{"id":1014,"date":"2007-07-20T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2007-07-20T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T11:50:40","slug":"darker_side_of_youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/darker_side_of_youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"darker side of youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2170651\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\">piece<\/a> in Slate by Nick Douglas, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleywag.com\/\">writer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookshiny.com\">video blogger<\/a> out of San Francisco, that casts YouTube as the Hollywood of web video &#8211; ?\u009dpurveyor of bite-sized crap with mass appeal, while the smaller, more innovative &#8220;independents&#8221; (the Groupers, Vimeos and blip.tvs) struggle in its shadow. YouTube&#8217;s dominance, Douglas argues, leads viewers to expect less of a fledgeling cultural arena that could become the leading edge of filmmaking but instead has been made synonymous with shallow, momentary titillation.<br \/>\nDouglas&#8217; critique is on target, and it&#8217;s vital to keep questioning the so-called diversity of the mega-aggregators who increasingly dominate the Web, but I wonder whether serious video producers really ought to be looking to YouTube and its competitors as the ultimate venue. As promotional and browsing sites they work well, but a networked, non-Web video client like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmiro.com\/\">Miro<\/a> could be a better forum for challenging work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good piece in Slate by Nick Douglas, a writer and video blogger out of San Francisco, that casts YouTube as the Hollywood of web video &#8211; ?\u009dpurveyor of bite-sized crap with mass appeal, while the smaller, more innovative &#8220;independents&#8221; (the Groupers, Vimeos and blip.tvs) struggle in its shadow. YouTube&#8217;s dominance, Douglas argues, leads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,1728,1956,2056],"tags":[3005],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-socialmedia","category-video","category-youtube","tag-video-youtube-socialmedia-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}