This is what I'm talking about. With ideas like this, we could change the world.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "ractalfece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I make it to vloggercamp. And I'm really gonna try. If I make it > I'll sit around and bullshit about kicking some mothervloggin ass with > whoever will listen. Here's an idea that popped into my head and I > don't know what to do with it. So I'm going to pretend I'm looking > into a camp fire with a beer in my hand. Because that's really where > ideas like this should go. Into a fire. > > Okay, you know the youtube system, how suggested videos pop up in the > player after you watch one? And also there's the related video list > over on the sidebar. In the early days it was based on tags. And you > could get massive amounts of views by changing your tags to the tags > of a popular video. But they've changed the algorithm. I think > they're now using some sort of social scoring system sort of like > google page rank. And the evidence I'm going on here is the strange > experiences I've had with my videos. Someone leaves an intriguing > comment and I want to know more about this person. I go to the > commenter's youtube profile, I watch one of the commenter's videos and > one of my own videos pops up in the player! I've also noticed odd > behaviour with the videos I've favorited- they have a tendency to show > up on the related sidebar list together. > > Okay, so do you realize what we as a vlogging community could do? We > could create an insular social circle so that the majority of the > videos that pop up are from our circle. Nay, our cult! We could all > start inserting a single frame of satanic imagery. Think how this > will look to the average youtuber. He or she keeps clicking on the > videos that youtube suggests and everything youtube serves up has the > same dark image inexplicably inserted into it. No better yet: a > whispered phrase. Think about it. > > I'm gonna go take a leak over in those bushes now. > > WE COULD DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE WHIRLY SPEED OF THE APOCALYPSE! > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "ruperthowe" <rupert@> wrote: > > > > if i tell my wife that i'm burning $1000 that i can't really afford to > > spend 5 days away (including my daughter's birthday) when she's 8 > > months pregnant and when my sister, her boyfriend and her two kids are > > visiting from England and staying in our house.... just for FUN, then > > i'll get fired. maritally speaking. > > if i'm coming, i'm coming to kick some mothervloggin' ass. not chew > > straw and whittle. > > R > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina <irinaski@> wrote: > > > > > > rupert > > > > > > i think this was just for FUN > > > heard of it? > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Rupert <rupert@> wrote: > > > > > > > 5 have paid - but there are THIRTY people on the list on the wiki, > > > > right? So. That's where it needs to be to start with. No we've got > > > > to persuade each other to put our money where our mouth is. > > > > > > > > Seems to me that all these people WANT to go, but need to know who > > > > else is going before they put their money down and buy their > tickets. > > > > > > > > It's this point, decision time, when we all measure the mood and > work > > > > out whether it's worth it to us, right? > > > > > > > > If those 30 people come - and more - this will be a GREAT few days. > > > > > > > > Not just hanging out in the woods with a bunch of video weirdos, but > > > > a time to really take things to the next level. > > > > > > > > The events list on the Vloggercamp wiki is still mostly full of > ideas > > > > for tech lessons. > > > > > > > > But it seems to me that most of us who are going have cracked the > > > > technology a long time ago. > > > > > > > > We're not pioneers in anything any more. Everyone with a broadband > > > > connection has watched YouTube. > > > > > > > > Now we've got to figure out What We Want To Do With It. > > > > > > > > Both for ourselves personally - as a hobby - and collectively, as a > > > > group: where the exciting shit is, what the new challenges and > > > > opportunities are, to use bullshit Media Convention marketing speak. > > > > > > > > I've heard people talk about collaborative Shows, interactive > > > > storytelling, grassroots democracy & journalism, becoming better > > > > filmmakers. > > > > > > > > What *I* want from it is to go and hang out with some of you cutting > > > > edge motherfuckers and come up with some stuff that we can do > > > > TOGETHER. Make some stuff there and then, and come away with plans > > > > for the next year. > > > > > > > > COME ON! Sign up, let's make this an unmissable event, a much needed > > > > turning point and new beginning. > > > > > > > > Rupert > > > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > > > > > > > > > On 30-Jun-08, at 7:45 AM, Bill Streeter wrote: > > > > > > > > We have 5 people who have registered. > > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > > <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > > Irina <irinaski@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > SO > > > > > whats the count RIGHT NOW bill > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://geekentertainment.tv > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >
