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Comment posted Zmogo Interview by logischabbaubar.

Bienvue en Europe maîtresse adorée, I hope you have a great time at the Côte d’Azur.

I think this article is telling the story of your success very incompletely. To me, the most impressive thing about your success is the way you’ve evolved your channel since you started. You’ve been constantly expanding your technical skills. In your very first videos, you were using tablet until you figured out how to insert texts in your videos, to mention just one example. You’ve been constantly working on perfecting your videos with an impressive result.

Lately you’ve decided to bring some more comedy into your videos. The result, as far as I can see, is that your videos get more views and that the number of your subscribers is rising faster again. And you’ve shown that you’re able to adapt yourself to new situations like the changes in Youtube’s “Videos”-section.

New media analysts are talking about community building since the 1990s. You’ve simply done that. Using a website to gather a community of loyal followers like you’ve done is much more than just setting up a website.

To summarize that in brief: Your success hasn’t come to you because of your cleavage, you’ve earned it through constant hard work and good instincts. It’s really hard to believe that your channel is made up by a one-woman-one-dog team.

Recent comments by logischabbaubar

Jaywalking
Several years ago, a cop wanted to give me a ticket for ignoring red lights while crossing the street as a pedestrian. At that time, that would have cost me the equivalent of 5 US$. The thing is that this happened at 11 pm in a small town near the Swiss border when there was nobody on the street except for me and the cop, that I found it ridiculous that the city didn’t turn off the traffic lights at night and that I found it offensive that this cop wanted to enforce that by giving me a ticket.

I knew that the limitation period for this offence was only three months and that the Swiss border was only a few hundred meters away, I’ve decided to escape to Switzerland and evade the German cops for the next three months because I knew that I had nothing to fear from the customs officers when I crossed the border. It worked.
Phishing
When it comes to online banking websites, there’s an easy way to check that you’re not on the fake website of a phisher: Just take a look at the internet address, it should start with “https://”, not with “http://”. The additional “s” means that the connection is encrypted and that a certificate authority has issued a certificate for the website owner. Some browsers like Firefox display the owner of the certificate in a green field left to the internet address. Usually, the browser also displays a key or a padlock symbol. When you click on that symbol, you can take a look at the certificate if you like.
When you see all this, it is safe to enter your login information (as long as your computer isn’t infected with a trojan). But if the internet address does not start with “https” or your browser displays a warning message that says that there’s something wrong with the certificate, that’s a sign that there’s something wrong with that site.

This encryption and identification method is called Transport Layer Security (TLS). Besides all trustworthy banks, some other companies like ebay are using TLS on their login pages as well. Unfortunately, Youtube doesn’t use this method.

The strange thing here is that I’ve read about a study some time ago which says that many internet users don’t care when such warning messages are displayed, possibly because they believe that they are on their bank’s website and they can trust their bank. These people don’t realize that such warning messages mean that the website that they’re watching probably doesn’t belong to their bank but to someone who can’t be trusted.
Aibohphobia
No, it isn’t. The possible shutdown of the Gulf Stream within the next several centuries has been speculated by some scientists for some time, but it is not supported by current measurements made in the North Atlantic. Not even the IPCC predicts a shutdown of the Gulf Stream, but merely a slowdown by 25 % by the year 2100. And you must keep in mind that the IPCC is not a scientific body. It’s a political body, as its name “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” indicates.
I know that there was a British study that claimed that the Gulf Stream had slowed down by 30 % in 2005, but this is not supported by the majority of scientists. Bryden et al. missed in their paper that the Gulf Stream has a natural fluctuation and that it doesn’t always flow at the same location.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying global warming, and I’m convinced that we shouldn’t continue to change the composition of our atmosphere as long as we don’t know exactly which effects this will have. Furthermore, we should shift from burning fossil fuel to renewable energy sources simply because the amount of fossil fuels is limited so it’s inevitable that we’ll be running out of them some day.

But I’m fed up with the exaggerations and false claims by most environmentalists and Al Gore, and by the sensationalizing in the media. No, the sea level won’t rise by 100 metres in the next 100 years, and no, the graph didn’t show that CO2 injected global warming in past ages.
YouTube removes “Broadcast Yourself” slogan, again.
Youtube has already answered the question how they value the small, non-partner channels now in their blog:

Myth 5: YouTube is only monetizing 3-5% of the site. This oft-cited statistic is old and wrong, and continues to raise much speculation. In our view, the percentage is far less important than the total number of monetized views, and we are now helping partners generate revenue from hundreds of millions of video views in the U.S. every week (and billions worldwide), more than any other video site has total views. Monetized views have more than tripled in the past year, as we’re adding partner content very quickly and doing a better job of promoting their videos across the site.

As an established partner, Marina can expect that her videos will be shown on the front page, a small user who is just starting can’t.
Domain plus contest!
ROMANI ITE DOMUM!
Oh, and by the way: I hope that everyone of you who’s posting his newly registered second level domain names here is aware that this discloses your personal information unless you and your provider have arranged not to publish your personal details in the whois record.