Apparently this video has been around for a while, but I’d never seen it. It’s about six minutes long and otherwise completely work-safe. But do be careful how you are seated while watching it, I nearly ruptured myself early this morning.
Thanks to Brittany for pointing it out to me, just what I needed to start a grey Monday morning. God’s in His Heaven and all’s well with the world.
As usual, available on my sidebar via Vodpod as well, for your convenience. Why for your convenience? Well, you don’t have to remember which post you read it in, all videos that I refer to can be found via the VodPod.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Jon Lister // Oct 1, 2007 at 10:39 am
Very good JP, I hadn’t seen that either, but according to James it’s one of the most famous YouTube vids ever…
2 Abhijit Bhattacharya // Oct 2, 2007 at 6:44 am
The video is simply brilliant .
3 david cushman // Oct 3, 2007 at 8:24 am
I’m really surprised you haven’t heard of this before JP - it’s oft quoted as the great example of disaggregated user-distributed content beating mass media at its own game. The view counts for it are phenomenal.
Another good illustration is the ‘Battle of Kruger Park’, I posted why here:
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2007/08/battle-of-kruger-park-survival-of-most.html
Best dc
4 JP // Oct 3, 2007 at 8:33 am
Somehow I had seen and posted about Kruger Park yet I never saw this. No idea why. Maybe the title of the video put me off. Maybe I was on holiday when it came out, maybe I was moving jobs or house or whatever.
And perhaps more to the point, I tend not to worry about the view count. Long tail versus hit culture, view counts alone do very little for me.
5 Paul // Oct 16, 2007 at 12:10 pm
JP, I found this a highly amusing response to the video, in case you weren’t linked straight to it yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1U8f7TmYkA&NR=1
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