Ya ever wonder why the folks who started YouTube did it? How did they think up the seemingly simple but brilliant idea? Wonder no more!
Link: Eat The Press | "This Is Natalie Morales, Reporting From Uranus!" | The Huffington Post.
"This Is Natalie Morales, Reporting From Uranus!"
Clips like this are why YouTube was created:
No, seriously: Clips like this are why YouTube was created. According to YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim,* he was inspired to start YouTube after reading about how the clip of Jon Stewart on Crossfire clip Wired flew around the internet in an article in Wired. The piece, "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, who described how the clip reached approximately 2.5 million people, three times as many as the regular CNN viewing audience. Wrote Thompson, then: "The whole concept of must-see TV changes from being something you stop and watch every Thursday to something you gotta check out right now, dude. Just click here."
Karim said that when he read that, it hit him: "Now to get the biggest audience, maybe online is the way to go, and not television."
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This, of course, includes bloopers, like Natalie Morales using a rather unfortunate pronunciation of the word "annals" above or Jane Skinner saying "cock" on FoxNews (twice). Goofy and mostly harmless, but funny nonetheless — and worth sharing.
*The not-Steve Chen or Chad Hurley one who opted out of the company to go to grad school
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