Ok Choggie.. I get it. You don't like me, you have been sending me long private messages for weeks now about how much you want to destroy me. Today you are getting your moment in the sun. Congrats.

You made that clear when you messaged me this last week. (prepares statement for the committee)

Choggie to Fedquip:“...and what the fuck is that suppose to mean, and why does it matter....Have you even ever had bush??!!! You are a problem, motherfucker.......but a real straight up, honest type, in your confusion.....take this as a friendly observation, you are nothing but a ball of confused synaptic fire, and most likely, an alcoholic and/or, prescription drug addict.....but that is just how I, irritate YOU, will MY observations.....oyu need to learn than when someone does not agree with your billboard, you may get phone call from those who have to drive by them everyday, and actually have to have a real....conversation woth someone.......yours with me is approaching overdue.....

To Which I replied

Fedquip to Choggie
Choggie,

I don't know what you are getting at with this comment but I would very much appreciate if we could just end this silly squabble. Please just ignore my postings, if you don't like what I do then just ignore me. Videosift does not belong to either of us so it's best that we just play nicely out of respect for Brian.

All the Best,

You chose to disrespect this community by making your hatred for me public today. I am a nice guy, and I mean well, but this is the internet and I have to be prepared to deal with users like yourself. I used to moderate a Hockey forum back in the day, being a Montreal fan you can't imagine what I had to put up with from the Toronto fans in that forum. We had a code of conduct that was centered around building a positive community that respected new ideas and new perspectives. We disposed of community members that personally attacked and threatened other members of the community, it was a no brainer.

I hope only positives come out of this intervention. I hope the videosift community can find something positive out of the way I participate and I hope I can avoid being banned.

Why not allow (100)Gold Star members to self link? I think I have proven to everybody that I am not using videosift to make money, my blog has no ads, I don't use Revver or the vsocial option for advertising. The clips that I self link to included James Burke and David Attenborough they are my favourite presenters.

"Fedquip, Go Fuck yourself" This is the messege I received in my inbox not too long ago. From a videosifter. And this morning I wake up and that user is going through each of my posts, voting them down, adding cute comments like "Cocksucking punk.....burn in your own hell-", I don't believe this is the type of community I joined.

I started videosharing online years ago, before youtube, before videosift. I created a forum called metronews.

It was a great idea but the time was slightly off as I had to deal with personal stuff I couldn't maintain the site.

When I discovered vsocial and used the service as a host to maintain a blog I <a rel="nofollow" href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/<a rel="nofollow" href="http://throwawayyourtv.com">http://throwawayyourtv.com">created called TayTV, check out the history. This hobby was about highlighting clips from documentaries and comedy shows. The simple concept is that on the Internet you have the opportunity to research and learn more about the media that is being presented to you. I enjoy the progression in media we are seeing here on the Internet and believe me videosift plays a major role in the future of people consume media and information.

TayTV was widely successful, the "wall street journal" named me one of the most influential people in social media. The "Globe and mail" did a story on my internet labour, Netscape.com hired me to supply them with video links and more recently AOL News hired me to blog and research online video, yes mlx the description is flattering if you ask me, but I don't think getting a job sifting is a bad thing. I have spoken to Brian about this and he told me that it was great to see sifters turning pro. I am a firm believer that through hard work you can achieve anything and if you want to share video all day, you can do that.

Now TayTV crashed a few months ago and I couldn't maintain it with my new appointments. I didn't want to let my community down by simply closing down the website. I spoke with Brian and James about moving the community to videosift. I have been a sifter since April 2006 and with the recent addition to the collectives to the sift I could combine taytv with the sift. Sifters embraced TayTV and people joined the collective, the sift community enjoyed the labour I was providing as I got voted up into the top 15 in a very short period of time after the collective was built.

And why not, taytv was all about finding interesting videos, I feel I provide more then just a video, I usually add additional links that give the user a more all round experience with the video. The taytv philosophy is more then just "getting votes", the votes here on the sift are not important to me, sharing videos is what I do and coming here my sole goal was to help Brian and James by sifting videos the community here can enjoy.

Now, I love videosift, I am forever thankful that Brian and James took me in and allowed me to continue my TayTV project here in a collective. I have literally thousands of videos I want to share with you all. I honestly believe what I can bring to videosift is nothing but positive.


Ok.. so I uploaded this clip, guilty as charged. It's a fascinating clip from James Burke, very philosophical clip about media. Because a couple sifters don't like me does that mean we have to remove this clip from the sift? I submitted it to the sift because I know this community appreciates James Burke.

I don't upload clips as much as I used to but I have thousands of clips that I have been dying to share with this community and now with vsocial in the mix I can do that. With the blessing of this community I look forward to sharing more.

Now the AOL job is something new to me, but I have been very open and honest about it, I am not a corporate douche trying to push any agenda like some have suggested. They have given me a forum to post video that will reach far and wide and I want to do it with the best of my ability and If I can help out the sift at the same time I will. For example this post made it to the front page AOL News. I found it here on the sift and gave a hat tip link back to bl968 here on the sift. I am not a full time AOL employee, I am under contract to provide video research, I hope I can continue with new opportunities after this one expires.

Anyway, I have been preparing for radical changes in the way that I do research and those changes will be visible in my future sift participation. Being in a position where I present media to a wide audience I want to do so in a unique manner, I don't want to be just a normal blogging pundit I want to make online media interesting and informative for people to watch. And if I learnt anything in the past two years with TayTV is that I have to adapt and evolve to change.

Anyway, ultimately it's not up to me. I love the sift and I want to include the collective in my ongoing experiment with media, I will respect the decisions made by the powers that be. But what I would like the most is the support from my video researcher peers here on the sift to tune this craft.

found some fun stuff here
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Leafy-Sea-Dragon -habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Change#142201 habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/First-Animal-Chorus -habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Westoboro-Child-Abuse habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-16th-Century-mini-Ice-Age habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Stoner-Vote habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Michael-Ware-Drunk-on-HBOs-Real-Time myspace link(mike ware's a cunt)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Greg-Palast-Investigates-Katrina habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Shit-on-TV habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Attenborough-The-Fiddler-Crab habs

http://www.videosift.com/video/Attenborough-Largest-Flower-in-the-World habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Attenborough-on-the-Amazon habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/Man-as-Machine habs
http://www.videosift.com/video/James-Burke-explains-Time habs


who IS HamiltonHabs32
and how many other people are fedquip

Defend yourself, our friend.

Looks like it:

HamiltonHabs32
Style: Video
Joined: February 26 2007
Last Login: 11 hours ago
Videos Watched: 454
Subscribers: 7
Channel Views: 363

Name: Jeff
Age: 26
I am Internet Video Researcher, I enjoy finding rare and mind blowing videos.
City: Victoria
Hometown: Peterborough
Country: Canada
Occupation: Video Researcher
Interests and Hobbies: Hockey, Nature
Movies and Shows: Daily Show, Attenborough Documentaries, James Burke Connections.
Music: Punk, Rock
Website: http://throwawayyourtv.videosift.com/

In reply to your comment:
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was hoping that some better connections vids would turn up! I was trying to find some a while back, but none of them were cut in a very good way. I have been meaning to cut a clip out of the last episode of the day the universe changed and upload it for somebody else to sift, but i keep forgetting. Thanks for finding this.

I watched the series when TLC first put it on in Canada probably around when i was in grade 9 or 10, and it really shaped my view of things. Awesome.”



I saw a whole bunch of his videos at Guba . Just search for "James Burke" or look through the long documentaries. I usually wait until I've downloaded the whole file before playing it because this site is slow alot of the time.

I love everything by James Burke. Wonderful documentarian.

Connections and this was a favorite.

James Burke needs to be on the sift. So awesome- taught me almost everything I know about history. They used to play this series and connections all the time when I was in high school. Absolutely chock to block full of fantastic voice samples that have been totally neglected by today's electronic musicians. A shame, really.

I would rather have put the very end of this series, a ten minute monologue about balanced anarchy- I would say a vision of the blogosphere that is almost 30 years in advance. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on youtube.

James Burke is the secret twin brother of Arthur C. Clarke!

Ok you slugs, time to use your brain for a little while. If anyone here is in the least bit familiar with James Burke's work or if you've ever seen an episode on Connections, Connections 2 or The Day the Universe Changed, then you should know that this guy is a freaking genuis when to comes to world history. The shear magnitude of this project has the potential of being an incredible tool for education and historical research.

More information can be found here: http://www.k-web.org/