YouTube, the biggest time sucker on the web
I am sure that if you read news, blogs and tech.memeorandum, you are coming across more and more articles about what I think is one of the biggest sociological phenomenon in the Web this days, the video Web site YouTube.com
It has even been featured twice in El Pais, the Spanish news paper since two clips posted there are on its way of becoming the biggest hits in Spain this coming summer, one is a song by a group called El Koala (here the video, this guy has even made it to Spanish national TV after becoming popular in YouTube, pretty amazing considering is a US site that does not even have a localized UI) and the other one is a spoof of the recent Madonna hit Hang Up by a group called Las Terremoto de Alcorcon (video here). Even if you do not understand Spanish, you might still enjoy them (specially the Madonna spoof) so try them out.
So today I just came across this article, The neglected art of lip-syncing. By Sam Anderson while I was doing my morning review of tech.memeorandum (on a different note, I nearly stop using my RSS reader lately and just browsing tech.memeorandum one a day and that seems to be working better at managing my time and information overflow than subscribing to my own feeds) and I just realized that I spent half and hour checking some of the videos that are linked there (do so, this one and this one are extremely funny if you only want to waste 10 minutes of your time). Admittedly, it made me laugh and I had a good time but I just realized that lately, I am spending more and more time looking at YouTube videos that I either came across reading an article or that someone sends me via email. So, since I assume that I am pretty stereotypical Web surfer (well, perhaps I do surf a lot more than other people but I am sure that there is ton of people like me), I can declare in this post that YouTube is becoming the biggest time sucker on the Web. I was going to blog about MindCamp2.0 but because of YouTube it will happen later in the day.
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