>> ^xxovercastxx:

@dag @lucky760
Inline bug report... There's 5 replies to my comment in this thread and I got exactly zero emails about them. The only reason I even noticed is because Obsidian's comment is in the Top Comments block.


I too've been getting emails every day. Check your spam folder and if you find emails there, please forward it with all the original headers to siftbot at videosift dot com.

I could never get proxy or that modify headers trick to work.

@Gallowflak I find deeply nested quotes get really messed if that's what you're referring to. Latest Chrome.

Thanks for letting me know, that's really useful! I don't suppose you know a way of watching Channel 4 stuff from the UK in America do ya?
In reply to this comment by thatavguy:
Or you could watch from their website


If your using Firefox or Chrome
Download the Add on Modify Headers

In the Add on, Select Add
Header Name - Type X-Forward-For
Header Value - 12.13.14.15

Make sure its enabled and then click start

You will now have access to The Daily Show and Colbert Report


>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Phreezdryd:
>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^Phreezdryd:
>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
Ah em, It's Jon Stewart.

Thanks! I'll blame the fact that I can very rarely watch anything Daily Show cos it's all goddamned blocked, which I remain sore about even now!

Blocked?! You have the internet, man!
There's a tube for that.

Wo-man, and I'm not very good on the internet, the only way I know how is to fuck about with my ISP address and I don't want to
I should have specified my message was in the voice of a loud, English Stephen Fry type character, and the line sounded good in my head, wrong gender intact. I guess you don't do BitTorrent then?

Hahaha, oh! Yeah, I'm not adverse to torrents, but I'm not quite curious enough to go about downloading yet. I just want it at my fingertips, so many times I've seen stuff I know I'd love and whoops! it's TDS. Fuckers...

Or you could watch from their website


If your using Firefox or Chrome
Download the Add on Modify Headers

In the Add on, Select Add
Header Name - Type X-Forward-For
Header Value - 12.13.14.15

Make sure its enabled and then click start

You will now have access to The Daily Show and Colbert Report


>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Phreezdryd:
>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^Phreezdryd:
>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
Ah em, It's Jon Stewart.

Thanks! I'll blame the fact that I can very rarely watch anything Daily Show cos it's all goddamned blocked, which I remain sore about even now!

Blocked?! You have the internet, man!
There's a tube for that.

Wo-man, and I'm not very good on the internet, the only way I know how is to fuck about with my ISP address and I don't want to
I should have specified my message was in the voice of a loud, English Stephen Fry type character, and the line sounded good in my head, wrong gender intact. I guess you don't do BitTorrent then?

Hahaha, oh! Yeah, I'm not adverse to torrents, but I'm not quite curious enough to go about downloading yet. I just want it at my fingertips, so many times I've seen stuff I know I'd love and whoops! it's TDS. Fuckers...

You know these types of playlists are great, because you can literally have a science teacher in let's say High School on a field day (or basically a day to let the students goof around a bit) set up a screen at the front of the class with audio of course and just sit there and play videos out of this. People that stick together all these playlists typically do most of the hard work and create a source for the teacher to show hundreds if not thousands of videos on science, ranging from every topic their is.

Obviously, the teacher must do a bit of pre-watching or other types of authentication to make sure he isn't going to start showing porn in the middle of class. Another reason why I love Videosift, it's self auditing by its members ensures that almost every video is exactly the type of beast that the listings, tags, headers, and description say it is.

I truly think that video (and audio video) is a sadly underused resource that teachers SHOULD have easy access to and I believe sites like Videosift are EXACTLY the type of sites they need to not only create their own, but use others without being horribly worried. AS well, the students could even become involved in the site and the process--maybe in the future creating "group" playlists. Students can become involved in playlists, discussion, and blogging or even journaling from the class they are in. But, I think the correct foundation to make it work properly IS what Videosift uses right now.

Playlists like this one are specific and are good at teaching you a bit about the world fairly quickly in a relatively short amount of time. I like to bookmark all playlists like this (in aim), so i would like to thank you for putting it together. This is part of what makes our Sift the great experience and place that it is!

Thanks,
Kimball Eaton - @kceaton1

Mouse over a channel assignment when submitting a video and have a defined description of what that channel is for. Currently it only reads the channels "header". When I submit a video I put my mouse over the Audio check box and it says "soundsift" I think it should include a description of the channels use so people do not have to go back and forth making sure they have the right channel assigned instead of guessing.

>> ^notarobot:

blocked in Canada. Use modify headers to get around silly geographic silliness
or
use this link: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with
-jon-stewart/full-episodes/#clip610145


Yarr, blocked in Thailand also. I tried your .ca link here, but it manages to stream a 30 second commercial only to say "sorry, we are experiencing temporary difficulties downloading your lineup". Living in a land of ubiquitous piracy plus running 99% of the time with AdBlock and NoScript has made me very impatient with advertising, DRM, etc.!

Thanks anyway for the alternate ideas, I'm looking up the modify headers solution now.

1. Would it be possible to make the size of the video embeds bigger? I have a 20" widescreen monitor, and I can barely see the videos. At the very least, can we make it a configurable option on how large the videos can be? I like YouTube's change on their web site in that they give you the choice to have the videos small, large and full screen.

2. Also, I'm definitely in agreement over the "less is more" argument. There's too much stuff vying for attention on any given page. Take a look at the vimeo.com page. I like how the right hand columns have clear and distinct headers.

3. Can we please have a bug submission page or section? There are lots of times things either stop working or enhancements are suggested. To put these bugs in sift talk seems wrong.

4. Perhaps a wiki page so that documentation can be updated by the community as well?

*blocked in Canada. Use modify headers to get around silly geographic silliness

or

use this link: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/#clip610145

I agree it looks a bit cluttered. Always tempting to strive for minimalism though you don't want to reduce too much. That said;

I never click Blogs. How about if someone has a blog that appears as a link right after their name?

The social media stuff could be on the frontpage only and removed from the header. If I ever did Like the site on Facebook I'm only ever going to do that once. Then again you'd miss the drive-by clicks if you did that.

Playlists. I'm betting that's not clicked a lot. I've always said that they need powering up and until then probably don't warrant a main link in the interface. They're more useful being discovered through each video.

Members. This could definitely be moved to a sub-heading.

Since Grooveshark went dark for users from Germany today and Modify Headers hasn't worked properly for me in months, I thought I might as well add Tor-based anonymoX to the discussion. Never bothered with Hulu, but everything else works fine so far -- and it's easily configured to only trigger on a few select pages, like Grooveshark in my case.

Agh! I can't get this to work. I can't find 'modify headers' anywhere, goddamit.

Great post, @joedirt!

Related: How to set up modify headers.

>> ^BoneRemake:

So this was a joke that was completely lost on me ??
Whatever, glad someone got a rise out of it.
( I am irked because I am still oblivious )


For the fund-raising thing, they add a header to every page that includes a photo of a contributor/user/whatever and a quote by them begging for money. The layout of the page sometimes makes it look like the photo of this person is in some way related to the content of the page. Sometimes that makes for humorous juxtapositions, such as when you imagine that the editor at the top of the page is really into auto-erotic asphyxiation.

>> ^BoneRemake:

I myself do not mind the PBS style telethon, It after all is just a Header, the information I seek is below that point, so I usually ignore what is above it.

I have never seen a picture like the one in this post so I have nothing to add to that concept. A fund raising effort goes on every couple months for that site does it not ? I have seen plea's from the owner/programmer for years now.


As I said I'm behind the fund raising, 100%. It's the web page layout that is a bit off, I have more often than not been jolted by the search term and then a photo just above it that was incongruous. Most of the time found them quite humorous and hence the creation of the page.