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YouTube Rules

Whether it's 13 year-olds embarrassing themselves by lip synching, budding directors showing off or politicians...well...embarrassing themselves, YouTube is where we can watch it all...when China, Turkey or Pakistan is not blocking you or bringing the service down. And some of it is even legal

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April 2008
- More Than Ever Like To Watch on Web
  
  CNET | Apr 16, 08 4:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - US Internet users watched 10 billion online videos in February, cNet reports, with statistics released by ComScore showing a 66% gain from February 2006. Unsurprisingly, Google’s video sites (chiefly YouTube) accounted for 35.4% of the 10 billion views, the largest portion for any one site. More »
- Jilted Wife Takes Divorce to YouTube
  
  Associated Press | Apr 16, 08 11:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Divorce has a new weapon: YouTube. The former-actress wife of a millionaire theater impresario took to the Internet last week in a teary six-minute video in which she claims her older hubby is evicting her from their Park Avenue pad after years of refusing her sex despite owning porn, condoms, and Viagra, the AP reports. May not play in divorce court, but it's scored 287,776 hits. More »
- Mock Rocker Woos Teens to the White Stuff
  
  Newsweek | Apr 16, 08 3:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - He drinks milk out of his hollow, transparent guitar and hits power chords while singing the virtues of the white stuff. The frontman for "White Gold" doesn’t have a milk mustache, but the dairy industry hopes the ad campaign centered around the fake rock god will boost declining milk sales, Newsweek reports. Between 1981 and 2006, US consumption of milk dipped 14%. More »
- YouTube Beating Bruises Dr. Phil
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 14, 08 1:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - TV shrink Phil McGraw is in the hot seat again after a staffer bailed out the suspected ringleader of a teen YouTube beating in exchange for an exclusive interview, the New York Daily News reports. America’s favorite unlicensed daytime doc, who dispatched a producing team to Florida last week to cobble together interviews, has since canceled his teen-attack special. More »
- Web Trick Revives Rick Astley
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 11, 08 3:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - We’re never gonna give him up, even if we want to: ’80s pop sensation Rick Astley is an icon again thanks to “rickrolling,” the practice of tricking Internet users into watching a video of his hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” 18 million people have clicked links aimed elsewhere only to land on the Astley clip, the Times of London reports. More »
- Video-Beating Teens Could Face Life
  
  CNN | Apr 11, 08 11:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The eight Florida teens who videotaped a half-hour beating of a classmate will be tried as adults and could face life behind bars if convicted, CNN reports. The suspects face felony kidnapping charges, and three also face witness tampering raps. They seemed remorseless, a sheriff said. “They were joking: ‘I guess we won’t get to go to the beach during spring break,'" he said. More »
- Teenager's Beating Raises Cyberbully Fears
  
  The Ledger | Apr 10, 08 5:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Parents and educators are still puzzling over how a dispute among girls got so out of hand that it ended with six Florida cheerleaders giving a high school classmate a concussion in a vicious beating. Teen bullying is nothing new but the fact that the feud started on MySpace and ended up with a video posted on You Tube highlights new worries about cyberbullying, the Lakeland Ledger writes. More »
- Post to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter In One Shot
  
  MIT Technology Review | Apr 9, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just bought Twhirl, which allows users to post on three different feeds at once, Technology Review reports. More »
- Waterloo—You Know, Like in the ABBA Song
  
  ANSA (Italy) | Apr 8, 08 11:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An telecom exec came up short in a motivational speech to employees when he called the battle of Waterloo a victory for Napoleon. Now clips of the animated Italian manager urging his staff to "go ahead and score like Napoleon at Waterloo" have become a YouTube hit, the ANSA news agency reports. More »
March 2008
- Living Life While Facing Death
  
  Independent (UK) | Mar 31, 08 7:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Professor Randy Pausch may be dying of pancreatic cancer, but a video of his “last lecture” continues to inspire millions around the world, the Independent reports. Pausch delivered his speech, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” to laughter and tears at Carnegie Mellon in September. Picked up by the Wall Street Journal , then by the likes of Oprah and Good Morning America , the talk by the 47-year-old father of three is now a certified phenomenon. More »
- YouTube Will Show When, Where Clips Are Hot
  
  New York Times | Mar 27, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In what could be a boon to advertisers, a new YouTube feature will allow video makers to see when and where their clips are being watched, reports the New York Times . YouTube Insight will show a map and graph representing the video’s popularity by state and over time--interesting information for casual users, but a boon to marketers hoping to better direct their ads. More »
- Talk-Show Format Gets a Bath
  
  Newsweek | Mar 25, 08 3:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Actor Craig Bierko, in an interview with Newsweek , says his strange, and strangely riveting, web video—in which he gives John Malkovich a sponge bath while engaging in "silly chatter"—is about exposing the weird artificiality of the talk-show format. "It sort of turns up the fake intimacy to a ridiculous degree," says the Tony nominee, currently starring in the Fox sitcom Unhitched . More »
- 'Barbie Bandits' Sentenced in Bank Heist
  
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Mar 24, 08 6:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The so-called "Barbie Bandits"—two ex-strippers who were caught on video robbing a bank and giggling—were sentenced today in suburban Atlanta. Ashley Nicole Miller, 19, got two years in prison, plus eight of probation; Heather Lyn Johnston, 20, faces 10 years' probation. A male accomplice was also sentenced to 10 years in the 2007 robbery, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. More »
- For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public
  
  Newsweek | Mar 16, 08 1:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - They’re known as millennials, the documentation generation, and the Look at Me’s. But what defines Americans born after 1982 is a mindset that every moment can be turned into a performance worthy of YouTube and MySpace and maybe parlayed into broader fame, Newsweek reports. Now sociologists are asking: Can healthy identities and relationships thrive in a generation obsessed with self-presentation and exhibitionism? More »
- YouTube Opens to Developers
  
  MIT Technology Review | Mar 14, 08 1:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - YouTube is opening up to software developers, the company said Wednesday. Programmers can create new interfaces to play videos, for example, or let users upload clips to YouTube directly from other sites. And later this year, viewers will be able to watch YouTube videos via TiVo. The open platform won’t create revenue, Technology Review reports, but YouTube hopes it will attract more users. More »
- Long-Awaited Free TV Site Counts Down to Launch
  
  New York Times | Mar 11, 08 11:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After lots of hype, a long wait, and a dollop of skepticism, NBC Universal and Fox’s Hulu is going live tomorrow with more than 200 free TV shows, feature films, and sports highlights and games, the New York Times reports. “We won’t stop until we have everything in terms of premium content,” said the CEO. “That is our mission.” More »
February 2008
- Kimmel's Revenge Scores Big
  
  Billboard | Feb 27, 08 4:57 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Take that, Sarah. A star-studded—and very much tongue-in-cheek—ode to Jimmy Kimmel's lust for Ben Affleck has become an Internet sensation, Billboard reports. The late-night host's video is a rebuttal to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's "I'm F---ing Matt Damon." The latest salvo, with Kimmel and a host of guest stars, including Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, is called "I'm F---ing Ben Affleck." More »
- YouTube Down For Two Hours After Pakistan Blockade | contentSutra.com
  
  contentsutra.com | Feb 26, 08
  
  As a result of the Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority’s (PTA) ban on Youtube there was a worldwide outage of the video sharing behemoth for around 2 hours. Pakistan Telecom apparently gave the order to the 70 ISP’s operating in the country.
- Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube
  
  Associated Press | Feb 24, 08 4:25 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan has blocked the country’s YouTube access over anti-Islamic videos on the site, the AP reports. One official conceded that a particular video offended authorities: a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The filmmaker has said that his piece paints Islam as a fascist religion that glorifies violence against homosexuals and women. More »
- Looting Serbian 'Riot Girls' a YouTube Hit
  
  Reuters | Feb 24, 08 8:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - After the violence and looting that gripped Belgrade on Thursday night, a video available on YouTube has become a Serbian phenomenon—and provoked near-universal disapproval. The clip features two female looters grabbing everything from chocolates to designer handbags and shoes while the American embassy burned. Entitled "Swapping Kosovo for a pair of sneakers," the video heaps scorn on the "Belgrade bimbos" who "are so greedy they even have to carry things in their teeth." More »

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