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YouTube Insight = Very Cool

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I was just playing with some of my youtube stuff, and I found the link to youtube “Insight” traffic tracking software.  It’s pretty neat.

As of right now…on a scale of 1 to 100, I have the .22 most popular channel.  Yes, that is a leading decimal.  So, uh, it’s actually on a scale of 0 to 100.  My guess would be that the majority of channels are under 1 on the scale. (see: The Long Tail for why that is:::……)

And that’s at about 1,000 views/day.

I’ll have to work on that one…

If you have some videos up there, check it out.  It’s very web 2.0, all slidy and intuitive.  Good work.

How to Post High-Quality YouTube Videos on WordPress

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Just doing a quick post here regarding how to force high-quality YouTube videos with the WordPress encoding scheme.

As you probably already know, WordPress uses a simple “[ youtube={youtube URL} ]” method to post videos.

However, as some may have noted with the videos posted here and other places, this method defaults to the standard YouTube quality, which leaves quite a bit ot be desired.

In order to force HQ as the default setting, append “&fmt=18” to the standard formulation and, if available, videos should default to high quality, which works a lot better when trying to show off graphics.   🙂

UPDATE: If you upload the video in high enough quality, you can use “&fmt=22” to get 720P-level resolution.   For an example of how that looks, check here.

Another one is here, this one is probably better. The music most certainly is.

The Andy Rooney Game

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This is what the kids are playing today.

Finally, I can watch the guy.

and finally…

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UPDATE: O.k. so here’s how you do it.

Step 1: Take the Intro and the first sentence of one of his rants (A).

Step 2: Take the last sentence of one of his rants (B).

Step 3: Splice A and B together to make C.

Step 4: Post C to YouTube.

UPDATE 6/7/2008

I just tried to create a wikipedia entry for the Andy Rooney Game, which I find very interesting.  However, it was auto-deleted twice, so there isn’t one for me to link to…yet.