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Unrelated Videos: Why YouTube VEVO Channels Deliberately Flunk Marketing 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]

The Great Cleanup…

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Going over old posts, I deleted those that either: 1. Contained YouTube videos of MAFIAA actors and musicians, with little or no commentary, whether or not they (or their users) had been removed at the MAFIAA’s request. Excluded were some posts where I could pull the video and have a part of the post be [...]

TUTORIAL: Recent YouTube Site Changes – Where Did The RSS Feeds Go?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

A recent redesign to YouTube has hidden the ability to subscribe to channel RSS feeds. While the Web runs on RSS and there is nothing Google can do about it, many companies are trying to get you to sign up for an account by finding clever ways to hide their feed links. And as a [...]

Not Far From The Truth Ideologically

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Well, it’s your property, and when you get robbed, you call the police to defend your property, right? Old RIAA PSA Commercial

Adam Carolla on Occupy Wall Street & Gen Y

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

A little over a month old, but deserves a post here. From the YouTube uploader fotop06: Adam Carolla breaking down the current occupy wallstreet movement in simple terms for everyone to understand. He dives into the cultural reasons that lead us into this situation, as well as the solution to our problems… Very similar to [...]

The “Blacklist Bills” Are Just Plain Silly

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

You may have seen The X-Cop Fly Company (and its sister site, Rogue Central) take part in the “American Censorship Day” protest on the 16th. This was an effort to stop the creation of the Great Firewall of America (aka “Internet Blacklist Bills”). If you did not see the “Stop Censorship” banner on Mozilla, Techdirt, [...]

Scott Joplin on Beer Bottles

Friday, October 29th, 2010

(via Catholic & Enjoying It) Peacherine Rag

A Ron Paul Halloween

Friday, October 29th, 2010

(via Lew Rockwell) A Ron Paul Halloween

Inflation Lesson from Ducktales

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

From the Mises Institute. I remember them publishing this before but it’s not on my blog. Ducktales Inflation Lesson I left a comment on the Mises Institute blog, which states this: What’s great about this video is that inflation is not described merely as an increase in prices due to manipulation of the money supply, [...]

Ahmadinejad and others claim that “capitalism” is dying

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

This Reuters article features different terrorist and communist leaders commenting on capitalism to the UN. However, their comments are not about capitalism at all. Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of [...]