Just noticed that a video I submitted is not in the unsifted video queue. I shows up on my profile as unsifted, so I'm not sure where it is hiding. Is it because of my title? Take a look.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Damn-You-Barack-Obama

A comment on yet another Rick-rolled post, this one of the Mario variation got me to thinking.

To quoteAemaeth:
Here at videosift, we go through fads where any video about a particular subject gets an automatic upvote from half the community. These videos get flooded over videosift to get some quick star points until we all get sick of them. Current popular topics include: Rick Astley, Scientology, and Obama. Past subjects include Ron Paul. Bashing Fox News or Bill O'Reilly is ALWAYS popular.

And so what I am wondering is how many different fads have passed through Videosift in the past two years?

Let's see how long we can make this list.

In case you haven't noticed, Google Video now searches even more video-hosting sites.

So far they include (this may not be complete):

Google Videos
YouTube
MySpace
Vimeo
VideoJug
Grouper
MetaCafe
break.com
gofish.com
biku.com
myvideo.de
killsometime.com
kewego.com
Yahoo Videos
sevenload.com
zippyvideos.com
jumpcut.com
vision.ameba.jp
brightcove.com

Just thought everyone might be interested.

thanks for the heads up, dotdude.

warning, not safe for work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQJmnHzof_w

Not really much of an accomplishment, but I feel special anyway: I made it into the top 100 users (by votes). Sitting pretty right now at 99. And well on my way to 50 videos and a gold star so that I can get my own collective started. It's the small things in life.

I accidentally hit backspace while the page after the submit video form was loading and now it lists my video as discarded. I can not resubmit because of a duplicate url and I can't edit. So if any kind-hearted gold-star-type wants to bestow a save on silly little me, head to http://www.videosift.com/video/To-the-Brink-of-Eternity.

Thanks

So, a recent post that I found on GorillaMan's "British Comedy" playlist has had me scratching my head for days. Take a look yourself http://www.videosift.com/video/Marcus-Brigstocke-Live-At-The-Apollo-Part-1.
What is that filmstrip on the right and how did lunkwill make it happen? I have gotten no response in the thread of the video, so I'm hoping some netGod will respond to me here. It is a really useful feature that could come in handy for anyone using the youtube to post long videos split into 10-minute parts.

I posted this earlier at the end of the long thread on our recent selk-linking scandal, but I thought it might be worthy of further discussion.

Coming late to the discussion, but I'll offer my opinion anyway. I don't think that dissolving the collective is the right solution and I hope that fedquip doesn't actually follow through on his promise to do so. In some ways I agree that TayTV has become a hodgepodge of videos without a clear directive but that doesn't mean it doesn't serve a function as a collective. If collectives are meant to help organize the videos on VS, then why do we have channels? If that is really the goal, then perhaps we should expand the number of channels (starting with sports!).

Seriously, why aren't there more channels if organization is the goal?