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I've noticed increasingly that the "young people" seem to watch YouTube rather than that old-fashioned thing called "TV". Here's a nice piece in the Guardian reminding us that YouTube is much more than a super MTV (what's that?), but is fast turning into a kind of visual Wikipedia: if somebody was able to digitise it, you can probably find it. YouTube is best known for its offbeat videos that become viral sensations. But among its millions of clips is a treasure trove of rare and fascinating arts footage, lovingly posted by fans.Being able to regard YouTube as a video commons: just one more reason to get rid of 18th-century copyright laws.

linguistics professor and author shares a personal selection from the thousands of languages on the brink of disappearingHow about if we all volunteered to learn an endangered language? - You can put me down for Ket: Ket is the only Siberian language with a tone system where the pitch of the voice can give what sound like identical words quite different meanings. (Much like Chinese or Yoruba). To add to the difficulty for any westerner wishing to learn it, it also has extremely complicated word structure and grammar.

I always thought that the Ordnance Survey had a rather, er, Olympian view of things that was more suited to the top-down twentieth century than the bottom-up one we inhabit. Some fine FOI work by the Guardian has confirmed that they really are as out of order as I surmised: An extraordinary picture of a state body carrying out political lobbying on the issue of free data has emerged from documents obtained by the Guardian.

Mochila is at it again. The one-stop, all things media, online marketplace has added the Guardian News & Media to their long list of media partners. While Guardian News & Media will syndicate multi-media content from their Web site, Guardian.co.uk, Mochila members will get more options from which to shop for content, photos, videos and more, thus expanding the Guardian's reach globally. And as a bonus, the Guardian will have the privilege of being Mochila's premier UK content provider offering multi-media content from their Web site.