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YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent copyright-infringing material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday.

Rule One - Don’t suggest to a ruling monarch that they appear in ceremonial robes but lose the crown because “its too dressy”.

Moving from photo to video is similar to going from first class to coach.
You find you have a lot less wriggle room.
The video box is a much tighter fit. Photoshop puts cropping and scaling tools into the hands of every photographer, and most use them freely. Very few photographs reach the client without some finessing […]

Hi Garry. You caught some nice poses here. Biggest problem is I can tell the horizon isn’t straight. It doesn’t look like a hill. Man at right needs to be cropped out. Sometimes I find if I shout right before I take the picture I can get people’s attentions. If you had done so we […]

Great post by Andy Dickinson on writing scripts for web video versus writing articles.
Worth noting that his points about “being concise/eliminating redundancy” apply to shooting as well as scripting. TV news features often contain 50% cutaways which add nothing to the story - that does not work on the net.
Lose the redundant […]

In the Art of the Start Guy Kawasaki emphasized the importance of crafting a mantra rather than a mission statement or business plan. A plan detailing what you intend to do may limit or even emasculate the enterprise. A mantra shifts the focus away from operational details towards values and principles. From the “what” to […]

When Boeing needed a passenger oriented interior design for their new Dreamliner they could have mined the “wisdom of crowds” by polling their millions of customers. Instead they sent a team of designers to fly round the world five times each - in coach! Developing what lead designer John Barratt refers to as […]

Interview with Mark Cuban at Spectrum Online in which he argues that the DMCA safe harbor provisions that protect ISPs from copyright infringement claims do not apply to site owners. He also makes some salient observations with regard to […]

James Surowiecki and Malcolm Gladwell are well known to readers of the New Yorker as the twin purveyors of contrarian gobbledygook. They bring to mind a pair of gymnast contortionists - going through a series of elegant and stylish moves to assume impossible convoluted positions - then adopting serene smiles which might convince a […]

Loren Feldman - professional video blogger. Many bloggers display flickr galleries with photos of their friends. Loren’s flickr galleries are all Loren. Does the small screen favor big egos? Or is it that uncertain times favor the bold?
Loren has developed a strong following on his own site 1938media, also as a member of the […]

Gary Vay-ner-chuck produces daily 20 minute videos to promote his liquor business at winelibrary.com. 25,000 viewers a day. 8000 hours of video. If Nielsen ever get their new “visit length” metric sorted out this site is going to rank very high. via Time

A month or so ago Nielsen/Netratings published statistics that seemed to suggest that the average nytimes.com visit lasted an unbelievable 30 minutes. Asking around it seems that the figures really were unbelievable - no-one believed them.
The most significant question for me was “when most people are browsing using tabs is there any way to […]