Jessica Alba wins “stare down” against YouTube comedian + high school student Kevjumba

May 16, 2008

Jessica Alba can keep her eyes open for a long time.

Kevjumba can’t.


LisaNova offers free shots of her breasts for YouTubers + user-generated content

May 16, 2008

LisaNova is a hilarious comedian discovered on YouTube (also now on MadTv). This week she posted this LOL video spoofing how YouTube has become saturated with videos with teasers or still shots of women’s cleavage. Often the most popular videos each day have still shots of women’s breasts. (See here and here) It’s hard for other YouTubers to get their videos watched if the women’s cleavage shots get the most viewed.

So here comes LisaNova to the rescue, offering her services — and even clips of her breasts — for other YouTubers to use in their own videos. The video is a riot, but it’s even crazier that LisaNova is serious about offering free clips of her breasts for others to download and incorporate into their own user-generated videos. Her cleavage clips can be downloaded from her site.


16 year old Florida girl turns to YouTube for help claiming she was raped by 23 year old, but state won’t prosecute the guy

May 16, 2008

Bill O’Reilly mad as —-

May 15, 2008

This is an old video now a huge viral hit.  This is what you call a complete meltdown.


Lebron James dunks over Kevin Garnett

May 14, 2008


Mike Gravel + Obama Girl + Soulja Boy

May 11, 2008


Esmee Denters sings Stevie Wonder’s “As”

May 10, 2008


Danica Patrick accidentally hits crew man at Indy

May 9, 2008

Terra Naomi - Johnny Cash “Blue Train”

May 9, 2008


Philadelphia police beat 3 suspects in traffic stop

May 8, 2008

Reminiscent of the Rodney King beating.


YouTube video exposes abuse of chickens on California egg farm

May 6, 2008

Gruesome.  More here.


Tom Hanks endorses Barack Obama

May 6, 2008

For a bigtime movie star, the video camera seems so poor.


Father of US soldier uses YouTube to expose barracks conditions

April 30, 2008

Link.  Video has received over 100,000 views and much media attention.


Justice Scalia on 60 minutes: Al Gore got courts involved in Florida; time to “get over it”

April 27, 2008

Barack Obama now No.1 candidate on YouTube

April 24, 2008

Esmee Denters duet with One Republic, “Stop and Stare”

April 17, 2008

Are mashups and user-generated content legal under copyright law?

April 8, 2008

I analyze the answer in an article that you can download from this link.


Saturday Night Live spoof of Hillary Clinton “3 am” phone call negative ad

March 9, 2008

Video over at The Utube Blog 2.0, www.theutubeblog.net.  Hilarious skit, one of the funniest in recent memory.


John McCain loses temper by question about being John Kerry’s VP

March 7, 2008

Go to the video here on The Utube Blog 2.0.


New Obama will.i.am video: “We are the ones”

March 2, 2008


The Utube Blog has moved to www.theutubeblog.net

February 25, 2008

As the last post mentioned, I’m moving my blog to Typepad (at least for a trial). I’ve renamed it The Utube blog 2.0. I’ll be able to offer high def videos there.

My blog will now be on www.theutubeblog.net.

Please visit! And I’ll need your patience as I work out the kinks.


dear Readers: I may be ending this WP blog

February 22, 2008

Dear readers,

Thank you all for coming to this blog.  I get thousands of views every week, more than I ever imagined when I first started writing about this amazing website–indeed, phenomenon–called YouTube.

I have been considering a very difficult decision:  I may end this WordPress blog and start a new blog–The Utube Blog 2.0, if you will–on Typepad software.  If I do decide to switch, the old posts will remain parked here, and there will be a different URL for the the new blog, which won’t look like this one. 

Why change blogs?:  WordPress doesn’t allow embedding of all video players.  In fact, WordPress only allows a few:   Google Video, Youtube, DailyMotion, Grouper, Odeo, and SplashCast.  But there are many more video sites with amazing video content–more and more in high def–that I can’t include in this blog.  The quality of several of these other video sites is absolutely breathtaking, so I feel there’s a gaping hole in my coverage.  I hate to leave this site after I’ve churned out so many posts on WordPress, but I feel very behind the times on WordPress.  I want to be able to show you all the latest cutting-edge video capabilities, but I can’t do it on WordPress.

I’ve already tried other ways to keep my blog the same.  I hired a hosting service to transfer my WordPress blog there, which would give me complete freedom to embed whatever I want.  The hosting service, however, made the switch, but it looked terrible.  It wasn’t the same design as my original blog, and the customer service basically told me to figure out what to do myself.  The switch also erased all of the hundreds, if not thousands, of videos embedded in my old posts. I realized immediately the hosting service was terrible, and the switch to a third party hosting company would not solve my problem.

So when will I switch my blog to TypePad?  Probably soon, perhaps first on a 1 month trial basis.  This site will still be up here, but I won’t make any new posts on this blog.  I still haven’t decided to switch, but, if I do, I will include the forwarding address to the new blog.  And, of course, I hope you follow me to the new blog.

Give me your suggestions:  I’m also open to your suggestions.  Please comment if you have any reactions, or you can email me at utubeblog [at] gmail.com.

Thank you.


American Idol recap: 24 to 20

February 22, 2008


Should American Idol be for amateur singers only?

February 22, 2008


Marie Digby album out April 9

February 22, 2008


lonelygirl15 3.0

February 21, 2008

This new actress looks a lot like Bree, played by Jessica Rose, the 1st lonelygirl.


More plagiarism allegations for Obama

February 21, 2008


Slaughterhouse Video spawns largest beef recall

February 20, 2008


Taylor Swift, “I’m Only Me When I’m With You”

February 19, 2008


Guy gets rejected on TV proposing at Rockets game on Valentine’s Day

February 19, 2008

Ouch.