Blunty3000 Hails YouTube InVideo Ads

The press is abuzz about the new YouTube Invideo ads, but I’d like to hear what YouTubers think. Popular YouTube commentator Nate “Blunty3000” Burr says YouTube InVideo ads are better than the annoying prerolls used by less progressive competitors.

Tag Your Events!

I’m now reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous, and I just came across a passage that made me LOL.

Indeed, it’s becoming common at technical conferences for the organizers to recommend the attendees tag their conference-related blog posts, photos, and online articles with a tag specific to that conference — “etech2006” or “poptech07” — so they can all easily be found by using tag search sites such as Technorati.com.

This is exactly what I’ve been telling Philippine event organizers to do in this fiesta-happy nation of bloggers. Every time I do, they look at me like I’m insane. One even accused me of sabotaging their site’s security, apparently confusing spam-vulnerable tagboards with tags. Another accused me of facilitating massive copyright infringement through tag streams, as if they were selling content instead of events.

Well, now it’s in a book available on dead trees in Philippine brick-and-mortar bookstores. Filipino event runners, most of whom have been taught since youth to know nothing but what’s written verbatim in dead-tree textbooks, should be able to appreciate that. I am officially not insane here.