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THE JOURNAL OF STEFFANIE RIVERS: YouTube TV
*Last weekend my friend and I decided to forgo dinner and a movie to stay home and watch TV. But when we couldn’t find anything on television to capture our attention – at least within the few seconds it took him to surf from one channel to the next – we ended up turning to YouTube. In a sentence, YouTube is ESPN, BET, the History and the Discovery channels rolled into one network.
YouTube is to the internet what TV-on-demand is to cable. I’m convinced that whatever piece of non-pornographic video you ever could want to view – not that I did a porno search or anything (unless you consider the R.Kelly video to be porno) – has been uploaded onto YouTube. If you want to watch old wrestling matches, see Howard Cosell interview Muhammad Ali in his prime or inspect video of Tupac Shakur with rapper 50 Cents (I know…if Tupac is dead how can that be?) it’s archived on YouTube – the video library of the internet.
After perusing the video catalog, we decided to watch a few standup comedians in action. Some of the videos were like watching a bad copy of a bootleg video. One camera man obviously had videotaped a comedy show as it was aired on his television. With commentary from his friends and without a tripod. But that just added to the humor of the whole thing. I guess you could say it was copyright infringement at its worst.
On another YouTube page one guy was so good at re-enacting popular scenes from well-known movies he had guest appearances on late night TV shows.
It’s apparent to me the whole world was waiting for some place to store all the videos they have ever recorded from the beginning of video time.
Starting in September I’ll upload the video version of my weekly columns on my new YouTube page. Who knows, maybe I can get everyone who reads it to check out the video version and help my site get thousands of hits. I admit I’m hooked. But I could think of a lot worse things to get hooked on.
Steffanie Rivers is a free-lance journalist living in Dallas, Texas. For public speaking inquiries, comments or questions email her at teamtcbadvertising@hotmail.com.
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