Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube
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It features a courageous but overmatched freshman named Brian Collins presenting
the worst sports-highlight rundown in human history, culminating in the worst
sportscaster catchphrase ever conceived: "Boom goes the dynamite."
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Judson Laipply'
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Or try the accurately titled "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years." A time-lapse documentary of Noah Kalina over 2,356 days, it's a little thin on plot, but it nonetheless racked up more than 3 million views in six weeks.
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on 2008-04-18 by myraycole
This is too strange. Who thinks to do this? Why? And why are we watching? It surely takes dedication to take a picture of yourself everyday for 6 years. I think it would be a good idea to do with a newborn.
which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an
insipid but weirdly fetching Romanian pop song.
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The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks,
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$1.65 billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.
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The price tag for YouTube, just to put the investment in perspective, is what
Target paid for 257 Mervyns department stores and four distribution centers in
13 states, and just a bit more than WPP Group paid for the Grey Global Group
advertising network with 10,500 employees in 83 countries generating $1.3
billion in revenue. Those, of course, are both profitable enterprises with vast
fixed assets.
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And there they are, in the bedrooms and dorms and cubicles of the world, uploading their asses off, more than 65,000 times a day on YouTube alone.
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Not long ago, all it had was a search algorithm and a cool logo.
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