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Post by elixir on May 3, 2007 12:43:14 GMT -5
"I used YouTube to tell a subtle and nuanced story about a home-schooled girl preparing for a mysterious ceremony.
That girl is Lonelygirl15..."
Really? I thought it was Boheme!
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Post by oweniscool on May 3, 2007 13:01:47 GMT -5
After Jay's recap, I feared the worst when I saw that the article started with Uh-oh... I thought it was actually all right, context considered. Time's 100 awesome people articles are just like little shout-outs, never really fully fleshed-out, or particularly meaningful. I thought Miles wrote it up pretty nicely and it served its purpose fine. He just used the lg15 bits as bookends because that's how he relates to YouTube. That being said, He must know the above statement isn't true, not if you look at each video individually.
I hope maybe they can get some goodwill from YouTube by doing this for them... I'm still kinda rooting for a YouTube deal. Revver + LG15.com = $ (but few views) YouTube = views (but no $) YouTube deal = views + $$$
As Danny B. said, "That's math even I can do."
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Post by milowent on May 3, 2007 16:46:46 GMT -5
steve and chad created youtube so that the Creators could brighten our world.
"I used YouTube to tell a subtle and nuanced story about a home-schooled girl preparing for a mysterious ceremony" That this made it by the editors is hilarious, I have to believe miles didn't believe it would.
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Post by wilycoyote100 on May 3, 2007 19:17:24 GMT -5
The whole piece reads like a high school prank...that Miles pulled this off....in Time! ---you gotta give him credit for chutzpah....
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Post by hyemew on May 3, 2007 19:58:18 GMT -5
Wow, if I were Steve and/or Chad, I'd be hella pissed at being given the utter short-shrift in this article.
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Post by milowent on May 3, 2007 20:00:00 GMT -5
Wow, if I were Steve and/or Chad, I'd be hella pissed at being given the utter short-shrift in this article. they are probably saying right now: no chance in HELL you're ever getting featured lonelygirl!
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Post by oweniscool on May 3, 2007 20:57:09 GMT -5
lol, maybe it's more like "hey, since you never featured your most popular channel ever, we'll just hijack your Time 100, k?"
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Post by hyemew on May 3, 2007 21:45:15 GMT -5
I want to compare the number of lines on Chad & Steve and those about Miles & friends:
1. In YouTube, Chad Hurley, 29, and Steve Chen, 27, built the killer app for Internet video 2. Monkey-simple uploading. Off-site video embedding. Peer review. [Not really about anyone, nor really sentences, but I will count things about YouTube not related to LG to be about C&S] 3. They created and fostered a community around sharing video and in the process unleashed a revolutionary platform for creative expression. 4. The content ranges from car crashes to presidential speeches. There are lots of cat videos. 5. I've met Chad and Steve only once, but I visit their website often. [Even here, it is based on Miles's relation to them, not those people themselves]
And that's that.
1. "I'm quitting plastic surgery." 2. That's what I told my parents in 2005. 3. On paper I was a surgeon, but in my heart I was a filmmaker. 4. I'd seen the dotcom boom as a student at Berkeley, and during my surgery internship, I jealously tracked the emergence of Web 2.0. Broadband Internet, RSS feeds and Flash video were finally delivering on the promise of Internet television. 5. One day someone sent me an e-mail that changed my life.
And there you have it! I didn't even have to get past the first line of the second paragraph before I matched the amount of stuff about Miles to the stuff about Chad and Steve. Granted, that was an intro paragraph which used a personal experience to set up an article what C&S did- but obviously I don't need to tell you that this set up only results in more about him instead of the actual subjects!
My favorite line though definitely is this one: "Last summer, with my partners Mesh Flinders and Greg and Amanda Goodfried, I used YouTube to tell a subtle and nuanced story about a home-schooled girl preparing for a mysterious ceremony."
We get the names of all our favorite creators listed out taking up precious room in this small to begin with blurb in a sentence basically longer than everything directly said about C&S in this article! It is such a coup! Totally like somehow getting a story you wrote published on the front of the New York Times in which all the 'experts' you interview are actually your friends and family. Who hasn't wanted to grab a periodical like Time magazine and sneak the words "I was here!" throughout various pages. I can't figure out what Time was thinking here! Perhaps they didn't feel like dealing with actually checking all 100 profiles and just put in whatever people wrote.
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