So, check this out! :D haha Some dude hooked up with a maid behind his wife’s back, right…… No.. Not Arnold! :P This other guy, and then all he had to do to get over was label it a “Moral Failing”!!! :D

Check out what the Associated Press says he said:
(mind you.. dude was speaking French, so someone may have jacked up some of his intentions or meanings when they translated it to English, but I’m sure they caught the main gist of what he was saying)

DSK Article – Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a “moral failing” he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that no violence was involved.

Is this not the absolutely BEST THING since sliced bread? :D hahaha a “Moral Failing”??? :D .. What The Hell is a Moral Failing???

When you fall down, is that a walking failing? o_O

This is so stupid. :D .. I have to get ahead of the story to tell it properly.. This DSK guy IS. MARRIED => http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/how-anne-sinclair-spent-night-dsks-arrest/40661/.

If you’re a single guy and you’re drunk and you’re at a club and you happen to hook up with some busted chick because it was dark and you couldn’t see her properly, you can call that a failing.

If you’re a married guy and you hook up with a maid that came to your room to clean it because that’s her ******* JOB (cleaning the room, not hooking up with you), that’s called “I felt like hitting it, so I did.”

There’s no “Moral Failing” there.

Hugh Grant didn’t have a moral failing. He wanted to have sex with some chick that wasn’t Elizabeth Hurley (his girlfriend at the time) and he did it => http://hellobeautiful.com/gossip-news/hellobeautifulstaff2/hugh-grants-prostitute-thanks-him-15-years-later-for-changing-her-life/.

Kobe Bryant didn’t have a “MORAL FAILING” => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case … ummm… Actually, Kobe *DID* have a Moral Failing when he snitched on Shaq! :D HAHAHA

Later, news came out that Bryant had referred to O’Neal while being questioned by police in 2003. According to reports, Bryant stated that he should have paid off his women so that they wouldn’t say anything, like O’Neal. Bryant also stated that O’Neal would pay women up to US $1 million to stay quiet about their rendezvous.

Anyway.. The point is that when you have a wife and hook up with some other chick that’s not even coming on to you, that doesn’t count as a “Moral Failing”. That’s YOU deciding you want to have sex.

How does one recuperate after a Moral Failing? o_O .. Do you go to French Sex Rehab?

This is Fantastic! :D haha I can’t wait for American dudes to catch on to this and start using “Moral Failing” to get over on their wives after they get caught doing something they claimed they weren’t going to do. >:D

DSK Article – He said his May 14 sexual encounter with Nafissatou Diallo, an African immigrant who claimed that he attacked her when she entered his room in Manhattan’s Sofitel hotel to clean it, “did not involve violence, constraint or aggression.”

So what? \o/

What does that have to do with “You’re married”?

This is what’s amazing about this whole story. Dude’s acting like he’s single and the infidelity/cheating/adultery part is all cool beans (hat tip to Edie for that term).

All he’s trying to say for himself is “She gave it up. I didn’t take it.”

I just can’t wait for this to catch on, so the next time a dude gets caught cheating, he goes “Come on, honey… I mean… SHE GAVE IT UP!.. What was I supposed to do? Not tap that? \o/”

Still, he acknowledged, it “was a moral failing and I am not proud of it. I regret it infinitely. I have regretted it everyday for the past four months and I think I’m not done regretting it.

It “was not only an inappropriate relationship, but more than that, it was a failing … a failing vis-a-vis my wife, my children and my friends but also a failing vis-a-vis the French people, who had vested their hopes for change in me.”

This is where I’m hoping they messed up his translation… “I THINK I’m not done regretting it”? :D hahaha “an inappropriate RELATIONSHIP“?

Now he had time to be in a relationship with the maid before he skated to the airport and tried to break north with no delay? I’m hoping there’s some French word that means sex or blowjob that they misinterpreted.

Strauss-Kahn, who had a long-standing reputation as a man with a weakness for sex and women, said the Diallo imbroglio had profoundly changed him.

“I’ve seen the pain that I caused around me and I thought, I thought a lot,” he said. “That lightness, I’ve lost it for good.”

What kind of weakness is that where you try to hook up with a maid that comes to clean your hotel room? :D

Do they have a special designation for that, where it comes up on the screen when you make your reservation “DON’T SEND ANY CHICKS TO CLEAN THIS GUY’S ROOM!!! :O”

How about “If this guy feels like hooking up with a chick, he’s going to try to do that”?.. What the **** is the matter with men these days? What happened to Personal Responsibility? How rich and powerful do you have to be before you can actually say “**** it. I ****** her. So what? It was good. I enjoyed myself. Sue me. Talk to my ******* lawyer.”

During the interview, Strauss-Kahn praised his wife, Anne Sinclair, former TF1 news anchor and wealthy heiress who he called an “exceptional woman.”

“I wouldn’t have gotten through it without her,” he said. “I hurt her, I know, and I’m sorry. But you know that she wouldn’t have been there for me, by my side, she wouldn’t have supported me in that way if from the very first second she didn’t know that I was innocent.”

um… Innocent of what? o_O

That’s supposed to get you credit, that you admit you hooked up with some chick in “an inappropriate relationship” but you were cleared of assault charges? :D

omg.. Somebody remind me to meet a rich French chick, ASAP! >:D
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If you’re not from New York City, and specifically Manhattan, you’re not going to understand what this is a picture of. :)

Manhattan has garbage collection days. They don’t come get the garbage every day. This means that when stores know that the day is coming up, they bring all their garbage bags from the basement and pile them up out on the sidewalk.

Sometimes, it’s only three bags, but it could easily be 10-20 garbage bags making their own little mountain out in the street.

The point is that the garbagemen are going to come get the bags in the wee hours of the morning so that your customers never see a stack of garbage out in front of your restaurant or whatever.

Meanwhile, this is the exact same time that people go out to party here. A lot of times, people don’t even ARRIVE to bars before midnight, and since the bars close around 4:30am, there’s often a correlation between when drunk-ass-people stumble their asses out of a bar and when this mountain of garbage bags is chillin’ outside, waiting to get picked up.

Cold Lampin’ In The Garbage

So… What you’re looking at in this picture, which was snapped by my friend G.C., is a female, OUTSIDE!, in the street, out on the sidewalk near the curb, cold lampin’ in a stack of garbage bags, gettin’ her SNOOZE on, probably because she’s too drunk to do anything else. Needless to say, ladies… This is *NOT* a Good Look. :D

Women roll in packs around here. You can easily spot groups of 4-5 gals at a time mosseing around town. There are a lot of complaints from guys about how nosey these girls are in each other’s business, especially when you’re about to get a rap and one or more of them arrive to cockblock you for no apparent reason. Well… THIS is the reason.

Ladies!… Stop. Incapacitating. Yourselves. When. You. Go. Out. To. Party!. Srsly. In this case, G.C. did the neighborly thing and called the cops so they could come see if they could wake her ass up and get her moving to wherever she lives. You don’t want to actually wake someone like this up, because (as I well know, myself) people that are drunk don’t have the best memory and could easily blame YOU for the condition they put THEMSELVES in, even though all you were trying to do was look out for someone in a bad situation as we all should.

The other reason is that if she had been actually hurt instead of sleeping, you don’t want to get fingerprints on her from trying to remove her from her personal stack of garbage. The obvious exception would be if you perceived her to be choking or something, then you have to take your chances and help her out. Other than that, your only obligation is to call the cops and make sure nobody ***** with her until the cops get there.

Escort The Ladies Home

The pic of the chick in the garbage illustrates why I ALWAYS put women IN their apartments after we hang out (except in the cases where they live in the totally opposite direction from me and it would take me another hour or two to get home, in which case I make sure they get in a YELLOW cab and text me when they get home).

I was working a couple of months ago with my friends Rosie & Autumn and I’m standing there waiting with them for their car service to leave, and they’re telling me some ******** about how nobody’s going to mess with them because they know Kung Fu or something, and I’m like :/

I eventually ended up leaving, but I wasn’t happy about it. The only reason I left was that we were in a well-populated area and we had been WORKING, not DRINKING, so I didn’t have any doubt that they’d get their car eventually and make it home safely.

One of the things about Manhattan, NYC is that we can drink as much as we like because we have 24/7 yellow cab service. I can get a cab within 5 minutes at 5am. Lots of times, the cabbie’s had to wake me up so I could get the **** out of his cab! :D Lots of times, friends of mine who were less wasted than I was made sure that *I* got home, so I make sure that I return that favor and look out for women I’m spending time with. Saying “PEACE!” at the door of the bar and leaving her to stumble down the street and MAYBE make it to the avenue and flag down a cab instead of landing in a bunch of garbage to sleep it off is completely unacceptable to me. Completely.

The funny thing about this is that it looks like a scam! :D It looks like I’m trying to take advantage of them by saying “Oh… Let me walk you home! >:D” or getting out of the cab with them to walk them upstairs to their apartments. It looks like the old “Can I use your bathroom?” gimmick to get in a chick’s house and try to get some at the last minute. The fact of the matter is that I’ve SEEN exactly what this picture shows. I’ve SEEN guys and gals sprawled out on the concrete sidewalks of NYC at 2-5am, sleeping as if they were in their own beds. Since that’s not what I want for my friends, I do the best I can to make sure they get TO their block, TO their building, upstairs TO their floor, INSIDE their apartments and LOCK THE DOOR after I leave.

Homegirls, UNITE!!! :D

This is why it’s so important for those packs of gals wandering the streets of Manhattan to keep up with each other’s whereabouts. I know we hate it as guys when these nosey broads (THANK YOU FOR “BROADS”, MTV’S JERSEY SHORE!!! :D) destroy our raps by pulling their girlfriends away from us just before we get to make out with her, but it’s an important part of the NYC ecosystem. Her girlfriends don’t know a) how incapacitated she currently is, and b) what YOU’RE going to do with her once she passes out. Even though chicks tend to overdo it, it’s their sworn duty to look out for each other, especially when they know that if their girl gets tipsy, she’s liable to give it up to any guy she finds sexually attactive, but “saving her from herself” is an entirely different issue. :)

All I see in this pic is a chick sleeping in the garbage, but I personally feel that this was a HEF (Homegirl Epic Failure). This is why chicks need to go out in packs. If only two gals go out together and one of them gets a rap, her homegirl is Ass Out (Also said as Assed Out, meaning S.O.L. or **** Out of Luck). The benefit of having 4-6 girls roll out together is that there’s ZERO chance that ALL of them are going to get guys that evening, which means that there will be enough stragglers with nothing better to do than take headcounts and go try to find and collect the other girls in the group that may have placed themselves in compromising positions. Ladies!!.. It’s imperative that you leave the club/bar with the same number of chicks you entered the bar with, OR if you know that you’re about to go get some, make sure that you put your girl in a legitimate cab before you bounce.

Do like The U.S. Marines… “No Man Left Behind!”… Except in this case, it’s more like “No Chick Left Assed-Out!”, Nah Meen? :D

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This is a response to Tyme White‘s article: “Experienced vs. inexperienced ‘advice’”, which was a response to my article, “Personal Brand? No Crossover”.

@Tyme: Good points.

First of all, I was specifically talking about internet shows. Actually, FIRST OF ALL, no… I don’t have ANY experience with hiring ANYBODY to be the figurehead or “face” of a show. What I *DO* have experience with is watching a show and determining whether a) it’s good, b) it sucks because of the production (technical issues), c) it sucks because of the script-writing, d) it sucks because the face of the show is entirely talentless, or e) EVERYTHING about the show sucks.

Granted… That MAY be because I’m an editor AND a show producer.

I wouldn’t know what the average joe/josepine takes away from looking at a show that “fails” (whatever that means in the context of this discussion). All I can do is ‘project’ and believe that distinctions are made between whether the show a) wasn’t good, and it’s the talent’s fault, b) wasn’t good, and it’s NOT the talent’s fault, or c) WAS GOOD, but got shut down for other reasons (or didn’t make money or didn’t grow it’s audience… whatever you’re defining as a “failed” show).

For instance, we just received news that MobLogic was shut down. According to articles on the net, Lindsay Campbell is still an employee of CBS. Before MobLogic was cancelled, they were outputting sporadically compared to the regular schedule they were using when they first started.

Without “inside information” from “the horse’s mouth”, there’s no telling what the reason was for the shutdown. It just so happens that WallStrip was shut down on the same day, apparently. Let’s say the average person isn’t going to search for articles about WHY a show got cancelled, and all they know is that it was here today and gone tomorrow.

What that person’s going to take away from the show, as far as the “face” of the show, is the sum of their experiences from watching her. They either liked her style, didn’t like her style, or felt she was inconsistently good/bad. If she gets selected for a new show, that sentiment is going to drive whether that viewer goes “YAAY!” or “oh no. She got ANOTHER show? :/”. That’s what the talent has to carry forward, their own performance. Unless the public feels that the show “failed” because the talent sucked, the ending of a show, which as you mention, is the BUSINESS side of things has nothing to do with the ENTERTAINMENT VALUE they received from the talent.

Slightly-related story… I was just in the Indy Mogul Test Film “The Spirit’s Day Off”. As I’m reading the script, I read “I am the millipede, and I have a thousand of everything”. So, the director, Erik Beck tells me to say “a million”. So I’m like “yeah, but milli -> thousand” and he’s like “I know, but a million sounds funnier”. So even though it was a technically incorrect statement, I said “I have a million of everything”.

So the video’s been viewed over 25,000 times, and ONNNNNE person decides to bring this up. That doesn’t mean that other people didn’t notice, of course. Now… that person is going to take whatever they personally perceived away from that situation. They might think that the character “The Millipede” is a dummy. They might think the actor is a dummy, because he [I] said a million instead of a thousand. They might think the script-witer is a dummy if they realize that the actor was reading a script. They might think the director’s a dummy for wrapping the shoot without correcting that error. The might think the editor’s a dummy for not cutting around it or re-tracking the actor saying “a thousand” and dubbing it.

This brings us to the other part of your point, which has to do with people who are in charge of hiring people to work on shows. Anybody who’s looking for on-air talent should be…. wait for it…… KNOWLEDGEABLE about how shows are put together and the extent of the actor’s responsibility for the production of a show and therefore his or her CULPABILITY when the show “fails”.

Therefore, if the acting was POOR, then the person doing the hiring should be able to properly low-rate the actor/actress because they didn’t look good on camera or they read the teleprompter like a left-back 3rd-grader or they weren’t any good at interacting with their viewers/community… Similarly, let’s say the talent was involved in more than reading a script. The extent of their involvement in production should also be analyzed/criticized. If the production is what caused the show to “fail”, then the talent can AND SHOULD be charged with the failure of whatever role they played.

Other than that, it’s out of the talent’s hands… like any. other. job. :) You can’t blame the assembly-line worker in the sock factory who’s been making socks for YEARS and has done he same quality job or better each review period for when the plant gets shut down, and they’re suddenly jobless. It’s obviously not their fault, the way the “failure” of an internet show is obviously the responsibility of SEVERAL people, unless it was a one man/woman show.

On top of all that, who’s to say that they would hire the figurehead to have ANY say in production anyway? Let’s say the talent WAS culpable in the mishandling of a show…. What difference does that make if you don’t let them get their hands on any of the controls in this case? None. I didn’t edit “The Spirit’s Day Off”. What difference does it make that I’m an editor? None. I was there to play a position. I did what *I* had to do, everyone else did what THEY had to do, and the video ended up sweet. :)

Also, the reason you might want to take a chance on talent from a “failed” show is that they come equipped with automatic reach. They have a built-in fanbase as well as an established communication network to inform their viewers what they’re going to be doing next. If you start out fresh, with a newjack, they have to build their community from ZERO, meaning that you either have to hire someone else to start building community for them and getting the buzz out, or part of their time that they could have been making the show BETTER is going to be wasted on doing PR for themselves.

So, no… I don’t think culpability for a show’s “failure” follows the talent AT ALL, unless the REASON for that failure was the talent’s ability to entertain.

~Bill Cammack

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Let’s talk about failure.

I think there are two kinds of failures. There’s the kind where you could have done something about it and didn’t, and then there’s the kind where there was never anything you could have done about it at all.

It would seem like the failure involving a chance that you could have dealt with it would be the worse one. I think the other one is actually worse, because not only is it disappointing or depressing, but it comes with the knowledge that you have a limitation. At least with the first one, you could play it off to yourself that had you done something, the outcome would have been different. That sucks WAY LESS than admitting that no matter what you have in your arsenal or bag of tricks, you couldn’t have done JACK to stop the train from a-rollin’.

I’m thinking about this now, because I got a call earlier this evening from someone close to me who had/has a problem. As I was listening, my mind was calculating what I could do about it. How I could help. How I could be of assistance. As I kept drawing blanks, the odds started to stack up in the favor that I was NEVER going to figure out something I could do/say to help.

Once that understanding hit me, I started to project the future of my being of no assistance whatsoever. I knew that I was receiving….. I *HOPED* that I was receiving the call just so the person could vent. I didn’t LIKE the idea of the conversation ending without my having some sort of positive and changing effect. I didn’t like the idea of a potential negative outcome of the situation, regardless of what went on in this conversation I was having. Yes. I know that “being me” was of assistance. I know that “listening” was of assistance. I know that my past track record of my way of being was of assistance. I’m just not built to have ZERO EFFECT. I haven’t been groomed and trained and educated to be some hump on the subway that doesn’t have a life now, never did and never will. Ultimately, it’s not even the potential for failure that sparked this post. It’s more about how failures shed light on one’s personal limitations…. or perhaps how recognition of limitations sheds light on one’s self-image.

I used to edit a show for The History Channel called “Guts & Bolts”. One of my episodes was about aircraft carriers and how their catapult systems worked. The supervisor being interviewed mentioned that the catapults had to have a high 99% success rate, ESSENTIALLY that the failure rate rounded off to ZERO PERCENT. I thought that that was unreasonable for anything mechanical, but then he went on to mention how what they’re sending on every single launch is a plane that’s worth MILLIONS of dollars. If their success rate is closer to 99% than 100%, that means that out of every 100 launches, one of those million-dollar planes goes right in the water instead of flying away to handle the business. When you think about it that way, they literally can’t AFFORD to fail.

Can YOU afford to fail?

What happens if you fail? Do you really lose anything, or do you just take a hit to your self-esteem and self-image? Does you company fold? Does your family dissolve? Do you lose face amongst colleagues? Does your girl leave you? What exactly happens if the worst-case scenario you’ve been envisioning actually comes true?

I started out talking about failure in a conversation, but there was actually no way I could fail *myself*, because *I* wasn’t a central figure in the situation. I would have been failing the person who called me, but what did they expect from me to begin with? What did I expect from myself? I wouldn’t actually have been failing them eiher. I would have been failing myself, in my own consideration of how I would respond or deal with a situation if it was ever presented to me. I would have liked to believe I would have had the right thing to say. I would have liked to believe that I could turn whatever was a negative into a positive….

The fact of the matter is, there.are.some.things.I.can’t.do, and I need to get used to that and get over it. However, “getting over it” is a failure within itself, because I’m insulating myself against other people’s problems instead of learning how to help them out. I actually don’t even have to “get over it”, because this entire post is all about BEING over it… naturally. Unfortunately, Being Over It is a selfish insulation against other people’s issues, but I’m built that way, and that’s that. The LIMITATION, in this instance, is my own personal inability to suspend the restrictive state of “being over it” in order to be potentially more effective in the rare cases that something like this is brought to my attention. I’d like to be able to believe that I can dive deep inside their issue, figure out a positive outcome and present it to them, but it’s just not the truth.

This also happens in business. You want to help everyone, but you just.plain.CAN’T. There isn’t enough time in the day. You want to look at people’s websites that they send you links to and ask you to critique them. You want to consider people’s video project proposals, even though their budges completely SUCK and it’s not really even worth it to you to spend time and mental processing cycles considering what they’re telling you, because everything you’re thinking of doing for them costs more than they’re willing to spend on it.

Where do you draw the line? What does it mean to you when you draw that line? How does it feel to you as a person when you accept that project that you really hate, as a favor to someone else? How does it feel when you put someone’s business interests ahead of your own business, fun and personal interests? How much pressure do you put on yourself to avoid failure at all costs? How important IS IT to your business or to your self-esteem that you’re approaching 100% effectiveness/success rate?

Personally, I pride myself on being the best at everything and anything that I do. Even if I don’t succeed in that goal, that’s what I’m striving for and aiming at. Tonight, I wasn’t “the best” in this conversation, because I couldn’t find a win. I couldn’t find the thing to say to make it better. I couldn’t ROCK the situation. I won’t go to sleep tonight knowing that I made an incredible difference and everything’s going to be better tomorrow for them than it was tonight.

I suppose the moral of the story is that “I can’t do that” is a valid and healthy response to something that someone asks you for. Similarly, “I can’t help you” is valid as well. You might not like it, recognizing your own limitations, but ultimately, you’re better off. There’s no need to waste time, energy and resources on things that aren’t properly beneficial to you. It’s similarly fruitless to try to help people with things you can’t help them with.

I haven’t thought about this in a really long time. The first time it came to my attention was when a friend of mine criticized my response to a mutual friend telling me she got dumped after disclosing to her then-current boyfriend how many guys she had hooked up with before him. SHE was thinking that it was a necessary thing to say, in order to get things out in the open and have a completely honest relationship with him. He dumped her practically immediately. While I felt sorry for her that she was out of a relationship and would need to hit the bricks and cultivate a new one from scratch, my mentality and demeanor was “What did you expect?”. Even though what I was saying was sympathetic… like… the words themselves… my demeanor was completely nonchalant and matter-of-fact. I was stuck between the facts of the situation and wanting to make her feel better.

I guess the bottom line is that a person can listen to and understand another person’s situation and care about them and hope and pray for the best for them without actually empathizing with or being able to internalize or the situation and come up with fantastic solutions. There’s value in listening. There’s value in fellowship. Sometimes, however, the way the cards are dealt or the way the chips fall or the way the cookie crumbles, there isn’t much for you to do in a given situation other than recognize your own limitations and teach yourself to live with them.

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A lot of shows and sites have been receiving the Fail Whale recently.

There’s nothing wrong with failing. Happens all the time. “Happens to the best of us”. Sometimes, it’s not actually a failure so much as an inability to meet requirements for continuation. You could have a perfectly successful show as far as getting the job done and delivering on time, but you’re just not getting the numbers of views or members or whatever your sponsors asked you for and your authorization to continue the show (or your funding) gets pulled, and that’s that.

More important than failing is what happens AFTER you fail… What happens to your media? What happens to your site? Did you think about this before you started your show?

I’m thinking about this today because I read Liz Burr’s post “Do Social Media Strategies Go To Heaven?”, where she talks about her WIRED SCIENCE Facebook app and the fact that the show itself was canceled and will not be coming back to PBS. She writes:

“The show’s cancellation has me asking myself, where do social media strategies go when they’re no longer needed? So far, the results of our most significant strategies are:

• a blog with over 200 entries and 600 comments
• a twitter account with 1200+ followers
• a facebook fan page with almost 600+ fans
• a facebook application with 12,000 installs

The Facebook application is especially interesting to me because it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Since launch, the application has been averaging 100 new installs per day. This is with no paid promotional activity whatsoever. I don’t expect this to stop anytime soon, because I don’t think we will reach a ceiling going at this (slow but) steady rate of installation (considering the number of users on Facebook). I designed the application to be viral enough for it to self promote. I suppose I could turn those activities off if I wanted to.

For the blog, we have decided to stop all posting, write our goodbyes and leave commenting open for a few weeks. We will then shut down all comments, and leave the blog up for the sake of Google and reference.  I am not sure what to do with the Twitter account. It essentially was a machine for the blog and site updates, but with no more site updates, what else is there? I suppose the Facebook fan page can stay in place, however we’ll probably put up a notice about the show and site saying farewell.”

So that project is ending, because the show it was supporting wasn’t picked up for a new season. However… The work that was done will remain and fans of the show will have access to it. Basically, it becomes “what it is”. A project that used to be active and is now inactive. C’est la vie. :D

There’s a Next New Networks show called Bride-O-Rama that went “on hiatus”. :)

I can’t find on the page when the episode I embedded was uploaded, but a) I happen to know this particular show was cancelled a long-ass time ago, and b) the first comment is from October 29 so let’s assume it was canceled in late October, 2007 which was 8 months ago. Similar to the pending status of the Wired Science blog, this show remains in suspended animation. The shows are there to watch. The comments are there to read. As a matter of fact, NNN’s still serving recent ads on those pages, so anybody who happens by to check out some of the Wedisodes is helping out NNN’s bottom line.

OTOH… We have FastCompany.TV’s former offering “Global Neighbourhoods”, which as far as I know was canceled this very month, and immediately disappeared off the face of the earth as if it never happened.

Here’s what the “Global Neighbourhoods” creator, producer and host, Shel Israel had to say about it in his post Several Changes:

“That brings us to GlobalNeighbourhoods.TV (GNTV), my other online video program. Unlike WorkFast, GNTV is my baby, is an extension of not just the Global Survey, but Naked Conversations as well. As many of you know, GNTV was launched in March at FastCompany.TV, and–shall we say–had an inauspicious start.

When GNTV launched, I was not quite ready for prime time. If I was an actor, I would say I was prepared for a summer stock script reading. When the curtain went up, I found myself instead at center stage of an opening night on Broadway with some determined hecklers in the audience who managed for a while to distract me.

Most people seem to agree that I got better. After 14 episodes, I think GNTV has proved its value and professionals hungry for insights into how they can use social media in their businesses have found GNTV to have more than a little value.

A few weeks back, however, FastCompany granted my request to take back GNTV, to remove it from their site and to eventually relaunched it o a smaller scale on this site. Primarily, with FastCompany as a partner, the cost of sponsorship was too high for a new program. Here, I can charge a sponsor significantly less dollars and have great flexibility in the sort of deal I can offer. Here, I am the sole decision maker.

GNTV will go on a brief hiatus, until perhaps mid-August. I need to deal with the complexities of AV, production, storing, hosting, compressing, measuring, etc. Because some of these costs can be quite significant, I also need to have sponsorship before I restart.”

To be fair, Shel has posted a set of links to his 14 GNTV episodes he produced for FastCompany.TV on his blog. This means that assuming you knew he had a blog at all and assuming you saw that one post, you know how you can view his videos. I would guess that he Twittered the information and used whatever other publicity outlets he has at his disposal. However… Someone returning to FastCompany.TV will find that his show’s tab has been replaced with a photography show, and short of putting “Shel Israel” or “Global Neighbourhoods” in the search box, there’s no evidence that his show ever existed.

As far as his plan to relaunch his show on his own site… there goes his google juice. His videos will be available in the future at a completely different address on redcouch.typepad.com instead of fastcompany.tv. What’s the point? The point is that people are still hitting my Cory Lidle plane crash video from October, 2006, because they know where to find it from people’s bookmarks, forum posts and blog links.

If I had been moving that video all over creation, from domain name to domain name, people would hit dead links from the google searches and IME, *NOT* do more creative searches to try to find the same content… They just move on to other content that comes up easily under the google search for the same topic.

Similarly, maybe you have the same site… except your video host fell into the Dead Pool. Recently, VideoEgg discontinued its consumer video service and sent out a notice to people that had videos hosted by them that they were going to cease to host them shortly. Also, DivX’s Stage 6 streaming video site folded. The problem with this is that A LOT OF PEOPLE had videos on their sites which were actually embedded FROM VideoEgg or Stage 6. This means that they had to scramble to a) pull all their videos from those hosts, b) find a new host for all of their now-homeless videos, c) upload all their videos to the new host and d) go to every single post and change the embed code from the Videoegg or Stage 6 location to the new host location. If you happen to have over 300 episodes online, that could be a MAAAAAAAJOR DRAG! :(

So, that’s another thing to consider when you’re ready to make a show on the internet. While you worry about content and worry about being interesting and worry about being entertaining, and worry about getting sponsored and worry about your show being sustainable and worry about growing your audience and worry about creating surrounding social sites… you ALSO have to worry about what happens when your show lands in the Dead Pool. Do you have ownership of your own content after the fact? Do you have ownership of the site that it’s on? Are you going to have to uproot everything and start all over? If you get a new sponsor, can you easily swap the old one out and continue seamlessly creating content?

Believe me, you want to figure out / negotiate all these things UP. FRONT. and NOT when you realize your show that you thought was going to run forever is going down the tubes.

Welcome to the Dead Pool.

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