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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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May 2009
- Boyle Goes Into Hiding, Will Compete
  
  Associated Press | May 29, 09 11:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Though Susan Boyle is in hiding—her brother tells People , “It really has been terrible for her” dealing with the paparazzi—she took the time to post on the Britain’s Got Talent website, reassuring fans that she wants “nothing more than to stay and sing.” But how can American fans watch her Saturday performance and Sunday’s results show? The AP has suggestions: More »
- Porn Spammers Hit YouTube
  
  BBC | May 21, 09 5:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - YouTube removed hundreds of pornographic videos posted to the site today in a coordinated attack, the BBC reports. The offending files, uploaded under names such as the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana, started innocently enough before turning graphic. “I'm 12 years old and what is this?” went a comment on a fraudulent video entitled “Jonas Brother Live on Stage.” More »
- Health Group Posts Graphic YouTube Vid of Birthing Teen
  
  Daily Mail (UK) | May 19, 09 4:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A British National Health Service trust posted a controversial staged video on YouTube showing a teenager giving birth amid a pack of yelling high schoolers as a way to scare girls about pregnancy, reports the Daily Mail . The video shows a teen, played by an actress, giving birth on a sports field with the help of a friend whose face is smeared with blood. More »
- Susan Boyle Gets Dolled Up
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 18, 09 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It’s not quite the Barbie treatment, but a die-hard fan of YouTube phenom Susan Boyle is selling handmade dolls of her favorite crooner online, the Telegraph reports. Each $22 doll, measuring 4 inches tall, is crafted from household materials and painted by hand. “When I first saw Susan on television I just fell in love with her and when I heard her voice I had stars in my eyes,” explains Illinois dollmaker Debbie Ritter. More »
- Susan Boyle Gets Subtitles for Oprah Interview
  
  Daily Mail (UK) | May 12, 09 9:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle made her debut on Oprah yesterday, but American audiences were given subtitles to help understand her heavy Scottish accent, the Mail reports. Boyle, recorded at her home in Scotland, told Oprah she’s not lonely: “I’ve got millions of new friends now,” and downplayed her controversial makeover, insisting she did it "just to tidy myself up, like any other female would have done." More »
- Welcome to Remedial Web Trends 101
  
  New York Times | May 7, 09 2:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - When the New York Times ’ tech guru admitted on Twitter to only recently having heard of “Rickrolling”—the Internet prank in which a link promises something desirable but delivers the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up —his followers blasted him for being “so 2006.” But it got David Pogue thinking about the rapidly expanding canon of web-only culture—and what a primer on the basics would look like. More »
- Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu
  
  Butter Team | May 5, 09 3:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - While swine flu sweeps the world, a YouTube meme is sweeping the Web with nearly equal virulence, Butter Team blogger Z reports: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat. Amateur video artists splice fail-type situations—guy falling down escalator, Miss South Carolina—with a clip of a keyboard-playing cat, and the kitty music and visuals fade in over the embarrassing scene, as if playing it off stage. More »
- Yet Another Susan Boyle Tape Emerges
  
  Daily Mirror (UK) | May 1, 09 8:13 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Susan Boyle tapes just keep on coming. This time, the Britain’s Got Talent sensation is shown singing at a talent contest in 1984—and the 23-year-old looks good , the Mirror reports. “She was so shy but she was also very attractive back then—she turned a few heads when she came in,” said the audience member who unearthed the tape. More »
April 2009
- Scientists: Parrots Groove to the Beat
  
  Boston Globe | Apr 30, 09 5:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Yes, it's an actual study: Parrots can dance. Really and truly dance. A painstaking review of lab video—and YouTube—revealed that the birds have rhythm, the Boston Globe reports. Frame-by-frame analysis of birds’ motion to music shows that they bob and weave in perfect sync to a beat, a new study shows. Scientists believe the bird’s mojo might be related to its talent for mimicry, which humans share. More »
- From TV News to R&B Hit
  
  Time | Apr 30, 09 11:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If you've ever thought the TV news needed a little something extra, meet Michael Gregory. The 24-year-old Brooklyn musician has taken YouTube by storm by mashing up the news into a faux-R&B track with the use of Auto-Tune, Time reports. The software designed to correct pitch—which can also make humans sound like sexy robots—has been heard on songs as diverse as Cher’s Believe and numerous numbers by Akon and T-Pain, among others. More »
- Jacko Gets Groove Back— by Studying YouTube
  
  Sun (UK) | Apr 30, 09 9:21 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Michael Jackson hasn’t performed in so long, he’s almost forgotten how. Thank goodness for YouTube, which Jacko has been using to brush up on his trademark moves before returning to the stage in July, the Sun reports. “It’s over a decade since he performed a full-length show,” a source tells the tab. “He’s watching all the old performance footage he can find in a bid to be on the form of his life this summer.” More »
- Brown Blocks Comments on His YouTube Channel
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 28, 09 8:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The British government has tried to harness the power of the Internet, but for Gordon Brown, the Web’s been prickly: a video of him picking his nose, for example, has been viewed far more often than recent policy address. Now the prime minister’s team has disabled comments on its YouTube portal, saying that moderating them would be a mammoth task, the Times of London reports. More »
- Susan Boyle Dyes Hair, Dons Make-Up
  
  Sun (UK) | Apr 24, 09 7:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Britain’s Got Talent judges can talk all they want about keeping their frumpy-chic new star just the way she is for the finals. Susan Boyle isn't having any of it: The YouTube sensation got a $50 dye job, haircut and straightening yesterday, turning her frowsy gray locks brown and wavy, after getting her bushy eyebrows tamed the day before. The show's honchos were frantic, the Sun reports. “People have fallen in love with the real Susan. We don’t want to change what they fell in love with,” said one source. More »
- 10-Year-Old Boyle Demo Tape Goes Viral
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Apr 23, 09 10:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream rendition setting a YouTube record, a decade-old demo of her singing Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly has become a new viral hit. The former—from the Britain's Got Talent audition that blasted Boyle to fame—has been viewed 93.5 million times on YouTube and 100 million times on combined sites, putting it on track to smash the 120-million record held by a popular dance montage, the Telegraph reports. More »
- Snot Pizza Isn't a Felony: Keillor
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 22, 09 1:39 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - One minimum-wage worker farts on a salami sandwich, and suddenly the president of Domino's is issuing a public apology? “This is the world turned upside down,” writes Garrison Keillor in the Chicago Tribune . In the actual world, the salami fart is nothing. “The night manager just says, ‘Hey, you guys cut it out and go clean the toilet.’” But thanks to the Internet, it’s been magnified to absurdity—which is, of course, the goal of satire. More »
- Tweeting for Peace in Iraq?
  
  Reuters | Apr 21, 09 2:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iraqi lawmakers tweeting during sessions? YouTube campaign videos? Execs from communications and social media firms, including the likes of Google, AT&T, YouTube, MeetUp, and Twitter are in Iraq this week at the behest of the State Department. Their mission: to consider how their tools might be used to boost transparency, battle corruption, and bring people together in the fledgling democracy, Reuters reports. More »
- Odd Duck Boyle Is Talk of Her Tiny Town
  
  Washington Post | Apr 20, 09 7:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Everyone knows Susan Boyle in her Scottish village—she’s the odd loner who does killer karaoke at the local pub. Now, she’s the topic on everyone’s lips in the community of 5,000 where she’s lived in the same house all her life. And though the town has been subject to a media storm since Boyle became a YouTube hit, “Susan will be Susan. She’ll never change,” her brother told the Washington Post . More »
- YouTube Edging Closer to Hollywood
  
  Wired | Apr 16, 09 8:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - YouTube's latest move to add Sony as a partner highlights the delicate balance it's trying to strike between Hollywood and its own roots in "homegrown video," writes Chris Snyder in Wired . The deals with Sony and others authorize the site—under pressure to curb unauthorized uploads—to show full-length movies and thousands of TV episodes in a new section of the site dubbed YouTube Shows. More »
- YouTube Orchestra Makes Strong, if Not Subtle, Debut
  
  BBC | Apr 16, 09 9:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - YouTube's "crowdsourced" symphony orchestra made its debut at Carnegie Hall last night. Its 90-plus members played like "a finely tuned instrument," a BBC reviewer found, despite the fact that they had only met in person a couple of days earlier. The musicians, from 30 countries, were picked by a vote of YouTube viewers from 2,000 who sent in clips. More »
- Domino's Workers Fired for Gross-Out Video
  
  Advertising Age | Apr 15, 09 2:12 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Domino's Pizza is struggling to contain the damage after a video of disgusting antics in one of its kitchens surfaced on YouTube, Advertising Age reports. A male employee is filmed wiping his bare butt with a sponge he then uses to wipe a pizza pan, farting on pepperoni, and stuffing cheese up his nose—which is then added to a sandwich under construction. More »

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A Pakistani Internet user surfs the YouTube Web site at a local Internet cafe in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Students protested Tuesday against alleged anti-Islamic blasphemy in the West as Pakistan defended its clampdown on the YouTube Web site which accidentally interrupted access for Internet users around...

A Pakistani Internet user surfs the YouTube Web site at a local Internet cafe in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Students protested Tuesday against alleged anti-Islamic blasphemy in the... (AP Photo)

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Video Power: The Potent New Political Force
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