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• theraccoonbear : Oct 9, 2008 at 10:51 am

  It has been a bit lacking lately, but overall I really enjoy the content I’ve picked up from SmashingTelly. Keep it coming!

• safety otter : Oct 9, 2008 at 1:09 pm

  I’ve enjoyed nearly everything you’ve posted. And It’s rarely something I would have found on my own. Jeff’s a wanker.

  Thanks for all your hard work on the site.

• Mark : Oct 9, 2008 at 1:34 pm

  Yup – jeff is indeed a wanker – good news about full vids though…

• xndr : Oct 9, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Congratulations on your well-deserved awards. Nicely done, my friend.

  Draped in medals, awash with complements, you’ve decided it’s time to lie back and stroke it awhile. Congratulations — it’s a hit.

  Success is like failure, it’s how you perceive it; it’s what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

• Les : Oct 9, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  don’t let wankers like jeff (and eric, too) throw you for a loop. i think this is a great site. it’s anything but a “generic video site.” you should post whatever you feel is of interest, whether they’re full videos or clips. and believe me, everyone is allowed an off day, as it were, so it’s ridiculous to condemn your site based solely upon a single clip, especially when you consider all of the other great videos you’ve put up.

• larrycastle : Oct 10, 2008 at 1:38 am

  I don’t own a TV and can’t spend as much time on the internet as I’d like to so Smashingtelly is my main source of entertainment and information, believe it or not. I trust your taste and judgement and am willing to look at virtually anything you post on the basis that if it was good enough for you it probably is good enough for me. And by extension iI think it is good enough for most. wiht your recent posts we’re still light years ahead from skateboarding dogs.

• Anon : Oct 10, 2008 at 6:40 am

  Personally i find being linked to decent short clips as valuable as linking to longer films- the internet is a pretty big place, and it can be hard to find things of worth underneath the piles of crap. It doesnt matter if the thing of worth is 30 seconds or 30 hours- if it makes you think then its more than worthy of a place like smashing telly

  I do like the idea of people suggesting things though, i know there are a lot of docs etc i’ve encountered online which would fit in well with smashing telly, but have never surfaced. The more people submitting hidden gems the better !

• Mac : Oct 10, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  Generic eh?
  This is the only video site I keep in my favourites list, and I usually take a look everytime I’m online.
  Never mind the bollox, drive on mate.

• Saoirse : Oct 10, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  Theres always one isn’t there!?!

  - Keep up the great work!

• scooterdude : Oct 11, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  I enjoy your webpage here, and I check it regularly for videos worth seeing. Thanks for your postings.

• robyn : Oct 12, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  smashingtelly is an awesome site that i recommend to my friends. you are awesome for making it. please don’t quit!

• bob c : Oct 13, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  Is it a “Generic Ass Video Site”? Nope thank goodness, you’re doing a great job and have created a website that many of us look forward to visiting.

  As a personal preference I like the full length clips more than the clips but as long as there are enough of each it doesn’t matter much.

• Lukiss : Oct 13, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  What mac said…

• Wordman : Oct 13, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  The phrasing of “it was for me to have some fun doing something I enjoy” implies that it is no longer fun. Your reaction to this (i.e. posting more, shorter, clips) suggests (at least to me) that you have fallen into a common blogging trap: the mistaken conclusion that frequency of posting equals quality. That is, it sounds sort of like you just been posting stuff at some regular interval because you are expected to, and that grind becomes more work and less fun as time goes on.

  You say you are “going to try and turn it into more of a community site, based upon link suggestions sent in”. My advice: don’t.

  Don’t let the notion that “blogs must be ‘fresh’ to be enjoyable” blind you. Blogs must be _interesting_ to be enjoyable, not constantly posting. This is particularly true of Smashing Telly, which seems to attract people because of the _depth_ of its offerings, not their _width_.

  If you are finding less great movies to post lately, or aren’t having as much fun posting, then don’t post. You’ll hit upon something you think is worthy eventually. Post it when the passion hits you, and don’t bother otherwise. Don’t post just to post.

  We (or, at least, I) have you in an RSS reader. I’ll see when you post, regardless of frequency. And, I’ll know that if you took the time to post something, chances are its worth my time to view.

• admin : Oct 13, 2008 at 5:42 pm

  Thanks for all the kinds words – the takeaway is that a mix of both long and short posts is OK providing the quality is still there.

  But here’s the problem – when I post clips, they are easily digestible, people more often link to them and the readership goes up. When I post long format, people rarely link – and thats the best way for a site to grow.

  So feel free to put a link to SmashingTelly on your sites and send in any links that might be interesting.

  Thanks
  Dave

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• Jeff Milner : Oct 15, 2008 at 2:29 pm

  In the interest of sharing good documentaries, would you consider putting up a form where the public can go to submit links? My cursory search for your email address didn’t yield any results.

  http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insideusa/2008/09/200891272048790963.html

• Chris : Oct 15, 2008 at 2:50 pm

  If I were you, I would not worry about what anyone thinks, and post whatever you think is worth posting, whenever you feel like it. I would hate to see you stop blogging just because some people complained about recent posts. This is one of my favorite blogs, as almost every clip you have ever posted has been something I have 1) never seen before and 2)learned something from. I would encourage you to keep up the good work.

• kookimebux : Feb 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm

  Hello. And Bye.

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