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My Dad passed away this past Wednesday. Misty put together a slide show of pictures of our visits with him over the last four years, and we wanted to share it with you.

We had a few clips from a audio recording session, so just for fun we put them together!

We had a great time at the 2008 Mountain Mandarin Festival today. As we walked up to the entrance, a friendly lady offered us some free admission tickets. We walked past vendors booths sampling candy, nuts, jelly, and of course Mandarin oranges. Then we came to the highlight of the event — Traylor Ranch Mandarins. We saw a Mandarin booth with signs saying no pesticides, a good indicator. A man was standing in front of the booth, not hiding inside it, giving out whole Mandarins as samples, not just tiny slivers. We decided to buy a 10 lb. bag for $14, and pulled out a twenty. A woman in the booth asked if we had singles, we didn’t. The man out front said we could have two 10 lb. bags for twenty, we said yes. Magnificent Mandarin Marketing!

We found some old footage that helps make a new point about Mobile Video Search Engine Optimization:
If you optimize for Google, YouTube, and iPhone now, you will have even greater success when the iPhone supports Flash or more video sharing sites support the iPhone, and when Google Maps supports video on the iPhone.

We have always had a gradually increasing viewership of our videos, but over the last three months we’ve had an acceleration due to one video — Buck Mating Sounds—Deer Sounds. As you can see, it is the reverse of the usual pattern of peaking early, then fading. The only explanation we could imagine is deer hunting season, but we’ll see what happens.

This was take one, and it got better from there.

About 1% of our videos are big hits, about 10% are successes, about 50% are OK, and about 40% are failures. Pretty much the same percentages as Babe Ruth.

For Viral VSEO, all the rules of video search engine optimization still apply, but here are three more things you need to do: