I hear what you're saying, but bills have to be paid. I don't know
anything about boingboing, so I can't speak for them specifically, but
that's the game that's being played here. Get people to click on your
video, get people to click on your ads, get revenue to pay people's
salaries. There's nothing else going on here.

It's like when you make a Ning community. You can make it for free if
you leave the google ads on your site and lose the use of an entire
sidebar... or you can pay Ning to make it worth their while to ditch
the ads and let you use the sidebar. Lots of people choose to make
free Ning sites and lots of people choose to watch free boingboing
videos with whatever ads you saw on them.

I know you know this already and were just stating facts, :) and I
agree with you for the most part. The thing that SUCKS for me with
overlay ads is that you don't know when they're going to come up, so
as the content creator, when you go to font someone in THE LOWER 3RD
OF THE SCREEN, some bullshit ad comes up over your title and the
effect you were creating as art is completely lost. If that's the
only time you mention someone's name/title in the piece, people are in
the dark the whole time.

Also, like you said, overlay ads of ANY kind destroy immersion, but
like I said, it's about making your money back, not making art that is
poignant and has the desired effect on the viewer that the artist
(content creator) intended.

Removing ads would defeat the purpose of doing the videos in the first
place. (Again, having nothing specifically to do with boingboing)

Bill Cammack
http://billcammack.com

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Heath" <heathparks@...> wrote:
>
> I am glad jay and ryanne are back safe, I am glad that boing boing
> and others are trying to report things....but....and for me it's a
> big but....the ads on the video piece from boing boing turned me
> off....I mean, here are jay and ryanne talking about people being
> detained and how that they are basicly trying to get out of town
> before they themselves are detained and I get some upbeat rockin ad
> for, heck I don't even know but it just seemed sooo out of
> place....it detracted me from the overall message...maybe it's just
> me...but.....
>
> Heath
> http://batmangeek.com
> http://heathparks.com
>
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <rupert@> wrote:
> >
> > http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/08/25/boing-boing-tv-proti.html
> >
> > "Last week, eight American citizens were detained in Beijing for
> > participating in pro-Tibetan sovereignty protests near the site of
> > the 2008 Olympics, with Students for a Free Tibet. Two
> videobloggers
> > who documented those protest and guerrilla art installations
> evaded
> > detention, and spoke to Boing Boing TV on Friday Beijing time
> about
> > why they were there, what they witnessed, and why it mattered.
> >
> > "Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson of Ryanishungry.com spoke to us over
> > Skype from a hostel in Beijing. One of the actions they documented
> in
> > photo and video was the hanging of an "LED throwies" light banner,
> > below, which read "FREE TIBET." We agreed to hold this Boing Boing
> tv
> > episode until after we received word that they'd safely left the
> > country. They have returned home, so I am posting the piece today."
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>