Tour of Mobile YouTube

June 21, 2007 D. H. McKee

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Mobile Youtube seems to have mysteriously soft launched. Here’s what was discovered:

No way to upload videos via the page, but you can still upload via SMS, as always.
Not all videos on the main page are online, and there’s no discernible pattern to what you’ll find.
The files come in .3gp streamed format. You can’t download them to save.
The interface is HTML, and fairly rich, with links to other videos and detailed info on each. No way to vote for videos, though.
Video res is downscaled compared to the main site, but impressive.
Buffering takes about 10 seconds or so. These files aren’t small, and downloading them and playing them is likely to destroy your battery life. Such is the price for chuckles on the go.
Sorry iPhone, these videos are too beefy for EDGE. You’ll have to use WiFi if you want to keep from going insane.

Video: A Tour of Mobile YouTube – Gizmodo

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.