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 Live Fish Dinner 
 on YouTube 
 Sparks 
 Uproar 

PETA rips cruel food video

Nov 19, 09 4:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Footage of Chinese diners tucking into a still-breathing fish has outraged animal rights groups. The video, which has attracted thousands of viewers on YouTube, shows the fish being picked apart with chopsticks as diners laugh and the fish gapes. It had been kept alive during cooking with a wet towel... More »

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China • YouTube • animal cruelty • fish • PETA • Chinese food

 YouTube Launches
Citizen Journo Channel

YouTube Direct service aims to connect editors with video

Nov 17, 09 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - A new YouTube service aims to make it easier for citizen journalists filming everything from celebrity antics to natural disasters to connect with news outlets. The YouTube Direct service allows news outlets to request, verify, and rebroadcast video from YouTube users. NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Politico were among... More »

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YouTube • online videos • journalism • Citizen journalism • YouTube Direct

OPINION

 Help! We're Being 
 Killed by Cuteness 

This is what happened to Japan after WWII, and it's terrible

Nov 14, 09 6:17 AM CST
(Newser) - There is an epidemic of cuteness in the country, Jim Windolf writes, symptomatic of our national desire to be loved and taken care of after 8 years of George W. Bush and a much-diminished standing in the world. The signs are everywhere: giggling babies, LOLcats, cupcakes, “cutegasms,” the... More »

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Bush administration • Internet • YouTube • Japan • LOLcats • cute • cuteness • malaise • national mood

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

Nov 13, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A YouTube channel that specialized in capturing Fox commentators' most outrageous moments has been shut down after copyright complaints from the channel. News1News was the favorite choice of plenty of left-leaning blogs and news sources seeking to poke fun at Fox, notes Gawker , which has been left with plenty of... More »

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blogosphere • YouTube • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • copyright infringement

 Fed-Up 
 Principal 
 Bans Word 
 'Meep' 

He thwarts a planned meep-a-thon

Nov 11, 09 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A Massachusetts principal has banned an unlikely word from school grounds: meep. The nonsensical word—it's from the character Beaker on The Muppet Show—has for inexplicable reasons gone viral. Meep was such an epidemic at Danvers High—where students were using Facebook to plan a mass meeping—that principal... More »

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YouTube • Massachusetts • Muppet Show

WATCH THE VIDEO


Totally Crowdsourced 
 Song Hits YouTube 

BBC's ChartJackers raising money for charity with 'I've Got Nothing'

Nov 9, 09 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Four teenagers are trying to break into the UK charts with no experience, no money, and no musicians...but with a lot of help from YouTube. They put together an entirely crowdsourced music video using contributed YouTube comments for the lyrics, a YouTuber-written melody, and a band, producer, and actors... More »

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music • YouTube • music videos • Jay-ZTV

pop culture


 100 Defining 
 Moments 
 of the '00s 

The iPod, Guitar Hero, Twitter—and some serious moments, too

Oct 30, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - From the tragic (World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina) to the seemingly trivial (Stephen Fry's first Tweet), the Telegraph lists the top 100 defining cultural moments of the decade so far:
  • April 2000: Metallica sues music-sharing service Napster.
  • October 2001: The iPod is released.
  • February
... More »

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Barack Obama • Hurricane Katrina • James Cameron • YouTube • Academy Awards • Al Gore • World Trade Center • iPod • September 11 • An Inconvenient Truth • Michael Moore • Michael Jackson • Napster • Metallica • Guitar Hero • Sacha Baron Cohen • Dreams From My Father • George W. Bush • Twitter • 9/11 attacks • Slumdog Millionaire • Oscars • PlayStation 2 • Stephen Fry • tweet • Jay-ZTV • Avatar (film)

Teens Busted for Rapping Fast-Food Order

Utah McDonald's doesn't appreciate YouTube-inspired stunt

Oct 30, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Utah teens are in trouble with the law for attempting to place their McDonald's order in the form of a rap song. The four teens, rolled into the drive-through this week and, finding themselves the only customers, attempted to re-create a 2006 YouTube video by rapping their order. The... More »

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Internet • YouTube • McDonald's • police • Utah • prank • disorderly conduct

MORE VIDEO VIOLENCE

 Vigilante Video Divides Mexico 

Some say alleged teen thieves got what they deserved

Oct 27, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A video of five teenage boys being beaten by vigilantes and forced to French-kiss each other has sparked a debate on crime and justice in Mexico. Officials and human rights organizations have reacted with outrage to the abuse of the alleged thieves, but many ordinary Mexicans fed up with soaring... More »

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YouTube • Mexico • thief • vigilante justice

TANGLED WEB DEPT.

Miss Jackass? New Site Is YouTube for Crazy Dares

MakeaDare.com aims to hook users up with professional opportunity

Oct 24, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fearing that Jackass-style daredevil stunts are getting lost on YouTube, one entrepreneur has launched a site where the brave/stupid take on dares from others. Make A Dare users then vote, with “street cred” the winner’s reward. At least for now—Tory Osinoff tells True/Slant he hopes he can... More »

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entertainment • entrepreneurs • YouTube • Jackass • daredevil • Tory Osinoff

 U2 to Stream 
 Concert on YouTube 

Sunday's show will stream live, for free

Oct 20, 09 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - U2 will offer a video stream of a live concert for free on YouTube this Sunday. The stream of the sold-out show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California will be available in 16 countries, including the US, Brazil, Israel, and Australia. U2 has "wanted to do something like... More »

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music • YouTube • Bono • concert • streaming media • streaming content

 Taliban Starts 
 YouTube Channel 

But its most disturbing clip was taken down

Oct 19, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The jihad has come to YouTube: The Taliban has set up shop on the viral video site, posting two propaganda videos to its “Istqalmedia” channel, Fareed Zakaria noticed over the weekend. One, which you can see here, shows a variety of pastoral scenes set to Pashtun-language music. The other,... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • YouTube • viral video

GOP Pol
Ripped Over
'Redneck Rap' 

Anti-Obama video touts opossum, 'the other dark meat'

Oct 16, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kansas lawmaker Bill Otto brushed off accusations of racism after his "Redneck Rap" video was pulled from YouTube yesterday. The Republican sported a hat describing opossum as "the other dark meat" in the video, in which he slams President Obama's policies and then repeats the hat's slogan, adding,... More »

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YouTube • Republican • Kansas • racism • rap video • President Obama

WATCH IT

 Obama's Sexy 
 Salsa Irks Michelle 

After salsa dancing at the Fiesta Latina, Barack seems to spark wife's ire

Oct 14, 09 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama may have gotten on his wife’s bad side last night after salsa dancing with Mexican pop singer Thalia at the White House’s Fiesta Latina. TMZ points to a YouTube video (watch it at left) showing Michelle appearing to give Barack the cold shoulder after he returns... More »

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Barack Obama • YouTube • Michelle Obama • White House • Obama dancing

YouTube Reaches 'Well Over' 1B Views Per Day

Google subsidiary takes the opportunity to gloat

Oct 9, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move ripped right from the McDonald’s playbook, YouTube’s logo today comes with the tag “1 billion views per day!” That’s right, YouTube now gets “well over a billion views a day,” according to the site's official blog. Sure, execs are... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • online videos • web traffic

VIRAL VIDEO

'Screw' Those Soviet Hockey Players: Kid

Pint-sized coach
recites Kurt Russell's speech from Miracle

Oct 6, 09 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - What’s more inspiring than watching Kurt Russell speak the words of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks to the 1980 men’s Olympic team before they played—and beat—the Russians in the film Miracle? Try the same words coming from a 5-year-old. Well, maybe it’s just cuter,... More »

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social networking • Internet • YouTube • film • Soviet Union • hockey • viral video • movies • Kurt Russell • Miracle on Ice • Herb Brooks • Miracle • 1980 Winter Olympics • Lake Placid

WATCH IT

 Only Footage 
 of Anne Frank 
 Hits YouTube 

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

Oct 2, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an... More »

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YouTube • Holocaust • museum • Netherlands • Amsterdam • World War II • Holland • Anne Frank • diary • footage • Otto Frank

Newark Mayor Bars Conan From NJ in Playful Feud

Booker fires back after O'Brien's Newark joke

Oct 1, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker have been lobbing insults back and forth—O’Brien on the Tonight Show, Booker via YouTube—for the past week. It started when Conan made a joke about Booker’s drive to improve Newark's health care—it "consists of a bus... More »

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YouTube • Conan O'Brien • Cory Booker • Tonight Show

VIral viDEO

 Watch 100 
 YouTube 
 Classics in 
 4 Minutes 

Thanks to a new mash-up, you can catch up on four years of pop culture in a jiffy

Oct 1, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Want to catch up on YouTube’s greatest hits but don’t have the time? No problem: Just watch a new 4-minute mash-up that brings 100 of the best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint) together. Clips include such classics as “Keyboard Cat” and “David After Dentist,”... More »

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YouTube • online videos • Obama Girl • viral video • videos • trend

 Jiggy Beyoncé  
 Baby Goes Viral 


Cory busts a move

Sep 25, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oh baby, it's so hard not to move watching Beyoncé tear up the screen in her Single Ladies video—even if you are wearing a diaper. Baby Cory knows. With a couple of squats, a few leg jiggles and a wag of the head he's gone viral with his dance... More »

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YouTube • dance • music videos • Beyonce • viral video • Single Ladies

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