In silence I sit
With the stillest air I’ve known
Echoes of nightfall
Month: April 2016
Life, Death and Social Media
Compassion’s Flow
Remember dear friends
Seek out love and compassion
Flow through you and out
Fixing Youtube “Embedding disabled by request”
So, one of my team’s videos was showing this error: “embedding disabled by request”. I have no idea how that setting got changed, as I simply uploaded it and then tried to embed it into our website.
As you’d expect, this was obnoxious. Finding the solution was a bit annoying, too, as the most recent post I found, from 2009, Which, as you might expect, wasn’t helpful. However, I did get it figured out.
- Go to www.YouTube.com/my_videos. This will give you the master list of all your videos.
- Skim through to the video in question, click “Edit”.
- Go to “Advanced Settings”
- Scroll down to “Distribution Options” & Click Allow Embedding”
The Ever Changing World Of Social Media
Was just reading this piece over at Business Insider: Teens are ditching Instagram for Snapchat at a stunning rate. Well, this reinforces one of my underlying assumptions: that what we’ve currently labeled “social media” is a highly unstable sector.
So, we see that Twitter is falling in relevance; that’s been prognosticated about forever. And the same with the Facebook and it’s sidekick Instagram. But we’re seeing growth with Snapchat. Again, the focus of this article is teens, but I expect they’ll be the leading edge of social media trends.
They have two graphs that really capture things:
So, the world is shifting and shifting rapidly. It’ll be good to dive into Snapchat, if you’re not already there.
Scenes from my walk
Wandering my streets
With my basic agenda
And I find magic
Restarts
Rebooting myself
Discipline; thus a refresh
No fresh start promised
Views from my walk
Evening wanderings
Dusk settling upon me
Springtime’s blossoms call