A little over a month ago I did a photo shoot of Veronica Belmont. She was great in all of the images.

Her show, Mahalo Daily, has recently started and looks like it is going strong. I read somewhere that Mahalo Daily was featured in iTunes. That was very exciting, I went to subscribe in iTunes and noticed it on the front page of the podcasts section.

While I went to click on the icon I noticed something very familiar about the image… Hey that was a photograph I took!!! (big version is above)

That was really cool to see. So after clicking on the small icon I got to the podcast page in iTunes and saw something even better than just my image being used. Photo credit!!! Even though iTunes resizes the images (making the text hard to read) Mahalo Daily gets big thumbs up for adding photo credit.

I’m very glad to see that Mahalo Daily has people with good sense and a good understanding about new media and the importance of things like this. In this world of new media and companies merging together, people and companies should take note of this and use it as a good example.

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I am trying out using iPhoto’s web galleries, they look really nice, click the image below to see:

Photo by Lex in the City

Josh Paul wrote this blog post about the WGA strike. Some quotes below:

“With the huge growth of online video distribution, a strike could be devastating (especially to scripted programming). Here’s why:

• it won’t stop writers from writing*
• money is flowing to internet distributed video exceptionally quickly
• HD video is expensive to produce and online video doesn’t have to be HD
• reality programming is cheap (no “writers” req’d) and can garner viewers (American Idol anyone?”

“For me, I think it’s obvious that AMPTP (the Producers/Studios) and the WGA see that the future is in internet delivery. Period. If that is indeed going to happen, then we need a well defined measurement standard.”” * During the last strike writers would have people pick up scripts in manila envelopes from “secret” locations (like a phone booth on the corner of Sunset & Gower ;-). With email it’s even easier, simply set up an alias on Gmail/Yahoo/et al and simply email the script(s) in…and you don’t have to pay a runner either.”

My response via comment (comment is awaiting moderation) was:

“Well said. I want real and well designed measurement standard.100,000 views on YouTube means nothing to me (well, it would tickle me on the inside a bit). But I don’t trust view numbers.It is sad that the standard is being set by the hosting companies who have it in their best interest to have inflated numbers. If they claim that a video is getting 1,000,000 views who is verifying this information??? Their internal super secret QA?Also, autoplay is really stupid. Some sites (I read an article somewhere which broke down which sites count partial plays as a view) just rack up the views with autoplay on their homepage. I think “WOW they get that many people to go to their homepage every day???”. I don’t watch those videos, I wonder who does. Small piece of advice for those that are annoyed by autoplay on your hosts website, bookmark the login page or some other page, not the homepage.Ok, now, what do you think?”

So, what do you think?Do you trust your statistics?Are you confident telling others you viewership knowing that the numbers are likely inflated?Or are you too reserved to talk about it publicly… Maybe even a milquetoast producer…