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I had a great time as a guest on Soapbox Radio today, and I really appreciate all of the people who tuned into the live show and participated in the online chat room. It's always a little uncomfortable to spend an hour talking about myself, but I think Nicole (Soapbox Mom) did a great job conducting the interview. Thanks Nicole!If you missed the show, I have the podcast recording to share with y

I just wanted to take a minute to say "Welcome!" to all of the Soapbox Radio listeners who are visiting Thoughts On Quotes for the first time. This site is a unique and creative personal growth and leadership development site framed in the context of popular quotes from throughout history.As you can see from the header, this site is the blog that accompanies two popular quotes resource sites - Am

I just wanted to take a quick minute to say "Welcome!" to all of the Soapbox Radio listeners who are visiting Lead Inspectors for the first time. As you can see from the bullet points next to the blog title, this site is an outlet for me to share some of my key learnings, thoughts and recommendations about blogging, technology and social media.Some of the most popular articles I've written includ

On Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. EST, I will be a guest on one of my favorite Mom Bloggers radio show called Soapbox Radio.Here's a quick video promo that Soapbox Mom did for the show:I hope you all will decide to call in to talk to me and Nicole, or at least join the chat room discussion. Looking forward to the show!Related Posts:ABC News - Daddys Go Digital Feature

This week, Adam Sessler discusses the racist homophobes we run across too often while playing games online. He’s right about the fact that it’s usually the young 10-year old gamers taking part in this and they are honestly ruining the fun of playing online. It’s gotten so bad in Halo 3 that I [...]

This week, Adam explores the movement for video games to tell their stories in episodic segments, much like a season of a television show. Visit VideoGame2Play for more game related content. Sessler’s Soapbox: Previously On… Alone In the Dark Relevent contentAlone in the Dark 5: Tech DemoAlone in the Dark 5: release date, screenshots & trailerSessler’s Soapbo

This week, Sessler talks about the game that is so addictive, it made him put down GTA IV. That’s right; it’s Boom Blox for the Wii. Visit VideoGame2Play for more great content. Sessler’s Soapbox: Blox Party Relevent contentSessler’s Soapbox: Grand Theft LogicSessler’s Soapbox: WiiWare Is Coming! Sessler’s Soapbox: Resident UncomfortableSessler’s Soapbox: Review To A KillSuper Smash Brothers Brawl: Lyric InterpretationWhat’s [...]

In this Special Edition of Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam addresses some factual errors made by Jack Thompson during Talk of the Nation on NPR on May 1, 2008. Visit VideoGame2Play for more great content. Sessler’s Soapbox: Grand Theft Logic Relevent contentMaking an ImpressionDaily Show visits Liberty CitySessler’s Soapbox: Review To A KillReason behind the Grand Theft Auto IV delayGTA IV: Review roundup [...]

When the Wii first hit shelves in November of 2006, everyone was excited about the door of motion control that had just been opened. According to the commercials we saw leading up to that holiday season, the possibilities seemed endless. Now, we’re a year and half in and it seems that aside from Nintendo, developers seemed to [...]

No doubt some of you read about the recent controversy regarding Newsweek columnist N’Gai Croal’s statements regarding the trailer for Resident Evil 5. Well, in this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam’s got something to say on the issue. Visit VideoGame2Play for more great content. Sessler’s Soapbox: Resident Uncomfortable Relevent ContentSessler’s Soapbox: Review To A KillConsole War ‘08: Announcements and SpeculationOld Gamer, New FunBonus Round: [...]

Soapbox: What's nextGotFrag?, NY - 1 hour agoAnd the last one for good measure is World of Warcraft’s subscription numbers. Now to be fair most WoW fans have 2-3 accounts so a true number of unique … Written by Google Inc. and Powered by WordPress

Last week, X-Play reviewed Crisis Core for the PSP and, well, apparently the review generated a little controversy amongst fans of the show and the Final Fantasy franchise. In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam takes on his critics and explains why he gets so worked up about being accused of “not being in line [...]

I'm still in finals hell here, so I'm bringing in some guest bloggers for the rest of this week to keep this place hoppin'. Show them some love, OK?I'll be back just in time for the St. Patrick's Day revelry, because you know I can't resist a party. Especially a green beer swillin' (ok, maybe green jello shots instead), shamrock showing, you bet your lucky charms kind of party.Oh wait - that was college.It'll be a tame St. Patrick's Day parade with the kids kind of day, I guess.

Okay, guys. I'm taking a break from my pet food information postings to write about a current issue that has me both sickened and outraged.Most of you are probably familiar with Atlanta Falcon's player, Michael Vick, who was indicted on charges of interstate commerce with intent to fight dogs, running an illegal dog fighting ring, and more. He has, of course, lied and denied all of this, blaming his family for taking advantage of him. Oh please. Others involved have talked, and the details listed in the indictment are gruesome. Dogs were cruely mistreated to make them mean and want to fight. Losing dogs, or dogs that didn't show enough "fighting spirit" were executed. Yes, executed. They were shot, hung, thrown from buildings, strangled, electrocuted, or body slammed against the ground unt

Microsoft ha decidido recoger los restos de Soapbox e integrarlo en una de las pestañas en su nuevo portal de vídeos MSN Video, servicio que actualmente se encuentra en versión beta. Seguramente lo anterior le dará un poco más de vida tanto al portal de multimedia como al servicio de videos, aun cuando la ventaja que le lleva Youtube hace pensar que la tarea será, por no decir imposible, realmente ardua y difícil.

Thanks to Luke for pointing me to http://marriedtothesea.com for this comic.This captures well my thoughts on fwd's, spam, etc. There is, of course, a serious side to this. For years, the large number of Nigerian spammers/scammers have had a negative impact on legitimate aid to their country.[America's Young Theologian][Internet][Spam]

A number of changes to MSN Soapbox just occured, most notably that Soapbox is no longer a stand-alone site, but has become a tab at http://next.video.msn.com. (more…) MSN, MSN Video, MSN Video V4, SoapboxShare This

MSN Soapbox 刚刚更新了，其中最值得注意是，它已经不再是一个独立的站点，成为了 http://next.video.msn.com 的一个标签项。Soapbox 旧地址： Soapbox.msn.com ，现在也显示了“Soapbox 用户视频,Soapbox User Videos标签。另外，Brandon LeBlanc 也在 WindowsVistaBlog 中提到了 MSN Video “V4″ 的更新：

Here on the Windows Experience Blog, I use Soapbox on MSN Video to embed and share all my videos for my blog posts. Tonight, the Soapbox and MSN Video Team has launched MSN Video V4 with new features to Soapbox worth taking note of: Enhanced Copyright violation. Soapbox users will now be explicated told one of their videos has been flagged for copyright violation versus previously the video would simply not show up without any sort of message. Improved encoding time. This is a HUGE plus for me because it lets me get videos uploaded faster when writing a blog post. Previously, it took quite a bit of time to get a video completely uploaded to be embedded into a blog post. New Mini-Showcase. The Mini-Showcase is a new area on the landing page where the video team editors can show you what's hot on the site. I'm hoping to get one of my videos flagged for the Mini-Showcase sometime in the next few months. There are a few more notable changes to take into account. When going to soapb

OK, I'm going to fly my "feminist" flag as well as my "musician" flag here. It's another edition of "Sudie on the soapbox" so grab a beer and some nachos...sit a spell...and listen to me rant.I do loves me some Brian Setzer Orchestra. I do indeed. I think BSO is one of the best things going in the music industry...it brings jazz to the people in a fun and non-stuffy way. It really helps that Brian Setzer is a really good musician and has this uncanny knack for arranging and bringing good musicans together. He's a showman through and through. Plus, I like guys with tattoos up and down their arms.However, as great a musician/arranger as he is, I have some problems. Watch the clip first. (Yes, I'm reposting it because it's my blog and my rules so BITE me if you don't like it.)Now...this band, in terms of big bands, KICKS IT. All the musicians know what they're doing and they have a lot of spirit and fire. However, you can't tell me that there are women musicians out there

Continuing to keep us updated in the world of soccer, here once again is Blown Coverage guest author Ryan Knapp from the always entertaining Lets go Buff-a-lo.This week in soccer is aptly titled the "soapbox" edition for good reason. America right now is super-saturated on the entire David Beckham issue and I don't want to beat an already dead horse. In my mind, the fact that he is coming to America has brought up a much larger issue. Just what is the position of 'football' in America? . And more importantly, Does soccer here have a chance? Give me a minute here to explain. Over the last two months every journalist from sea to shining sea has been tossing in his two cents on the Beckham issue. Thats all fine and great. However, in reality, all of these reporters are really taking sides on the bigger issue, which is 'Am I going to support soccer in America, or no?' Some journalists have bravely come out and said that they support 'the beautiful game' and I applaud them. You are i

Soapbox es el YouTube de Microsoft y hace 2 meses cerró temporalmente para incorporar un sistema que evite la piratería.Hoy intento acceder al servidor y ya no aparece el mensaje anterior avisando que estába cerrado y ahora se pueden ver los vídeos y todo.Esperemos a ver cual es su sistema anti-piratería. A pesar de que Microsoft lanzó no hace mucho Silverlight, todavía están usando Adobe Flash Player.Y mientras tanto les dejo el vídeo que estába en la portada, espero les guste:

What’s the best way to kill your incredibly popular service? Is it: a) Fight with your users? b) Eliminate most of your content producers? c) Increase your legal liability?[I am not a lawyer, none of this is legal advice.] d) All of the above? It seems that I can’t stop hearing about Audible Magic. First they were trying to filter P2P networks, in what may or may not be a violation of wiretap laws, and now every video sharing site that’s ever heard the word “copyright” is hoping this software will keep the big bad wolves off their back. But if you throw those dogs a bone, they’re only going to keep coming back for more and more. But this post isn’t about bashing old, failing business models. Instead, it’s about keeping those with them from talking new businesses into killing themselves. Like DRM, content filtering is a great way to start a fight with your users. Sometimes those fights are because users have faulty assumptions about wh

What’s the best way to kill your incredibly popular service? Is it: a) Fight with your users? b) Eliminate most of your content producers? c) Increase your legal liability?[I am not a lawyer, none of this is legal advice.] d) All of the above? It seems that I can’t stop hearing about Audible Magic. First they were trying to filter P2P networks, in what may or may not be a violation of wiretap laws, and now every video sharing site that’s ever heard the word “copyright” is hoping this software will keep the big bad wolves off their back. But if you throw those dogs a bone, they’re only going to keep coming back for more and more. But this post isn’t about bashing old, failing business models. Instead, it’s about keeping those with them from talking new businesses into killing themselves. Like DRM, content filtering is a great way to start a fight with your users. Sometimes those fights are because users have faulty assumptions about wh

With the relaunch of Soapbox on MSN Video Beta, the embedded player has also been updated.  Some of the improvements to the new player: Cleaner design, consistent with the new Soapbox and MSN Video Beta Inline Players. Larger default Player size. 432x364 Share Playlist Option 20 Videos in Playlist Related Videos play in player. With these improvements, has come a feature change that needs to be noted. In the past, the player window was always fixed at a 4x3 ratio. The window size was dictated by the height, defined in the embed code. No matter what width you defined in the code, the player window would always be fixed in design and aspect ratio. With this new Player, the resizing characteristics are similiar to Windows Media Player. When you resize Windows Media Player, the width of the player and controls will stretch, but the video window is always fixed at the correct aspect ratio. This has caused a few people some grief with players that were

The Soapbox team blog has announced the return of MSN Soapbox to public beta after having closed back in March.  The relaunch sees several backend changes, notably around performance and encoding. What is significant is that Soapbox is also adding CopySense technology from Audible Magic to automatically filter our copyright content. On top of this, content owners will be given access to automated tools allowing them to find and remove their copyrighted content. MSN Soapbox currently features a new UI that was launched at the end of April and brought the service much closer to MSN Video and the other MSN Entertainment websites. While this is a move that will please the content owners and not the users, it'll be interesting to see how this and the YouTube lawsuit affects Sopabox's long term popularity. (YouTube is also integrating Audible Magic technology.) Still to come is the new video site from NBC Universal, News Corp, AOL(link), Microsoft&nb

( Soapbox Blog) La semana pasada Microsoft anunció el relanzamiento de la nueva web Soapbox on MSN Video Beta. Tras estar meses trabajando en la programación de la web, han incluido varias mejoras a Soapbox, que es una especie de clon de Youtube, un sitio para que los usuarios puedan almacenar y compartir sus vídeos. Con Explorer en Windows utiliza Media Player. En Mac o con Firefox se vale del Flash. Ahora viene con una navegación más limpia y un funcionamiento mejorado, además de poder cambiar las características de la pantalla de navegación, se ha introducido un nuevo reproductor de video (mejorando la calidad de la imagén en pantalla completa) con un indicador de bajada de videos . También han modificado las listas de reproducción, que viendo el video actual puedes poner más videos en la cola el reproductor. La versión continua en fase beta y no se está aceptando nuevos usuarios, pero en cambio se puede ver los cambios realizados identificándose como usuario MSN. A

Soapbox on MSN Video At last it is open for public Oh yes at first it was by invitation but now it was open , I was from the like ones  who had an invitation and I tested and I even found a bug and informed the Soap Box team about It is not advanced yet like YouTube and its features ,but it is unique ,I like it , first I like the GUI , second it takes a less time I think from You Tube in uploading and processing ,especailly processing the big files The only thing bad in it that you don't have yet this Vlog feature or channel feature like You Tube ,plus they got censorship ,at least that what happened to me when I tried to upload the hanging of Saddam Hussein Movie for two twice it was removed Anyhow ,I wish you to join it Technorati tags: Soapbox, YouTube, Video, Vlog, IT, Internet del.icio.us tags: Soapbox, YouTube, Video, Vlog, IT, Internet

Video: Alien Song La red de vídeo social de MSN ya está abierta al público, como informábamos ayer. En general tiene buena pinta y carga con rapidez. El diseño del sitio me recuerda un poco a Dailymotion. Compártelo

Recuerdan que alguna vez hablamos de soapbox, el servicio de Microsoft que, bueno, es igual a Youtube? Pues por fin está disponible para cualquier persona que quiera probarlo, dejando la fase de beta privada atrás. Lo vengo probando hace un buen tiempo, y sigo con la misma opinión: Es uno de los mejores servicios para subir y compartir videos. Sobre todo, si somos de las personas que subimos bastante material, y nos preocupa la calidad, uno, y la accesibilidad, también. La calidad de los videos, es mucho mejor que la de la mayoria de ofrecimientos similares (y si, muchísimo mejor que la de Youtube), y sin embargo mantiene la misma velocidad de carga. En lo que destaca, en mi opinión, es la interfase del reproductor en sí. Mucho más elegante que youtube, y con mayor funcionalidad, a la hora de publicar un video en un blog, por ejemplo. Debido a que se encontraba en beta privado hasta hoy, la cantidad de videos disponibles no le llega ni a los talones a Youtube, asi que si es

This is ridiculous. When the fuck is our government going to stop telling us who to love and how to love them? Once again, those that are in power are going to knock on the head the ACT’s bill that will allow same sex unions partnerships. The following has me totally dumbfounded: Mr Ruddock maintained the proposed legislation opened the door to bigamy and contradicted the Marriage Act’s definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. Ok, two things I would like explained to me please Mr Ruddock. Firstly, how the fuck can making same sex ‘partnerships’ legal “open the door” to bigamy? I mean surely - and I may be wrong seeing as how I haven’t read the bill personally - if you are in a legally recognised same sex partnership, you CAN’T get married. The other thing is, if you were in a ssp, something that so many have been fighting for, then WHY would you want to get married to another person? While on the subject of bigamy, if th

You can now watch Soapbox Videos on your mobile phone if your phone has internet access. Just type in http://soapbox.msn.com/mobile and you should be good to go. For better experience on your Windows... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today the MSN Soapbox Team have launched a new activity feature that will alow you to watch Soapbox videos on Windows Live Messenger in real-time with your friends. Which is much nicer than just sending them a link! This is how it works: If at any time you would like to watch a video with one of your Messenger contacts, just click on the “share” tab under a Soapbox Video and select “IM this video.” Which then if you are already signed into Messenger, will prompt you to choose which contact you would like to watch the video with. If you are not signed in, you will be prompted to do so. Then after you have choosen the contact, and once the person has accepted your invitation - boom the Messenger Activity Window will launch, with the player in full view. You can now watch the video with your friends and chat about it, all at the same time. Happy video sharing!

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Please welcome my new renter this week Soapbox Jury.  This blog does random reviews on websites, products, services, and ideas.  They say the truth is the truth whether whispered or shouted. Go check it out.  I find it very interesting! Hey Soapbox Jury, would you like to review my site?  I would just love that!

Just post a video on the Soapbox and you could win a digital camcorder and video editing software worth over $400 Just Post a Video Choose Upload Videos Enter your video title, descriptions, tag, category Browse your computer to choose a video Hit Upload Be fun. Be entertaining. Be serious. Be bizarre. Just Don’t be Ordinary! For more info check out the MSN Soapbox Competicion page.

My Political Soapbox RantI've taken a second job doing data entry because I'm truly horrible with money and I love love love spending it so I need to make some more of it. I've only been there for about two weeks now, and I can't stand it because it's a sweatshop, but it's given me a lot of insights into human behavior and the evil of politics.I'm not sure if the company (whose name I can never remember because it's just a bunch of initials and I'm not sure it actually stands for anything) is actually owned by the RNC, but since I've started all the data that's been entered has been campaign donations. Various Republican party members, and sometimes the party itself, have sent out these massive mailings to people across America requesting more money to help fight the Democrats.My major in college was International Relations, which was chosen because, as an interdisciplinary major, I had to take classes in Econ, Poli Sci and History, thereby eliminating the need to choose j

A review of My Quest has been published at Soapbox Jury by Tom Jackson, who I would like to thank for his positive comments and score of 6/10 (it should have been 10/10 but there's no accounting for taste is there). You can read the full review by here.Advertisement:Energy Price Comparison Calculator

Microsoft SoapBox ... ... και επίσημα πια, ο ανταγωνιστής του Youtube, θα το βρείτε στην σελίδα http://soapbox.msn.com/ όπου μπορείτε να ανεβάσετε βίντεο, να δείτε βίντεο και να ανταλλάξετε σχόλια πάνω στα τεκτενόμενα ...