You need the basic knowledge of installing and working with concrete5, and how to use FTP .

YouTube block iFrame customization

Here is easy how-to of iFrame. This method will replace the entire existing YouTube blocks. If you don’t want to change the existing YouTube blocks, you may want to apply this as custom template.

1. Create a blank text file at

/blocks/youtube/view.php

2. Copy and paste the following code

<?php
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
$url = parse_url($videoURL);
parse_str($url['query'], $query);
$c = Page::getCurrentPage();

$vWidth=640; // Video Width
$vHeight=390; // Video Height

if ($c->isEditMode()) { ?>
<div style="width:<?php  echo $vWidth; ?>px; height:<?php  echo $vHeight; ?>px;">
<div style="padding:8px 0px; padding-top: <?php  echo round($vHeight/2)-10; ?>px;"><?php  echo t('Content disabled in edit mode.'); ?></div>
</div>

<?php  } else { ?>
<iframe width="<?php echo $vWidth;?>" height="<?php echo $vHeight;?>" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<?php echo $query['v'];?>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<?php  } ?>

3. Height and width

Change the number of $vWidth and $vHeight according to your site dimension, or you can create new custom template to change the dimension.

4. Save the text file

5. Upload it to your concrete5 server

Use this block as original YouTube block.

YouTube block custom template for Playlist

YouTube has “Playlist” function. You can add multiple videos and play them all together.

When you made a playlist or obtain somebody else’ public playlist URL, you can now easily add the YouTube playlist onto your concrete5 site.

1. Create a blank text file at

/blocks/youtube/templates/playlist.php

2. Copy and paste the following code

<?php
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
$url = parse_url($videoURL);
parse_str($url['query'], $query);
$c = Page::getCurrentPage();

$vWidth=640; // Video Width
$vHeight=390; // Video Height
$playlistID= str_replace('PL','',$query['list']);

if ($c->isEditMode()) { ?>
<div style="width:<?php  echo $vWidth; ?>px; height:<?php  echo $vHeight; ?>px;">
<div style="padding:8px 0px; padding-top: <?php  echo round($vHeight/2)-10; ?>px;"><?php  echo t('Content disabled in edit mode.'); ?></div>
</div>

<?php  } else { ?>
<object width="<?php echo $vWidth;?>" height="<?php echo $vHeight;?>"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/<?php echo $playlistID;?>?version=3&hl=<?php echo LOCALE;?>&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/<?php echo $playlistID;?>?version=3&hl=<?php echo LOCALE;?>&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="<?php echo $vWidth;?>" height="<?php echo $vHeight;?>" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
<?php  } ?>

3. Height and width

Change the number of $vWidth and $vHeight according to your site dimension, or you can create new custom template to change the dimension.

4. Save the text file

5. Upload it to your concrete5 server

How to use it

• Get the URL of playlist
• EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL297A125DC0A5A054
• Create a new YouTube block
• Type title and paste the Playlist URL onto the block
• Save
• Click the block
• Click “Custom Template”
• Choose “Playlist”
• Save
• Publish

Done

Enjoy the easy to embed playlist in concrete5 site.

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I immediately deleted the photo from the YokosoNews Facebook Page.

But I would like to take this opportunity to express my personal opinion and my premature plan. I’m writing this on my personal blog because this is not the official final plan of YokosoNews.

But it’s good to share my developing plan of YokosoNews as the first step to become a real social media and the bridge of Japanese culture… and get your feedbacks.

Lessons from the past

I was once a human rights activists in the past. And I made the terrible mistake and withdrawn to be a human rights activist 15 years ago.

I would like to refrain from the detail. But I was involved with dealing with the discrimination against Korean immigrants and indigenous Japanese.

Human rights acts in Japan

In the past, as a young immature person, I kept encouraging the victims to speak out. It was the awake of the Internet. I wanted to help the victims, and using the voice via Internet, try to make a documentary, and interviewed some victim.

I was approaching the high school students to speak out their experience. However after many years of joining their events and activities, I was not fully accepted by them. My project had failed eventually.

Outsider

One of the reason was that I was just an outsider. Nobody would understand the pain unless you are in the situation.

Especially, I was trying to work with high school students. The many guardians refused my idea by worrying about their future by coming out to the public.

For them, I was still an outsider. Even if I failed, I would be just a documentary filmmaker. However, for those high school students, they would have been marked as the victim of discrimination. It would have affected the future of their lives.

I failed to convince them why it would be beneficial for them, and I was always an outsider. You cannot become “an insider” no matter how much you tried to fit in. You need to function as the beneficial outsider. It’s very important to prove that I could bring the benefit to their lives.

Negative comments vs. Criticism

Once I kept condemning the problems of certain human rights organization. However, many of my earlier criticism were just “negative comments” that would give any solutions.

I learned that if you are going to have opinion, especially, if you’re going to criticize something, your critical comments must have the constructive results.

And you must respect and understand your counterparts as much as possible.

I define “condemnation” as negative comments without any solution in this post, and “criticism” as maybe negative comment but with solution or merit.

When treating the sensitive topics

Therefore, from my past experience, when dealing with the sensitive topics, I learned and am trying to.,,,

• To respect other parties
• To understand other parties
• To prove or provide the beneficial outcome
• Negative comments or condemnation won’t help but destruct everything
• Must have the constructive opinion

Which include the dolphin and whale situation of Japan.

YokosoNews can’t start Dolphin and Whale debates UNLESS

You help YokosoNews grow and become capable to bringing the positive outcome to both parties

Now let’s talk about the dolphin and whale issue of Japan.

Conclusion, YokosoNews will not talk about dolphin and whale topics unless YokosoNews gain enough support from our audience and gained enough power to bring the positive outcome to both parties.

This is why I came to this conclusion because of the following reasons.

The situation is UGLY

The failure of both Japanese fishermen and animal activists

Currently, I am disappointed and tired of listening to the both sides of Japanese and animal rights activists.

Both sides failed to:

• understand each culture
• failed to learn each other
• failed to respect each other

Both Japanese and animal rights activists pays no respect each other. If you don’t respect each other, the conflict becomes……

It’s now just ugly childish fight

For me, the conflict between Japanese fisheries industry and animal rights activists are yelling at each other, NO LONGER listen to each others’ opinions.

YokosoNews doesn’t want to get involved with childish fight.

Why it became childish fight?

When the people from different cultures join the debate, they must learn and compromise each other respectably. Japanese fishermen needs to learn “western” style debate. And animal rights group needs to respect the Japanese way of expressing their opinion.

In short, if Japanese people think their idea is right, they will shut their mouth. The virtue of Japanese is “silence is golden”. However, in the western culture, if the people kept quiet, she/he could be considered “guilty”.

Both parties slowly realized the difference and they tried to come closer. However, they already lost the trust each other. I believe they already broke the bond of trust too deep. They need the moderator.

We need “adult” moderator for childish fight

The only “person” who can bring the peace to the childish fights is “the adul”. YokosoNews needs to grow up to become influential and beneficial to both animal rights group and Japanese fishermen.

If YokosoNews becomes beneficial entity to both parties. They will listen to YokosoNews.

YokosoNews cannot, yet, bring the positive outcome

YokosoNews will not talk about and get involved with the dolphin and whale issue simply because YokosoNews is not capable of providing the enough evidence, research, finance, nor time yet.

We must build the real constructive debates

YokosoNews recognize that we need to focus the following debates. But if we cover them, we must be  fully responsible.

Talk with the responsibility OR no talk

Since 311 Tsunami Earthquake, YokosoNews has been spending most of our resources to Tsunami, Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident.We are committed to report until the end because YokosoNews is the media with responsibility and commitment.

Therefore, in order to keep being the responsible media for dolphin and whale issue, YokosoNews believes that we need to cover ALL of the following debates, at least. And we must have enough resources to complete. OR we must not talk about it.

“Killing Cruelty” Debate

First debate is “killing dolphin and whale” debate.

YokosoNews thinks that we need to cover the following parties to start the discussion.

1. Fishermen who catch dolphin and whale
2. Fishermen who don’t fish dolphin and whale
3. Animal rights activists which are ONLY against whale and dolphin fishing
4. Animal rights activists which are against ALL animal killing (Vegans)
5. Cattle farmers and fishermen who kill animals to eat

In order to build the constructive debate, YokosoNews needs to have enough finance, volunteer, staff and time to cover and introduce all aspects. We also need to talk with:

• Experts (college professors)
• Politicians (Japanese and other countries especially Autralia)
• Philosophers

YokosoNews must obtain interviews of experts (which cost money, or volunteer and time)

YokosoNews will need your help with resources (finance, staff, connections and other resources)

“We can kill cows but not dolphin” debate

Many people (including many Japanese) simply against killing whale and dolphin because they think they are cute.

Then many people dislike the idea of “Simply being against because of cuteness.” Some Japanese people says “As long as people keeps killing cows, pigs and chickens, Japanese are entitled to fish whale and dolphins”

Then we also have to consider vegetarians and vegans…

• Who supports eating dolphin & whale
• Who only supports eating meat and fish
• Vegetarians who don’t eat meat but fish
• Muslims who don’t eat pork
• Vegans who are against eating any animals

This has only one solution: open debate.

However, this debate had never got crossed each other because of the language barriers. YokosoNews would like to launch the large scale debate between Pro-and-Cons side. But we need space, time, enough translators to conduct the debate.

“Endangered Species” debate

Animal rights activist claims that dolphin and whale are endangered species.

Some Japanese fishermen claims that too many dolphin and whales actually breaks the food-chain. In the past, Japanese fishermen in Nagasaki had to kill the dolphins because there were too many dolphins between 1978 and 1986. Some people claims that they sometime need to kill dolphins so that they can control the food chain.

YokosoNews would like to confirm the facts by hiring and/or interviewing various experts, and conduct the research if necessary.

Alternative Job Support (?)

One of main concern over Japanese fishermen are simply job. Many fishermen has been fishing over hundreds of years. They have proud. Fishing is their history and identity. If we ask them to quit the thousand-year-old tradition and job, we should help them to present new job opportunities.

I saw a NHK documentary that one animal rights activisit tried to give one (1) million yen to a fisherman to quit fishing. That would be a good approach but 1 million yen to too little.

According to various sources, there are at least a couple hundred fishermen who have been making the living of doing the whale and dolphin fishing.

Unless they can come up with new industry to support thousand jobs for the fisherman.. which could cost billions of yen, the above act is very childish.

Etc etc etc….

Mercury health risk, and etc etc…. This is a few of topics and debates that I’m thinking about doing.

Why YokosoNews?

YokosoNews is only one English online media in Japan which led by Japanese. During the March 11 disaster, YokosoNews was only English media to provide the comprehensive information about the disaster to the rest of the world

It’s because YokosoNews understands both Japanese culture, the non-Japanese culture, and media.

YokosoNews understand Japanese culture and where to find the right information about Japan. At the same time, YokosoNews can listen to non-Japanese because of our experience as 44-year-old entertainment media in Los Angeles.

I believe that YokosoNews is the only one media which suits to do this job.

However, especially after 311 Tsunami and Earthquake disaster in Tohoku and Fukushima, we are facing the lack of resources.

Help YokosoNews to grow

If you want to solve the conflict, YokosoNews asks your help. First please help us spread the word of YokosoNews. Become a volunteer reporter. Help us find the sponsor to end the conflict and help Japanese people grow.

What you can do for us now

• Help promote YokosoNews
• Enjoy the show

As I mentioned earlier, Japanese people don’t recognize YokosoNews and our efforts yet. Simply tell your friends about YokosoNews and enjoy the live show.

It’s very important to have fun in order to talk about serious topics for the positive result. I would like to build the strong online community that can enjoy our lives so that we can face our serious problem.

Practically, what we need to start dolphin and whale project

In order to start the project about dolphin and whale, we need financial and labor support. In order to conduct the project, we would need some full-time staff or volunteer with Japanese, English and media experience.

To be exact, we would need to raise or collect the following team

• Project
  • Dolphin, Whale and Japan
• Terms
  • 2 years
• Must Requirement
  • The constructive relationship with Japanese fishermen
  • The constructive relationship with animal rights activists
• Contents
  • Series of online video documentary
  • 3~4 events with local residents with English translation with live cast
  • 3~4 events & live cast – all over the world
  • 3~4 Interview and round table discussions with experts
• Team
  • (1) Producer
  • (1) Director / Writer / Editor
  • (2) Editor & Broadcaster
  • (2) Online media & marketing
• Budget
  • 50,000,000 ~ 100,000,000 yen
    ( US$ 630K ~ 1.24 million)
  • Budget varies depends on how many staff can work as volunteer

If you are serious about solving the issue of dolphin and whales, please help us raise the money, or develop the project.

However, practically, I don’t think we will able to build the support quickly… Therefore, I would like you to help promote YokosoNews for now.

Thank you for reading. And I’m open to any suggestions and help.

PS.

Now, I need to write Japanese version… It’s the challenge that I must write this in both Japanese and English so that both Japanese and English speaker can be at the same level… but it is time consuming…. So I need your HELP!!!!

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I’ve been using CloudFlare for many of my major high traffic volume concrete5 sites, and I’m getting the significant result now.

Our concrete5 Japan site was reviewed by a major Internet software website, and it caused the high volume traffic yesterday. But it withstood the high traffic volume. Here is the implementation of concrete5 & CloudFlare for both developer and visitors.

CloudFlare DNS & Hosting provider setting

When developing or make the changes of your concrete5 site, you may want to bypass the CloudFlare network .

CloudFlare gives you “direct.EXAMPLE.com” subdomain as your direct access to the root domain.

E.g.
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EXAMPLE.COM
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CloudFlare suggests you to allocate
———-
direct.EXAMPLE.COM
———-
as your direct access subdomain.

You need to create an “alias domain” that will point to the exactly same directory of your host server.

You could change “direct” to anything else. Make sure you modify all of your CloudFlare, hosting server and the following codes accordingly. (E.g., if you can changing the dev domain to be “access.EXAMPLE.COM”. You want to change every “direct” to “access”.)

/config/site.php

So you want to insert the following code onto /config/site.php

<?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'direct') !== FALSE) {
define('REDIRECT_TO_BASE_URL', false); }
?>

* If you’re pasting inside of “<?php ?>” tags remove those tags before inserting.

By default, concrete5 tries to re-direct you to the main domain.
But when you insert the code into site.php, when you access to the site “direct.EXAMPLE.com”, it won’t redirect the domain and keeps you at “direct.EXAMPLE.COM”

/elements/header_required.php (Optional)

This is the optional suggestion. So that Google and other search engine won’t crawl and register your development-only subdomain.

• Copy: /concrete/elements/header_requied.php
• To: /elements/header_required.php

Then insert the following code at the bottom of the file

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'direct') !== FALSE) { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<?php } else { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<?php } ?>

* Make sure “<?php ?>” tags are properly wrapped and closed.

Check out CloudFlare powered concrete5 sites!

http://concrete5-japan.org/
http://yokosonews.com/

* as of June 2011

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I just installed the new theme for my blog. I hope you like it.

Although concrete5 is much superior in theme design whereas WordPress is very hard to design a theme, WordPress is still the key player of CMS, especially as a blog platform.

It’s very good as maintaining a number of simple title-and-text contents.

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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE:

YokosoNews, the English social media to introduce Japanese culture in English, is currently looking for volunteer reporters and guests who can share their experience during our live cast for the next generation.

YokosoNews usually provide the useful travel tips, lifestyle and entertainment information of Japan to welcome the people from all over the world.

However, Japan has lived with natural disasters. In order to welcome the people from all over the world, YokosoNews had been prepared to provide necessary disaster prevention awareness especially to the non-Japanese residents in Japan since the beginning of YokosoNews operation.

The journey since 311 Great East Japan Earthquake

Since the 2:52pm on March 11, 2011, 6 minutes after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, YokosoNews had cancelled all of its regular broadcasting and focuses on the emergency live casting by translating the local Japanese TV news and the live reports from the people from Kanto area.

Thanks to the disaster preparation, YokosoNews knew where to obtain the right information. We were the few trusted English source of the information especially during the 1st week of the disaster.

More than one million people tuned in to YokosoNews emergency live cast during the 1st month of the 311 Earthquake and Tsunami.

YokosoNews was interviewed by Al Jazeera, ABC TV and Radio, German Public Radio, Russian TV. French newspaper, La Monde, and Reuters, YokosoNews and other European media tuned in to YokosoNews to obtain the latest information.

The shift from disaster to reconstruction

Prior to the 2011 Tohoku Earthuaqe, YokosoNews had been aware that the long-term support would be needed in case of major disaster from the past experience, such as Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.

In addition to the support to the people of Tohoku, YokosoNews recognize the value of preserving the history in English for the future generation.

These experience could be priceless knowledge to the rest of the world where they face the similar natural disasters by learning the successful prevention measure and mistakes.

One million live viewers in one month

During the first few days of the disaster, YokosoNews was the ONLY continuous online media to provide English information about the disaster.

On March 12, 2011, YokosoNews had approximately 7,000 simultaneous viewers. From March 11 to April 11, over one million viewers tuned into YokosoNews live cast to receive up-to-date information from Japan.

During the first 30 days since the disaster, over one million viewers tuned into YokosoNews.

For more detail and media coverage of YokosoNews, please read
http://en.katzueno.com/2011/03/26/minutes-of-yokosonews-and-earthquake/

The first to report, the last to report

For the first a couple days, no other English media was capable to broadcast the information but YokosoNews.

YokosoNews kept broadcasting at least 14-18 hours a day to provide the latest update.

After a certain time, the world had to shift its focus to others. YokosoNews was the only online media to report about the disaster continuously.

YokosoNews believes that the major disaster could last years to recover. As the first English media to report the incident, we are responsible to report until the end.

Years of preparation

The history of YokosoNews’ disaster update originated from Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.

When YokosoNews was formed in 2008, the safety of Engligh speaking non-Japanese traveler and resident was already the core mission of YokosoNews.

YokosoNews has been studying and monitoring what has happened during the major disasters in modern Japan. Also we closely learned the advantage and disadvantage of various social media.

YokosoNews’ long-term commitment

Based on our experience from the past disasters, the people forget the power of mother nature.

In fact, many Japanese people didn’t pay attention to the ancient Japanese from how terrible tsunami was 1,000 years ago. It’s very difficult to maintain the focus generation after generation.

However, the power of social media and audio & visual presentation could help sustain the focus of many people.

At the same time, we believe that our effort would help all over the world where it has the potential of any natural disaster.

We’re committed to bring the information not limited to:

• Provide safety information
  • Natural disasters
  • Crime
  • Moral
  • Public Health
• Continuous live streaming
• For English language for non-Japanese speaker in Japan
• To preserve the history while it’s fresh for the future generation
• There’re still many help needed in the disaster area

First, we will continue our “311 Weekly Disaster Update” until March 11.

YokosoNews needs your help

Now, YokosoNews needs your help. I will ask all of you to:

• Tell your friend about disaster prevention and YokosoNews
• Share your disaster prevention

Then.. if you happened to have close connection to the people in Japan…

Volunteer and Guests Wanted

Especially, those who are closely connected to Tohoku Japan and Fukushima, we’re looking for your help

• Share your story
  • Anyone who lives in Tohoku or Fukushima?
  • Anyone who went to volunteer in Tohoku or Fukushima
  • No English speaking skills are required
• Share your photo and video
  • To share the reconstruction – No tear breaking needed
• Journalist
  • Who’s willing to share your story
• Experts
  • Construction
  • Medical and Public Health
  • Government and Politics
  • Energy
• English translation volunteers
  • Fast check
  • Assistant to weekly live cast
• Promote the works of YokosoNews to the people in Tohoku and Fukushima
  • Especially to the people in Tohoku
  • Especially to the local government, companies and organizations in Tohoku or related parties
• Companies
  • To share their reconstruction efforts
  • To promote tourism in Tohoku
  • To report their volunteer efforts
• Suggestions
• News tips

We want your “real” voice. NOT “I heard or watched.”

Example

May 17, 2011: 311 Disaster Update #36

http://yokosonews.com/news/311-disaster-update-36/

• Volunteer Report of Ishinomaki
• Anti-nuclear rally in Iwaki, Fukushima

Live streaming date

• Time:
  • Japan Standard Time – Every Tuesday at 8pm
• URL:
  • http://YokosoNews.tv
• Archive: Ustream and YouTube
  • http://youtube.com/YokosoNews
  • http://www.ustream.tv/user/YokosoNews/videos

Technial requirement for the guests

For those who can be on live cast or interview

• Live interview via
  • Skype (most preferrd)
  • iChat
  • Live Messenger
  • Viber
  • Reengo
  • Tel (from USA or Japan)
• We can arrange the live cast or it could be pre-recorded
• Communication
  • The person should know how to communicate via Email, Skype, Twitter or Facebook

If the guests could prepare the following prior to the live appearance. That would be great.

• Photo
  • using Facebook or Flickr photos
  • Website or blogs
• Video
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
• Presentation
  • Word, Powerpoint or Keynote

We hope your continuous corporations!

Contact

Feel free to contact

http://japanexp.org/contact/

Please make sure to leave a voicemail

Japan +81 (3) 4590-6279
USA +1 (310) 820-7129

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I moved to Japan, and needed to add +1 to all my US contacts. Then I found the following post

Adding 1 to all phone numbers in address book
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9169756

However, I already have many Japanese phone numbers in my address book starting with “0″ So I’ve modified Andreas’ code to the folliowing

tell application "Address Book"
    repeat with eachPerson in people
        repeat with eachNumber in phones of eachPerson
            set theNum to (get value of eachNumber)
            if (theNum does not start with "+" and theNum does not start with "1" and theNum does not start with "0") then
                set value of eachNumber to "+1" & theNum
            end if
        end repeat
    end repeat
    save
end tell

So that it will skip the phone number starting with zero (0).

How to use the code

• Launch AppleScript Editor
• Copy and paste the above codes
• Click [Compile]
• Run the script (CAUTION)

If you have more than 300 contacts, you need the following extra step. Otherwise, the script may freeze (like it did it on me)

• After clicking [Compile]
• Save it onto [Library] – [Scripts] – [Address Book Scripts]
• Go to Preferences of AppleScript Editor
• In General, make sure “Show Script menu in menu bar” is checked
• You will see “S” like curve on the menu bar on top
• Launch Address Book
• Go to script menu – AddressBook Scripts – [your script]
• Then it will run without any notification
• I had 1500 contacts, and it took me about 5 min

Done.

I had to include the script in the menu.

If I run the script in Script Editor, it always freezes at 380 items.

Other useful post

Need to add area code to all local contacts’ phone numbers
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10833980

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• SpaceVidCast

  http://www.ustream.tv/spacevidcast

As on June 6, 2011, you can only

• 1st Stream will be labeled as “HD”
• 2nd Stream will be labeled as “High”
• 3rd Stream will be labeled as “Low”

No matter what your quality setting of FMLE.

That’s probably why Ustream has not officially put this how-tos in their support yet.

Requirement for this tutorial

In this tutorial, you must have

• Fast Windows or Mac
  • faster than Intel Core2Duo i7 6 Core Processor)
• Fast Internet with fast upload bandwidth
  • More than 5Mbps upload speed is recommended
  • Check your UPLOAD speed at
    • http://speedtest.net
• Other basic video equipment (in HD quality)
• A Ustream account

And you must know

• How to broadcast on Ustream
• How to use Ustream Broadcaster (Browser-base Ustream interface)
• How to use FMLE

How to multi stream different quality in Flash Media Live Encoder

Here is how tos.

Basis steps

• Start your FMLE
• Load the regular XML file from Ustream
• Set up the basic quality, input source, and other preferences

Now multi stream settings

• Go to the stream and use the example

You can only set one setting for the audio. Thus, I recommend, 96kbps AAC 44.1KHz for Stereo, or 48kbps AAC 44.1Khz for mono. MONO IS RECOMMENDED unless you broadcast music live concert. Don’t waste your bandwidth.

* These are recommended setting. But you should play around with the setting to come up with the best result.

• Go to the right section, and add “%i” to the and of the stream after “offair”

That’s it.

Then, the rest of the broadcasting procedure will be the same as others. Click “start,” Go to Ustream Broadcaster and click Start Broadcast. Enjoy the multi streams!

DISCLAIMER: This is very unofficial version of multi stream. Ustream could change the method at any time.

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If you think this tutorial is helpful,

Help us promote our live cast at YokosoNews.tv to introduce Japanese culture in English via social media.

Thanks.

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YokosoNews originally launched on April 2010 to introduce Japanese culture in English. But it has prepared to serve as information hub on social media in case of emergency.

Katz, editor and producer of YokosoNews, has experienced 911 in Los Angeles. Being as a foreigner in the foreign country, he recognized the needs of information for English speakers and possibility of social media.

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Stories

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An American who was stuck in disaster area in Sendai got to hold of the English hotline number via YokosoNews. He’s safely on the way back to the US.

Some was able to get in touch with relative/friend soon after the quake. Some waited for a week & finally able to contact with friend/relative & shared the joy with other viewers in the timeline.

The YokosoNews’ breaking news were faster than any other English media including, CNN Breaking News and BBC.

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Timeline

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- Friday, March 11, 2011

2:52pm (JST), witihn 6 minutes after Earthquake, YokosoNews tweeted the Tsunami alert.

3:20pm (JST), within 40 minutes after Earthquake, YokosoNews began its emergency broadcast.

- Saturday, March 12, 2011

Around 7pm, YokosoNews simulteneous viewers reached over 6,200 during the press conference of Edano, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secreatary to give the latest update of Earthquake and Nuclear power plant.

During the first 2 days, YokosoNews was ONLY English Internet media which was reporting the latest information from Japanese media and governtment.

- Friday, March 25, 2011

YokosoNews had been broadcasting the emergency live cast for 10-18 hours a day for 14 days.

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Statistics (3/11~3/25/2011)

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• The VERY FIRST English media to report the 311 Earthquake (First reported 6 min after the Earthquake)
• Total approx. 1 million total live cast viewers (Ustream)
• Total 401,821 unique live cast viewers (Ustream)
• Maximum simultaneous viewers once reached 6,000 (Ustream)
• Total 338,513 viewer hours (Ustream)
• Recorded archived also generated 138,899 views (Ustream) Facebook: 2394 Likes Twitter: 2404 Followers 145,272 S/208,959 P/88,855 U

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Media Coverage

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• The Stream – Al Jazeera English
  • April  27, 2011
  • http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/yokoso-news
  • Video – http://stream.aljazeera.com/episode/episode-2
  • August 9, 2011
  • http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/japan-research
• Breitband – Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • http://breitband.dradio.de/yokoso-news/
• Boing Boing (lifehacker)
  • http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/12/live-real-time-engli.html
  • http://lifehacker.com/5781316/listen-to-live-coverage-from-japan-in-english-from-yokosonews
• Eyewitness News – ABC Houston
  • http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8024140
• John Phillip’s Show – KABC 790 Talk Radio
  • http://www.kabc.com/Article.asp?id=2135140&spid=33483and continuous appearance
• Le Monte (France) – real-time web update
  • http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2011/03/14/en-direct-nouvelle-explosion-a-l-usine-de-fukushima_1492576_3216.html#ens_id=1491461
• Haffington Post (NIkkei View)
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gil-asakawa/japan-tsunami-media-coverage_b_835399.html
  • http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2011/03/13/tohoku-kanto-earthquake-tsunami/
• Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online
  • http://mcpmag.com/Blogs/Certifiable/2011/03/Earthquake-News-and-Tech.aspx

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The origin of YokosoNews disaster coverage

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Origin of YokosoNews 311 Disaster Update

• 311 Disaster Update was the part of YokosoNews fundamental plan
• Provide sufficient English information to non-Japanese speaking residents in Japan
• Experience and knowledge from 1995 Hanshin Earthquake
• Studied disaster prevention
• Studied volunteer efforts
• Studied the day to day situation after the earthquake
• The earthquake experiences were worth to be shared to world wide community but there were the language barrier.
• Experience from 911
• Experienced that overseas media won’t provide enough coverage
• Saw many foreign students in USA panicked who didn’t understand English perfectly
• Developed social media live reporting methods from
• Toyota Recall hearing
• Watched C-SPAN online live cast
• Translated into Japanese via Twitter
• Apple Keynote speech
• Watched Steve Jobs keynote speech via live cast
• Didn’t illegally broadcast their live video
• But broadcasted the Japanese translation of Steve Jobs keynote via Ustream

Reuters – liveblog

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

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at Chiyozaki Beach, Suzuka, Mie, Japan on January 1st, 2011

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I just finished filling out the 10th notebooks. 10 notebooks in 2 years.

These are the notebook that I started taking in September 2008 when I first came up with the idea of YokosoNews. As a media, it’s all about how much information you can gather, edit them, and publish it to the public. As I completed the 10th notebooks, I think I’m going to really start editing, and reporting them.

The notebooks contain topics, tips and people that could become a YokosoNews stories. And these are NOT from the Internet. For these notebooks, I intended not-to-use any Internet information but newspaper, magazine, TV, radio or books. This is the reason why I insist on handwriting too.

Anyway, each books contains 50-100 topics with average 300 people. So I compiled the 1,000 stories idea and 3,000 people into 10 notebooks!

It was very easy task and practice, though it’s difficult to continue.

Now, I’ll move onto the 2nd step of YokosoNews, start looking for more people to join our venture!

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