Hey Elise - 0ld (moved 11-2-07)

“Hi Elise,

I offered to create a partnership with Matt a couple months ago (see below). Seems the timing of the sale of this site may have been influenced by this. I would like to know if the new owners intend to share partnership with the contributors that have helped make this a popular site. What are the intentions of the new owners?

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The video-sharing Web site YouTube announced Thursday that the providers of some of its most popular user-generated content have been given the opportunity to become its financial partners -- and actually make money from their videos.

Between 20 and 40 users have been offered partnership agreements, the site said, similar to those YouTube has with professional content providers like CBS and NBC. The networks are paid a portion of the advertising revenue their material attracts.

The opportunities allow the site to recognize and reward the creativity of the YouTube community, Jamie Byrne, YouTube's product marketing director, told CNN.

"User-generated content has evolved from simple amateur video into high-quality work that is massing subscribers and creating user celebrities," he said.

YouTube said in a statement that because the users "have built and sustained large persistent audiences through the creation of engaging videos, their content has become attractive for advertisers, which has helped them earn the opportunity to participate on YouTube as a partner."

Partnership agreements were offered to users based on monthly viewer statistics and name recognition.

YouTube wouldn't disclose the details of the agreements, but said the content providers will be paid based on the number of times their videos are watched. The agreement doesn't prevent the filmmakers from posting videos on other Web sites.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/05/04/you.tube/index.html

Hi Matt! Substitute "photos" for "videos" and you know where I'm going with this. Let's make a deal. *smile*”
USA
10:54:54 PM
5/04/07 ”

“BTW, it's nice that ownership of the site is here in Seattle now. Seattle is after all an appropriate place since it's the backpacking mecca of the country.”

“You dirty rat!!

I haven't been back to Olympic since 2000................Rainier in 2002.

How about a Trail Talk Trek To Blue Glacier at Mount Olympus next summer?”

“I've already been there, and to the summit:

http://www.thebackpacker.com/pictures/album/luo238hd.php

How about something else? How about Enchanted Valley in the Olympics or Copper Ridge in the Noth Cascades.”

“Can someone please define;

intend to share partnership with the contributors that have helped make this a popular site.

???”

“'mecca'?

[WINK]”

“1785 photos in 66 albums. Many of those albums are top Google search results. Think about it, new owners.

Yes, Tilt, mecca. Like in REI.
last edited: 6/24/07 2:04:49 PM”

“hmmmm, USA never heard of Colorado I guess.... the CDT and the Colorado Trail pass thru.... as well as the second and third highest peaks in the lower 48.

:)

plus, I'm here ;)”

“Roam Around,

I guess you aren't familiar with Mt Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Pacific Crest Trail, Mt St Helens, San Juan Islands, REI, etc. Plus Glacier National Park and the Canadian Parks of Jasper and Banff are less than a day's drive away.

Plus kleetn and sarbar1 are out here. ;)
last edited: 6/24/07 4:05:57 PM”

“yes but the Colorado Rockies don't periodically explode ;)

Glacier is in Montana.....

The Canadian Parks of Jasper and Banff are in, well Canada.

Plus, like I said before I am in Colorado!
last edited: 6/24/07 4:05:13 PM”

“yes but the Colorado Rockies don't periodically explode ;)

How boring.”

“LMAO!

yes, all our volcanoes are dead.

I was climbing this morning on a basalt lava flow though.”

“You don't have to worry about tides or tsunamis when backpacking in Colorado either, Roam.





last edited: 6/24/07 4:31:01 PM”

“Hey USA, I'm surprised at your request! I thought you were an anti-capitalist / socialist type... how can you justify trying to participate in the free-enterprise system like this?

Unless, of course, you're going to share any $$ you make with the rest of us! :)”

“be careful what you ask for, USA... i think you would wind up having to write a check to Elise if such a program were put into place...”

“How do you figure, Jimmy san? I have nothing to lose by pulling my photos if the new owners don't respond. The website owner has more to lose without all the Google hits my albums generate.”

“Sorry, that doesn't track.

For some reason I was thinking of a city in Saudi Arabia where one might find a black cubic structure believed to contain a meteorite.”

“Delay is costing you, Elise. It's now down to 65.”

“if you pictures were like Cloudwalkers, then maybe a sale, however your no Cloudwalker”

“oh, but seattles the MECCA of backpacking. USA could take an out of focus, off center picture of a garbage dumpster, and itd be worth its weight in gold”

“you got most of those photos from google image search. elise can find them with you and photoshop them just as easily.”

“Delay is costing you, Elise. It's now down to 65.”

USA
3:41:51 PM
6/24/07

wait, are you blackmailing the webmistress? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha funny little boy

~snicker~ hurry up elise! the countdown is ticking

64...
63...
usa is gonna take his pictures and his ball and go home

hahaha”

“ROFLMAO...

I'm making popcorn.”

“oh no! the ship is sinking fast! what ever will we do without usa and his beeeeyuuuuuteefulll pickchers?!? no one will ever post here. cmon elise, save us! give in to usa! just give him what he wants before he dooms us all!


hahahaha~snort~”

“this just means we will have to add more of our own pics :P”

“Elise should know that no one from the 'real' TT world to my knowledge has actually hiked with USA, except maybe violin will claim to have.
last edited: 6/24/07 7:18:22 PM”

“Too bad I have 'someone' on ignore so I don't know what the heck this thread is all about! Ha ha ha!!”

“I should get paid also - Being such a babemagnet is why the ladies keep coming back, even though cb & ss keeps skeering them away.”

“I heard Sarabelle is seriously crushin' on you BM.”

“I know. too much animal magnetism. It's a curse.”

“Hey elise - how come hillclimb media/demand media have not claimed ownership of thebackpacker on their websites?

Does demand media, out of LA, not own hill climb?

Or does that make hill climb not sound "outdoorsy" enough?
last edited: 6/24/07 8:56:41 PM”

“So if people who make the place better get a cut that means people like USA, who spread hate and feugo get charged? LOL!”

“Down to 64. Hurry up Elise.”

“Down to 63. You just lost the San Juan Islands album, Elise.”

“Did this pretty woman have any idea what was in store for her? Having all the red nuke buttons before her rather than a keyboard would have to be a reduction in stress.”

“Tragic, and I haven't seen a single photo of USA's. I'm not sure I will be able to sleep tonight knowing that I missed his pics of the San Juan Islands. I may just go to the parking lot and end it all right now....”

“USA has some awesome photos.”

“Hey elise - how come hillclimb media/demand media have not claimed ownership of thebackpacker on their websites?

Does demand media, out of LA, not own hill climb?

Or does that make hill climb not sound "outdoorsy" enough?

And I may be seeing things but i swear when "elise" first set up her profile "she" listed Vermont as "home".”

“USA has some awesome photos.”
bearmagnet


So does my last issue of Hustler, dude. I'm just not sure there is enough room in cyberspace for USA's ego.”

“Thanks, bearmagnet.


Hope to hear from you by tomorrow night, Elise. The only Hawaii photo album you have is on the chopping block.”

“Who the hell comes here just to look at USA's photo albums? If we're going to reward those who post photos and draw hits Ewker would be way up the list from USA just because of the atonement thread. LOL!”

“USA has photos? Who knew? I hope he takes them all over to the backpacker magazine forum and stops posting here. That would improve this site.”

“64...
63...
usa is gonna take his pictures and his ball and go home

hahaha”
crash bang
7:54:34 PM
6/24/07

finally I see some good in this transfer of power.”

“The new ownership is bringing out all the trolls.”

“Well..Chili...with the Great Matt now moved to "human form" the winged monkeys are starting to circle.

I figure Elise is sitting back giggling at the activity.”

“I am starting to think this is Trail Talks finest prank.

We've been Punked!”

“elise, if you dont pay me 1 million dollars for my continued "partnership", i will start removing my trolls, one by one. delay is costing you elise. it's now down to 3,172”

“3,170”

“hurry up, elise, its down to 3,169”

“LOL....Crash is moving out of the top 100....”