Comments on: Breaking News: Video, Mobile & Social Media Trends

By: Paul Rodenburg

Paul Rodenburg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:04:10 +0000

Interesting blog, they usually are. Thanks so much Nalts, this site turns out time and time again to be an entertaining and insightful help to me. Youtube certainly is changing.

A shameless plug for one of my vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAwJzda69I

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:13:00 +0000

@27 Me too. I think I used that particular word to describe Kevin’s abuse of the English language some time ago.

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:43:13 +0000

I like the word “egregious.”

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:08:04 +0000

@22 Wowzerz, I didn’t know you still read the comments.
You were impressed by the word “cacophonous”? You should see the way I write when I haven’t slept in a couple of days and am too tired to dumb down my vocabulary for the benefit of the unwashed masses.

By: NutCheese

NutCheese — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:11:35 +0000

POOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:57:09 +0000

It’s Halloween LOLOLOL!

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:05:45 +0000

Stalkers WHO have good vocabulary, not THAT. Where’s Marylyn?

By: Nalts

Nalts — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:12:55 +0000

Oh this comment stream is just jam packed with Saturday-morning reading. Who needs cartoons? From pooping, to sage advice about filtering the chaos, to the alarmingly intelligent use of the word “cacophonous.” I’m not sure whether to be comforted or frightened by stalkers that have good vocabulary. At least the last words I hear will be learned ones.

By: blackturtle.us

blackturtle.us — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:03 +0000

I sometimes check the activity of friends on YouTube to see what my YouTube friends are watching. This sometimes leads me to some videos that I would have otherwise missed. Probably most of the videos I watch are from my list of subscriptions. Also the favorites lists of some of my YouTube peers often yield videos worth watching. It’s all pretty hit and miss and I agree that someone who put together a blog of video recommendations would be great providing that the person in charge of this enterprise had tastes similar to mine!

By: Daniel Sevitt

Daniel Sevitt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:45:16 +0000

While I was at Metacafe we were all about crowd-sourced success. We saw a lot of video and often before anyone else picked it up but we wouldn’t build a forum for recommending it to others.

Back in the early days, we were always impressed with the eclectic work the YouTube editors did filling up their homepage with suggestions. Their picks regularly got 250k+ views and many longer-term fanbases were launched on the back of a good feature position.

I think there’s a good argument that YouTube’s editorial policy back then was a key part of their success in establishing the community even if it was one of the less scalable elements.

I kinda miss their recommendations and have fallen back to relying on blogs to point me towards interesting fare.