Mannderings

YouTube

I posted thoughts on social networking previously at http://genlib.blogspot.com/2006/04/social-networking.html and YouTube is yet another example, but there are a few things different about YouTube.

1. First of all, it's very new and it isn't certain that it's popularity will insure it's success. It just might fail.

2. There's considerable copyright violation going on. YouTube is trying to convince members not to post copyrighted items, convince the music, video, and TV industries that it's good exposure, and appease the industry by promising to remove anything once they are notified. Don't know if that will work.

3. I was hesitant to link to this example below because it contains some potentially objectionable content. Nonetheless, I found it informative and representative of the sort of thing that is "good" about YouTube.

So, I'm making this separate posting. Here's an interesting six minute video clip from YouTube (NOTE: I'm not hosting this clip--I'm just pointing you to the content on YouTube).

posted by Alan @ 19:40