Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Apr 08
  

  Bianca Pieloch
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      Bianca Pieloch on 2008-04-17

      Humans love ANYTHING that gives us something to talk about. Youtube sparks conversations. What is cool about it is if someone hasn't seen a certain video, it is so easy to look up. The viewer can go back and view it whenever.
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  jc ice
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  Gail Ramsey
  • but also to make much of it available to amateur video makers in exchange for a
    split of ad revenue.
  • that ask members to rate each video against various quality and suitability
    criteria.
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  Jaclyn Foody
  • waiting for a technological solution

  • Simple. Because it's not just shenanigans.

    
    

    It's monkey business.

• 16 Apr 08
  

  Danielle Rabello

  videos

  • And prosper, despite everything, for one overriding reason: 100 million streams a day.
  • "What it has going for it is its sheer size. In a fragmented world, there is a need for community and a need for massness."
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  • • "There's still a desire to have a shared cultural context. We hunger for things we can discuss."
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  Jessica Bloom
  • And with a $177 billion total domestic ad budget at stake, nobody wants to be
    monkeying around.
• 13 Apr 08
  

  haines64
  • Supan insists that YouTubers have done an excellent job of policing their own space
• 13 Mar 08
  

  richar19
  • ^#2
    Will
    advertisers risk associating themselves with violence, pornography, hate
    
    
    speech,
    or God knows what lurks out there one click away?
  • that so many people are already on YouTube
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  • • Everyone else wants to see what everyone else is seeing and enjoying."
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  butler09
  • Will advertisers risk associating themselves with violence, pornography, hate
    speech, or God knows what lurks out there one click away?
• 12 Mar 08
  

  mccrar25

  Internet plagiarism

  • YouTube is basically going under the assumption that there's this community in
    place to blindly create content on YouTube's behalf without much in the way of
    compensation."
  • For instance, if you are, say, Meow Mix, and you bought ads adjacent to
    cat-related videos, how surprised and disappointed you might be to learn you
    have sponsored a YouTube video uploaded by someone named mrwheatley and titled
    "exploding cat." Or the one from qu1rk89 titled "exploding cat." Or this one:
    "ma907h eats dead cat," which shows a guy … oh, never mind.
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  • • What Uncle Miltie and the Super Bowl and Survivor have always
      offered is something to talk about at the water cooler, at the nail salon, or on
      IM.
• 04 Mar 08
  

  winter43
  • So if you're searching for the missing link, you need search no further. It turns out to be the ability to fashion rudimentary (digital) tools to feed a not merely national but global conversation, even if that conversation is about a portly lip-syncing New Jerseyite. Why advertise next to some sad sack's weird shenanigans?
• 16 Feb 08
  

  patunya
  • ¹
    YouTube
    will survive
• 14 Feb 08
  

  hughes27
  • They understand YouTube's value to them as a marketing tool and are waiting for a technological solution.
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  goulds28 gould
  • Wait. You haven't seen it? Ohhhhmygosh! I'll email you the link."
• 13 Feb 08
  

  dracmere
  • YouTube will survive
• 23 Nov 06
  

  nico flores

  AV future fromfurl

  • That may not be Jarvis' idea of the glittering future, but it certainly is Hurley's. "We think people want an entertainment destination," Hurley says, not only without bombast but more or less listlessly as his latest interrogation winds down. "Everyone else wants to see what everyone else is seeing and enjoying."
    
    But of course. That. What Uncle Miltie and the Super Bowl and Survivor have always offered is something to talk about at the water cooler, at the nail salon, or on IM. "Did you see that horrible sportscast? 'Boom goes the dynamite!' What is that supposed to mean? … Wait. You haven't seen it? Ohhhhmygosh! I'll email you the link."
    
    "It goes back to something primal," says Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and the author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. "There's still a desire to have a shared cultural context. We hunger for things we can discuss."

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  Bianca Pieloch on 2008-04-17
  Humans love ANYTHING that gives us something to talk about. Youtube sparks conversations. What is cool about it is if someone hasn't seen a certain video, it is so easy to look up. The viewer can go back and view it whenever.

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