MyTrail

If our art is a mirror, why do we need it?

Like 3d, Justin TV provides a mirror. What  does it tell us?  Maybe a philosophy degree from Yale doesn't mean much.

Good thoughts and ideas. It is interesting to hear about the selection of featured videos. I have always assumed that there were one or two folks that watcjed videos and would just pick something. Isn't this how they do it over itunes too? Do they really "scour"? Perhaps... This article of ours http://www.rabbitbites.com/misc/youtube.html from September may shed more light on what goes on over at YouTube w/regard to user actions to get noticed. Our article was the first to fully explore how prevalent gaming YouTube's system probably is for views, comments and ratings. Of course, this isn't exclusive to YouTube. Anywhere users can gain advantage, there will be folks explointing it. The amount of user cheating would of course have implications for fairness, but also for advertising and the valuation of the company. We provided the substance for Mashable's post and have been mentioned by Mark Cuban, among many others. In numerous examples we demonstrated how some of the most viewed videos of YouTube appear to be inflating themselves in every category: most viewed, most talked about, most...whatever. It is so easy to do, and could be stopped so easily by YouTube. It seems like there's some tacit collusion going on. If you pay, like CBS can, wouldn't you be able to make sure your clips don't fail. I don't really fault YouTube for trying. I think it's a great site and a fun place to play around with videos and I wish they would feature Rabbit Bites (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bunsandchouchou). But,I am starting to think that most tech journalists just try and promote a market instead of write news. It is easier to be a cheeleader for the market that work to really understand it. Isn't this what happened during the last bubble? By Nicholas 10:38AM on 05 Jan 07

We little guys need to become part of big audience.