The Social Media Guru

YouTube – The Social Media Guru.

Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-​​​​awesome.

Hype Cycle

You’ve probably already seen this, even though it was pub­lished just a week ago.

It’s had nearly two million views in the last week, over 6,000 comments on YouTube itself, and been plugged into 826 blog posts. Among its honours, it’s the #2 – Top Favourited (All Time) – Sport. If it weren’t

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Sweded

Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor — some­where between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays.

As I am sure you know,

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Take the Test

I was totally taken by surprise by this one.

(A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some con­tro­versy over the ori­gin­ality of the idea. What a shame.)

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Internet Helps ermm.. Harms TV?

Remember last week, when CBS announced that its YouTube presence had lifted its audience figures? Letterman was up five percent in the month since they’d started posting excerpts on the service.

Well, today, the BBC pub­lishes research that suggests the contrary:

Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on

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Not So Lonely

The new Wired has a great feature about the lonelygirl15 story. Lonelygirl15, you will remember, was a hit YouTube vlog about a teenage girl, her family and her ambiguous rela­tion­ship with her friend Daniel. You’ll also recall that the central char­acter, Bree, turned out to be an actress called Jessica Rose, working with a guy called

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