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Michael Wesch, creator of the strikingly insightful videos “A Vision of Students Today” and “The Machine is Us/ing Us”, gave a presentation at the Library of Congress back in May on the anthropology of YouTube. The presentation was the third in a series called “Digital Natives,” natives being basically my and probably your generation if you’re reading this. It’s about the net and the people who grew up with a computer humming by their bed stands. Wesch delves into this phenomenon that is us—how we think and how we perceive and connect with the world differently due to the internet and new media like YouTube. 

The 2008 Olympics opening ceremonies kick off tomorrow, and while a lot of it will go down while you're counting sheep here in the U.S., the Wired How-To Wiki covers where you can catch the action...

Windows only: Free software YouTube File Hack is a standalone application and Internet Explorer integrated menu item that downloads videos to your desktop from the popular video sharing site. Simply...

A study about downloading finds: Music companies need to stop resisting and accept that illegal downloading is a fact of 21st-century life ... "The expectation among rights holders is that in order to create a success story, you must reduce the rate of piracy," Garland said. "We've found that is not the case." The authors of the study argue that music rights holders need to find "new ways" and "new places" to generate income from their music, rather than chasing illegal downloads – for example, licensing agreements with YouTube or legal peer-to-peer websites. In other words, they ought to do the musical equivalent of giving away free ice-cream and selling advertising on the cones.

Searching YouTube for music videos from your favorite artists can be a bit of a crap shoot. If you've ever loaded a video expecting Billy Corgan rocking out against a surreal production set and...

YouTube, Google Video, and family are ripe with music videos whose soundtrack you'd love to add to your music collection, and VidtoMP3.com can do just that. Enter a video URL and it spits back the...

If you’ve ever wanted to keep YouTube videos playing automatically in the background (while you have a meal, do some work, or have a conversation with a boring friend), then Infinitube is just the site for you! Enter some keywords above and infinitube will queue up an unlimited* number of videos matching those words for your viewing pleasure. Infinitude

An oldie but a goodie. The folks at ROFLCON just announced that Miss Teen USA South Carolina will be the emcee at the upcoming SF-ROFL thing (August 29th). Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to get to this one - and not because I can’t find San Francisco on my map. Unlike many U.S. Americans I believe in building up our future for our children and that our education here should help the Iraq and the Asian countries.

Want to hear what the candidates are saying about net neutrality, privacy, or other topics, from their own mouths? Google has added a Google Elections Video Search gadget for iGoogle home pages,...

Often, We all keep hearing about stories of some great innovations in the world. Whether these innovations come from those early stage startups or from real big giants like Google or Apple; Innovation is all about creating a difference and accepting the change to make things simple and effective. The below embedded video, contains a series of such fascinating yet simple innovations by some people from the rural parts of India. Though small in their own way, these innovations have certainly brought considerable happiness and productivity increase to those who use them for their day to day life.

Just uploaded an updated version of the Better YouTube Firefox extension, which is now fully Firefox 3 compatible and, you know, actually works. Download it here.

Here's a little reminder why you can never trust Google, even if it has the best intentions: Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. Yes, that includes *you* - not that you've ever watched anything dodgy there, of course....

The below embedded slow motion video from Youtube shows a bullet hitting various objects and the after effects captured in multiple frames played in slow motion. Have a look. Lets keep the GUNS off the Streets and make peace. Live life to the full. Also read: How Google Search Really Works

Windows only: Send videos, pictures and music between Windows PCs or any Universal Plug n' Play device (like a Playstation 3) with a simple Google Desktop Gadget called Google Media Server. The...

While YouTube may be a great place to answer your toddler's requests to see video of a baby panda, there is also tons of content more risqué than adorable baby animals. Video site Totlol...