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From my colleague Matt Hartley comes this hilarious video from Lisa Nova. It’s a day in the life of someone who is obsessed by all things Twitter (and no, we’re not naming any names).  

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Avril is an anagram for “viral”

by Mathew on June 23, 2008 · 5 comments

Some things achieve YouTube notoriety through some bizarre confluence of interest and desperation, like the six-second-long video clip of a startled prairie dog that took on epidemic proportions last year as a YouTube favourite known as the “Dramatic Chipmunk,” which quickly gained more than 9 million views. Other things need a bit more, well… assistance. [...]

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YouTube’s ass OK, Mark Cuban’s not

by Mathew on June 17, 2008 · 10 comments

My favourite billionaire sports-team-owning blogger, “Megaphone” Mark Cuban, had a blog post yesterday about how Hulu — the streaming video site from NBC — is “kicking YouTube’s ass,” a theory that has been getting some reaction from various places in the blogosphere today. The reason for the post would be fairly obvious to regular readers [...]

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Video interlude: High Noon, with robots

by Mathew on April 21, 2008 · 0 comments

If you’ve ever watched the Western classic High Noon and wondered what it would have been like if the bad guys were robots and the guns shot death rays, wonder no more. Not unlike a Star Trek episode, as it turns out. But a pretty cool one.  

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Video: Obama speech is YouTube gold

by Mathew on March 19, 2008 · 5 comments

It may not have achieved the 17.8 million views that Chris Crocker’s classic “Leave Britney Alone” video has — or even the 7 million views that the startled prairie dog known as “Dramatic Chipmunk” has gotten — but then, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s speech on racism has only been up on YouTube for less [...]

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