Monday, June 11, 2007

Video Log 2

Questions about YouTube:

video not available

Today I finally got the red "video not available" message on one of the items in my video log. It would be interesting to know how many videos are removed from YouTube each day because they violate some copyright. Michael Liedtke recently wrote that 200,000 videos are uploaded every day. If only 10% are copyright violations, that represents a huge amount of work for people to request removal and for YouTube to comply with the requests. Maybe most people who own the copyrights see YouTube as a free advertising service. There certainly are companies like Universal Music Group that have gone out of their way to make their music videos available on YouTube. Do these companies get upset if youtubers make and upload their own versions?
(deleted video http://www.youtube.com/v/zxtvHxQllzM)


Video Log 2

You make a YouTube playlist and "add some personality to your Playlist", in particular, you give the Playlist a title. Then you say you want the Playlist to be used as your video log. Then your channel is graced with a video log called "Video Log 2". Um, why?

make playlist icon

What does this button do? I've seen that some people have small images next to their playlists in their list of playlists. I cannot get that to happen.

Attach a Video

Got to someone's channel and click "add a comment". Down at the bottom it says "Attach a Video" and there is a drop-down menu that shows your own videos and some of your favorite videos. So far, I have not uploaded and videos, but this does not seem to do anything with favorite videos.

fetching your blog information

As I write this I'm trying to add this blog to my YouTube channel. After YouTube was "fetching your blog information" for over an hour, I got a "110, 'Connection timed out'" message.

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