Ingenious! Spotted at Eivind Søreng Molvær’s portfolio. There will be a limited edition of screenprints available for purchase later this spring. If you would like to reserve one, get in touch with Eivind.
Artypo: The italic poster
Youtube “HD” as XHTML 1 Strict
You read about the fmt=18 parameter to watch the higher quality .mp4 files at Youtube, but you don’t know how to “embed” these videos? Well, here is a valid “XHTML 1 Strict” code to put Youtube’s higher quality .mp4’s on your site:
PHP:
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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width: 450px; height: 400px;" data="***&ap=%2526fmt%3D18">
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<param name="quality" value="best" />
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<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
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<param name="movie" value="***&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" />
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<param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
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</object>
Just replace *** with the url of the Youtube file – not the url of the youtube page! If there is no Youtube .mp4 version available, it will display the lower quality version instead, no worries.
Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAMPLE
Youtube file: http://www.youtube.com/v/EXAMPLE
Achtung! Dupe pushing
Imagine you win in the lottery and you spend it all on one weekend in Reno. That’s how you will feel, if you start a new site, gain some traffic because of a popular friend linked to you, and you ruin it by pushing out content; quantity over quality.
Read something related about this: NYT’s Sweatshop Blogging.
I was thinking the exact same thing, “Now that you have this small-attention-window, try to bring it on no matter what”. I bet there are a lot of folks out there who do that. They publish something, get “stumbled upon” or “digged” and they go bonkers and start pushing dupes.
Keep it real. Don’t look out for “good enough” stories to hop on. Look both ways before you cross a street. Featuring stuff you found on the net is perfectly fine, but you have to “present it like you mean it”.