Place Your Bets. Shark Eats Octopus. Octopus Eats Shark.

Remember the short story “The Lottery”? The town would hold a lottery and the “winner” would get stoned to death. That’s  how I think about online-video comments. They’re usually demoralizing. Then suddenly I posted a video that almost never made it online. It’s me and my son sharpening pencils. Yahoo featured it on its homepage,…

For no apparent reason (and for the first time) I decided to Google “online video obsession.” What would I find? Turns out this blog was listed #3. Then I decided I needed a post titled “Online Video Obsession,” so I might rise to the #1 listing. It’s only fair. I have been diagnosed as having…

The 29th most-subscribed Canadian YouTuber is a convicted pedophile according to The Montreal Gazette. So, yeah… that could make things pretty awkward at the November 6 Canadian YouTube gathering in Canada… assuming it attracts the popular Canadian singer who is set to surpass one billion views next month according to Tubemogul and the Vancouver Sun….