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| Vegas |
 is an Editor at Preppermint and the brand new mother of a brand new baby Drew. Vegas started off as a stand-up comic in New York City, wowing crowds and performing on HBO. Sick of standing, she took a swing at sitting in front of a radio mic and began instantly blowing up ratings. In her last gig, she more than doubled the ratings - from a 9.5 to a 21.0 Males 25-49 in her first book! She is also on the verge of achieving her dream of becoming a Roller Derby Girl.
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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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