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So like, everyone knows about http://www.7bamboo.com/ now. It's really amazing the effect it's having on bar attendance. At first there was a few naysayers, but eventually everyone has warmed up to the cam, and we've yet to lose a customer over it. In fact, we've gained a few new customers because of it. Everyday the site gets more members, and everyday we get more and more known throughout the bay area and the world. Whoever thought drunk people singing karaoke would be so popular?

In a total fluke, i've become famous.

It started out with me making NSV video's of me singing karaoke songs in my living room and posting them in the forums. Then I started taking peoples requests. Over 40gigs of these video's were downloaded in a 5 day period. Absolutely amazing.

One of the winamp guys, christophe decided to start a winampTV station with these videos. Amazingly, that got popular too.

I got the bright idea to take it a step further. My weekend fun job is working at a karaoke bar. So I asked my boss if I could install a camera, DSL, and do streaming video. To my delight he let me do it.

Tim Gnatek of the New York Times was going to do a story on winampTV when he found out about me. He came down to the bar, hung out for the evening, asking questions, taking notes, and doing the "good journalist" thing. I knew that this story was really going to be published when a week later, a NYT photographer was sent out. Big ass camera, lots and lots of pictures.

Finally, AOL decided to take me under their wing. I have a 200 user shoutcast server running on a sun solaris blade. Free, just because AOL likes the content i'm creating.

I don't know what to do at this point. I love the attention, but how do I keep it from being a 1 hit wonder, how do I keep it from being just "my 15 minutes of fame"? I just don't want to fizzle out of peoples memories.

Anyways, if you're reading this journal, and you want to see the site, check out http://www.7bamboo.com. Also check out the articles on winamp about me, ect.

One thing I am having problems with is SESAC. They're insisting that I pay them royaltee's for people singing karaoke over the internet. To my knowledge, there's only one other place in the world doing this (cats meow karaoke, google it) There's a section 107 of the copyright law, in which 2 live crew won against sesac for their parody of "Pretty Woman". If you saw a white guy singing sir mix a lot songs terribly, wouldn't that be a parody? Sesac doesn't want to think so.

Man, it's been a long time since I wrote here. These stories on slash just haven't appealed to me in the last few months. Maybe i'll write again soon.

--toq

Free Bay area Che Che's ^^--my new sig. If you like rap, che che's of fine women, and the hip hop scene in general check it out. Find the Che Che's by going into the events gallery. This is another toqer to musician volunteered site.

Bap bop bop bop dada bop bop bop (cue in Herp Albert & Tiajuana brass little flea music)

How many of you non subscribers were innundated by slashdot ads for geek dating this week?

Not that I can't blame slash for doing it (so many freeloaders like me around) but why the sexy unrecognizable models?

They could have used recognizable geek chicks, like the BSD devil girl, or killcreek, but ohhh no they had to use some professional models.

And where were the men in these ads? Why is slash only trying to appeal to the male geeks?