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Tag: Video

  • Monday, September 8th, 2025

    • Just saw two things from The Tedious Politics Dept. First, the Concierge Court is letting El Naranja resume raids in Los Angeles. Second, DHS has launched an action in Chicago. The well-regulated 2A folks could not be reached for comment. #
    • Sean Duffy, Secretary of Reality TV: “Sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress .” [Audio]

      I’d like to point out that Duffy is 53 years old, was alive on this planet in January of 1986, and should FUCKING. KNOW. BETTER. #
    • In a story that combines two different flavors of douchebaggery to form a Megazord of Idiocy, an attendee of Burning Man was hit by a Cybertruck. #
    • On last Friday’s post, I started using anchor tags on these different paragraphs in the post so I could separate them out, for lack of a better term. On Friday, I used a line separator to further indicate different sections of the post. Today, I won’t be doing that. I want to see for myself which looks better. I don’t think there’s much of a difference when it comes to the amount of time I spend on a post, I think it’s just a matter of format and ease of use for your intrepid host. #
    • I suppose everyone has a guilty pleasure, and I must confess a new one. Have you seen these ads on social media for these vertical soap opera movies? They all follow some version of the same plot, the actors are all really over the top in an awkward kind of way, and they’re so bad I have to watch them. Seriously, please go find one of these, and here’s a hint: you can generally find them at the site that motions daily. #

  • YouTube And Podcasts

    The question is whether you should add your podcast to YouTube, especially if your podcast hasn’t embraced video. Here’s the post that got me thinking about it. I’ve added episodes of my podcast to YouTube as an audiogram previously, and while I’m not breaking any records I did see an increase in views and in time watched over the length of what I saw as an experiment. Since then, YouTube has fully embraced podcasts and has created features especially for podcasters. And yet…

    Here’s an argument against having podcasts on YouTube: It’s something you actively consume. Yes, there are channels like Lofi Girl that you can have on in the background, but that is my point. A podcast is something you can listen to while you’re doing something else, like driving, walking, or doing the dishes. Most of the time on YouTube, you’re watching a screen, and as much as other people might like to watch Joe Rogan be a meathead live and in living color, it just doesn’t seem like that was the idea Dave and Adam were getting at.

    That’s not to say that podcasts don’t belong on YouTube; I can think of at least one use case that works: Your Mom and Dad, who maybe wouldn’t know a podcast app if it slapped them, but they watch cat videos on YouTube. I’m only a little facetious here, but sometimes you lead people to new things through stuff people already know.

    The original poster posted some graphs of audience retention for audiograms versus video, and he made the point that audiograms lose their audience much faster. I don’t dispute that, but here’s something to think about: At that point, is what you’re watching a podcast, or is it a show?

    I think it’s a show. A show that CAN be a podcast, but it’s a show first. As always, your mileage may vary.