blog 11

After watching the video I was just in a little daze. This guy Micheal Wesch was just going off straight from the begining. Saying how alots changed from 1948 till now. Back then watching tv was less and he compared watching tv in 1948 to watching youtube videos and stating that youtube beat a record in one day. He talked about how one video that was on youtube led to another thing ad another. Youtube made some people cyber stars. Micheal himself was recgonzied as a cyber star just for making a video about digital text call web 2.0. He was also showing how other people watch videos and remake there own versions of them and upload them for others to watch. Soulja Boy a teenage music artist got his fame from youtube. He made a song and video and it got around youtube and multiple other sites. There were many remakes of it but he eventually got signed and made a real video for it and made it big. He also talks about people using there webcams then post videos about maybe talking about something or reflecting on something. That is pretty much a video blog that they do there. Also adding to the video blogs Micheal said comments others leave behind kind of push people to make another vlog to talk about those comments and how they impact the person doing the video blog. He also show that some people fing that video blogging is more free and comfortable than actual interacting and you still see the human in front of you just not as you would in person. Also in the video he says theres some cultural tenison with video blogs. As you watch some of the vlogs you see that some people are very emotional and are talking about there day. Other users of youtube also make vlogs in respond back to those people. Personally in my opinion alot of people make things a big deal. Micheal made a great point about youtube and the internet in general. Alot from this video was very new to me and informative. But as a youtube viewer I knew most of the things he was talking about and why we comment the way we do and why we wonder people put dumb videos on there.