I know I’m coming to this late, but I just saw this for the first time yesterday. It raises pretty compelling questions for anyone interested in the world and economy we’re going to be living with in a few years, and that our children will grow up in.
Here’s a related wiki.
One of the niftiest features of my MacBook Pro is the tiny little camera built in above the screen. As it turns out, there’s all sorts of cool stuff I could do with it and iChat, the Apple IM program:
… you may find yourself in front of a beautiful geekosphere, and you may find yourself on some beautiful bandwidth, but you may ask yourself: where is my useful device? Is this my beautiful iSight? How did I get here? My God! What have I done?
The folks over at O’Reilly have some ideas.
(Actually, I’m just linking to this because I’m insanely jealous that I didn’t come up with that riff off of the Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime first.)
YouTube’s managers are walking a fine line when they flag videos like the one conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has complained about being removed from the site, NYTer Tom Zeller Jr. says.
This is not to suggest that Ms. Malkin’s video would not be
particularly offensive to some people. There is little that Ms. Malkin
says or does that is not. But it is hard to imagine what YouTube hopes
to gain by punting such content, or what sort of uphill rhetorical
battle it is setting itself up for when it does so.
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Michelle Malkin says YouTube is censoring her videos: Link.
Steve Rubel has a few suggestions about making your viral video “Long Tail friendly.”
That said, don’t forget that the Long Tail is your friend. Just like dusty titles at a video store, viral videos often take on new life in the Tail if they are easily found. Don’t underestimate the value of the residual view.
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