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New Toys

July 1, 2007 by Tricia

In honor of Canada’s Birthday I got a new SLR camera and I bought my husband a HD video camera! Whew! That was expensive!

Let’s just say this is the beginning of Chris’ birthday celebration? His birthday is next week on the 8th. I’ve already told him that the HD video camera was his birthday present. Actually, considering how expensive it was I might get away with making that his Christmas present too!

Yeah, yeah, my new camera covers my birthday and Christmas as well.

I’ll tell you more about our new toys and how we plan to use them soon!

BTW due to my site troubles that I’ll tell you more about in another post I did not do a Photo Hunter or Green Thumb Sunday post this weekend. I may still do them, but if I don’t I hope you’ll understand why.

I have not had a good few days.

Our new toys are a highlight but my site troubles have been a total downer!





Filed Under: Entertainment, Hobbies, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Money, Movies, Photography, Shopping, Video Tagged With: Birthday, camera, Canada, Chris, christmas, digital camera, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, HD video camera, husband, new camera, photo, photo hunt, Photography, SLR camera, sunday, Video

Adding video content to more of our sites

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I’m totally loving The News Room. See the post I wrote below about it.

I’ve been going over the News Room site and I found some great video of Paris Hilton going to jail that I put up on Celebrity Scoop. I can really see having a daily entertainment video feature on my celebrity website.

Now I’m going through the site to see if I can find items that Chris can use on Odd Planet (ie weird news) or his music and guitar related site Guitar Licks.

The content that we can put in our sites by using the News Room is fantastic. I’m so happy I joined the site.

Before I go hog wild on this let me ask you something:

If you visit a website that has video on it are you as likely to watch the video if it appears to be something that interests you as you might be to read a plain text post?

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Recreation, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: add video, celeb, celebrity, celebrity scoop, Chris, Entertainment, guitar, interests, Join, news, news room, odd planet, read, Video, visit, watch, website

Add current news video and feeds to your post and make money

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I just signed up with a site called The News Room. This website allows website owners to publish news content on their sites. Not only does The News Room provide content that you can use to enhance your posts, but it also allows you to earn some money just by using the service.

So how do you make money by using The Newsroom? It’s simple really. Just sign up for the service and then browse through the current news listings until you find news that’s relevant to your site, or find a piece that is something you’d like to post about and add a feed or video to your article.

CPM (cost per thousand) starts at $1 which means that for every thousand views you’ll be paid a dollar – at the very lowest, for the content that you chose to provide on your site. You might also be interested to know that the payout for placing a video feed on your site is $4 per CPM. This payout is excellent compared to many other affiliate type programs, and what’s more, you’ll be adding content to your site that will enhance your articles.

One of the really cool things about The News Room is that if someone visits your site and they like the news story that you’ve posted they can take a copy of it right from your site. That’s called Mashing. You’ll make some money when they Mash a story from your site too.

For example, I decided to post this news video in this post to demonstrate to you how you can use news content in your articles, and to show you how the story can be mashed from my site.

You know that artist that gets large groups of people to pose naked for photographs in public places? Well he did it again. If you watch the video I don’t think you’ll find anything offensive on it – naked body parts have yellow dots on them.

Do you see that Mash symbol? Well, if you want to put this content on your site too, you can just Mash it.

How does mashing work? The diagram that I’ve included below shows how a person can make money when a great news story is shared from site to site:

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There’s yet another bonus to this program:

I’m not sure how this works, but there’s a loyalty program that allows those who use the site to provide content on their own websites a chance to win prizes such as vacation, electronics and even cars.

When I first signed up I spent some time on the site trying to find out exactly how to get the video on my site. It’s simple really. As I said earlier, just browse through the sites content, find something that you want to add to your site, decide if you want just the video news story, a full feed of the section you’re in, a text story or even make up your own feed of news stories then hit the Mash button and follow the instructions. Easy.

There are hundreds of thousands of news stories to choose from and all are fully licensed new stories from major content providers such as Reuters, Associated Press and so on.

Give it a try. There’s lots of great news content available and you can earn money by adding it to your site. Start by mashing the video that I placed in this post if you like.

Filed Under: Affiliates, Cool stuff, Culture, Entertainment, Make Money, Sales and Marketing, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: add feed, add news, add news video to articles, add video, affiliate, articles, enhance articles, enhance posts, Make Money, make money using video, media, Money, posts, The News Room, use video in post, Video, viral content, watch, website, win prizes

This is almost how I react when Chris steals my pen

May 23, 2007 by Tricia

Ok I just wrote a post about Chris being the biggest pen thief in the world. Is it no wonder, is it, that I get kind of paranoid about my own pens?

Just like this Kids in the Hall video, I will not accept a pen from him that isn’t mine or the one that I specifically want to use. Part of that comes from having my favorite pens stolen by him, and the other part is that I’m a lefty and only certain pens are comfortable for me to use for writing.

I’m not quite as bad as the guy in this video, but to Chris – who immediately went and found this video when I had him read the post I just wrote about him, I must seem this way at times:

My Pennnnnnn!!!!! You’ve got my Pen!!! At least we can laugh at each other.

BTW have you noticed that I’ve really upped the Canadian related content this week? It’s purely by accident. Kids in the Hall is of course an old Canadian program produced by Loren Michaels, a Canadian, the producer of Saturday Night Live.

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Life with Chris, Pulled a Trish, Television, Toronto, Video Tagged With: amusing, chasing a pen, funny, Humor, kids in the hall, my pen, reaction to stolen pen, stolen pen, Video

Do you have what it takes to seduce a celebrity?

May 15, 2007 by Tricia

Are you a fan of Mirelly Taylor? If so, you could win a date with her in GoFish.com’s Seduce a Celeb contest!

If you’re interested in win a trip, a hotel stay and most of all a date with a beautiful celebrity go on over to Go Fish and watch some Free videos at GoFish.com. Watch Mirelly’s video where she’ll explain what you have to do to enter the contest and then do the three tasks which involves making three different videos and submit them as directed. The contest will run for the next 14 weeks.

That’s all you have to do to enter this interesting contest. By the way, did you know that since the viewing audience is able to fully participate in this online show that this is the first program of it’s kind? Yes there’s some television shows like American Idol where the viewing audience has a say in what’s happening in the show, but for this show audience members who chose to participate become part of the show through their video entries.

Now in case you don’t recognize the name Mirelly Taylor – she’s been seen on shows such as Las Vegas, Punk’d and Numb3rs, as well as in the movies Kiss Me Again and Serving Sara. She’s a rising star.

Whether you enter the contest or not you’ve got to check out the video entries! Some of them are really funny. Of course, if you want to stand out from the crowd you should submit a video that’s creative to say the least.

I think this sounds like a fun contest to enter and to watch. I’m sure there’ll be some great video submissions and I can’t wait to see some of them. Since this is a unique kind of contest it will be interesting to watch how it plays out. I wonder if they’ll have sequels? I hope they do a male celeb next. Yeah, I’m married, but I think Chris would let me go on a date with a celebrity just once.

Filed Under: Contest, Entertainment, Movies, Relationships and Dating, Television, Video Tagged With: 14 week contest, Contest, Mirelly Taylor, online contest, Seduce a celeb, submit video, video contest, win, win date with Mirelly Taylor

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