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Adam Merrifield

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I am a web designer, theme designer, professional photographer and internet personality. I make many pretty things and I write a lot of content for the internet.

I am one of those guys that, because of the industry I am in, need to be connected at all times. At any given moment you'll find me posting on a forum, updating with twitter, Digging things worthy of attention, uploading pictures, or tagging cool sites.

here i am

seyDoggy Systems:
This is home base, the corporate headquarters, the hub, if you will, seyDoggy.com.

seyDesign news:
these are the RapidWeaver related posts that originally appear in the seyDesign.com blog

Uploads from seyDoggy:
these are the pictures that I upload to flickr

Merrifield Photography:
as a professional photographer I my camera ready at Merrifield-Photography.com.

delicious.com/seydoggy:
these are the websites I want to share or revisit later on. I just tag them on delicious.com.

what i am

I am the owner and operator of seyDoggy Systems, a small theme, code and design outfit based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. We primarily develop web based technologies but have begun to dabble in the desktop realm.

what i do

I code like a fool. I design like a fool. I am happiest when I can split my time between the two (though I tire of Photoshop faster then I do TextMate or Terminal), and somehow I have managed to etch out a living doing so.

SCREEECH HALT 1

[![YouTube logo](http://www.nutmac.com/images/YouTube.png “YouTube home page”)](http://www.youtube.com/ “YouTube home page”)

So I am on my way to PUMP Communications this morning listing to my usual tech-geek podcasts (which are usually a week old by the time I get to them) and made note that a number of the tech-news shows were repeatedly making mention of NBC and News Corp gearing up to take on YouTube. Stop the fricken presses! WHY?! Why would any self respecting, money making company, build a business model that is designed to take out a competitor who MAKES NO MONEY!

YouTube has lived off of venture capital for two years and now they’ve got themselves a sugar daddy with deep pockets, but they still don’t earn their keep. The current YouTube model is hard to monetize. Who better to do it than Google, I agree, but NBC and News Corp will have a tougher time at it since a) people watch YouTube to escape the commercialism of TV and b) I doubt NBC intends to run an Adsense campaign on their proposed video streaming venture.

If you’re going to try to take on any internet media giant, why take on one that actual has a financially viable business model like iTunes? Lets not just look at YouTube and mistake internet traffic for dollar signs.

[tags]podcasts, NBC, News Corp, YouTube[/tags]

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