YouTube: an Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts

Alan Lastufka, a.k.a. fallofautumndistro, is one of the Top 100 Most Subscribed Comedians of All-Time on YouTube. His YouTube videos have had more than three million views. One of his early short films received multiple airings on the Independent Film Channel. On YouTube, Lastufka is widely praised for his collaboration videos. One of the more popular is the “iPwn” iPhone parody commercial, starring MadTV cast member LisaNova. Lastufka also appeared on YouTube's Official Channel in a video announcing the expansion of the Partnership Program. Lastufka has published a book about YouTube with O'Reilly Media, contributed articles to numerous international magazines and zines, including a Featured Article in Verbicide Magazine, while co-running the popular independent publishing project, Fall of Autumn, in Chicago, IL.

Michael is Hebrew for "Who is like God?" Dean, from the Latin decanus, means "one who rules over ten." An anagram for "Michael Dean" is "Deal Machine," and that truly fits. Dean never sits on his laurels, and he's constantly touching the world in special places. Michael Wareham Dean runs the well-known pop-culture blog, Stink Fight. Michael is the author of the books $30 Film School, $30 Music School, $30 Writing School, Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women, The Simple Pleasures of a Complex Girl, and DIY NOW! Digital Audio. He directed the films D.I.Y. Or Die: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow. Michael played guitar in the band The Beef People. He sang and played bass in Baby Opaque and Bomb (Warner Brothers). Michael W. Dean has toured America and Europe lecturing at youth centers, colleges, and museums. He was a speaker at the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo. He co-authored (with Alan Lastufka) a book for O'Reilly called YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts. He does a podcast called Radio Free Nestlandia. Michael sleeps in late, stays up late, and works at home as a writer and filmmaker. He lives in rural Southern California with his lovely, nifty wife Debra Jean Dean and their three cats, Charlie Squitten Jr, Peanut McFluffernutter, and Fuzzbucket McFluffernutter. Michael loves communicating out to the world, but says, "A good day is one where my phone doesn't ring."