Maybe we could get the guy to do a piece on video blogging. Then we can site it as a 'reliable source' and get it in the Wikipedia.
The pigs on the Talk Radio are just unbelievable. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I too have had to moderate our videoblog. After my ex-wife and I split up, there were some nasty things posted on our various websites. So we started moderating. It's a bummer, but I leave anything that is non-spam and non-malicious. Cheers, Ron Watson On the Web: http://pawsitivevybe.com http://k9disc.com http://k9disc.blip.tv On May 3, 2007, at 2:18 PM, mcmpress wrote: > A video we posted about a guy who hassled us at a wedding in February > was found by the guy in a random google search. Turns out he's a > Boston > DJ at WBCN, featured the vlog on his show and encouraged his listeners > to leave comments ( we were unmoderated at the time)on our site. We > got > about 180 messages of hate: against women, gay people, it was pretty > awful. I deleted most of them, keeping the more intelligent ones up, > even if they didn't agree with us. But the damage was done. We're now > moderating, which was kind of a sad moment in my video blogging > experience. That I now have to do that. Not only is the internet a > window, it's also a mirror to the offline world, not always in a good > way. > > Anyway, here's the post: > > http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2007/02/tapping-glass.html > <http://videopancakes.blogspot.com/2007/02/tapping-glass.html> > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Verdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > My quick observations: > > When Dylan got a lot of publicity she also got a handful of the > worst > > threatening and explicit comments. We just deleted them and went on > > with life. Once the publicity stopped, so did the comments. > > > > As a man, I've never had threatening comments on my blog. I did > > however get a few gross/nasty comments on the video where I got > naked > > and in the comments on digg where one video made it to the front > page. > > > > So in my little experience it seems to be somewhat a function of > > popularity. Also it seems much worse for women rather than men. > > > > - Verdi > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
