youtube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users upload video clips and view clips created by other users. It offers unique user-generated content along with music, movie clips, and trailers, and helped give birth to the trend of videoblogging, where people talk about their everyday lives in videos that their friends or total strangers can view.

Everything from a guy getting hit in the nuts with a baseball to an unrecognized comedy troupe making their debut can be found here. More deliberate fictional worlds and serial “shows” have been created by users as well.

The site relies on the Adobe Flash video format, a compressed, low-bandwidth format that is seen as not losing too much quality while increasing download and viewing speed and consistency.

Anyone can visit the site and watch virtually anything, though some videos are off limits to users under 18 years of age. The site occasionally gets tangled up in copyright infringement due to users posting protected content, but self-policing has largely mitigated the problem.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “youtube ”

• Propaganda, Truncation, Equivocation

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 134
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• Matt Forte Finally Fires Back at Maurice Jones-Drew

  
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• The Last Post

  
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• So Stupid It’s Actually Entertaining

  
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• Watch: Lady GaGa on Gossip Girl

  
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• Welcoming the Next Generation

  
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• Apple Uses "Switchers" Ad to Keeping Smacking Windows 7

  
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• Reader submitted movie

  
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• Basic Music Production Tips

  
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• News Update – Best of the Day

  
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• Late Night at the PB Pub Presents: The Allman Brothers

  
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• HowTo: Internet Video Marketing With YouTube Part 3/7

  
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• Time Lapse: 15 Days In Liberty City

  
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• The Green Zone

  
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  Matt Damon is back with a follow-up to the success of the Bourne series. (Not the same storyline – just the same type of movie.) This one looks like it’s going to be pretty damn awesome.
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• Fort Zombie

  
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• FAIL: Chinese Kid Tests Electric Shock On Himself [Video]

  
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• Youve Washed My Tears - Jesus

  
  Talk Wisdom — Authority: 424
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• Thanks for 40 years, Sesame Street

  
  Pop Culture Junk Mail — Authority: 502
  I love old-school "Sesame Street," but damn if they arent doing some great things on it today. Check out the Plain White Ts singing about the letter T to the tune of their hit, "Hey There Delilah." "Hey there, thats Tina, shes a T wearing a tube top..."
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