YouTube as the entry point

YouTube is in the news today for creating a user-generated video awards contest to be judged by community members. No big surprise. But it's a different mention of YouTube that caught my eye this weekend and speaks volumes about its state in today's culture. Student Jana Edwards comments on the need for owning a television in the Globe and Mail (March 17), "Though sometimes a prof will ask you to watch a program for school and it's not something you'd be able to track down on YouTube."  

Published 19 March 2007 16:05 by Lisa Walker

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  Alan Chumley said:

  Great observation, Lisa.  Interesting sign o' the times indeed.  
  
  In the media merger days of yore and yesteryear (AOL-Time-Warner, Bell Globemedia etc. and all manner of others that have since littered the convergent landscape), and based on the idea that content is king, there were lofty promises of one magical device, say a media server in one's basement, into which content, agnostic of source (internet vs. satelite, vs. cable) would stream and store feeding high def screens on-demand.  
  
  While much progress has been made since those days and some enterprising early adopters may have been able to cobble something together, we're certainly not at mass adoption stages.  
  
  Too bad, really, as I (as would other not so tech-savvy/later adopter types) welcome one simple system that ties my TV, on-line content, regular radio, satelite radio, phone, photos, mp3s, into one nice, neat user-friendly package.  
  
  If you consider content water, then can't we it get into the home and to all taps via one big pipe and pay one provider for it?  (Yes, I am aware of technical trials of certain providers, but where's the mass roll-out / adoption that's been talked about for moons?)      
  
  
   
  March 23, 2007 14:45
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  hot girl videos said:

  The blogosphere is only beginning to respond to the new service as far as comments go. Daisy Whitney writes that she thinks the idea is great. "It has great potential to be a one- stop destination to sort through the Web video clutter." Certainly, it's

  April 13, 2008 22:42