AOL Journals: Pixel Pusher

A little while back I posted an entry that told you all how to embed YouTube video into your AOL Journals. It was a temporary workaround until the R7 release, and now the process has gotten heaps easier.

Here's how you post YouTube video into your AOL Journal now:

1) Begin a new Journal entry (duh.)

2) Select 'HTML' in the 'View As' dropdown. Like this:

3) In a new browser window, open YouTube and navigate to the video of your choice.

4) Highlight and copy the 'Embed' code. Like this:

5) Paste the code into your blog in the HTML view. Make sure that you have selected HTML in the dropdown. I personally screw this up every time, so I'm not being condescending. It's just easy to forget, is all I'm saying here.

6) For a quick-and-dirty preview, switch to View as: Text in the dropdown. You won't see an actual video window, just a rectangle that is the same size as your video with a little red X in it. This is totally cool.

7) Don't forget to write a little about the video you are posting. Is it something you found? Something you made? A piece of nostalgia, or just incredibly cool? Why is it cool? Embeddable video programming is like mayo on a turkey sandwich -- just takes it to that next level. But without a little context, your readers are left a little flat. So give us all little something of you with each video post, and your blog will be a billion times better for it.

Here's an example of all three:

I live down the street from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. One of my favorite ways to spend an afternoon to to watch the giant octopus being fed. I love octopi of all sizes -- they're like psychedelic sculpture with the intelligence of a housecat -- very powerful, but elegant and sweet at the same time. I'm thinking of having one tattooed on my upper arm, and I visit this one at the zoo pretty often just to make sure it's what I really want to live withfor my whole life.

Here's a video I put together from my own footage of feeding octopus with Ween's 'The Mollusk' as a soundtrack.

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• #14 Comment from max02111 
  4/14/08 5:00 AM | Permalink

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  3/23/08 9:07 AM | Permalink

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• #11 Comment from dogsindeed 
  12/6/06 4:34 PM | Permalink

  It's easy!  It worked!  Thanks!
  
  http://journals.aol.com/dogsindeed/the-dog-trainer-diaries/
  
  -Victoria
  
  
• #10 Comment from davethesod 
  10/12/06 11:37 AM | Permalink

  A year ago, AOL somehow managed to delete all of my pictures and files from my file space, which seriously affected my willingness to continue with my blog. You see, I was one of the original handful who were picked to beta test AOL Journals and shortly afterwards won quite a few J-land awards for my blog, 'The World of the Sod'.
  
  In the beginning, it did seem that AOL were denying us everything that we discovered we could do with our blogs. When we added music, they took away the ability, then we we added video, they took that away from us too.
  
  But the other day when I discovered an AOL blog with video in it, I couldn't wait to get back into the game ...and so my 'Mish-Mash' blog was born:
  
  http://journals.aol.co.uk/davethesod/mish-mash/
  
  It's mostly a video blog (vlog) full of comedy found on YouTube.com and the occassional vlog post from me and I love it.
  
  I'll also be offering tips and help to those who'd like to start vlogging themselves.
  
  Keep up the great work...