YouTube - The End Of Civilization As We Know It (yeah right)

This is the belated rant for December, although, despite a tiny amount of Christmas related talk at the beginning, most of this rant refers to an article in the online Telegraph dated 7 April 2008, which is when I made the rant.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/nweb107.xml


Some sense-starved junkalist, hiding behind the weasel phrase "experts have warned", presumes today to describe our use of the available bandwidth as less valid than his own use, for newspaper articles. I contend that anyone can write - at least at the stylistic level of his article, give or take a few spelling mistakes - whereas not everyone can produce entertaining and informative online video content. Therefore I go on to challenge the author of that article to produce his own video response to my rant, if he thinks that YouTube is such a bad idea, let him tell it to us face-to-face, over the camera.

On the way I give advice to town planners about traffic management in cities, and give a few pointers, which, if only listened to by the right ears, could greatly improve the quality of life for millions living in cities whose commuting plight today is largely caused by the control-freak complexes of minor government employees, and their inability to let free-market philosophy impact on road design.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• YouTube
• videosharing
• hogging
• bandwidth
• tabloid
• journalistic
• nonsense

[lizonya7]

That article seemed like a desperate last ditch attempt to scare people into not depending on the internet. The mainstream corporate print media is losing power fast as people flock to more democratic forms of media. It's sad to see the increasingly total absence of journalistic integrity as these people attempt to smear the internet and gain back control.

[snovymgodom]

Civilisation is how it's spelled in the UK.

[123popbottles123]

@usenetposts have a good day brethrin,, no negativity remains in this convorsation !

[usenetposts]

@123popbottles123 Every shambhala lamba la, every whoooah, still shines.

[123popbottles123]

@usenetposts i am not talking about this reality.. i slewed you in the spiritual world, now you will not be able to enter shambhala.. look into it if you still can, you may be holding on to your life circuitry by a few pieces of X4subquantom fabric.

[usenetposts]

@123popbottles123 Aha. That'd be "slay" in the present tense, incidentally. Slay, slew, slain. It's in the same group of Germanic strong verbs with grow, grew, grown. Hth.

[123popbottles123]

@usenetposts slu / slew meaning slaughter with sword

[usenetposts]

@123popbottles123 Thanks for offering to slu me, but I don't like boys.

[123popbottles123]

@usenetposts I am a warrior that will slu you. My name is to great for your understanding.

[usenetposts]

@123popbottles123 Who do you think you are, Lily Allen?

[123popbottles123]

fuck uuuu

[lordmoggy]

the net may shut down if we runout of ip addresses! and the other reason might be due to no electricty. These are absolute possibilities!

huli - seems to know all hehe ;p