Before you embark on your Labour Day long weekend, let’s take one quick tour of the blogopshere to see what bloggers have to say about the Internet, online media, and this whole business of being wired to the web. To cap it off, we’ll take a look at one of the best movies of the year that you may want to catch over the weekend. Enjoy!
Shaun Low has noticed an emerging trend on the Internet. As Twitter usage continues to rise, it seems that blog comments are starting to suffer. Blog comments can do a lot to add value (and drive traffic) to a blog, but more and more people are sending their comments to the blog authors via Twitter instead of on the blogs themselves. Do you find the same on your blog?
Mark Ghosh poses a very interesting question about embedded video copyright laws. When someone allows the embedding of their videos from YouTube or other similar websites, are they implicitly granting permission for other webmasters to embed the video on their respective sites? Or do you still need to ask for permission the same way you would with any other copyright content?
Scott Young believes that it isn’t necessary to try your hardest all the time and to push yourself to your limits on a constant basis. Instead, he feels it may be healthier to accept your inner slacker. We all want to take it easy and, more often than not, you can do quite well just taking the path of least resistance. Do you agree?
Tyler Cruz may be known better as an Internet guru and affiliate marketer, but he started out with content-driven sites and that’s where he’s going back again. Tyler has decided to replant his roots with the pending relaunch of Movie Vault, one of the first websites that he ever developed, launched, and monetized. They say that content is king, after all.
Ed Lau posts reviews on his blog of most of the movies that he watches, but I think he just did something that is completely unprecedented. In discussing Inglorious Basterds, Ed gave the World War II-era flick a perfect 10 out of 10 rating. This movie is supposed to be very good, but is it 10 out of 10 good? You’ll have to watch it for yourself to find out.
