning when Wordpress.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack.
“I think maybe a few blogs were down [...]

“It’s the hosted blogging platform of choice for sites ranging from CNN to Scobelizer–so it’s a big deal when Wordpress.com goes down. A number of sites using the Automattic-owned blogging service were taken down for a short while this morning when Wordpress.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack.

“I think maybe a few blogs were down for just a little while this morning, but most of them were just running a bit slower,” a spokesperson for Automattic told AppScout this morning. “We have three data centers. Our system is designed to lose a data center and keep running.”

Service has since been largely restored to Wordpress.com, the for-profit hosted sister site to Wordpress.org, though the person we spoke to said that the company was still working on resolving the issues…”  Yahoo Tech

CNET: “Blogs turn 10-who’s the father”

Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache are writers for CNET News.Com and they have written a story called “Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?” The subject of the story is “Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It’s just not quite clear who.”
They list a lot of names and some dates. You will not find the [...]

Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache are writers for CNET News.Com and they have written a story called “Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?” The subject of the story is “Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It’s just not quite clear who.”

They list a lot of names and some dates. You will not find the name “Jim Howard” listed and you will not find June of 1982.

“…Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?…”

If you check out the story they have a box with “Blogs: The evolution” and they have January 1994 Justin Hall begins compiling lists of links at his site. I started doing that in June of 1982! I only listed local sites so the list only had about 4 sites, for Kansas City, listed. I did that for years and years until a local “SysOp” organization took over the project. I even did linking and this is before there was a world wide web. (The www started in 1995 if I remember correct.) So around 1983 or 1984 people could dial into my bulletin board system at 300 baud or 1200 baud and connect with Howard’s Notebook and find a list of other sites and click on it and dial out via my other modem and phone line and connect with the other site.

In March of 1984 Ric Manning wrote in “Link-Up” magazine about my site. Part of what Ric says is; “…One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard’s fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks…”
Folks I say that was a blog and that was the birth of ShowMeBlog.

The CNET story list the next date on the evolution list as January 1995 with Carolyn Burke publishes her first entry for Carolyn’s Diary.
Well friends I am happy she started to blog but what took her 11 years? I had been doing a blog for 11 years at the point in time.

I could go on looking at the “evolution” list but what is the point?

If your looking for the someone who created the very first Web log well you found him here. If your wondering where it was created and started it all started in Belton, Missouri in June of 1982.

It began in June of 1982 and it is still going. For many years I called it Howard’s Notebook and it is still on line but I blog now under the name of “ShowMeBlog.

I am not looking to take credit away from any of the other people. They may have been out their doing their thing and that is great. I just feel that the history should be clear.

Tags: blog, journal, diary, mrcullagh, broache, cnet, winer, jorn barger, justin hall, bbs, howard, jim howard, notebook, showmeblog, father, founder, inventor.”

Wikipedia History of the Blog

  I am a big Wikipedia fan.  I use data from it and link to it often in my blog:  Howard’s Notebook.  I looked at the Wikipedia entry on Blog to see what they said about the blog and the history of the blog.  I did not find my name.  Smile
 
“A blog (a contraction of the [...]

  I am a big Wikipedia fan.  I use data from it and link to it often in my blog:  Howard’s Notebook.  I looked at the Wikipedia entry on Blog to see what they said about the blog and the history of the blog.  I did not find my name.  Smile

“A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log“) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual , with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something…”

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