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  • Drudge Report, Zero Hedge and Youtube

    Drudge Report, Zero Hedge and Youtube

    Fight Club and Tyler Durden from Zero Hedge

    At the risk of sounding redundant, as I know I’ve said this somewhere before but because it’s worth repeating, I’ll say again; the first things I read online every morning and the last thing I look at online every night, in the same order is Drudge Report, Zero Hedge and Youtube and here’s why you should too. Always knowing the hot topics and trending videos enables the reader valuable insight into what other people are thinking and reading about, simply because Drudge Report has over 1 billion readers per month, or over 25 million people per day.

    Machiavellian reasoning written to give you an edge in these days of information overload, also provide enough hot topics to keep you dialed-in to the major world events. Imagine the influence of the collective consciousness the Drudge Report has over the technocrats on the planet?

    Appreciate the format and enjoy the simple, straight-forward way Matt Drudge has laid out the the content, all of which is open source.

    Zero Hedge plays by new rules

    “You’re not your job or the editor of ZH…” Tyler DurdenThe power of Zero Hedge is even more impressive than Drudge because Tyler Durden is a nom de plume that has earned enormous respect, one reader at a time, for a very simple reason, in that it’s superb reporting and professional journalism. What Zero Hedge does that no-other website does, is report all the stories that are effecting the financial markets to aggregate a much broader picture of the global markets, from a Wall Street insiders perspective. Coverage of topics and issues that commercially sponsored (MSM) websites would be unable to expose.

    The notion of Tyler Durden being the ZH editor, if you’ve ever seen the movie the Fight Club, is very compelling. Tyler played by Brad Pitt, is the alter-ego of Edward Norton as he experiences some type of deranged dual-personality, loss of identity, inner-struggle, which is the key theme to the story, the point of which is that Tyler knows that eventually he’s going to get destroyed but he doesn’t care because the thrill of the winning is so powerfully addicting and the complete total defiance of normalcy, rules and regulations takes control, just like anarchy.

    Youtube is a different matter because it’s a search engine and has predictive programming, so whatever you’ve been watching lately it will send you more of the same. Plus, most of us who watch more than an hour of Youtube per day have an account and have it set-up in the best way to present the selection that will be most related. In recent times there’s been a behind the scenes battle happening, to censor the channels and videos that promote topics that may be controversial, according to some small group of people who feel they need to protect the world, from knowing too much information about crimes committed by people in high places, dare I say any of these names, or topic titles, for the search engines to begin categorizing me, in with truth seeking activists.

    I love Youtube for how it’s revolutionized the web and created the most amazing platform for sharing ideas and developing communities etc… In my mind, for every bad intention or hate video uploaded to youtube, there’s 1,000 with good intentions and love. People really put their heart and soul into video, not all, however unfortunately the vast majority of video is of such poor production quality and/or without any reason or purpose, just like the spoken word in the real world.

    Where the problem is, as I see it, if youtube continue to censor video creators, the people will find a new place where the concept of “free speech” is the mission statement.

    Zero Hedge Photo credit: pejess on Visual Hunt / CC BY
    Tyler Durden quote photo credit: junaidrao on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND

  • How to Design a vlog for Youtube

    How to Design a vlog for Youtube

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    To be original – is the most important key to success for a vlog on Youtube but you must also be genuine and tell a worthwhile story in a thought-provoking style. To share your journey and inspire others to take action and improve their lives and/or the lives of others around them. This is the desired result, the purpose and the best reason to go to the effort to design and produce a vlog but can only happen with great story-telling – therein lays the challenge.

    In order to tell a story that never ends, you need a vlog design which is somewhat of a format combined with an editorial calendar. The idea here is to create a cohesive story-strategy, where each new episode connects to the next but throughout the course of a month, several activities would repeat on certain days of the week. For example; Sunday’s on the bike in the Park, a weekly update with a media partner, in my case; “Peace Revolution” and one day per week in the studio, another example; “A day at the bookstore”.

    As for each episode of the vlog, the best on Youtube all have a format. Some use time-lapse, almost all good vlogs have music tracks and most have custom graphics and make use of what are called “call-outs”, which is large text blocks, often made into bullet points. The trend is to provide as much added information to as many frames as possible, often sound effects are synced to match the graphics. The production quality of the very best vlog is on par with Television and/or film because many of the vloggers are using the same, or almost equivalent film editing software as the leading film studios. Many of the best vlogs are created by expert film makers, but most are people who are self-taught.

    As for cameras and technology, this is what is most amazing, in many cases mobile phones are the cameras and almost any computer that can download film editing software will do. Microsoft includes a film editing software on most computers, or it’s a matter of minutes to download one of several that will do the job. You just need to know what you’re doing and that’s the tough issue because these types of software have a very steep learning curve, although there are lot’s of good tutorials and how-to guides,

    [box type=”tick” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]At the end of the day it’s all about the story and how the story is told but if it’s not consistent it’ll never get traction.[/box]