The problem with the Plantronics video is there was no news, no interesting thought-provoking topic to discuss or debate. And no obvious warning that would be the case beforehand. With your text articles, usually there's something new and interesting or it doesn't get posted. Maybe if you had the same selection process from many submitted videos and were picking only the best ones, applying the same criteria which should basically be: "Are our readers going to find this interesting?" Maybe you're trying too hard to post videos so you're not being choosy enough about what gets posted?
It is surprising that you weren't paid for the Plantronics video, because why else would you do it?
Here are some video suggestions:
1. Interview Darl McBride and ask him what his deal is.
2. Interview rms on any number of subjects.
3. When a version of Unity or Gnome shell comes out, do a quick video demo of it followed by comments from someone on the dev team explaining the rationale, and also someone who hates it venting about how much it sucks.
4. Interview former senator Dodd about the future of copyright
5. Interview some scientists about the Higgs boson.
6. Interview Sergei Brin about privacy.
7. Robots fighting.
8. Bruce Schneier about TSA
I think you have a strong enough readership of an influential community to get those folks to talk to you. Do a bunch of them and don't post the ones that suck. I bet the Google people read this site and would like the opportunity to talk about privacy.
Actually, thinking about it, you could stage debates and make it a very big deal. Like invite people from Canonical, GNOME team, and some XFCE zealots to fight it out. That sort of stuff video is great because there's a lot of passion and controversy. And I'm sure people here would give you lots of other great ideas for topics if you did a poll.
Another idea is to run a contest for best video on a specific topic. Like the next time the old question of how best to destroy old drives comes up, give away a prize to the best video submitted and then post it.
Anyway, have fun. And worst case if you find yourself posting another video like the Plantronics one, please ask them for at least a little money so it makes more sense.
This made me look around for a good definition. There's a pretty good one here.
They're an advocacy group focused on eradicating slavery - a pretty good site.
It absolutely is not slavery to offer someone a job that they willingly accept because it will improve their lives. If the labor is not compulsory under threat of physical force, it's not slavery. Citation please if you think that's actually happening in those industries.
There is actually slavery in the world, particularly in the sex trade, and it is unequivocally morally reprehensible. Calling other labor arrangements with mutual consent the same thing dilutes the term, and is just generally idiotic.
There's sort of a grey area if, for example, I create the conditions in which your only choice is to work for me or die. Like a military coup that seizes all the resources, decides you'll work in a mine. You can refuse but you'll starve. This is much closer to and perhaps morally equivalent to slavery than the industries you're describing, but still I would call it "forced labor".
All Tor gets you is the ability to route through others so people who aren't your ISP can't easily tell where you are. One letter to your ISP though, and that 'protection' turns to snake oil.
I think you're missing something about what TOR does. If your traffic to your ultimate destination is encrypted, all your ISP knows is that you're connecting to a TOR node. They don't know what site you're getting bounced to after that.
If you had access to enough TOR nodes and were actively monitoring traffic exiting the TOR network, you might be lucky enough to detect some kind of pattern. But certainly your ISP can't.
Or something interactive would be nice. Like a face on a flatpanel display that watches you as you move around the room. Perhaps with a caption "In Soviet university art watches YOU!"
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It is surprising that you weren't paid for the Plantronics video, because why else would you do it?
Here are some video suggestions:
1. Interview Darl McBride and ask him what his deal is.
2. Interview rms on any number of subjects.
3. When a version of Unity or Gnome shell comes out, do a quick video demo of it followed by comments from someone on the dev team explaining the rationale, and also someone who hates it venting about how much it sucks.
4. Interview former senator Dodd about the future of copyright
5. Interview some scientists about the Higgs boson.
6. Interview Sergei Brin about privacy.
7. Robots fighting.
8. Bruce Schneier about TSA
I think you have a strong enough readership of an influential community to get those folks to talk to you. Do a bunch of them and don't post the ones that suck. I bet the Google people read this site and would like the opportunity to talk about privacy.
Actually, thinking about it, you could stage debates and make it a very big deal. Like invite people from Canonical, GNOME team, and some XFCE zealots to fight it out. That sort of stuff video is great because there's a lot of passion and controversy. And I'm sure people here would give you lots of other great ideas for topics if you did a poll.
Another idea is to run a contest for best video on a specific topic. Like the next time the old question of how best to destroy old drives comes up, give away a prize to the best video submitted and then post it.
Anyway, have fun. And worst case if you find yourself posting another video like the Plantronics one, please ask them for at least a little money so it makes more sense.
This made me look around for a good definition. There's a pretty good one here. They're an advocacy group focused on eradicating slavery - a pretty good site.
It absolutely is not slavery to offer someone a job that they willingly accept because it will improve their lives. If the labor is not compulsory under threat of physical force, it's not slavery. Citation please if you think that's actually happening in those industries. There is actually slavery in the world, particularly in the sex trade, and it is unequivocally morally reprehensible. Calling other labor arrangements with mutual consent the same thing dilutes the term, and is just generally idiotic. There's sort of a grey area if, for example, I create the conditions in which your only choice is to work for me or die. Like a military coup that seizes all the resources, decides you'll work in a mine. You can refuse but you'll starve. This is much closer to and perhaps morally equivalent to slavery than the industries you're describing, but still I would call it "forced labor".
All Tor gets you is the ability to route through others so people who aren't your ISP can't easily tell where you are. One letter to your ISP though, and that 'protection' turns to snake oil.
I think you're missing something about what TOR does. If your traffic to your ultimate destination is encrypted, all your ISP knows is that you're connecting to a TOR node. They don't know what site you're getting bounced to after that. If you had access to enough TOR nodes and were actively monitoring traffic exiting the TOR network, you might be lucky enough to detect some kind of pattern. But certainly your ISP can't.
resulted in the minor's death.
Committing suicide is what resulted in her death.
Or something interactive would be nice. Like a face on a flatpanel display that watches you as you move around the room. Perhaps with a caption "In Soviet university art watches YOU!"
You could go with photos of early computers like Enigma or ENIAC. If you have enough space you could show a progression to modern kit in time slices.