DLTQ.org - by Raymond M. Kristiansen

Last night, during Lyngby-natten, I noticed about 7 PM that the Danish TV2 had a news piece about Youtube. I saw it outside an electronics store and I could not hear the audio, but it seemed like a pretty usual story of how regular people can use youtube to promote themselves to a global audience. They interviewed one guy from NYC who wants to be a professional filmmaker. To him, youtube is a perfect playing ground. TV2 also showed footage from Brookers, the Numa dancer, and some other regular youtube-stuff.

What I would like to see from Danish TV2 and other mainstream reports about videoblogging/youtubing is a report about how this also can be used for other things. I have displaced the url in my brain, but there is one american homeless person who uses youtube to broadcast his point of view in life. There are others who use youtube for politics, as has been reported by Washington Post some time back.

I am past the period where I just dismissed youtube as an inferior circle of teenagers who post videos of themselves puking to each other. When I get my computer working properly again, I will explore the worlds of youtube further, and will also try to see how we can connect some of the good discussions going on in that sphere with discussions going on elsewhere. There is really no point in having more walled gardens than necessary.