On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:24:42 +0200, Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something that drives me crazy about this group is that there is some > serious confusion about what is and is not spam. It's quite simple: Sending a message with a link to your new vlog: Not spam, encouraged. Sending *10* messages in four days with a link to your new vlog: Spam, discouraged. Give the people on the list some credit. We're not morons, repeating the same message over and over does not convince anyone (optionally: insert joke about the current president of the USA here). > I found nothing seriously distatasteful about the VLOGGERS UNITE > thread from Jason, the original poster, and in his mea culpa, he > brought up some issues that are important to me. Namely the fact that > RSS is some kind of tool to get exposure. It is not a tool for > exposure. It is simple distribution; it is shipping, more or less. VLOGGERS UNITE was message #12 - it was preceded by 10 messages containing one line and then a link to the blog. That's the big problem. The small problem is that the 10 messages apparently was a "market research experiment" making the whole thing slightly unethical and very annoying. > There are now almost 7000 feeds at mefeedia. When I started Vlogging > in December '05 there were 3000. How many were there when you started > Vlogging? mefeedia didn't exist back then, but I'm no way near a top listing in mefeedia. :o) > Exposure for vlogs is a problem, and it gets bigger everyday. Those > problems are compounded when, in a group about video blogging, asking > for people to check out your vlog is spam. Why is exposure a problem? Is vlogging only fun for you if you have 130,000 views a day? As it's been repeated many times on this list: Sending a message with a link to your new vlog *is* encouraged. Sending 10 messages is discouraged. -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
