Jan 23 2009
Blurring the lines
This blog format at this site says we can embed YouTube videos. Yet no matter which code I enter, in the “Visual” or “Code” screen, using the “YouTube” button or the “Media” button — nothing. So, since I’d rather not spend hours and hours trying to make work something that should work easily…
SO GO HERE AND WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO BEFORE READING THIS POST. Grrrrr. Thank you, blog program, for wrecking the mood.
Ahem. So where was I? I shall try to reproduce the post that this site also ate completely, while I was switching from the “Code” to the “Visual” window to see if my 400th attempt to insert a YouTube video worked or not. (And yes, I have done YouTube videos on other WordPress blogs, just fine. Some of the stuff normally found on WordPress blogs [I have several, elsewhere] doesn’t work very well at this site.) Grrrrrr again.
Basically, the essence of the eaten post was this. I discovered a newish thing today. It’s been going on for a little while, though I hadn’t encountered it before. Publishers are following the migration to the Internet, using it to publicize newly-published books, by creating trailers for the books. Dramatic trailers, like the ones done for movies.
I had all sorts of stuff to say about the blurring of lines between “real life” and the life we’re all increasingly living on the Internet and on our digital devices — but the mood really has been wrecked. So watch the video, and meditate and come up with something profound on your own. See you tomorrow.
(And I will never attempt to put a YouTube video into this particularly useless blog program again.) (Oh, and I also see that it’s now eaten my new “Innovations” category, which had already been created and saved before I ever started doing this post. Loathesome bastardized copy of the good WordPress blog program. Grrrrr.)
Heehee! Thanks so much, both of you. I attempted for a little while to be level-headed about it all, but finally decided just to let fly. One can only contain so much.
That’s interesting, Patricia. I actually don’t watch every YouTube video people post either. I felt that this one could perhaps be different, simply as an example of how book advertising was evolving into the virtual world. But oh well. Better luck next time, eh?
I do at least like to put in a photo now and then. Those don’t require a lot of time to view.