Music Video Codes is a service that provides free HTML codes of music videos to embed on websites, blogs, and community member’s profiles.
History
Key statistics
As of January 2006, Music Video Codes’ traffic on Media Metrix was reported at 1.99 million unique visitors for the month, while also once ranked as the number 6 trafficked music site destinations via Nielsen NetRatings above the likes of Napster, MTV Networks Music, Warner, Universal, and Sony. MusicVideoCodes.com is also a top 6,000 English website per Alexa .
Domain Name
On November 19, 2004 MusicVideoCodes.com was purchased by Jay Gould. Although the domain name is 15 letters in length, it has become one of the Internet’s most popular destinations due to its self describing name. In December of 2005, founder Jay Gould sold the domain name and website to New York media company Bolt Inc. for an undiscolsed amount.
MySpace Effect
The overnight success of MySpace.com (which was later acquired by News Corp for $580 million) was largely dependent upon the ability for MySpace members to customize their profile’s using CSS and HTML. Music Video Codes is perhaps the most widely used HTML tool among MySpace members. MySpace has been described as being built on personality and personalization, from customizing buttons, HTML, to copying and pasting videos into profiles. In a November article by Clickz Network, Zachary Rodgers unknowingly at the time described a Music Video Code without realizing it by stating: "They can even copy and paste the video right into their own profile using a simple HTML grab feature". In January of 2006 MySpace launched a video upload service to host and serve member videos, while providing an HTML embed tag for each video uploaded so that members can place their videos in their profiles or syndicate them onto other websites. This seems to demonstrate the amazing effect Music Video Codes have had on the MySpace audience over the past year.
Criticism and problems
Deep Linking
Music Video Codes originally where deep links to music videos on other websites. Deep linking is a practice in which an HTML embed tag points to a specific page or content (in this case the music video) within another website.
Legality
There are questions whether or not Music Video Codes are legal or not since the website is not hosting the material and is only making it available for others to view from its original content holders website through the means of deep linking. In November of 2005, Media Metrix ranked MySpace the 18th most visited website. As noted in the November 2005 article of USA Today, young high school seniors on MySpace are posting their favorite Music Videos, which is a clear indicator in itself of the popularity of Music Video Codes and the value the teens place on them. The music videos, which are copyrighted material, are not hosted by MySpace or Music Video Code sites, but rather by the labels or other sites. If the copyright holders or content providers do not wish to allow the copyrighted material to be deep linked, they could certainly prevent the content from being deep linked on their end, which raises whether or not they want the material to be deep linked as a Music Video Code.
Popularity
As Music Video Codes and MySpace grew in popularity throughout 2005, a large number of websites began to surface. The market share and traffic to the original Music Video Codes website, MusicVideoCodes.com, has been diluted greatly due to the ease of creating and copying the service, but the popularity for the service has only risen among its users. In January of 2006, there are over three million search results listing the term "Music Video Codes". In the month of December 2005, the term “Music Video Codes” was searched over 287,000 times via the Overture keyword selector tool. At its peak, the term was searched over 500,000 times in a given month, providing us an insight into one of the Internets great phenomenon.
History
Key statistics
As of January 2006, Music Video Codes’ traffic on Media Metrix was reported at 1.99 million unique visitors for the month, while also once ranked as the number 6 trafficked music site destinations via Nielsen NetRatings above the likes of Napster, MTV Networks Music, Warner, Universal, and Sony. MusicVideoCodes.com is also a top 6,000 English website per Alexa .
Domain Name
On November 19, 2004 MusicVideoCodes.com was purchased by Jay Gould. Although the domain name is 15 letters in length, it has become one of the Internet’s most popular destinations due to its self describing name. In December of 2005, founder Jay Gould sold the domain name and website to New York media company Bolt Inc. for an undiscolsed amount.
MySpace Effect
The overnight success of MySpace.com (which was later acquired by News Corp for $580 million) was largely dependent upon the ability for MySpace members to customize their profile’s using CSS and HTML. Music Video Codes is perhaps the most widely used HTML tool among MySpace members. MySpace has been described as being built on personality and personalization, from customizing buttons, HTML, to copying and pasting videos into profiles. In a November article by Clickz Network, Zachary Rodgers unknowingly at the time described a Music Video Code without realizing it by stating: "They can even copy and paste the video right into their own profile using a simple HTML grab feature". In January of 2006 MySpace launched a video upload service to host and serve member videos, while providing an HTML embed tag for each video uploaded so that members can place their videos in their profiles or syndicate them onto other websites. This seems to demonstrate the amazing effect Music Video Codes have had on the MySpace audience over the past year.
Criticism and problems
Deep Linking
Music Video Codes originally where deep links to music videos on other websites. Deep linking is a practice in which an HTML embed tag points to a specific page or content (in this case the music video) within another website.
Legality
There are questions whether or not Music Video Codes are legal or not since the website is not hosting the material and is only making it available for others to view from its original content holders website through the means of deep linking. In November of 2005, Media Metrix ranked MySpace the 18th most visited website. As noted in the November 2005 article of USA Today, young high school seniors on MySpace are posting their favorite Music Videos, which is a clear indicator in itself of the popularity of Music Video Codes and the value the teens place on them. The music videos, which are copyrighted material, are not hosted by MySpace or Music Video Code sites, but rather by the labels or other sites. If the copyright holders or content providers do not wish to allow the copyrighted material to be deep linked, they could certainly prevent the content from being deep linked on their end, which raises whether or not they want the material to be deep linked as a Music Video Code.
Popularity
As Music Video Codes and MySpace grew in popularity throughout 2005, a large number of websites began to surface. The market share and traffic to the original Music Video Codes website, MusicVideoCodes.com, has been diluted greatly due to the ease of creating and copying the service, but the popularity for the service has only risen among its users. In January of 2006, there are over three million search results listing the term "Music Video Codes". In the month of December 2005, the term “Music Video Codes” was searched over 287,000 times via the Overture keyword selector tool. At its peak, the term was searched over 500,000 times in a given month, providing us an insight into one of the Internets great phenomenon.
SkyscraperPage is a website that focuses exclusively on skyscrapers and other urban developments. SkyscraperPage's main feature is its diagrams. The website is sometimes used by news media as a source of information about skyscrapers.
Diagrams
SkyscraperPage diagrams are collections of detailed scale drawings of structures from around the world, including built, under-construction, proposals, fantasy/vision, cancelled and demolished structures. Displayed on a horizontal grid representing one meter per pixel, individuals can view to-scale drawings of buildings side-by-side. What started in 1997 as a small collection of a few dozen simple black-and-white drawings, became a searchable database of over 26,000 drawings of skyscrapers, buildings, and other structures. Users are able to sort buildings by height, by regional location, by year completed or by many other criteria through the site's search function.
The drawings are created by an international volunteer community of illustrators who submit their work to the site. Anyone can submit a drawing to the SkyscraperPage diagrams.
SkyscraperPage diagrams have become a widely known and widely used resource for information on, and renderings of, skyscrapers. It's diagrams have been published in magazines and newspapers from around the world, including , The Boston Globe and Popular Science.
Diagrams
SkyscraperPage diagrams are collections of detailed scale drawings of structures from around the world, including built, under-construction, proposals, fantasy/vision, cancelled and demolished structures. Displayed on a horizontal grid representing one meter per pixel, individuals can view to-scale drawings of buildings side-by-side. What started in 1997 as a small collection of a few dozen simple black-and-white drawings, became a searchable database of over 26,000 drawings of skyscrapers, buildings, and other structures. Users are able to sort buildings by height, by regional location, by year completed or by many other criteria through the site's search function.
The drawings are created by an international volunteer community of illustrators who submit their work to the site. Anyone can submit a drawing to the SkyscraperPage diagrams.
SkyscraperPage diagrams have become a widely known and widely used resource for information on, and renderings of, skyscrapers. It's diagrams have been published in magazines and newspapers from around the world, including , The Boston Globe and Popular Science.
There have been several references made to the free online encyclopedia on The Colbert Report, an American satirical series presented by Stephen Colbert. is often satirized on The Colbert Report for its openness, problems with vandalism, and the lack of verification within some articles.
On The Colbert Report, Colbert's character (a right-wing political pundit called "Stephen Colbert") claims that is his favorite website, because he claims it brings democracy to information. Colbert highlighted his view on "The Wørd", where he invented the word "Wikiality", meaning "Truth by consensus, rather than fact." Colbert claimed that if enough people edit a entry, then anything that is on it becomes a fact. In order to prove his point, he encouraged his viewers to edit the article on "Elephants" so it claimed that the population of elephants had tripled in the past six months. As a result, several articles related to elephants and The Colbert Report were edited and vandalised.
Colbert has since made further references to , mainly commenting on its use by corporations. The terms "Wikiality" and Colbert's more famous term "Truthiness" were named the top television buzzwords by the Global Language Monitor in 2006. It was the first time that two words from the same television programme made it on the list in the same year.
Early references
was first referenced on The Colbert Report during an interview with Arianna Huffington on the use of the word "Truthiness" who claimed that according to , Colbert did not invent the term, but popularized it, to which Colbert responded "Fuck them". He later talked about in "The Wørd" segment, where the wørd was "Superegomaniac", where he claimed he had used the entry on "Sigmund Freud" to find his information, and mocked the sometimes questionable information on .
The Wørd
is most commonly referred to in "The Wørd" section of The Colbert Report, although it is also referred to in other sections.
Wikiality
On July 31 2006, Colbert created the term "Wikiality", meaning "Truth by consensus, rather than fact." If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to , (edits entry) it's also a fact. We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. For instance, the fact that Africa has more elephants today than it had ten years ago. However, the user was not blocked for vandalism, but for breaking 's username policies, which states that you cannot use the names of celebrities. has stated that the account will be opened again if Comedy Central or Colbert claim the account is theirs.
The impact of the incident eventually lead to "Wikiality" being named one of the top television buzzwords by the Global Language Monitor in 2006.
Colbert therefore made his "Wørd" "Wikilobbying", defined as being "When money determines entries". He said that "Open source software is like free trade and the invisible hand of the market has the mouse now." Colbert later argued that, "Reality has become a commodity". He then offered $5 to the first person to edit the entry on "Reality" so it would read, "Reality Has Become A Commodity." As a result of this, the entry was changed, and had to be protected.
Self-determination and WikiScanner
On August 21 2007, Colbert talked about WikiScanner, a tool which tracks down who has edited entries using IP addresses. Thus it was able to detect where certain corporations had edited their own entries. Examples Colbert gave included Pepsi and Exxon Mobil. Colbert argued that WikiScanner violated the "rights" of corporations to edit their own entries. He described as being "Second Life for corporations," and that they should be allowed to edit their own entries if they want to.
Wales interview
On May 24 2007, Colbert interviewed 's founder, Jimmy Wales. During the interview, Colbert praised and attacked traditional encyclopedias as being elitist. Colbert also asked if it would be a good idea to change all the versions of in foreign languages to read, "Learn English", in particular the Spanish , to which Wales responded by claiming he might have to lock the entire Spanish to protect it from vandalism.
On The Colbert Report, Colbert's character (a right-wing political pundit called "Stephen Colbert") claims that is his favorite website, because he claims it brings democracy to information. Colbert highlighted his view on "The Wørd", where he invented the word "Wikiality", meaning "Truth by consensus, rather than fact." Colbert claimed that if enough people edit a entry, then anything that is on it becomes a fact. In order to prove his point, he encouraged his viewers to edit the article on "Elephants" so it claimed that the population of elephants had tripled in the past six months. As a result, several articles related to elephants and The Colbert Report were edited and vandalised.
Colbert has since made further references to , mainly commenting on its use by corporations. The terms "Wikiality" and Colbert's more famous term "Truthiness" were named the top television buzzwords by the Global Language Monitor in 2006. It was the first time that two words from the same television programme made it on the list in the same year.
Early references
was first referenced on The Colbert Report during an interview with Arianna Huffington on the use of the word "Truthiness" who claimed that according to , Colbert did not invent the term, but popularized it, to which Colbert responded "Fuck them". He later talked about in "The Wørd" segment, where the wørd was "Superegomaniac", where he claimed he had used the entry on "Sigmund Freud" to find his information, and mocked the sometimes questionable information on .
The Wørd
is most commonly referred to in "The Wørd" section of The Colbert Report, although it is also referred to in other sections.
Wikiality
On July 31 2006, Colbert created the term "Wikiality", meaning "Truth by consensus, rather than fact." If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to , (edits entry) it's also a fact. We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. For instance, the fact that Africa has more elephants today than it had ten years ago. However, the user was not blocked for vandalism, but for breaking 's username policies, which states that you cannot use the names of celebrities. has stated that the account will be opened again if Comedy Central or Colbert claim the account is theirs.
The impact of the incident eventually lead to "Wikiality" being named one of the top television buzzwords by the Global Language Monitor in 2006.
Colbert therefore made his "Wørd" "Wikilobbying", defined as being "When money determines entries". He said that "Open source software is like free trade and the invisible hand of the market has the mouse now." Colbert later argued that, "Reality has become a commodity". He then offered $5 to the first person to edit the entry on "Reality" so it would read, "Reality Has Become A Commodity." As a result of this, the entry was changed, and had to be protected.
Self-determination and WikiScanner
On August 21 2007, Colbert talked about WikiScanner, a tool which tracks down who has edited entries using IP addresses. Thus it was able to detect where certain corporations had edited their own entries. Examples Colbert gave included Pepsi and Exxon Mobil. Colbert argued that WikiScanner violated the "rights" of corporations to edit their own entries. He described as being "Second Life for corporations," and that they should be allowed to edit their own entries if they want to.
Wales interview
On May 24 2007, Colbert interviewed 's founder, Jimmy Wales. During the interview, Colbert praised and attacked traditional encyclopedias as being elitist. Colbert also asked if it would be a good idea to change all the versions of in foreign languages to read, "Learn English", in particular the Spanish , to which Wales responded by claiming he might have to lock the entire Spanish to protect it from vandalism.
Neo-Gothic Art is an art movement that grew in popularity during the early 1980s. The movement is inspired by gothic subculture and its artists usually creating paintings, photography and sculptures. The movement is unrelated to the Gothic Revival architecture movement.
The Neo-Gothic Art Movement started in the 1980s as folk art created by amateur artists but it has since become acceptable for art galleries to show Neo-Gothic Art. Famous Neo-Gothic artists like Floria Sigismondi now operate professional art studios and even direct music videos for musicians like Marilyn Manson or making CD cover art for gothic bands like Evanescence. As an art movement it has a tendency to shadow the music and movie industries, with artwork sometimes appearing in gothic oriented movies.
The Neo-Gothic Manifesto
The manifesto of the Neo-Gothic art movement was written by Canadian artist Charles Moffat in the Winter of 2001. In it he called upon artists to rebel against religion and social norms, to defy "old fashioned sexuality" and religion.
Neo-Gothic Artists
*Victoria Van Dyke
*Charles Moffat
*Caroline Folkenroth
*Stefanie Lynn Evans
*Judith Weratschnig
*Eliza Bathory
*Jason Chan
The Neo-Gothic Art Movement started in the 1980s as folk art created by amateur artists but it has since become acceptable for art galleries to show Neo-Gothic Art. Famous Neo-Gothic artists like Floria Sigismondi now operate professional art studios and even direct music videos for musicians like Marilyn Manson or making CD cover art for gothic bands like Evanescence. As an art movement it has a tendency to shadow the music and movie industries, with artwork sometimes appearing in gothic oriented movies.
The Neo-Gothic Manifesto
The manifesto of the Neo-Gothic art movement was written by Canadian artist Charles Moffat in the Winter of 2001. In it he called upon artists to rebel against religion and social norms, to defy "old fashioned sexuality" and religion.
Neo-Gothic Artists
*Victoria Van Dyke
*Charles Moffat
*Caroline Folkenroth
*Stefanie Lynn Evans
*Judith Weratschnig
*Eliza Bathory
*Jason Chan