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In the last few weeks I have been planning out an approach towards the videodefunct video database project. Initally, I imagined developing one-off video objects that provided a critique of the video-sharing site YouTube. The idea was to explore in each of these objects, both a formal and cultural critique. This means the works would aim to experiment both with form and content as part of examining video as a form beyond single-channel closed objects, like the hardcopy output approach of television programs, or even a cinematic edit going to a locked-off film print. A video form that as dicussed in the post on ipod video, is more responsive to the properties of the Internet as a network. Then a light bulb went off in regards to a blog as a form of a video database. Instead of placing the emphasis on a single video object, what happens if each uploaded video is seen as being a part of a larger whole, the database? The focus shifts to taxomony and folksonomy. In the short term an initial experiment using the customised version of WordPress being developed in the videodefunct project may be about exploring each individual video as part of a larger collection.