Jeff Sending from my iPhone, jailbreaked!
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I think you may find heavy resistance there, but wouldn't hurt anyway. You can refrence wikipedia and archive.org as popular sites that also support the OS cause. Many people will need to learn how to convert to ogg, and their users will then want to know how to play, and ultimately convert so it will work in their iPods and mp3 cd players, etc.JeffSending from my iPhone, jailbreaked!On Aug 19, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Holmes Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:Hey everybody,
Another way to approach this would be to make a list of existing humor audio/video sites and pitch them on supporting theora/html5.
Anyone game?
-Holmes
Jeff Shippen wrote:
Here's a few sites I found if anybody wants to start converting.
Does anybody out there host a website that would be willing to set up a "funny oggs" page? It would be great to provide a link in the e-mail, so people can hear more at their will.
http://www.icychris.co.uk/distraction_downloads.htm
http://www.thebards.net/mp3/ (I listened to "DO VIRGINS TASTE BETTER MEDLEY"). Probably no viral songs here, but still worth sharing. Pretty good for a band that supports sharing. Oh, I just stumbled upon "DONALD WHERE'S YOUR TROUSERS? MEDLEY". I remember that from Dr Demento a few years back, before I moved. This one is pretty silly, worth sharing too. Located here:
http://www.thebards.net/mp3/funny_music.shtml
Jeff Shippen
Jeff Shippen wrote:
This is well said and basically what I was thinking... Except I would pass it on as if it were the original ;)
Instead of the response "Why didn't you send it in X format? It's more popular," I would expect something more like "It didn't work, what was it?" or "how do I open this?".
You can say "Do you have (program of choice)? That's what my computer opened it in." Or you can provide a link at the bottom and say "I just installed the program in that link and then it opened just fine..."
Jeff
Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
On 8/17/09, Jeff <address@hidden> wrote:
It would probably be more effective to find humorous comedy bits
online and e-mail them out to friends and family, after converting it
to ogg. Then provide a link for windows and/or mac users to download
an ogg player to hear it.
Exactly. In fact SOM has been advocating this for a year now:
http://spreadopenmedia.org/campaigns/share-the-funnies/
-Ivo
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