Happy Birthday, You Tube!
Hi, hi, hi, y'all!
So, this was one of those weeks that was going a little slow, and there's very little to report about. The Oscars are next week, as all of you know, and I, for one, am looking forward to watching them, as I do every single year. Chile had a major earthquake last night, one of the largest ever recorded. Caused a lot of damage, from what I saw on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, and about 300 people so far are dead, but of course, that number will be going up in the coming days and weeks ahead. There was a tsunami watch all across the Pacific, including here in Southern California, which was called off early this morning. Japan also had a major earthquake yesterday, but it wasn't as strong as the one in Chile. All of these earthquakes makes you wonder when Southern California will be visited by the often-talked about "big one."
One thing we can talk about is something that happened very recently. You Tube turned 5 years old a couple of weeks ago. Yes, that You Tube. The one that all of us spend a lot more time with on the Internet than we do with most of our office work and our school work. Ever since it debuted five years ago, You Tube has been an instant Internet sensation. And the reason is quite simple. For the first time ever, people could literally broadcast themselves, just like the You Tube slogan says. You didn't need an agent, you didn't need to be "discovered," all you needed was a web cam, and a lot of moxie, if not talent. Also, through You Tube, you could also broadcast a lot of cool stuff that was on TV and the motion picture screen from the past. That's how I located that Apple McIntosh computer commercial from 1984.
A lot of people seem to think that You Tube is the reason why MTV had to take the "music" out of its "Music Television" title, which it had for almost thirty years. You see, before You Tube, you only had to watch videos on MTV (or VH1, or BET), and the selection was very, very small. In other words, you had to be famous to get on MTV. Even Michael Jackson had a very hard time getting on MTV before Thriller. But now, on You Tube, not only can you watch whatever video you want to, you can watch it whenever you want to. Heck, you can even watch the same video over, and over, and over again. As a matter of fact, I've heard that many recording artists are debuting their videos on You Tube instead of MTV now. Even politicians are getting on the You Tube band wagon, doing their campaigning on You Tube first before anywhere else. Now, MTV is more famous for its reality shows than for its videos. And to tell you the truth, many of the homemade videos on You Tube is much more clever, more funny, and more entertaining than anything that was ever broadcast on MTV, except maybe Michael Jackson's videos. Now they were cool!
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to donate to the people of Haiti!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
So, this was one of those weeks that was going a little slow, and there's very little to report about. The Oscars are next week, as all of you know, and I, for one, am looking forward to watching them, as I do every single year. Chile had a major earthquake last night, one of the largest ever recorded. Caused a lot of damage, from what I saw on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, and about 300 people so far are dead, but of course, that number will be going up in the coming days and weeks ahead. There was a tsunami watch all across the Pacific, including here in Southern California, which was called off early this morning. Japan also had a major earthquake yesterday, but it wasn't as strong as the one in Chile. All of these earthquakes makes you wonder when Southern California will be visited by the often-talked about "big one."
One thing we can talk about is something that happened very recently. You Tube turned 5 years old a couple of weeks ago. Yes, that You Tube. The one that all of us spend a lot more time with on the Internet than we do with most of our office work and our school work. Ever since it debuted five years ago, You Tube has been an instant Internet sensation. And the reason is quite simple. For the first time ever, people could literally broadcast themselves, just like the You Tube slogan says. You didn't need an agent, you didn't need to be "discovered," all you needed was a web cam, and a lot of moxie, if not talent. Also, through You Tube, you could also broadcast a lot of cool stuff that was on TV and the motion picture screen from the past. That's how I located that Apple McIntosh computer commercial from 1984.
A lot of people seem to think that You Tube is the reason why MTV had to take the "music" out of its "Music Television" title, which it had for almost thirty years. You see, before You Tube, you only had to watch videos on MTV (or VH1, or BET), and the selection was very, very small. In other words, you had to be famous to get on MTV. Even Michael Jackson had a very hard time getting on MTV before Thriller. But now, on You Tube, not only can you watch whatever video you want to, you can watch it whenever you want to. Heck, you can even watch the same video over, and over, and over again. As a matter of fact, I've heard that many recording artists are debuting their videos on You Tube instead of MTV now. Even politicians are getting on the You Tube band wagon, doing their campaigning on You Tube first before anywhere else. Now, MTV is more famous for its reality shows than for its videos. And to tell you the truth, many of the homemade videos on You Tube is much more clever, more funny, and more entertaining than anything that was ever broadcast on MTV, except maybe Michael Jackson's videos. Now they were cool!
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to donate to the people of Haiti!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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