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August 30, 2006

CNN Anchor Flubs Audio During Bush Katrina Speech



Find the transcription of Kyra Phillips' flub here.... [Full Story]

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Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR



Wonder where he is today... ... [Full Story]

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Lockheed-Martin taken to task in ex-employee's YouTube video



"What I am going to tell you is going to seem preposterous...It may be very hard for you to believe that our government and the largest defense contractor in the world [are] capable of such alarming incompetence and can make ethical compromises as glaring as what I am going to... [Full Story]

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TubeSock



Grabs YouTube videos from the web and copies them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable. TubeSock knows how to convert the video using the codecs and bitrates best for each device. It can even add the video to iTunes for you. TubeSock can also grab just the audio... [Full Story]

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Those home shopping network people



They just never stop selling. You need to have your speakers on for this. ... [Full Story]

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August 28, 2006

YouTube goes to Paris



Paris Hilton and videos. The continuation of the marriage of the two makes sense, I guess. Paris' new foray into G-rated video territory is already a success, with her YouTube channel already in the video site's top 10. Gee, thanks, Prison Break! SOURCE... [Full Story]

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Is lonelygirl15 "Sweet, Weird, Fraud or Other"?



You decide. ... [Full Story]

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1-2-3-4casts



I don't generally like little girls. This one? I love. She does the New York City weather forecast (er... 4cast) every day for this site. Here's one of her archived and YouTubed 4casts: ... [Full Story]

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Pachelbel’s Canon RAWKS



It's long a staple of weddings and 8th grade band concerts, but you've never heard Pachelbel’s Canon like this before. SOURCE... [Full Story]

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"the YouTube of How-To?"



Wanna know how to apply liquid eyeliner? Cook a chicken curry in ten minutes? Perform 'the wave'? Make a Singapore Sling? Stop a nosebleed? Then have I got a site for you! VideoJug is in Beta, but with enough relevant content, I can see it becoming a go-to site for... [Full Story]

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Dancing Across the Globe



This is a long article, but here’s the gist: A man, Matt Harding, travels around the world. At each spot, he does a silly little dance, films the dance, and posts the video on his website (and on YouTube). The video gets more than 2 million plays. Stride Gum, a... [Full Story]

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August 25, 2006

The YouTube Election



It's not until 2008, and who knows how media and our consumption of it will change by then, but watching how online video affects the presidential election will be fascinating. Just think of how TV changed the elections of last century. And some videos from the last couple of years... [Full Story]

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August 23, 2006

Sony in Deal to Acquire a Video Site



Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to announce on Wednesday that it has acquired Grouper, a Web site featuring videos contributed by users, for $65 million. The deal marries one of the biggest and most powerful movie studios, which regularly spends more than $100 million on a film, with a Web site... [Full Story]

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YouTube Launches Video Ad Platform



YouTube Launches Video Ad Platform POPULAR VIDEO-SHARING SITE YOUTUBE TUESDAY unveiled new plans for monetizing its service with ads. The company is rolling out a new ad platform that offers two main features--brand channels, where companies can create their own programming, and what YouTube is calling "participatory video ads," some... [Full Story]

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Enjoli!



One of my favorite things about online video is watching the stuff that came out long before the Interweb. Take this Enjoli commercial, for instance. We've come a long way, baby. ... [Full Story]

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August 14, 2006

The Hottest of YouTube 2006 Contest



YouTuber morbeck (yes that's a dude) is looking for the hottest YouTuber, which, unsurprisingly, is a big hit with other YouTubers...... [Full Story]

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August 9, 2006

Tea Partay



Ad agency BBH released a commercial for Smirnoff Raw Tea on YouTube last week, and it's already gotten over 350,000 views. I wonder how many of those views are from agency people... SOURCE: AdAge... [Full Story]

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Is Your TiVo Gay?



Comedian Mark Day sure thinks his is, not that there's anything wrong with that...... [Full Story]

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August 8, 2006

Political Debate Gone Wild!



Joe Redner, the owner of Tampa, Florida strip club Mons Venus and perennial candidate for elected office in Hillsborough County, took one on the chin - literally - from radio talk show host Tony Katz on the cable access show The Bleeping Truth last weekend.... [Full Story]

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OJ Simpson Is Still Looking For The Real Killer



YouTuber Jeremy Morrison (JmanFIVEk) updates us on The Juice's search for Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman's real killer. Having conducted thorough searches of the nations golf courses, OJ has moved on to the next natural search target - strip clubs. Go OJ, go!... [Full Story]

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"A Series of Tubes" Storms The Net



Blogger/podcaster Paul Holcomb's techno remix of Senator Ted Stevens' now infamous "Series Of Tubes" speech has spread like wildfire. YouTuber Gavin's video version of the tune (above) takes the silliness even further. Of course that kind of juice didn't go unnoticed, as The Wall Street Journal's Aaron Rutkoff notes:... [Full Story]

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August 7, 2006

Reverend Alicia



Religion's never tasted so trippy. ... [Full Story]

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Google Joins Viacom in Web Test of Video Ads



Why use a video clip with ads on your site, when YouTube lets users bypass ads? You know, aside from the fact that it's illegal. Copyright infringements, and how they're dealt with by entertainment creators and their lawyers, will change the online video business. Google is smart to offer site... [Full Story]

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Vader Sessions



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August 5, 2006

OK Go - Here It Goes Again



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August 4, 2006

Net Neutrality brings out some of the Web's star weirdos



Sweater Lady Leslie Hall is letting her freak flag fly once again, this time in support of net neutrality. WeAreTheWeb.org has recruited help from Internet Celebrities such as “The Tron Guy”, “Leslie Hall” and “Peter Pan”, each have become famous and built followings using the Internet. “We connected with people... [Full Story]

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ABC.com expands streaming of hit shows



Thanks to successes with the streaming of Lost, Desperate Housewives and other shows earlier this year, ABC has caught the broadband bug. They're relaunching ABC.com with even more ad-supported content. According to MEDIAWEEK: Roughly two-thirds of those surveyed watched complete episodes, with "missed the episode on TV" cited by respondents... [Full Story]

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How not to pitch an advertising account.



Full disclosure: I work for an ad agency, or a "brand communication" company, as we like to call it. A number of times each year, we participate in pitches to win new accounts. My good pal Tracey Kane likens this to life as a character on thirtysomething. It's not like... [Full Story]

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August 3, 2006

Smirnoff Raw Tea Party



"No one's harder than a new england gangsta!" A viral ad campaign for the forthcoming Smirnoff Raw Tea product.... [Full Story]

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YouTube Star Brookers In Online Fundraising Scandal



Brooke "Brookers" Brodack, the 20-year-old YouTube phenom who signed a development deal with Carson Daly's production company on the strength of her YouTube videos, is embroiled in a hot-and-heavy controversy about a July fundraising campaign she launched on her MySpace site. Brodack, who claims her deal with Daly hasn't... [Full Story]

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Monster Mash - Joy Division Edition



What do you get when you take what very well may be the worst music video ever made, Armi & Danny's I Wanna Love You Tender, and mash it up with some classic Joy Division? Quite possibly the greatest music video of all time... Bonus: Radio station WFMU claims the... [Full Story]

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More Mel Gibson Video



The story of Mel Gibson's DUI arrest and anti-Semitic remarks has spread like wildfire via the Internet. TMZ, who broke the story, has followed it up with a now ironic 2003 PSA featuring Gibson as a Los Angeles Sheriff who pulls over Scott Baio to thank him for supporting the... [Full Story]

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August 2, 2006

You Tube's Least Loved - Omer Pasha



U.K. based Pakistani native Omer Pasha is burning up the bottom of the YouTube rankings with his homo-erotic tales of God and atheism in his widely ignored series "The Curse." People aren't exactly beating a path to the door of the Pakistani George Michael; which is a shame because... [Full Story]

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Breakfast Time



Sure it's no Peanut Butter Jelly Time Time, but you may have sudden urge to hit IHOP after watching this... ... [Full Story]

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Putting the EEEEEE! Into Creepy



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August 1, 2006

The Cult Of The Lonely Girl



YouTube mega star Bree (lonelygirl15) is the new queen of YouTube, long may she reign. If history is any guide she may not reign long, she sure does reign hard. Bree has a stranglehold on top spots of views, subscriptions, comments, etc. at YouTube. Even the people obsessing over... [Full Story]

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