YouTube

  • YouTube/Google up the ante in the privacy wars

    So you’re sick of Facebook gradually nudging you towards completely doing away with all pretense of a private life?  YouTube/Google have made the latest move in the online privacy wars.  You remember when you started signing in to YouTube with your gmail username and password?  And then the whole Google+ / circles thing happened. Now

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  • Watch “Life in a Day” on YouTube

    Last year I wrote about how Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald were seeking YOUR contributions to use in a film about life on Earth’s most documented day – July 24, 2010.  I was disappointed to miss the film’s release on July 24, 2011 because I headed off to my new home in Africa the day

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  • Fair Use in Online Video

    I just received my periodic newsletter from American University’s Center for Social Media, and was reminded of an excellent talk I heard last year by its director, Pat Aufderheide.  She started off by explaining that the purpose of copyright was to support creativity.  She showed a brief video giving snapshots of YouTube favorites and asked

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  • Two More Contest Entries

    I’ve re-tooled an old video from Washington DC – in fact, this is the video that inspired me to start this site (with some friendly encouragement) – and entered it into Lonely Planet’s video contest. Also, my video joins at least two others in a quest for a $1500 prize in Reel Insights’ monthly contest…

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  • Another Contest!

    TAZM Pictures submitted three entries to the Lowe’s Spring Dream Video contest (http://www.youtube.com/lowes)! Only the first two were accepted – no idea why! Click on the title of this post to see the videos that we submitted and read more details.

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  • TAZM Pictures has entered a video contest!

    Whether you want to use our services or not, we can sure use your support in a YouTube video contest! TAZM Pictures has entered two videos in a contest for Taxslayer.com that carry a grand prize of $25,000. Winning this contest will help us improve the kinds of services we can offer with our young…

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