I recently had an incident where many of the videos I had embedded on Myspace message boards from Blip Tv had started playing automatically. This had the extremely undesirable effect of fouling the audio on the homepage. We are making a documentary of the music scene in and around our pottery shop, and the video posts, which were mainly musical performances, were placed on the sites of musicians who were friends with the people in the videos. When our videos started playing automatically, we suddenly were flooded with angry complaints from musicians that our videos were messing up their pages. AHHHHHH!!! We had inadvertently become Spamers!!! I immediately deleted my videos from Blip and e-mailed their staff for a solution to this. I also put out a bulletin in Myspace explaining and apologizing for the problem. Embedding video can be a great way to build an audience, but this problem is suddenly making us more enemies than fans. I'm hoping there might be somebody in the videoblogging community who can toss me a lifeline here.
Nick Friedman The Duckpond Pottery Brevard, North Carolina www.myspace.com/duckpondatdusk
