Clear Blue Dei

Sean Robinson, Head of IT at the Allen County Public Library and defender of Truth, Justice and the American Way, obliterates the bad guys (and a few innocent victims) in his pursuit of… something.

Brought to you by JibJab (Starring You!), I present: Unnecessary Force, starring Sean Robinson. Supporting roles by Nat Robinson as the Chief, Susan Mellott as Victim #1, Julian Casserley as Victim #2 and Dorothy Lubbes (my mom) as Victim #3. With a guest appearance by Rush Limbaugh.

Note: This requires an extremely high-speed connection. Watching it on my wireless connection at home, I lose rather large pieces of it. Just so you know.

Wordpress Note: When I embedded this in my post, I had to turn off the Visual Editor in WordPress (self-hosted) in order for it to display correctly. You can do that by going to Users, editing your user and unchecking the “Use Visual Editor” checkbox at the top left. You can re-check it after you have published your post, but be careful about re-editing your post with the Visual Editor on. This is the same issue that you run into when you try to embed a YouTube video in a self-hosted WordPress blog post.

JibJab Note: And in case you were wondering how to embed a JibJab Movie in your post, after you have created the movie in JibJab, click on the word “Embed” to the right of the movie, under Publish. It will create the code for you which you then copy in its entirety and paste into your post where you want it to appear. (Turning off the Visual Editor first if you are using a self-hosted Wordpress blog, i.e. one that isn’t through wordpress.com)

Enjoy!

~Susan Mellott

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JibJab lets you upload a picture of your face and insert it in a video. It is limited in its choices but it is an interesting concept.Is this cool or what? It’s a bit of a waste of time, but a lot of fun. It will be better when they add more movies and things.

And unfortunately I can’t seem to add the video I created to WordPress.com. I managed to trick it into inserting into this blog, which is my self-hosted WordPress.org blog by creating the Blogger post through JibJab to my Blogger post and then copying the html to this post. A pretty jury-rigged solution though.

UPDATE: It *almost* worked. I could see the video but it caused my template to get a little flakey after it. I imagine someone better with HTML then I am could fix it.

UPDATE AGAIN: OK, I’m an idiot… I realized I could click ‘embed’ on my video and didn’t have to click any of the predefined items (like blogger or facebook) and it would create the html code and I could cut and paste. Duh.

Also, this link should take you to our video on JibJab.

BTW, you can create a post/link directly from JibJab to Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, Typepad and several other Web 2.0 tools.

Thanks to Libraryman, from whom I shamelessly stole, even down to starring in the same movie. What can I say, it was the best one

~Susan Mellott

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