guthrie says on his del.icio.us page: "...youtube is totally reaching its golden peak (like napster did..), really gotta download all my favorites before they vanish....."
No kidding. They're vanishing as fast as copyrightholders decide they have had enough free (grainy) exposure. As far as saving them, the thing is, you won't, and I won't. File that under the best of intentions.
I have some Quicktime vids that I created up on this page--this marks me as a pre YouTubian dinosaur, yet most have been made since 2005.
I avoided YouTube because I dreaded that uniform rectangle and feared the Procrustean distortions that odd-sized formats would suffer. Also, I knew some evil f*ckw*d like Rupert Murdoch would end up with all my content on his server. Turns out it's google, but I don't have a gmail account, either.
I'm enjoying the YT ride, finding out what bands actually look like that I listened to a million times on vinyl and CD, and otherwise glomming onto bits of my cultural heritage, past and present. I'm filing them away in my mind because I don't trust that I'll find them again.
update: some ordinary vulgarities trimmed so the blog maintains its lofty tone
I remember, 2002?, 2001?, when Napster was 100% and at it's peak, you could search for anything, aaanything, and it was all on there, always, and all instant... Any song, any band... It was the most insane feeling, kind of similar to the "I don't have to remember stuff, I can just Google it later" feeling... That's what YouTube is like right now..
oh well, there'll always be video.yahoo.com (it's a search engine)...
Yeah, one reason I'm doing long YT link lists is to tantalize myself in later years with reminders of this golden age.
those videos were what got me there, but the user created content is what keeps me coming back.
I consider it all user created content, despite Mark Cuban's sarcastic assertion that "they generated [it] by hooking up their TV tuner cards to their PCs." Everything scrambles and degrades slightly differently.
But yeah, right now it's a healthy mix--I wonder, though, what will happen when you don't have all that great "stolen" material around as a yardstick and/or catalyst. There's also an awful lot of bad amateur content on there right now.
Just continuing in my role as doomsayer, sorry.
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guthrie says on his del.icio.us page: "...youtube is totally reaching its golden peak (like napster did..), really gotta download all my favorites before they vanish....."
No kidding. They're vanishing as fast as copyrightholders decide they have had enough free (grainy) exposure. As far as saving them, the thing is, you won't, and I won't. File that under the best of intentions.
I have some Quicktime vids that I created up on this page--this marks me as a pre YouTubian dinosaur, yet most have been made since 2005.
I avoided YouTube because I dreaded that uniform rectangle and feared the Procrustean distortions that odd-sized formats would suffer. Also, I knew some evil f*ckw*d like Rupert Murdoch would end up with all my content on his server. Turns out it's google, but I don't have a gmail account, either.
I'm enjoying the YT ride, finding out what bands actually look like that I listened to a million times on vinyl and CD, and otherwise glomming onto bits of my cultural heritage, past and present. I'm filing them away in my mind because I don't trust that I'll find them again.
update: some ordinary vulgarities trimmed so the blog maintains its lofty tone
- tom moody 10-31-2006 5:22 pm
I remember, 2002?, 2001?, when Napster was 100% and at it's peak, you could search for anything, aaanything, and it was all on there, always, and all instant... Any song, any band... It was the most insane feeling, kind of similar to the "I don't have to remember stuff, I can just Google it later" feeling... That's what YouTube is like right now..
oh well, there'll always be video.yahoo.com (it's a search engine)...
- guthrie (guest) 10-31-2006 9:32 pm
Yeah, one reason I'm doing long YT link lists is to tantalize myself in later years with reminders of this golden age.
- tom moody 11-01-2006 12:09 am
those videos were what got me there, but the user created content is what keeps me coming back.
- paul (guest) 11-01-2006 12:41 am
I consider it all user created content, despite Mark Cuban's sarcastic assertion that "they generated [it] by hooking up their TV tuner cards to their PCs." Everything scrambles and degrades slightly differently.
But yeah, right now it's a healthy mix--I wonder, though, what will happen when you don't have all that great "stolen" material around as a yardstick and/or catalyst. There's also an awful lot of bad amateur content on there right now.
Just continuing in my role as doomsayer, sorry.
- tom moody 11-01-2006 12:56 am