Comments on: Hacking the campaign http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dave http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-25918 Dave Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:47:30 +0000 http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-25918 Very interesting thoughts regarding ng the campaign at PrezVid. But would you like to submit comments and backlinks on millions of blogs automatically? Blog Comment Poster will do it for you. Blog Comment Poster will increase your traffic, backlinks and earnings dramatically! Sounds cool? Yes, it is... the best automated comments posting tool on the Internet with many advanced features Very interesting thoughts regarding ng the campaign at PrezVid. But would you like to submit comments and backlinks on millions of blogs automatically? Blog Comment Poster will do it for you. Blog Comment Poster will increase your traffic, backlinks and earnings dramatically! Sounds cool? Yes, it is… the best automated comments posting tool on the Internet with many advanced features

]]> By: Steve Rhodes http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-364 Steve Rhodes Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:06:18 +0000 http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-364 I agree with Alex that you shouldn't jump to conclusions without any evidence. During this period, a lot of people were searching for Obama and Youtube to find the 1984 video. Some of it may be traffic from those searches since his channel page is one of the top results. I agree with Alex that you shouldn’t jump to conclusions without any evidence.

During this period, a lot of people were searching for Obama and Youtube to find the 1984 video. Some of it may be traffic from those searches since his channel page is one of the top results.

]]> By: Anti-Obama video http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-360 Anti-Obama video Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:30:41 +0000 http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-360 I uploaded an anti-Obama and an anti-Richardson video around the same general time. The first has ten times as many views as the second, but around 3/20 it wasn't so marked, at around 300/200. Then, I added the prezconference tag, and within a day or two the first surged ahead. No offence to our host, but I don't think it was he who did it. It might have been because YT put the video higher in their internal search results, but I really don't know because they only show one click from a podtorrent site and no others. It has 15 comments, but those have come in at the same rate since I put it up. A mindless script designed to artificially watch videos tagged with Obama might have done this; since the view rate appears to have leveled off, the script might have been modified to not view anti videos. I note also that YT installs Flash cookies - different from regular cookies - and, unlike me, most people probably don't delete those. If YT has tracking information in those cookies as it does in the regular kind, it can probably figure out when the system is being gamed. I and others also block Flash, only playing it when we want to. So, using that as a tracker for profile views is slightly problematic. I uploaded an anti-Obama and an anti-Richardson video around the same general time. The first has ten times as many views as the second, but around 3/20 it wasn’t so marked, at around 300/200. Then, I added the prezconference tag, and within a day or two the first surged ahead. No offence to our host, but I don’t think it was he who did it. It might have been because YT put the video higher in their internal search results, but I really don’t know because they only show one click from a podtorrent site and no others. It has 15 comments, but those have come in at the same rate since I put it up. A mindless script designed to artificially watch videos tagged with Obama might have done this; since the view rate appears to have leveled off, the script might have been modified to not view anti videos.

I note also that YT installs Flash cookies - different from regular cookies - and, unlike me, most people probably don’t delete those. If YT has tracking information in those cookies as it does in the regular kind, it can probably figure out when the system is being gamed. I and others also block Flash, only playing it when we want to. So, using that as a tracker for profile views is slightly problematic.

]]> By: Alex Hammer http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-358 Alex Hammer Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:09:32 +0000 http://prezvid.com/2007/03/28/hacking-the-campaign/#comment-358 It is important that we obtain information upon which firm conclusions may be drawn, but not attempt to reach or too heavily speculate on those conclusions before this happens. I've been communicating with YouTube's Steve Grove (News and Politics Editor) and I am hopeful that he might allow us to interview him about this, when additional YouTube information is ready to be released. Alex Hammer, Managing Editor Politics 2.0 - What's now and what's next! It is important that we obtain information upon which firm conclusions may be drawn, but not attempt to reach or too heavily speculate on those conclusions before this happens.

I’ve been communicating with YouTube’s Steve Grove (News and Politics Editor) and I am hopeful that he might allow us to interview him about this, when additional YouTube information is ready to be released.

Alex Hammer, Managing Editor
Politics 2.0 - What’s now and what’s next!

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