[videoblogging] Re:NOOOOOOO!!!!

[doctor P]

Kasey,

 

Please reconsider your comment on Canadian content.

Generally, American-style media, namely entertainment for its own sake, is
void of content even if the production is great.

This style of McMedia has spread worldwide like McDonald's junk food.

Globalization, while offering many benefits, also has the rather nasty
effect of erasing cultural distinction.

In the US itself the last bastion of content, PBS (TV) and NPR (radio), are
under attack.

Freedom does not mean "no regulation".

Without regulation, schools would not be teaching literacy, art, history &
science and ignorance would be common.

(How free are you when ignorant?)

Without regulation, artists that are not popular yet skilled, imaginative,
and different, would have no venue for expression, let alone money to
continue their art.

I really think you may want to reconsider whether Canadian television
'sucks' because it is badly filmed, or whether it does not provide you with
the stimuli/numbness we all get when watching McMedia.

 

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[videoblogging] Re: Widescreen video iphone

[doctor P]

If I can add Skype, I'll save a bundle calling family and friends!

 

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[videoblogging] Re: Let's band together to do something about Global Warming!!!

[doctor P]

Global Warming is real and it is a real threat.

However, Casey, your note that no snow in Montreal confirms your belief that
GW is behind this is a disservice for the environmental cause and is
disappointing for scientists like myself that are trying to educate the
public on such matters.

Science is not a belief.

Natural patterns are not a conspiracy theory.

An anecdote is one data point not an evidence.

Lack of snow or a heat wave must be placed in a graph where they produce a
body of evidence that may show a trend.

The melting of the polar ice shelves is cataclysmic and is happening.

 

What can you do about GW, Casey?

First, educate yourself.

Go to a bookstore, for example. Read popular versions of the science
describing GW.

Rent 'An Inconvenient Truth' by Al Gore.

I produced a video myself explaining Global Warming at

http://spacegeek.org/ep3_QT.shtml

Google anti-GW website to learn how to respond to the oil industry.

As a Canadian, you are one of the highest producers of GW byproducts and
waste.

Have you written a letter to your rep. regarding the Alberta Oil Sands?

Are some of your friends driving SUVs, could you convince them to question
that choice?

Your show is popular. Would it be possible for you to produce a show about
GW in an entertaining but also educational way?

Your idea of a vlog site with GW witness accounts and tags can only be real
if it is intelligent otherwise it will be debunked and will provide fodder
for those who like to portray environmentalists in a poor light. Once you
have educated yourself, then your actions will not be based on belief but
reason and that is the difference between a closed-minded person manipulated
by religion/patriotism/trends and an enlightened member of the
environmentalist community.

 

 

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[videoblogging] Re: Best practices for offering Flash and QuickTime movies?

[doctor P]

I agree with Bill.

Another point is to divide and conquer: offer Flash as default on website
knowing that a iTunes viewers will be querying the QT file anyway.

On my website I offer Flash as default; below the flash window, I have the
QT logo and "Quicktime" written out and linked to the QT format of the
video.

 

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[videoblogging] Re: Seting up a Forum

[doctor P]

My Host is Mediatemple.

 

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