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Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht soundboards released!

Posted by MrPowers under IPTV, Internet, People

It has been a great many months in the making but they have finally arrived. The Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht soundboards are complete and on the site. They took a long time to create and contain sounds from over 130 episodes of Diggnation. I couldnt add in a lot of sounds due to well….. lots of reasons, but theres still plenty there to have fun with. Just click on the thumbnails to view them!! I hope you all enjoy them!

Special thanks to Zen Elements & SelfReflexion for all their help!! Much appreciated guys!

YouTube… the good submitters

Posted by MrPowers under IPTV, Internet, People, Technology

It isn’t very often that I see somebody talented and make good use of the miracle that is YouTube. There is so much nonsense out there with a crap ton of videos taken from less than impressive camera phones…. like my LG U8110. There are times when I wish we could remove such things or at least put more restrictions on…. but them I am forgetting the freedom to upload and share any video you want is what makes YouTube so great!! Even if its a simple 20 second video you just want a friend to see, YouTube a great way of sharing it. Perhaps I don’t like a lot of the content thats there, but its not like I am being forced to watch anything on it.

However there are few out there that I have found, that create and share something really wonderful with people.

Sumfight (a.k.a. Cody Rapol)

The first is Cody Rapol(sumfight at gmail dot com) creator of sumfight.com. Here is somebody that really has a passion for creating entertaining videos and sharing them with friends and who ever else may be interested. One of the best things is that this is all his own work - OMG at production quality.

This particular video is called YAQMA: May 2008, where Cody answers user submitted questions in his usual half hearted manner. You won’t find more wierd questions anywhere else to be honest! However Cody answers them pretty damn well. As well as YAQMA he covers a great many topics and is always entertaining.

You can follow his updates be either go to his YouTube channel and clicking the Subscribe button, or subscribe to his blog’s RSS feed.

Some of my other fav’s of his are How Do You Want That, Nice Vagina Pants Bro, and the video that could not be more true: Anti Movie Piracy - man does that one hit home for me!!

At the moments I am also loving the videos entitled “Totally Random”…. as thats exactly what they are. Cody is also one of the top most subsricbed to Comedians on YouTube.  Also don’t forget to buy a shirt! - http://www.sumfight.com/shop/

Chris Pirillo

Ah yes! Chris was a favorite on Tech TV’s “Call for Help” and today still continues to share his wealth of tech knowledge with a loyal following on YouTube and Lockergnome. He runs a very popular personal blog where he published his YouTube videos on all that is tech.

This particular  video is Chris’s take on the nonsense going on at Comcast. I personally call it the “Pirillo pwns Comcast video”. It took them a few months but Comcast eventually admitted they were “shaping traffic” - which basically means if they found customers downloading torrents even if the content was LEGAL!

Of course Chris being the very intelligent person he is totally summed up how crazy the situation is by “pwning” this guys calling from Comcast. It really shows how poor Comcast is. This is amongst some 1,300 other videos he has posted. He gives amazing information on tech and how to use it even if you arent one who is tech savvy.

IPTV & Video Podcasts vs TV

Posted by MrPowers under IPTV, Internet, Technology

More and more often I find myself watching video content delivered via the Internet over regular old television. There are two main reasons for this:

• A significant decline in quality of television programing
• Content via the Internet is more suited to my taste

I haven’t ever had cable TV during the entire time I lived in Scotland. The first few years of living here I was most disorientated and lost (for others reasons too) without my 60 channels. Instead (at first) I had to settle for 4 channels!! I couldn’t believe it!! Over the years I managed to adapt and learned to appreciate British TV for what it was. Then when I moved to Broughty Ferry in 2003 I had to do with no TV what so ever!!! There was no external antenna and internal ones just plain didn’t work.  How mad was I??!! Well more than words could explain. However a few months later I FINALLY got broadband in the house. This partially made up for it, and bought a lot more DVDs during that period. Suffice to say I was a big TV person in the past.

Then the Web 2.0 revolution happened. In time video podcasts, YouTube, and “less than legal sources of TV shows and movies” fast became a huge hobby of mine. I watch LOST, Family Guy, COPS, Battlestar Gallactica, and a few others but find myself scrambling to download video podcasts a lot quicker than “acquiring” regular television shows. I have found that while I still love a few TV shows, the content from the Internet definelty hits closer to home. Diggnation is probably one of the most well known video podcasts and I would have to say my favorite too! It basically a couple of guys sit on a couch and talk about the top stories from digg.com - simple right? In one sense there’s not too much to the show but it has certainly made for some great entertainment. So I suppose content that really hits home is now preferable to standard TV shows - but I still religiously watch both sets of content equally.

Perhaps in a couple of years time there will be more of a presence of this sort of media, leading to a mass migration to internet based video from “comtastic” video…. or perhaps I am just dreaming. Audio podcasts took off very well but I get the feeling many people (the general public that is, not the creators) haven’t quite adopted video podcasts or IPTV. Perhaps this could be due to the fact that many people have the iPod shuffle or similar device that doesn’t display video, or watching video on the move isn’t as convenient as audio is. Either way I will always be on the look out for new video content.

Lastly I leave you with one of my favorite Diggnation clips…