For many years web design was an unnatural paring of graphic design, software design and product design, all of these disciplines assumed that there was an endpoint that was “done”.
A recent post about embedding ads into YouTube players to solve the monetization problem has attracted a suprising amount of attention and a number of great comments.
Amanda Congdon was one of the first, if not the first, videoblog sensations. As a host of Rocketboom, she had approximately 300,000 viewers in the spring of 2006.
If you haven't yet seen it, this video is a great edit of what people tend to get up to on YouTube. There are probably a dozen ways to analyse this, yet from my perspective it's also just good viewing (all 9 minutes).
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