Check this out:
http://feber.se/foto/art/194345/lr_dig_filma_mot_greenscreen/

This site has embedded my youtube video, but when you click to play it, it appears to have a transparent layer that detects the ‘play’ click and shows you a pre-roll ad of their own (not from YT) before my video starts.

They make money and I have visitors watching my video thinking I am greedy by placing a pre-roll ad in front of the video.

I like to share my videos by allowing embeds, but I am not sure I like others thinking I am greedy.

I think Google Buzz is pretty cool, but like Twitter the first time I used it, I am not sure if it is the real deal. Having those constant updates appear in my in box is getting annoying only after 1 full day – so the above image shows you how to turn it off at the bottom of Gmail. Your backgorund color might be different than mine.

Once you turn it off it is very easy to turn it back on again by clicking the “Turn on Buzz”.

So I am on my way home at the airport going thru the parking garage and I see a Tesla charging on a public AC outlet. I thought that was kind of ironic having a $110K car stealing from a public outlet so I took a picture.

I took that picture and placed on Flickr (under a creative commons license) and my SolarDave.com blog.

Later on other sites noticed it and blogged about including the picture and linked back to me which is totally cool.

However one of the sites placed a nofollow link on the link to my site. So I wrote them and politely asked them to make it a do follow link. They actually called me and told me they loved my blog, but when I asked them why not give me full credit for the photo they told me they don’t link out to sites they don’t partner with.

I laughed a little and then bit my lip because what I wanted to say was, “Hey shithead if you feel that way then I don’t give you permission to use my photo on your site.” But I was nice and just left it at that and got off the phone as quick as I could before I went off on the dude.

What are your thoughts on this? Shouldn’t a creative commons license require a dofollow link?

You can also follow the discussion on Flickr discussion groups.

I really enjoyed Bob Brisco’s keynote at PubCon 2009. One of the things he asked the audience was if anyone knew what the “GWC” acronym was – I had no clue. GWC – stands for “Guys With Cameras“. Even though I do not take pictures of models (he was referring one of Internet Brands site’s) I got a laugh out of that because I feel like I fit that acronym in some way. I just enjoy taking pictures everywhere I go – including PubCon as you can see above.

Part of the fun of PubCon is meeting new people. I got to meet some new people like Tony Tellijohn who has a snowmobile manuals site. And also John Beagle who has a computer rental site.

I have a notebook full of notes I need to go through today to see what I can do to improve some of my sites. I came up with some new ideas for my hobby solar panel site and a couple for my main sites. I definitely do not get as much out of these conferences as the first one I went to years ago but I feel good knowing that I am on the right track and I am not missing anything.

I was inspired to create this comic when I read that Marissa Mayer VP of search for Google was granted a patent on Google’s home page design.

Attribution to Randall Munroe of xkcd for his style of comics.