from PC World, by Steve Bass
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091800314.html
The author of this article reminisces of the time when one could find a video online and it would actually mean something, not just another sap making a fool of himself. You'd share this video with a friend and everyone would get a chuckle and wait for the next good video to be found. He goes on to say how the good videos these days are practically impossible to find. It seems that a million new videos are posted daily. He claims that he knows higher end stuff, videos worth your time to watch. Videos with teaching capacity.
He sets the complaint that sometimes there is a video these days that one wants to share with a friend, but either the video is embedded in a dirty website, or it has sleazy or explicit ads. He doesn't have a solution for this, that he knows of, how to extract the video from the source so that one may share the video at one's own disclosure. Apparently there are also videos with the sleazy site's URL in the video so that it is hard to avoid.
He mentions a blog called TED.com. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It is dedicated to intellectual topics other than the same old silly kid running into a wall or expressing his flatulence to the world as if it were something special and/or magical, which whether it is or not, gets old. TEDBlog talks about technology, culture, science, and life.
The author encourages the reader to join TEDBlog, you'll only have to sit through a few, loud apparently, short ads. He notes this: "Did you know you can unlock your car with a cell phone?" I am not doubting the validity of this statement... although I highly doubt you'll get my '91 Buick Century non-automatic locks open with any phone without a lock pick in it. Although he claims this and some other silly things, he doesn't cite the specific source. I suppose the idea is to look around ted.com yourself. It is a pretty interesting site by the by.
Another interesting video is "Ten Great, but Fake, Tech and Science Videos." Or "How long will you live?" which apparently the Wharton School of Business can closely guess for you. There is then a brief discussion about using WinRAR to download videos in parts and being able to preview the parts before the actual download is complete.
The article ends with some small bit of news of Microsoft coming out with a phone to top Apple, but no real conclusion is gotten to. It was a somewhat sloppy article, but video sharing is file sharing can be a good thing. But like many things on the internet, probably a waste of your time. I'm glad to see there are groups that filter all the somewhat useful videos to one place. Hopefully one day you can just program your current consciousness into a computer and it will tell you whether a form of entertainment will be a waste of your time or not. Or maybe not. Either way, none of us will never watch another dumb video, so let me know if you find a good one out there, maybe I'll check it out.
picture from http://www.leechvideo.com/pic/1594/501329667578663.jpg
"Aw nuts! I fell down again. Did you get it on camera at least? Awesome."
This video is cool though, just click the bird. My mom sent me a video and a believable story: this bird steals a bag of chips from the same shop everyday, then feasts upon his victory with his friends. Human customers actually pay for the bird's chip habit now.
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