Comments for Hogswallowing http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:42:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Don’t confuse users with customers by Spud http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/dont-confuse-users-with-customers/#comment-1614 Spud Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:42:07 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-1614 http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-gets-back-to-nick/ Thought you might be interested... http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-gets-back-to-nick/
Thought you might be interested…

]]> Comment on YouTubin’ by rob http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/youtubin/#comment-1611 rob Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:02:13 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=158#comment-1611 You look very happy with yourself when you say "benefits." Hilarious. Can't believe the bitch walked away after pushing you. I flashed on a very cinematic picture of that: Helicopter angle of you falling while she's already forgotten about it and is walking off to the car. Slo-mo. Good tune. Where's the mp3? You look very happy with yourself when you say “benefits.” Hilarious.

Can’t believe the bitch walked away after pushing you. I flashed on a very cinematic picture of that:

Helicopter angle of you falling while she’s already forgotten about it and is walking off to the car. Slo-mo.

Good tune. Where’s the mp3?

]]> Comment on Ok, That’s It by JB http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/ok-thats-it/#comment-1609 JB Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:11:50 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=150#comment-1609 I know, right? This is the POWER of BLOGGERS. I know, right? This is the POWER of BLOGGERS.

]]> Comment on Ok, That’s It by Brad http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/ok-thats-it/#comment-1608 Brad Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:57:54 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=150#comment-1608 Maybe McCain read this post and it's why he needs to suspend the debate to work on the economy. Maybe McCain read this post and it’s why he needs to suspend the debate to work on the economy.

]]> Comment on YouTube, SchmooTube by JB http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/youtube-schmootube/#comment-1604 JB Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:38:17 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-1604 I don't disagree with that at all. But the point is that YouTube isn't anywhere near being able to supplant all of my television "needs". And diamond-in-the-rough is great as far as it goes, but without professionals there'd be no Jurassic Park, and they'll pry Jurassic Park from my cold dead hands before I'll let them take it away. It's true that you can be professional-level and not be a "professional". We know that from making music that would stand up to any songwriter, if not any production engineer. But to say imply that the future is in the amateur production ("13 hours is uploaded every day" or whatever it was) is really just distressing when I think about it, though when I think about it I quickly calm down, because I know that it's not going to happen. The signal to noise ratio, if all video is YouTube video, will be really aggravating unless there are ways to cut through the dross-- which there would be. Maybe the point is that YouTube (and hopefully its competition-- which hardly exists right now) might someday be the only venue for video work pro or amateur, and I'm not certain that's a good thing because people almost never have any idea what it takes to really be up to par with today's best presentation equipment. I don’t disagree with that at all. But the point is that YouTube isn’t anywhere near being able to supplant all of my television “needs”. And diamond-in-the-rough is great as far as it goes, but without professionals there’d be no Jurassic Park, and they’ll pry Jurassic Park from my cold dead hands before I’ll let them take it away.

It’s true that you can be professional-level and not be a “professional”. We know that from making music that would stand up to any songwriter, if not any production engineer. But to say imply that the future is in the amateur production (”13 hours is uploaded every day” or whatever it was) is really just distressing when I think about it, though when I think about it I quickly calm down, because I know that it’s not going to happen.

The signal to noise ratio, if all video is YouTube video, will be really aggravating unless there are ways to cut through the dross– which there would be.

Maybe the point is that YouTube (and hopefully its competition– which hardly exists right now) might someday be the only venue for video work pro or amateur, and I’m not certain that’s a good thing because people almost never have any idea what it takes to really be up to par with today’s best presentation equipment.

]]> Comment on YouTube, SchmooTube by Shane http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/youtube-schmootube/#comment-1602 Shane Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:33:18 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=145#comment-1602 I don't know if I agree with you 100% here. I don't think YouTube is ever going to replace regular TV, but its appeal, at least to me, is finding the occasional diamond in the rough. Of course nearly everything on the site is stupid and unwatchable, but what I appreciate is that it gives amateurs a voice and place to display their creativity. Nine times out of ten, that "creativity" will be singing along to a song because someone else did it first. But before the internet, there was almost nowhere that a non-professional could show their work. I've seen some really good short films on there that I never would have seen otherwise. I like a system that circumvents the traditional bullshit methods of becoming a "professional," the same methods that gave us the Disaster Movie guys and Jessica Alba. YouTube is at a different level. I'm not saying it's better than mainstream entertainment (though it's hardly much worse) - I just like the fact that an alternative exists. I don’t know if I agree with you 100% here. I don’t think YouTube is ever going to replace regular TV, but its appeal, at least to me, is finding the occasional diamond in the rough. Of course nearly everything on the site is stupid and unwatchable, but what I appreciate is that it gives amateurs a voice and place to display their creativity. Nine times out of ten, that “creativity” will be singing along to a song because someone else did it first. But before the internet, there was almost nowhere that a non-professional could show their work. I’ve seen some really good short films on there that I never would have seen otherwise. I like a system that circumvents the traditional bullshit methods of becoming a “professional,” the same methods that gave us the Disaster Movie guys and Jessica Alba. YouTube is at a different level. I’m not saying it’s better than mainstream entertainment (though it’s hardly much worse) – I just like the fact that an alternative exists.

]]> Comment on Refrigerator Dreams by JB http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/refridgerator-dreams/#comment-1596 JB Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:55:21 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-1596 Well yeah, the germs thing was just for laughs. It would be the same value for a small office, or a working team. Of course, my concept would probably be several thousand dollars more expensive, considering that neither student housing (dorms or even apartments for that matter) and offices are usually less concerned about absolutely keeping tabs on energy expenses. Dorms because it's (usually) parent money or scholarships or loans, which don't feel like they come from your pocket, and offices because honestly when you work for a company it doesn't feel like you're spending your own money there either. So a plastic, semi-efficient little fridge that serves the purpose of giving everyone their own bit of space would be fine for those scenarios. Well yeah, the germs thing was just for laughs. It would be the same value for a small office, or a working team. Of course, my concept would probably be several thousand dollars more expensive, considering that neither student housing (dorms or even apartments for that matter) and offices are usually less concerned about absolutely keeping tabs on energy expenses. Dorms because it’s (usually) parent money or scholarships or loans, which don’t feel like they come from your pocket, and offices because honestly when you work for a company it doesn’t feel like you’re spending your own money there either.

So a plastic, semi-efficient little fridge that serves the purpose of giving everyone their own bit of space would be fine for those scenarios.

]]> Comment on Refrigerator Dreams by rob http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/refridgerator-dreams/#comment-1595 rob Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:50:07 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-1595 That student thing would've been great for me for a certain period of my life. It wasn't about germs, but about people stealing my food. So what I'd have done is locked that thing up tight! That student thing would’ve been great for me for a certain period of my life. It wasn’t about germs, but about people stealing my food.

So what I’d have done is locked that thing up tight!

]]> Comment on The Network is the Archive (or should be) by JB http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/the-network-is-the-archive-or-should-be/#comment-1592 JB Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:48:29 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=97#comment-1592 Seems like even as I was writing this, somebody was working on the exact same thing: http://wua.la/ Here's an article about this startup, from The Economists magazine: http://www.economist.com/research/articlesbysubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=348909&story_id=12081445 Seems like even as I was writing this, somebody was working on the exact same thing:

http://wua.la/

Here’s an article about this startup, from The Economists magazine:

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesbysubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=348909&story_id=12081445

]]> Comment on Don’t confuse users with customers by razzzedbywolves http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/dont-confuse-users-with-customers/#comment-1587 razzzedbywolves Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:47:55 +0000 http://hogswallowing.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-1587 I am currently locked out of my Gmail account, as are apparently a bunch of other people. Sucks. I am currently locked out of my Gmail account, as are apparently a bunch of other people. Sucks.

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