RasterWeb!

When we last mentioned NBC and YouTube, it was all about how YouTube had gotten a take-down notice from NBC, and how they were riding copyright infringement to success.

We the people of independent media were pleased. Some brash young company came on the scene, did video the wrong way, disregarded rights of the creators, and got slapped for it. Of course a slap usually doesn’t hurt very much, does it?

Today when I search for "nbc youtube" the first result is Boing Boing: NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday" and the second is NBC strikes deal with YouTube | CNET News.com. That’s how fast things change. In about six months NBC goes from almost suing YouTube to partnering with them. Obviously we have a new business plan to investigate…

But is it really new? It looks like the Napster thing, do something naughty, maybe even illegal, and when you get called on it, attempt to go legit. You’ve probably gained a ton of users, and name recognition, and as long as you’ve got the VC money and lawyers, you’re set.

Obviously I’m doing it all wrong. The rewards don’t go to honest companies/people, they go to the ones that play dirty and break laws. So who wants to start a new venture with me?

I’m a big supporter of Ourmedia, but the past few videos I’ve tried to upload there have failed. I’ve even tried multiple times to do uploads, and I either just get a blank page after upload or an error message.

I’m not doing anything different in how I create videos, and my browser setup should not have changed, so I don’t know what is up. I’m sure I’ll try again, especially with audio, but for now I’m putting my video on blip.tv.

Most of the videobloggers have plenty of good things to say about blip.tv. They’re a company that gets it when it comes to videoblogging, and Mike Hudack from blip.tv takes part in the conversation with videobloggers which, I think, goes a long way towards earning their praise.

Keep up the good work blip.tv!

d00d, Geek Entertainment TV Sells Out To PodTech… and that’s a good thing!

I’ve been a supporter of GETV for a while now (see: the aptly titled post Geek Entertaintment TV for proof) and that Scoble guy? I’ve seen him around the blogosphere a bit…

I know Scoble went to some (previously) little known outfit called PodTech, and I guess the blogosphere even noticed it, and sure, while everyone was all “Rocketboom this” and “Rocketboom that” I was all “GETV d00d!” or something like that.

Anyway, congrats to all parties involved… I can’t wait until I get to sell-out for real. I mean, PayMeToBlog.com is selling-out, but so far it’s just little selling-out, not full-blown selling-out, which is what I’m after.

I’m sick of hearing about honesty and integrity in the blogosphere. Sick of it! And so are you… Well, fret no more, the problem is solved!

Introducing PayMeToBlog.com, a site where you pay me to blog.

That’s right, no worries about some hidden agenda or disclosure. If a post shows up there, it’s been paid for (unless otherwise noted.)

I like to think of it as a bold experiment in blogging and advertising. I’m either a sell-out or a genius, you decide.

(Oh yeah, it’s also a videoblog. We’re multimedia-capable you know!)