Ramaniscence

You're better off having the video include information about yourself, your channel, other places to hear your music, and having "annotations" or in-video links to like/subscribe incase your video gets embedded elsewhere http://www.youtube.com/user/kidrauhl http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho http://www.youtube.com/user/jenniferjchung Look and see what POPULAR artists are doing, and do that, because they were doing that before they got popular, and it worked pretty well for them =P (Popular being popular on YouTube, not necessarily in the "mainstream" because obviously mainstream artists are totally different)

This...is not necessarily true. There's lots of ways you can optimize YouTube, but... This stuff helps. If you are actually going out of your way to promote things yourself, it helps more than anything. Google tends to reward people who legitimately make/promote content as opposed to people who automate things or lazily upload stuff without filling out fields. What zircon is talking about here is essentially "building authority." You can't promote your stuff in a single place and hope someone stumbles upon it. You have to put yourself out there in as many places as it seems relevant. Keywork: "relevant". Don't get overly spammy, and don't try to push or sell people too hard. Psychologically people aren't really going to accept things you try to shove down their throat. HOWEVER if they look around a few places, you constantly start coming up, then you seem relevant to their interests and their more likely to be interested. Google/YouTube will also nix you for having duplicate content/irrelevant links. So essentially: Have a lot of content in a lot of places. Relevant visitors WILL find it. Either through searching, stumbling, referrals, etc. Welllllll I'm glad you asked! I write a weekly column helping musicians learn how to get the most exposure out of the internets. (here's a link to the thread with some more info). Last week I talked about why YouTube is important, and over the course of the next few weeks I'm going to discuss optimizing your videos, what kind of videos you should be posting, how to get more views, etc. The last 2 weeks I discussed why it's important to have a Facebook Page and how to set them up nicely. As zircon has already pointed out, all these things work hand-in-hand. Some things they can help YouTube videos: Optimized Titles Optimized descriptions Do covers Post video responses Encourage video responses Encourage ratings Encourage subscriptions Links in your signature Linking people you might think are interested Having your own website with links to your YouTube Having a twitter, linkedIn, Facebook page Tumblr's are nice for this I could go on for a LONG time. But...that's what the article is for =P And before you think: "Man, that's a lot of work." It is. Don't for 1 second think it's really easy. The first few steps are easy, because most people have no optimization AT ALL, but to really get out there is practically a full-time job (which is why people hire people to do it for them). I try to keep Just The Tips short and sweet by delivering all the "must know" information, but I'm around to answer any questions too.

This is pretty fucking phenomenal. Good going, guys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

^ This. If I have had that Matrix track since I've known whar MP3s are, lol. This is PRETTY coool.

Retweet. Alternative: http://compo.thasauce.net/rss I'm pretty sure there's individual compo RSS feeds as well, someone would have to ask analoq. If there ARE, I can try to find better ways to implement them and you guys can make your on twitter account if you think that'll really help. If there are NOT we can try to add them. I could also try to schedule facebook updates, but honestly with so many compos I think that might flood ThaSauce's facebook page a bit. Maybe ANOTHER Facebook page just for compos? But then I feel like THAT page would get spammy with the frequency of compos. Really you guys need to make sigs, to talk about it. Search the forums every now and then for people looking for similar things in conversation. Find conversations on other sites. There's a lot that COULD BE done, and instead of talking about it, if everyone actually DID IT, it'd help a lot.

Generally, as far as compos go, I promotion is left up to the organizer. starla promotes OHC, JH promotes JH Compo, I promote FBRC, and Shael promotes Double's Dash. We all do it in our own way. ThaSauce's twitter does send out updates when each compo is starting. I'm open to suggestions to help promote other compos on our compo system, maybe an RSS feed somewhere on the main page if someone can think of a good place? Additionally, like I brought up after OHC: I am looking for volunteer to do a weekly compo report column for ThaSauce. Applicants must be literate, punctional, and have a good amount of free time. You must cover OHC, JH Compo, and 2HD Compo weekly, PRC and ORC monthly, and DDC occasionally. The idea is once a week (probably Sunday) you discuss all the compo happenings from the previous week. For example: This Sunday someone would talk about OHC, JH Compo, 2 Hour Dynamic Compo, and Double's Dash. You'd talk a little bit about the themes, the teams, etc. IF you decide to talk about the entries, that's up to you, BUT you have to list ALL or none. You can either list, or give details, but no bias toward any individual compo or entry is allowed. On the beginning and end of every month you'd also be expected to talk about PRC and ORC. The theme, the deadlines, and the entries. Things like DoD, the Robot Battle, and Freshly Baked are all big enough at this point to warrant their own individual topics, so you wouldn't have to cover them. I would also VERY MUCH like to have a monthly topic just for the Fan Art Competition, but that's another idea entirely. If anyone is interested, has any suggestions, or has any questions on the article format and such, let me know.

Hey now. I don't think this has anything to do with Sony's insistance on using propritory media for everyone on the PSP, or for making the controls extremely iffy, or for making the good releases on the PSP few and far between. Don't get me wrong, I have a PSP, and I love it. There are some great games on the PSP...but there's 1 good game on the PSP for every 10 good games on any other hand held medium. It's too damn expensive. MemStick Pro Duos are STUPID expensive if you buy the real things...I mean, piracy is probably the best thing to ever happen to PSP. I mean...don't even get me started on how Nintendo still manages to get money from the DS despite piracy...

To me it seems like the real problem here is that Sony got a little too arrogant. Even if it's a bit excessive, I understand exactly why they're being so anal about this piracy thing:They were so confident the PS3 couldn't be cracked, they have little-to-no security in place from it ruining their entire online service. It's less about losing revenue on games, and more about opening up their network to being completely useless. Once someone can launch 3rd party software on the PS3 all bets are off. Any game that's popular on PSN will have cheaters and hackers all over it. That'll cause more lost revenue to legitimate customers than piracy will EVER do to a console. Sure Sony can ban a PSN account, but there's near nothing from stopping someone from making another one and going right back online. Hardly even a deterrent. I feel like if they had a system in place, like Microsoft does, they'd essentially just ban the PS3 and be done with it. PS3s are EXPENSIVE. I don't think many people are going to risk hacking it for piracy, and having to buy another one to get online at all would be a serious pain. But right now there's near literally NO consequence besides Sony SUING you. Less learned, I'm sure.

Tying in with the last 2 weeks' posts about Facebook: http://mashable.com/2011/02/24/bing-friends-facebook-likes-search/ This makes bing a LOT more relevant for every reason listed in the first column. You HAVE to have a Facebook Page. I'm going to cover it a little more today before I talk about YouTube, but I wanted to point it out now because it's PRETTY huge. Bing may not have seemed relevant before, and may not be immediately relevant, but this makes it WAY more relevant than ever before.

So I've been working in web marketing for about a year now, and everytime I can I try to teach artists in the community a little bit about how to promote their stuff on the internet. Since I don't do much music now a days I get pretty bored on Thursday nights while starla host's one-hour compos. So every Thursday evening I go through the basics on what you need to know to get your name out there on THE INTERTUBES. I call it: Just the Tips. The description from the column: I STRONGLY encourage ANY artist in the community whom even "kind of" take their music seriously to consider everything discussed. As I discussed in the first article I use the world "brand" because once you start trying to promote yourself, that's what you become: a brand. Your name, your artist name, your band name, it all becomes a brand that you want to be recognizable through the internet. True "branding" will also become very important some point in the game, and will be discuss as well. Most of topics discussed will be tailored specificly toward musicians, but some of it has been tailored from my experiences working with small business and would work for others in similar situations. Additionally, as discussed in the plagiarism thread, it's ESPECIALLY important on the internet to take control of your work, and your brand because if you do not, someone else will, and that's the last thing you want. So far I've covered Why you NEED a Facebook Page, and some tips on getting the most out of your Facebook Page once it's up. This week I'm planning on talking about the importance of a YouTube profile for Musicians, and later a few articles on how to really work that for all it's worth (because for musicians YouTube is the hotness now a days). Some other things I plan on covering include: Why you should have your own domain if you don't have one already The basics requirements of a website Why I recommend Wordpress amongst most things for setting up your website How to organize your website to make sure users get to the content you want them to How to optimize your website for Google How other social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and tumblr can help expand your web presence I have an infinite number of things that I could talk about, and this stuff changes every day as well, so I don't expect to have much trouble doing a weekly column. (I mostly say "to bi-weekly" incase something comes up, and I don't have time to write an article ahead of time, or assuming that I MAY actually want to compo some day). If anyone has any questions about specific things, or suggestions on what I should write future articles about, I'm all ears. I'll try to answer as many questions as I can but just know that I can't give ALL the secrets away, else I may very well lose my job

http://www.facebook.com/Sonic/posts/167589619955951

My friend posted this on my FB wall earlier and I said the same thing. Prettyyy cool trailer, but I'm so tired of zombie games already that I really can't be excited. It's like "Cool...one-sided L4D in Hawaii..."

There's a few on Game Over and Game Over II, not all are as good as Tonedeff, but...he's Tonedeff: Punch Out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FIkAZbeVo Soul Calibur: (Maxi's Ending)

p much the best ever.

Edward Norton IS Tyler Durden.

...how many video games have...violent sexual content? I mean, I haven't REALLY kept up with things lately but...every game I've played with sexual content it was PRETTY consensual. Shit, I don't even remember an instance of someone GETTING RAPED in a video game, let alone ME raping them. Also also: I think if there were a situation where rape was used in a video game, and the player became desensitized to the idea of rape then...I think they're miss-using it as a story-telling tactic.

...curious to see how that pull THIS ONE off.

Speaking strictly for the Disciples, that is the community guild on Illidan, I don't think any of us are too shock/discouraged at this point. Being on Illidan requires a certain level of quality of the player base as a whole, so all of us have been around the block in progression a time or 2. That said, we haven't REALLY gotten into Cataclysm progression too much as we're still trying to gear people up. The one raid we did successfully begin, as a guild, was BoT, and we ended up getting the hardest drake combination, so it didn't do too well. Seeing as we went in with a few under-geared DPS, and at one point were actually running with 9 people, we weren't particularly planning on downing the boss, but we make surprisingly good progress with what we had. The other encounters I've seen personally don't seem TOO difficult mechanics wise, and I'm hopeful that on a better week, with some better gear, we should be able to do Halfus pretty easily. Overall I welcome the spike in difficulty. In Wrath I had done Sartharion within a few hours of hitting 80, and picked up an epic staff immediately. Within the first week of hitting 80 I had already cleared Naxx 25. It's cool to progress, but overcoming the challenges themselves is even more rewarding. I'm TOTALLY down for progression so long as their actually IS progression involved.

If working in web marketing has taught me anything, it's that your shit is going to end up on the internet. Not necessarily the shit you want to end up on the internet, and not necessarily in the places you want them to on the internet. The idea that you can stop something from showing up, or where it shows up, is pretty much an illusion now a days. You can, however, control it. The absolute BEST way of weeding out illegitimate remixes on YouTube is to saturate YouTube with the content you want to show up. If you have a remix of a song, make a YouTube profile and put all your remixes up, with a short little video of information about YOURSELF. Link it to the OCR profile, link it to the OCR YouTube version of the song, create a network of links with legitimate information. Someone is GOING to try to take credit for your songs every now and then, it's unavoidable BUT you can make sure the information that shows up on youtube more often is REAL and NOT stolen, so when stuff like this happens it's way more obvious to viewers, and they know how to find the truth, and how to verify that it IS the truth. If you're serious about yourself, your music, and your brand, instead of hoping what you want ends up on the internet, and what you don't doesn't, MAKE SURE that EVERYTHING you want to show up shows up loud and proud and in the forefront. This goes for music, this goes for music websites, this goes for personal sites and information.

NOT seen: OA's character in-game is dressed just like him. Also this: http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/Threddd/blacwut.gif

this thread sounds like a midi of an explosion in outer space.

One of our interns at work was telling us how her mom would always offer everyone "orange juice" and how she'd have to warn them before hand because what she was REALLY offering them was Tang, lol That shit is a deal breaker, man. Tang is NOT orange juice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vloozxjUs0 Now seems like a great time to repost http://doulifee.com//Storage/OC_Removed/Sailor_Moon_SandM_Ravebody_OC_ReMoved.mp3

The last time I MDMA'd I was pretty sure my carpeting was heaven.