Holy crap, two posts!!

That's a record.

The previously posted video really got me thinking about you tube and it's importance, I have since watched the Larry Lessig TED talk:

We have to recognize [that children are] different from us. We made mixed tapes; they remix music. We watched TV; they make TV.

It is technology that has made them different, and as we see what this technology can do we need to recognize you can't kill the instinct the technology produces; we can only criminalize it. We can't stop our kids from using it; we can only drive it underground. We can't make our kids passive again; we can only make them, quote, "pirates." And is that good? We live in this weird time, it's kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that's what I -- we -- are doing to our kids. They live life knowing they live it against the law. That realization is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corrupting. And in a democracy we ought to be able to do better. Do better, at least for them, if not for opening for business.

Talk about a profound point, one I could not agree with more. the entire making TV part is the entire point of youtube, without youtube, or similiar sites we can't make TV or remixes and all of what Larry Lessig is talking about is pointless. Sure, remixing and making TV is nothing the internet has created. Every one made home video but they stayed in the home, you tube allows them to be published to the world, allows every one to view them, that is the only real difference. Before you had to go go some where to watch or get the media, you could never share media in the same way you watch TV. Now you turn on an electronic device and start surfing youtube.

But different from legal reason there are other reason to be concerned with keeping sites like youtube alive and healthy. Oddly, it's research:



It is likely no one has heard of this person before he released this video, now he has almost 3,000,000 views and has doen a TED talk. Watch the video it speaks world more than I could, and the important part is that you has allowed him to speak out and be heard.



All in all it is simply amazing, and I fear I've taken it for granted and/or treated what I have as trivial. It takes a while to realize how important this technology is.