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Hello everyone. I regret that I haven’t been updating this blog as often as I would’ve liked to. I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continued support and assure you that there is more to come from JOJDOM (the domain of JohnOfJordan, heh). I am gearing up towards a second series of the JOJCAST podcast. I do intend to do some things differently this time around and while this will add to my production schedule I think it will make for a more enjoyable listening experience. So stay tuned!

In the meanwhile it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge some developments in the YouTube community.

Congratulations Carrie Lee! AskCarrieLee has recently reached the 8,000 YouTube subscriber mark. While I do sometimes suffer from subscriber envy I truly believe that nobody has worked as hard to build an audience as Carrie Lee, she deserves every success and I fully expect many more great things to come her way in the future!

Congratulations to the REFS! boys MG Phenom (Matt) and Jopael (Josh) produced the Bank vs Credit Union Rap Battle video as part of the “Breaking down the Benjamin$” contest. We are happy to let you know that the boys won! The CUSR4U Channel explains:

The Kansas Credit Union Association, on behalf of Kansas’ credit unions, awarded the creator of “Bank vs. Credit Union” Rap Battle for his efforts in creating and promoting his video to more than 8,000 unique people!! Congratulations!!

Matt will use his portion of the prize money to start a new life in California with his girlfriend Claire, whom he met via YouTube. Check out the JOJCAST interview with Matt.

Happy Video Making!

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To say Leslie Hall is larger-than-life would be a polite exercise in understatement. Sporting gold spandex suits, staring down the barrel of video cameras saying hilarious things in a profoundly dead pan manner that makes her even funnier, hers is a life that has been dedicated to the celebration and preservation of Gem Sweaters. The website she set up to model these Gem Sweaters became so popular that the bandwidth charges started to become obscenely expensive. A lesser soul might’ve taken the site down, but not Leslie. She decided to record and sell an album – in Garage Band, of all things – and the rest, as they say, is history.

“Hi, I’m Leslie Hall,” she explains in an appearance for Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag segment, “you might know me from Internet videos that get over 200 views.” The joke may be lost on those not yet indocrinated into the realms of the Gem Sweater. When the video for her song This Is How We Go Out (filmed in her hometown of Ames, Iowa) received a global feature on YouTube, that video alone earned more than a one million views.

So what should Internet video creators take from Leslie’s experience? Well as she explains in the Threadbanger video (embedded above):

Definitely my message is simple: you should be yourself. Because peasant people, streetwalkers can become Internet celebrities if you remain true to yourself, put it on YouTube, keep it clean… there’s plenty star power even if you are freakishly ghoulish and unlovable.

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News: Killertoothbrush Sighting

April 28, 2009

Dorito’s Australia are running a contest for video creators to make the new Dorito’s advertisement and earn fame and fortune and what-not. Though if you were to look closely at one of the entries you might see someone you recognise!

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JOJ Presents… The Mugglettes

April 26, 2009

I’m secretly hoping Ouch! Hermione will one day be available as a ringtone. You should probably go subscribe to MuggleSam if you haven’t already.

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Tip: Crop to Widescreen in Sony Vegas

April 24, 2009

Bill Myers (guerrillabill on YouTube) takes us through a few different techniques for converting the aspect ratio of your source footage to 16:9 widescreen in Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

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News: YouTube Unveils New Channel Designs

April 16, 2009

YouTube have unveiled the “beta” version of their new channel design layout. If you’d like to see how it looks on your channel you can opt in here. YouTube advise that you will also be able to revert back to the traditional version of your profile.

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