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browncast: The WTF! Show preview 4 (video) - Switch ft Mr Miyagi

To make up for missing Videoblogging Week 2006 Day 4, we decided to release two videos at once.

"Victor Chan" is a resident in an estate that hasn't seen upgrading for a long long time. And he wants to "switch". Best seen together with the other clip, featuring me.

We would like to stress that this video podcast does not contain any "explicitly political content". Or else you would not be able to watch it during the Singapore General Elections.

We just like the Apple "Switch" commercials, that's all. So this is just an Apple Switch spoof only lah.

Video file for The WTF! Show preview 4 - Switch ft Mr Miyagi
(Quicktime MOV, Filesize: 3mb, Time: 00:00:29)

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Nerdy Miyagi

Wah, so formal, can? Like going wedding liddat! Look so reliable, can sell insurance and property liao!

browncast: The WTF! Show preview 3 (video)

Videoblogging Week 2006 Day 3! And this is part 3 of the preview for our upcoming video podcast show, The WTF! Show.

We were practising our lines and sucking at it.

Video file for The WTF! Show Preview Number 3
(Quicktime MOV, Filesize: 6.3mb, Time: 00:00:49)

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browncast: The WTF! Show preview 2 (video)

Continuing our participation in Steve Garfield's vlogging meme, Videoblogging Week 2006, this is another short preview clip of our upcoming video podcast show, The WTF! Show.

Miyagi and I were doing sound and lighting tests at the studio, and generally horsing around.

Video file for The WTF! Show Preview Number 2
(Quicktime MOV, Filesize: 14.6mb, Time: 00:02:00)

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Chengdu News Asia sez: Podcasting not allowed during elections

So the Gahmen has come out and stated the rules for the use of podcasting during the coming General Elections.

Chengdu News Asia, or CNA, has a report (why Chengdu? Check out the photo used in the report).

From the headline, it looks like podcasting is TOTALLY banned during the GE, but of course, if you read the report, what Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts Balaji Sadasivan (wah, very long title, can?) said was that during the GE, audio and video podcasting "of explicitly political content" and using podcasting for election advertising, is not allowed.

I am not too sure what is meant by "explicitly political content", but I am sure it does not mean political candidates taking artistically nude photos.

Ya lor, and I also agree with Dr Balaji that some of these local podcasts by private individuals from well-known local blogs can be quite entertaining!

P.S. Here's an interesting link I found: if you go to singaporeelection.com, the site there is some StarIslands company or committee. Don't ask me what they do, I read all the pages of copy and it is some vague project, and even the page called StarIslands Committee mentioned no names of real people, but alludes to "top government officials, CEOs of multiple MNC" and "people from specific government departments". Odd.

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Excerpt:

Dr Balaji said: "There are also some well-known local blogs run by private individuals who have ventured into podcasting. The content of some of these podcasts can be quite entertaining. However, the streaming of explicit political content by individuals during the election period is prohibited under the Election Advertising Regulations. A similar prohibition would apply to the videocasting or video streaming of explicitly political content."

browncast: The WTF! Show preview 1 (video)

According to vlogger and Rocketboom correspondent, Steve Garfield, this week is Videoblogging Week 2006. And bloggers are encouraged to vlog from April 3rd to the 9th, for seven days. That's one video a day!

If you want to have some fun with vlogging, go ahead and just do it, and use the Technorati tag: videobloggingweek2006

Since we were already working on our upcoming video podcast show, The WTF! Show, we decided to give you guys a little behind-the-scenes look. We shot this while location scouting for our new vlog, and it was shot entirely with my Nokia N70 mobile phone. So please pardon the less than Oscar-winning video and sound (we have significantly better gear to shoot the actual show, don't worry).

Video file for The WTF! Show Preview Number 1
(Quicktime MOV, Filesize: 11.5mb, Time: 00:01:27)

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browncast: zhng my car 8

Johnny is back with Zhng My Car 8, and his guest is the hilarious Pam Oei who plays Mrs Windy Chan and her maid!

Audio file for the mrbrown show 3 April 2006: zhng my car 8
(MP3, Filesize: 13mb, Time: 00:25:16)

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Shhh!

Grandpa, Grandma, Mommy, Papa and Isaac went to the new National Library today, after lunch. Isaac was driving us nuts singing his version of Jingle Bells.

Ding dong bell, ding dong bell
Ding dong ah the way
Orh not fun, nuh nuh nuh
Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh,
HEY!

The challenge, of course, was to keep my one-volume son from talking loudly in the library.

The Shhh Game only worked for a while. Sigh.