Will You Watch the Olympics?
As the 2008 Olympics in Beijing grow closer, global protests continue to swell. Decrying China's policies on Darfur and Tibet, as well as its notori...
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The New York Times Gives Ink to Matt Harding's "Almost Perfect Piece of Internet Art"
Dan Brown | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
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This guy traveled the world and did a weird dance everywhere he went. It sounds simple, and yet while I watched it I felt almost moved to tears. This video is somehow extraordinary.
Viacom Versus Google: Coming of Age of the "Viderate" Generation
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
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While judge Stanton declined Viacom's request for YouTube's proprietary code, he ordered Google to provide Viacom with userIDs and IP addresses (for unregistered users) as well as three terabytes of video.
Google Trying To Find Money In Web Video, Looking Old-Media
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
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YouTube will generate about $200 million of revenue this year,* say two WSJ sources, short of Google's expectations. Chief salesman Tim Armstrong is ...
Hagee's Revenge? Videos Of Controversial Pastor Removed From YouTube
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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Late last week, with no prior notification, lawyers for the controversial evangelist John Hagee had a series of videos concerning the pastor removed f...
Attention YouTube Employees: There Is A Call From Resident Evil
Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
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A popular pastime in Silicon Valley to show off its collective creativity: companies encouraging employees to name conference rooms, computer gear, ev...
Court Ruling: Google Must Reveal YouTube Viewing Logs
BBC | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
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Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Goo...
YouTube Ordered To Give Viacom Its User Data... Data Can Only Be Used For Proving Piracy
AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
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NEW YORK — Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the p...
Reading The Pictures: McCain's War Cred Goes Belly Up
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
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Until Sunday, this well-known October 1967 image of McCain being pulled from a lake near Hanoi was used to convey heroism and elicit admiration and empathy.
VIDEO: 2008: Web Video Odyssey
Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
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Primary season 2008 was stamped in part by internet video. We've compiled choice excerpts, including snippets from the big hits that helped shape the campaigns.
Social Media Is The Future of Politics... and Independence!
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
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It's fitting to commemorate Independence Day by broadening our focus this week beyond the consumer, to the citizen. They are after all, the same person.
Harry Reid: "Coal Makes Us Sick, Oil Makes Us Sick"
Huffington Post | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, on a recent appearance on Fox Business, said that as fuel costs rise, the most major costs are the hidden ones. He ...
The Third Screen: Larry Gelbart on the Future of Media
Vickie Karp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media
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In the American media landscape, human viewers may be the only constant, but it remains hard to tell if media is about them and for them, or only, well, about money. Does it matter?
The Opposite of Voyeurism: Why People Twitter
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living
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Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.
Viral Video Watch: Dancing Matt Goes Global One More Time
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living
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Matt Harding attained internet stardom with his 2005 YouTube video "Where the Hell is Matt?", in which the 28-year-old software developer danced aroun...
Aloha, Mr. Hand
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media
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For all his reliance on social science research, in The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein doesn't present any evidence to justify his assertion that this generation is the dumbest in American history.
McCain 'C-Word' Moment Becomes Fodder For Satirists
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
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The satirists at Public Service Administration have already scored numerous hits over the campaign season with their high-production value skewerings ...
Newest Viral Video: I'm Voting Republican
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
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"I'm Voting Republican" is the latest spoof video to make it big on YouTube, raking in over one million views in less than a week. Some choice reason...
Obama vs McCain: Digging-In or "Standing Ready"
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home
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This weekend Barack Obama ditched his suit, picked up a shovel and started filling sandbags in the Midwest flood zone. John McCain sent a press release from a private fundraiser in Riverside, California.
Live From Your Street?
Laura Flanders | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
After a year of nominations, the press has wracked up millions of miles, but looking ahead, will the coverage be any more enlightening? It could be, if 'Live From Main Street' has anything to do with it.
The Most Tragically Awkward Video in the History of YouTube
ZP Heller | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
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Do they hope to make McCain seem hipper by making stiff-as-a-board Davis the face of the campaign? Maybe they figured that the best way to combat McCain's doddering image is by playing into it a little more.
Queen Rania of Jordan Does YouTube for Peace
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
Queen Rania is at the cutting edge of diplomatic communication and efforts to build global understanding, having launched a webpage on Youtube.
My Evening With Harriet Christian
Will Bower | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
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The DNC has committed an act of war. YouTube darling Harriet Christian fired back bullets of passion. Pretty? No. But she revealed the depth of frustration many people are feeling right now. That she did.
Meet YouPorn: The X-Rated YouTube
Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
Google's (GOOG) YouTube is the runaway winner in the general-purpose Web video sharing market: In March, it received 73% of all U.S. visits to video s...
Coming June 3: The Twin Towers of Internet Censorship and Atomic Reactor Terror
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
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While attacking free speech in the name of fighting terror, McCain and Lieberman advocate building still more nuclear plants, giving terrorists access to the ultimate threat.
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