Tag Archives: YouTube

Napster Fades Away

Napster ceased to exist yesterday as it was quietly folded into the streaming service Rhapsody. It was only twelve years ago that Napster heralded the still-accelerating demise of physical media, a decline jolted at rocket-speed by the 2001 advent of iTunes. But even download sites like iTunes are inevitably doomed as the world moves into the Spotify-Netflix-Rhapsody cloud. Remember when …

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Honey Badger: The Talking Doll

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Google’s Biggest Acquistions

Google has gobbled up more than 100 companies since its founding, but almost half of those acquisitions have taken place in the last year or so.

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Boogity Boogity Boogity Amen

This didn’t take them long.

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Hurrah For The Justice System

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Pat Condell – Insulting Religion

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Official DOD News On DADT

From the Department of Defense’s official YouTube channel.

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YouTube Rentals

It’s now $2.99 to rent Rebecca Black’s Friday video for 72 hours.

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Savage & Miller At Google Headquarters

Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller visited Google headquarters for a lengthy discussion on the origins of the It Gets Better Project.(Tipped by JMG reader Dave)

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Randall Sells Out

Shades of the Sassy Best Friend. Randall’s YouTube fans are split on this development, of course.

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Dick Coughlan – It’s Getting Better

Another classic from YouTube’s rant king.

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Stephen Colbert & Friends – Friday

There’s just no stopping the year’s silliest song. (Via – Towleroad)

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Bullied Teen Tells Story With Signs

“Words are worse than sticks and stones,” says this bullied 8th grader. Her touching clip already has over 225,000 views.

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In Which I Sort Of Agree With NOM

Today NOM’s blog links to a story on the anti-gay Life Site News, which complains that YouTube has yanked the video of last week’s Brown University demonstration by the red-caped loons of the Society for Defense of Tradition. Days after the videotaped incident was posted on YouTube, the video sharing website pulled down the footage, leaving a message stating: “This …

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Kutiman – My Favorite Color

Video mash-up artist Kutiman creates new original tracks using snippets of clips he found on YouTube. Oddly compelling.

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The Queen Of Poe’s Law

The young woman whose “God Punished Japan” video rocketed around the world yesterday, has confessed that she is actually an atheist troll. The woman, with the username TamTamPamela, uploaded a video in the days after last week’s massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami, claiming the disaster was “God literally waking people up and saying “You are going to hell” However, she …

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Boston Pops Announces Judy Garland YouTube Sing-Along “National Choir”

The Boston Pops writes us today to invite JMG readers to participate in a Judy Garland tribute. Post a YouTube clip of yourself singing Over The Rainbow and you may be featured in their “national choir collage” to be played at Boston Pops performances all this season. To pay respect to the shared cultural heritage of the American Songbook, the …

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YouTube Posts Every Super Bowl Ad

YouTube has created a channel with every ad from last night’s Super Bowl. Did anything stand out for you?

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Liberty University Choir Covers Gregory Brothers’ The Bed Intruder Song

The weekend the choir at the Jerry Fawell-founded Liberty University covered The Bed Intruder Song as part of their holiday program. Bee-zarre. Aside from the oddity of a Christian university covering a song in which an openly gay man complains about the attempted rape of his sister, they actually do a pretty funny job of it. However, note the replacement …

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YouTube’s Top Ten Of 2010

And the winner is the Gregory Brothers’ remix of openly gay hero-to-sisters everywhere, Antoine Dobson.

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