In Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago, and the media and volk seemed obsessed by the "Bus Uncle" incident. The Wikipedia entry is pretty good on it. A phone video of a probably drunken exchange on a bus was downloaded onto YouTube, a video file sharing site very popular in Asia, and had over 2 million hits, and found its way into rap songs, parodies, ads and so on. The talk of the town.
Is this the role of conventional mass media from now on, as an aggregator and supplier of Web clips?
Other recent notable items on YouTube include Henry Rollin's agitprop A Love Letter to Anne Coulter, the popular Evolution of Dance, and my favourite easy mark's BrokeBack to the Future, Australia's Brokeback Mountain - Christian Edition and my favorite mumbling Brokeback Mountain 2: Mission Impossible.
Electronic music fans will be rewarded by a search for Kraftwerk. Especially glad to relive the astonishemnt of their 1981 tour and the hilarious pre-Autobahn Rueckzuck
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Yes I have heard of MySpace (and Technorati and other tagged social systems)
Doing a simple search on "Kraftwerk" on both sites is interesting. If I wanted to hear musos who sound like Kraftwerk I would use MySpace. If I want to see rare and old Kraftwerk TV appearances I would use YouTube. MySpace is oriented around people, YouTube is oriented around the clips. Yin and yang. Feminine and masculine.
The Bus Uncle and Evolution of Dance clips lurched into popularity because of YouTube, not MySpace...
YouTube? Have you heard about MySpace?