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| Amber Miller |
 is Senior Editor and Renegade of Funk at Preppermint. Amber got started off in radio as most do, driving around a van and slinging T-shirts. After locking herself out of said van, she was tagged as management material and promoted to Morning Show Producer in Detroit. From there it was just short steps to Traffic Chick and then Morning Show Chick. She has also been Midday Girl and Night Girl. She can work and work it at any time of day. She currently writes, edits and submits material for Preppermint and works at G-105 in Raleigh to keep her mad skills fresh.
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| Chris Boylan |
 is the Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Preppermint. He also writes a column on radio and the internet for AllAccess called "The Net Untangled" For a profession, he is an idea man who wondered why you needed to email a web guy to put your prep on your website. Then he wondered if he was able to concentrate hard enough to grow his toenails faster. He can. |
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| Video is Radio's New Star |
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If you can post HTML, embedding a YouTube video is remarkably simple. They give you the code to do so on every video page! One of my favorite YouTube videos is of a kid who cannot play a musical instrument, so he edited together video and audio of him playing one note at a time to create a music video. The URL for the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo . You'll notice to the right of every video is the word "embed" and a text field. This is the code you need to copy to your webpage to embed this video. In this case, the code is: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> While this might just look like a jumble of code if you are not familiar to HTML, it isn't as complex as you might think. Like all HTML - there is an opening tag"<object>" (indicating where something starts) and a closing tag "</object>" (Indicating where something ends). The first thing to look at is the width and height. That's pretty self explanatory - it is the size of the video in pixels - you can make it bigger or smaller if you want (but it won't change the resolution - it will just make it bigger and blurrier). Next up is the first parameter - <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo"> - which you'll notice is almost the same as the URL (or link) to the video on YouTube itself. If you go to the URL in the param itself - http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo - you'll see that it is the video, minus the comments, advertisements and links to other videos. This is just the video that will appear on your page itself - blown up to the full size of your browser. Finally, you will see the "<embed>" tag. <embed> is the old way to put Flash on a page. If someone is using an older browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer 5.5 and below and partially 6), they won't display the video without <embed>. (This is only partially the truth - look here for more detail.) It repeats the width and height and URL of the video, so if you change it in the <param> tag, just remember to change it in the <embed> section as well. So, after all this geekery - you'll get this:
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