RSS feedA French farce across 4 houses, staring one of our local stray cats.
I’ve finally changed my domain name from my ISP URL to a real URL. Please change any URL you have pointing to my old site (www.zipworld.com.au/~kashum), to my new www.kashum.com site.
Or for reference:
Site/blog/vlog: http://www.kashum.com
RSS (2.0) feed: http://www.kashum.com/rss2.xml
I’ll leave the old domain around for two weeks, so please change them as soon as possible in your reader or whatever client you’re using.
Changing URLs is annoying for you and me, and I realise its easier to just delete me than change me, but please stick with it, I promise I’ll be good (or bad, whatever you’d usually expect).
Special thanks to Nathan, who kindly donated the domain a few months back. I’ve only just had time to do make it all happen.
Via David Maney, a meme.
RULES:
- Go into your archive.
- Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).
- Find the fifth sentence (or closest to it).
- Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
My 23rd post is about the Speech Accent Archive, the fifth sentence (or third, because there is no fifth) is:
Only one from Australia though, which is a shame.
The birthday dilemna. To vlog, or not to vlog: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to vlog the slings and arrows of birthday rights, or to take arms against a sea of public enquiry, and by opposing stay mute? To be quiet: to let strangers in; no more; and by being quiet to say we are mute. The gifts and the thousand birth acclamations that life is heir to, ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. To be quiet, to let strangers in; To be quiet: perchance to receive: ay, there’s the rub; for in that silence of birth what gifts may come when we have shuffled off this date of import, must give us pause: there’s the respect that makes calamity of so many years; for who would bear the hollowness and shallowness of presents, the acquaintance’s guess, the proud man’s selfishness, the pangs of gifts of despised love, the law’s restriction, the insolence of office workers and the spurns that parents merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his birthday make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary card, but that the dread of something instead of a birthday, the undiscover’d day from whose bourn no commercialism returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those birthdays we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus commercialism does make consumers of us all; and thus the native hue of celebration is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, and gifts of great pith and moment with this regard their usefulness turn awry, and lose the name of value. – Cheap you now! The fair Birthday! Nymph, in thy orisons be all my non-birthdays be remember’d.
So what did you do on 27th September 2005?
Propaganda propaganda, selections from The Propaganda Remix Project‘s web site. See my earlier video Propaganda from wikipedia.
Random propaganda images from wikipedia.
Always remember, feedback is your friend…
Note: This is the first video I’ve encoded with H.264 (MPEG-4). Any problems, try updating QuickTime or your less than perfect media player, or drop me an email saying you’d prefer an older encoding.
Is it compelling, or just a fade of the new, like hypercolour tshirts?
Home movies are boring, I know because I grew up amongst families who used to shoot on Super 8 and have viewings at their houses. Apart from an exceptional few, most home movies are really boring. Wow, that’s Fred and Mary doing what they always do, but this time on a white screen in the dark! Why not turn the lights on and just ask them over?
So why aren’t videblogs boring? Well, the ones that are home videos are boring, and there’s more and more of them every day. In 2004 they weren’t, because they were a fad, and we got a kick out of seeing them online and in RSS feeds. But now you have to be something special or out of the ordinary if you want to keep an audience of anyone but your closest friends.
It’s the same with blogging. If you want to find out what your friends are doing, then become one of almost 9 million members of Live Journal. The popular blogs are the ones doing or saying innovative things, and not just diary entries or home movies.
Sure videoblogging is taking off, but after the “home movies on the Internet” buzz is over, hopefully we’ll be left with some really interesting, if not amazing DIY content.
I try to keep this in mind with each video I do. Is this a home video? Or is it something more worthy of using up my viewers’ valuable time?