Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I’ve had some harsh words for bloggers who embed objects on their pages that auto-play. Some of those harsh words have made it in here somewhere, I think; although most have not, since I figure they’ll reap the rewards of annoying their readers.
Well, it seems now we’re doing it. The video embed for our Memorial Day weekend post is playing a short advertisement. It happens when you bring up our page, not when you hit the play button. This is not cool.
Yanking the video wouldn’t be cool either. We’ve checked around, and it seems every other blog embedding the code is having the same problem right now. We’ve looked for the same video hosted at a different site, and haven’t come up with anything.
The content itself is really quite priceless, not in a “ha ha” way. It provokes good healthy thinking all year ’round. To put some advertisement in, is in our minds fair. We disapprove of the auto-play. And so we have opted to allow the post to scroll off the page naturally, in the meantime hoping the video host will come to his senses, or that we find an alternative hosting. In the meantime, we’re the reason your computer is making noises. It’s not spyware, it’s us. Given time it’ll go away.
And it’s not our normal practice by any means.
Thatisall.
Update: No it isn’t, I decided to grow a pair & pull it. If you want to see the clip, you can go chasing the links.
Of course our fallen should be honored and we should never forget their sacrifice, but in these early, wild-frontier days of the innerwebs we still live in a somewhat pristine world — compared to the way it’s gonna get during future generations. And I just think when you load a page into your browser, or hit refresh, that by itself should not cause it to make noise. It isn’t right.
If there’s a consensus about this, my hope is it says not only am I correct about this, but it’s a little silly for me to go typing the words in & taking up space with ’em. It’s one of those things that should just be obvious. People like to read blogs, in the middle of the night. In teeny tiny apartments, with paper-thin walls, with their spouses & kids sleeping. So this needs to be a firm line that won’t budge.
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This type of stuff is maddening, right up there with DVDs that do not allow you to skip commercials/previews.
Still it ought to be best practice (or accepted netiquette) from media producers not to force autoplay, but I suspect like most matters of etiquette, most intelligent people will gladly behave but you’ll those who simply don’t.
I think one solution for the conscientious blogger, would be to announce that the video in question autoplays, and put it after a jump, so at least would be viewers are warned, of course that didn’t help you here because they changed the video after you linked.
- Crazy Uncle Mark | 06/04/2010 @ 11:32