Via Mashable
by Catherine-Gail Reinhard
Catherine-Gail Reinhard is creative director at Videasa, an agency that focuses on creating video infotainment for the web and emerging media platforms. You can follow her on Twitter.
As YouTube () has grown into the preeminent video sharing service online, marketers have tried, with limited success, to broadcast themselves and to reach audiences [...]
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Charges Against Shoved Cyclist Are Dropped
Via the New York Times - By John Eligon
Christopher Long, 29, a bicyclist who was shoved by a police officer in an altercation captured on video, left Manhattan Criminal Court after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. (Photo: John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
Prosecutors dropped charges on Friday morning, as expected, against [...]
YouTube adds Closed Captioning
Via Tech Crunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/youtube-adds-closed-captioning/
YouTube has turned on the ability to add full closed captions to videos. This will not only allow videos to appeal more directly to foreign audiences, but will give YouTube excellent data for searching videos and targeting ads to them. After all, a complete set of subtitles is the same as a [...]
SOCIAL MEDIA MORE IMPORTANT THAN MASS MEDIA, ONE IN TWO BUSINESS LEADERS SAY
Original Location: http://www.com.motionpoll.ca/
One in two Canadian business leaders say social media is becoming more important than mass media. 46 per cent say social media tools such as Facebook, YouTube and blogs are becoming even more important than television, radio, newspapers and magazines.
The results are contained in a poll of 444 Canadian business and marketing leaders, [...]
Increased Use of Video-sharing Sites
Original Source: PEW Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp /9/2008 Lee Rainie
48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year. The basic findings in a national phone survey that ended in December show:
48% of internet users said [...]
Thanks to YouTube, Professors Are Finding New Audiences
Original Source: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1159n.htm
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Forget Lonelygirl15, YouTube’s 2006 online video phenom. Professors are the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites may end up opening up the classroom and making teaching—which once took place behind closed doors—a more public art.
What’s more, Web video opens a new form [...]
Who watches the watcher and then who watches them?
Author: Tyler Knowlton
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, variously translated as “Who will guard the guards?”, “Who watches the watchmen?”, “Who shall watch the watchers themselves?” (Thanks wikipedia)
In Montebello Quebec it was the bloggers watching the Quebec Provincial Police
I went to Art school before starting my Public [...]
