Podcasting with YouTube

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For many a moon I wondered and frustrated over the fact that YouTube did not have a proper Podcasting function for use in programs like iTunes - I mean, it really is the same damn thing, except Podcasts arent streaming at the time.

How does it work?  Extremelly simple, actually.  Take the username of whatever YouTuber that you are fond of and type that into the YouTube Username form on the front of YTPodcaster website and press Get Feed;

Now, mind you, I think YTPodcasts work a bit slower than the YouTube channel, but to really bug me I found this website right during the sxephil break, so I wasnt quite sure what was going on…  Anyways, click on whatever Podcast program you are using and, at least in the case of iTunes, it just kinda works.  A little… something… like… this;

So it got me thinking, GoDaddy and Netflix and Audible are the major ad supporters of Podcasts internationally.  I mean, it makes sense, people deep in the Internet-scene are more likely to, a) have a website, b) rent movies online, or b) buy audiobooks.

YouTube just got a whole bunch more useful.

Tags: itunes, podcast, youtube

Things I Hate About the Internetz

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Internet Memes

I think the moment when an Internet meme or trend makes it ‘IRL’ it has truly reached it apex. Recently, even Lewis Black was Rick Roll’d on his Comedy Network television show, Root of All Evil. I start with this example, because everyone has seen this one.

Bloggers

Is this not hilariously hypocritical? For years, I wrote random, pointless posts in a few (of many other) for reasons I actually have no idea. This blog is a direct answer to how retarded I found that. Although it may not be apparently obvious, but I am actually attempting to take this blog seriously. As narcassitic as this seems, there is such an amazing amount of bloggers who are about as serious about their websites as a scientist taking Richard Dawkin seriously. If I magic wanded the selection of all the blogs that lasted no more than a singular post and paint bucketted it black, ontop a white layer, and if this image was 12000×12000 pixels, there would not be a single black pixel left. You are clogging my damn tubes.

Religious Debates on YouTube

YouTube mixes two powerful beings; the anonymous asshat and the arrogant asshat. They are incapable of providing real conversation, and too arrogant to recieve any.

Obama Supporters

I support Obama, but I am Canadian, and thusly, my opinion matters less in the next Presidential election than that of a Mormon. I am also not famous enough for my opinion to matter. That being said, any actual ’support’ group on them internets seems to not know when to stop. Yes, I dig the dude, no, I do not want to have to sift through the most pointless dribble about him to get to the good stuff.

Bush Haters

Ever since Green Day released their self-titled album, American Idiot, 14 year olds have been attending parades against his campaign. The problem with anti-Bush kids is not that they are, but the fact that they have no idea what they are talking about. I agree with their opinions end result, but not how that opinion was created.

Tags: Blog, hate, Internet, meme, obama, politics, youtube

"Has Video Killed the Blogging Star?"

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http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-editors/2008/06/06/has-video-killed-the-blogging-star/

Okay, we’re joking…..sort of. But be it video-snacking, YouTube resumes, digital video activism or live-streaming to the web from your mobile phone, the world of Web 2.0 is being driven by the moving image.

I do not mean to debate against the article listed above, but I thought it an appropriate reference and example for the point I am hoping to make.  And for the record, I agree with you, the quoted title to this article is horrible, I promise you, its from the reference link.

I am in an interesting position with this media-revolution we are having today.  I grew up with, and in, the ‘down-fall’ of written word.  I transitioned from ‘chose your own adventure books’ as a wee toddler to Shakespeare in English.  Not only was I alive then, I believed myself somewhat aware.  I, or at least I tried to, view this objectively.  I went from when all my friends were reading until I was the last vestige of my literate hope.

Written word has hardly died as much as… it is being refined.  I get most of my news off of Digg, Newsvine, Reddit and the like.  Now you say to yourself, or to the monitor in front of you, “Andrew, you idiot, all of those are written content!”  That much is true, but gone are the days of pouring over a book and trying to find something worthy a citing.  Especially in the newspaper industry, our news is being specialized, easier to find and more customizable.

I do not know how much of this is just pure nostalgia, but I enjoy the feel of a book or a magazine.  Magazines especially, as the usually topical news is readily available on the Internet.  But no matter how hard someone tries, buying a good book will never grow old.

One thing book will always have over video is the accursed ‘rewind’ and ‘fast forward’ buttons.  They just do not work at well as a well licked thumb.  So especially in these cases, research and news and the like, written word is very much preferred.

It is not so much that video is taking over, although it is, I would not dare refer to it as a trend.  Videocasting is too difficult and not nearly as portable and customizable as an RSS feed.  The thing is, Blogging is not going away, the medium is far too powerful to give up.  Video, it seems, is just filling in the gaps that text did leave behind.

If anything, video is helping Blogging.  Sure, it is taking some readers, but it also gives another bar for a writer to reach and to capture the attention of their readers.

A picture was never deemed worth 1000 words until someone actually tried it.

In summation, Blogging will live even longer than written word.  And judging by the cult status J.K. Rowling’s novels have, written word has a few millenia left on its expiry date.

Tags: Article, Blogging, youtube