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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-04

  • is looking forward to this upcoming weekend. Dodgers game on Thursday, followed by Chargers preseason in San Diego Friday night. #
  • looks like he might be in the Bay Area this Labor Day weekend too. #
  • enjoyed the first half of sports weekend with the Dodgers. Off to San Diego later today for Chargers v 49ers. #

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This year's site change

With WordPress 2.7 came a lot of change that I am only now getting used too (still can’t believe threaded comments are built in now).  So I decided to change themes to Carrington to better take advantage of these new features along with more plugins like Asideshop and the new WordPress Mobile Edition ( I still work on getting those two to be a little nicer to each other though).

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I talk a little about Watchmen on NBC 4 LA


I was on the NBC 4 Los Angeles local news talking a little bit about the Watchmen film, which was pretty good, and got to show off my tickets over at Universal City Walk. I don’t know much about the original book, but it is considered the greatest graphic novel of all time.  The characters look amazing and it seems like they captured all of the best parts of the novel. That being said, some scenes go on and are often overly violent. Still, even if you aren’t a fan of superhero movies, this is still a film to see.

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Monetization Models for Video on the Internet

I had a brief discussion with a friend about making money with Internet video.  We looked at a couple of business models for a nonprofit to make money online and realized there were a couple of ways anybody could make some money with Internet video.   Here are some suggestions for almost anybody to earn revenue from video on the web:

  1. Take advertising on your site and/or videos. This probably isn’t feasible as a nonprofit (Update: this is possible with a nonprofit), but online advertising revenues will give you a somewhat decent amount of money for the amateur and is the most common video revenue model.   In addition to ads on the producer’s website (generally provided by a third-party), most video hosting sites like Youtube or my personal favorite, Blip.tv, allow ads to be inserted before and after videos, and at designated times during the video. Continue reading “Monetization Models for Video on the Internet”