theremin promotion on youTube

Thierry. I think Hieronymus Bosch had the right idea about where to stick a recorder. But as they don't allow that sort of video on youTube, we'll have to settle for this... link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSDgbxuxzk)

Bish. Talking about RSS and aggregators, it occurs to me that youTube supplies feeds for people's channels, playlists and favourites. It's not podcasting, but it's a good way of tracking their activities. Possibly one could do something clever with RSS, Automator and a youTube ripper.

Google video search results are also RSS'd.

This will track the ten most recent theremin posts on a variety of social video stream sites.

feed://video.google.com/videosearch?
q=theremin&so=1&start=0&output=rss

(Notes: "feed" works on Safari. Other aggregators may prefer "http"

"start=0" returns the ten most recent postings. For the twenty most recent postings, add another feed with "start=10" and so on.)

(-: Faux Theremin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOj99IlzDc) now has subtitles too. :-)

Here's another tip.

[b]Catch and keep surfers.[/b]

It's hard to watch just one youTube video if you're on their website. Something in [i]Related Videos[/i] caches your eye and an hour later you wonder where the time went. So how does Related Videos work? Youtube populates it by performing a search on all of the video's tags, and sorts the results by relevance.

So: if you want to increase the chances of appearing on someone else's Related Videos, include all their tag words in the text describing your video.

To appear in your own Related Videos, use similar tags on all your videos, and include some tags that do not appear anywhere else - all my Beat Frequency videos include the tags [i]beatfrequency[/i] and [i]gordoncharlton[/i] for just that reason.