tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314640962011-04-21T14:03:57.798-07:00Today on YouTubeThis blog is a journal documenting my impressions and thoughts about YouTube videos that I watch on a particular day. Unlike the regular TV tube, YouTube lifts the barrier that separates media producers and performers from their audience, allowing people to broadcast from their own bedrooms, create exciting videos and publish them on the web to millions of viewers.Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-49251108553290860622007-09-06T11:50:00.001-07:002007-09-09T15:08:04.636-07:00More about “Participatory Marketing” and YouTube: Leveraging Reputation and Authenticity Through Social Network...People articulate their identity by creating self-presentations, which include endorsements of various objects of material and symbolic culture—favorite music, TV shows, fashion items, video games, beverages, etc. YouTube and other online social networks are very successful in Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-18834904078602048182007-08-30T17:38:00.000-07:002007-09-06T16:46:13.811-07:00Participatory Marketing and YouTube InVideo Ads: Still Missing the Long Tail…...YouTube has made an important step in creating a novel advertising model that presupposes an active and engaged user. In order to fully leverage the potential of user-generated content and the potential of YouTube as a networked community, YouTube will need to innovate even more and create even more participatory Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-40786761194306257642007-06-02T10:15:00.000-07:002007-06-03T13:04:36.398-07:00High School Students Bullying Teachers On YouTubeThis video, shot by a student at a Beijing school a week ago, shows a boy approaching his teacher and slamming the man's hat down over his face before returning to his seat. Later another boy throws a plastic bottle at the teacher as students in the classroom burst out laughing.The video was subsequently posted on a blog and picked up by numerous Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-2495375039003179802007-05-29T11:48:00.001-07:002007-05-30T00:15:11.161-07:00When “Long Tail” Meets its “Head”: Politicians and/or Citizens on YouTubeTwo weeks ago Senator Hillary Clinton posted on YouTube her video “I need your advice”. In the video Hillary is asking Americans one of the "most important questions" of her campaign and calling on voters to choose her official campaign theme song. The video is aimed to reveal a more jovial side of Hillary, as she is Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1170441846546870362007-02-02T10:44:00.000-08:002007-02-02T10:44:06.550-08:00YouTube vs. Main Stream Media: Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?In my daily of observations activities on YouTube I noticed a rather strong presence of texts produced by so-called Main Stream Media (MSM), mainly TV. This feature seems to be quite prominent especially on ”the most viewed” page and contradicts some predictions that were made during the big YouTube ascend (i.e., Summer/ Fall Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1160804675573594402006-10-13T22:44:00.000-07:002006-10-13T22:44:35.576-07:00ALL THAT SEX --on YouTube and elsewhere on the webSomehow people start to associate between sexual predators, pornography and Internet. Youths have a lot of concerns over their sexuality. Adults have too. Both adults and youths are mostly concerned with their performance -- if they are attractive enough, beautiful enough, skilled enough… People are also often concerned about the object of their Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1160104158950061002006-10-05T20:09:00.000-07:002006-10-05T20:09:18.956-07:00much about nothing: “yeah, free gas!”two girls CARA & BLUE (both pretty and flirtatious) @ a gas station dancing. while filling their SUV tank with gasoline, CARA turns toward the camera and starts telling about her interaction with a serviceman at the station. she says:“no he asked me.. he was like ‘you have beautiful lips.. do you have a boooyfriend?’ and I said ‘nnooo’ and he said he Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1156564253766178282006-08-25T20:50:00.000-07:002006-08-25T20:50:53.770-07:00An adult on YouTube? FINALLY!Dear “geriatric1927”,I have been following YouTube for quite some time, but have never encountered somebody like you. Thanks so much for sharing your life experience, showing us your face and letting us know that older people exist and have many interesting things to tell. I enjoy your stories, so succinct and well organized, your soft-spoken voice and your Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1156559401644919242006-08-25T19:30:00.000-07:002006-08-25T19:30:01.646-07:00Hey YouTube! - xoxo Paris (Hilton)ParisI cannot believe you became a YouTuber!I cannot believe you traded your privileged, not-from-this-world status for a couple of days of fame! I cannot believe you are among us, competing with lonelygirl15, FilthyWhore , geriatric1927, morbeck and Emmalina ….The time will show who will prevail.Under the theory of Long Tail, media businesses that entailSonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1155430213994105542006-08-12T17:50:00.000-07:002006-08-12T17:50:14.003-07:00Zadok The Warrior and/or The PriestAs we are getting (not!) used to the images of the war in the Middle East, this video creates the sense of absurdity of wars by emphasizing the perspective of the winning side. No dead or massacred bodies, no ruined houses, no crying mothers. This video is powerful b/c it fully exaggerates the portrayal of war as a spectacle of power and technology. Like in Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1154894504027285032006-08-06T13:01:00.000-07:002006-08-06T13:01:44.066-07:00Dear "Dear World"I‘ve been watching your new video on the backdrop of disturbing images of the war in the Middle East. As always, major network war reports create a sense of spectacle, leading us to believe that the war is far away, and happening to others. .There seem to be too many commentaries, reports and analyses. Too many talking heads mumbling all day long, without saying anything Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1154155756010825912006-07-28T23:49:00.000-07:002006-07-28T23:49:16.013-07:00♪ Dear World ♀Wow, what a great start for DearWolrd23!The video is composed of two parts. The first part is some kind of the director’s self-introduction. It starts with a title shot (something rarely found in YouTube productions) showing the head of the author and the title of the video. The lack of establishing shots of the context is definitely more in the style of YouTube videos. The Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31464096.post-1154120991888085632006-07-28T14:09:00.000-07:002006-07-28T14:09:51.890-07:00Proving Science Wrong... with Lonelybeast and Danielgirl15Hmm, "Coriolis effect" -- That was hard and required significant labor of my grey cells (scientifically speaking :-) and some help from the web. I had to check on Wikipedia . LG15 is totally right: the Coriolis effect is not a determining factor in the rotation of water in toilets or bathtubs. I however wonder if there is any connection Sonja Baumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242299428881061874noreply@blogger.com