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It looks like misheard lyrics are bigger on Gootube than all the shows combined (like Ask a Ninja). Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the humor – especially when it comes at the expense of Scandinavian metal bands!

If you’ve never seen the Argument Clinic sketch, brace yourself. Monty Python have decided to wage war on low-quality versions of their sketches and they are creating a whole new channel with high-quality versions!

Yes, the original song title is “Radio killed the radio star”. Without going into a deep philosophical discussion, here’s the video.
It’s certainly ironic that MTV launches their music video site sooo late. Anyway, enjoy the song.

Another special delivery from Ask a Ninja:

Here’s a few tips from Cinetech on how to get better results from Youtube’s encoder.
1. Learn to shoot better quality videos for the Web.
2. Your source video needs to be ideally high resolution. For instance: MOV or AVI file, NTSC 720×480 or VGA 640×480.
3. You need to get a high quality video encoder. Keep in [...]

When Google introduced its ad model for YouTube, one could’ve expected that ads will show up in ALL cat-and-dog fighting videos (a.k.a. user-generated content or UGC). Instead, it appears that Google’s video ads will only show on videos supplied by the 3,000 professional content providers and 70 independent partner channels.
This quote from TVWeek:
Considering that giant [...]

Finally, Alan Johnston has been released after 114 day of captivity.

Tags: BBC, correspondent, free speech, Gaza, journalism, youtube
BBC, correspondent, free speech, Gaza, journalism, youtube

BBC has aired a video sent by Alan Johnston’s kidnappers. The original BBC one is not share-able, so I got this one:

The BBC came out with a statement as well:
We are studying the video very carefully. We have been working very closely with Alan’s family for the past 81 days. This is a highly distressing [...]

Google has just announced at the AdSense blog that they have started a closed beta of AdSense for video.
Previously, it was possible to get a video ad instead of an image ad (granted you have opted in for video). This one is different and is probably tied to Google’s acquisition of Youtube.
It will now [...]

I already have a web cam (a Logitech Communicate STX) but I’m shopping around for a good USB 2 web cam. I have tested Apple’s iSight and I was pleased with the results but I’m not ready to commit to Apple any time soon.
I’ve been a long time Sony fan, when it comes to camcorders [...]