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How to have a better speed at uploading 10 YouTube videos?

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Let’s say you go to an event and you make 10 different videos. You want them all uploaded on YouTube. How can you make the process faster? The trick is simple – instead of having a single tab in your browser in which you upload the videos, one by one, you should rather open 5 tabs and upload two videos in each. While the speed won’t exactly be 5 time faster this way, the total time will be much smaller. Another trick is to group uploads into tabs by size – so the biggest file should have its own tab, and the smallest files should all be grouped in their own tab.

The Smurfs 2 (2013)

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The Smurfs 2 (2013)

I recently saw The Smurfs 2 (2013). Some feed-back? What did I like? Pleasant characters, I enjoyed it. The movie was, at times, funny. Not all the movie. Quite relaxing & joyful. What I didn’t like as much: The story is not coherent. At times, it goes from A to B without a clear logic. Quick changes, sudden changes, no smoothness. Not realistic. Having a huge wheel go through Paris without hurting people is not realistic. Plain weird. The negative guy turns positive and then negative again, just like that. The smurfs where supposed to be caring & happy & joyful & a family. Yet, at the beginning of the movie, they make classifications and decide who is worth going on the trip and who isn’t based on skill. (more) The bad guy, Gargamel, really suffers in the movie. Physical pain & stuff. I didn’t like that as much.

Creating a text for a friend vs. creating a text for the Internet

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In a recent workshop/training in Turkey, I found out a simple difference, which has major implications: When you write for the regular Internet audience, you should consider your audience – in a hurry, wanting fast results, eager to get to the point. Small sentences, active verbs, no gerund, no passive voice, no metaphors, plain speech, short texts. When you write for a friend, when you write a letter, you should also consider your audience – you can write longer texts, your verbs can also be in a passive tense, you can have non-active verbs, you may use the gerund, metaphors are allowed, so are fancy words and long texts. In a nutshell: The Internet is for speed. The friendship is for long, warm texts.

“Yes, I am wrong, but I am wrong because of … and this makes things right! Let me tell you more about the reasons for being wrong!”

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In a recent training, I had the time & opportunity to reflect more on sayings such as this:

“Yes, I am wrong, but I am wrong because of … and this makes things right! Let me tell you more about the reasons for being wrong!”

In my opinion, people tend to create justifications. So, if you ask me if I want to go into town with you, can’t just say “no”, I have to explain you why I do so. If you ask me to do something, I can’t just say “I won’t do it”, instead, I’ll have to focus on providing a good reasoning for this. My view on this?

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