Here comes spatial montage maybe with a YouTube doubler tool.

Check out the favourites for more SM is going off!

Taking this another step HD Attention Deficit Cinema — in full on digg – High Efficiency Wide Definition Episodic Attention Deficit Multilinear Narrative with Digital THC Mastered Tri-Channel Stereo Sound Ultra Wide Format

From the Modern History home page:

Modern History is a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of Youtube videos. This is a work in progress and the site will be updated as I finish new pieces.

Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content
Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, 41-58 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0163443708098245
José van Dijck

from the essay:

To illustrate the complexity of user agency, the recent development of YouTube serves as a case of inquiry. Started as a video-sharing site in 2005 and run by three students from a Silicon Valley garage, the financially flailing but hugely popular site was bought up by Google in October of 2006 for the unprecedented sum of $1.6 billion. Obviously, Google’s acquisition was not about bringing innovative technology into the home, as its own GoogleVideo was already running on superior software; it was about bringing in communities of users. In less than a year,YouTube became an (independent) subsidiary of a commercial firm whose core interest is not in content per se, but in the vertical integration of search engines with content, social networking and advertising.

YouTube opens up downloads, He’s not even president yet and Obama is changing YouTube

YouTube has announced downloadable videos on their site. That means if you like a video, you can click a button and it’s yours to keep.

“La de da,” say tech enthusiasts who figured out how to rip copies of YouTube videos eons ago.

Real player one of many examples, How to Download Youtube and Other Online Videos using Real Player?

But Lessig sees it as a positive step, Really great news from YouTube

Linda Wallace‘s latest video art work, ‘non-western | are you or have you ever been?’ which is broken up into smaller parts and distributed on YouTube. Each part is distributed as a separate web page. There is also a focus on tagging.

FIVE parts one example page http://www.mysafehouse.eu/

on youtube

emphermal media - Internet Attractions: online video and user-generated ephemera

Conference and call for papers:

The first workshop in the series focuses on user-generated ephemera, in particular the proliferation of online video. The emerging digital
media environment has created new opportunities for user-generated content to achieve broad distribution and so create a public of users.
This has been typified, and enabled, by recent phenomena such as YouTube. The fleeting and competing nature of user-generated content
has placed particular emphasis on the role of media performance – what can be understood broadly as a display of communicative competence for assessment by an audience. The workshop will examine the status and significance of user-generated ephemera (in particular online video)
and the kinds of performance inscribed herein.

http://www.beyondtext.ac.uk/

The Beyond Text strategic programme…identified visual communication, sensory perception, orality and material culture as key concerns for 21st century scholarship and the wider community.

• YouTube – An anthropological introduction to YouTube
  After Web 2.0, Michael Wesch Takes On YouTube
  (tags: YouTube, edav, teaching)

I got this link from Geert’s critique of this video, ‘Michael Wesch Takes On YouTube’ on the video vortex list and in that critique he mentioned the book reference: James Elkens, Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction.

YouTube opens APIs, gets tough on terms of service Greg Sandoval and Adrian Bridgwater, CNET News.com 14 March 2008 09:54 AM

In his official blog, YouTube’s Jim Patterson wrote on Tuesday: “We now provide a complete set of [create, read, update and delete] capabilities for uploading, managing, searching and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube ‘cloud’, managed by us. We do the transcoding, hosting, streaming and thumbnailing and we provide open access to our global audience.”

The release of the APIs comes at a time when YouTube is trying to elevate the perception of its site from a video portal to what it describes as “a video-services platform”, available to any third-party website or other application.

open api wikipedia

Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using SOAP, Javascript and other web technologies. While its possibilities aren’t limited to web-based applications, it’s becoming an increasing trend in so-called Web 2.0 applications.

scraping wikipedia

http://www.fridayarts.net/blogs/?p=3677

Internet video site YouTube needs no introduction. Its status as
both a branded channel and a medium in its own right has redefined
“new media” on both sides of the art and corporate entertainment
divide. But most of its content resides somewhere in between, and its
currency lies in the vernacular nature of the items posted there–to
the extent that the memes incubated on YouTube are trickling down
into the language of contemporary artists’ work and, in turn, re-
emerging on the site.

http://thekitchen.org

Envisioning the Future of DIY – part 1, Ulrike Reinhard, who is blog (video records of the panel)

DIY 24/7 video summit plenary panel titled ‘Envisioning the Future of DIY Video’. From the lrike Reinhard’s blog:

Then they started out by giving their best visions of what Rheingold called the activist question: what to do to influence the way the institutions of democratic governance, of cultural production, of knowledge gathering will shape the outcome of DIY media!

Dialogue from a online video recoding by the first speaker Henry Jenkins:

My vision of the future would be one where everyone had the power to participate, and where diversity was valued as central to the enterprise so it is not that we build and they will come, it is not that we construct YouTube and we are automatically at democracy, there is still a struggle to be fought around democracy, it is a struggle in terms of education in terms of teaching media literacies skills to kids, struggle in terms of law, in terms of changing the notion of fair use so we have strong protection on our ability to respond to the stories that are absolutely central to our culture, it involves changing politics, how we mobilise people who are feeling empowered by making videos and turn them loose in the streets to transform society…

From YouTube to WeTube… , Henry Jenkins blog post, February 14, 2008

One of the things that has excited me about YouTube is the ways that it represents a shared portal where all of these different groups circulate their videos, thus opening up possibilities for cross-polination. Yet, as many at the conference suggests, the mechanisms of YouTube as a platform work to discourage the real exchange of work. YouTube is a participatory channel but it lacks mechanisms which might encourage real diversity or the exchange of ideas. The Forums on YouTube are superficial at best and filled with hate speech at worst, meaning that anyone who tries to do work beyond the mainstream (however narrowly this is defined) is apt to face ridicule and harrasment. The user-moderation system on YouTube, designed to insure the best content rises to the top, follow majoritarian assumptions which can often hide minority works from view. Perhaps the biggest problem has to do with the way YouTube strips individual works from their larger contexts…