I’m in Washington D.C. and let me say – it’s amazingly cold. COLD I tell you. On my midday trek toward Pennsylvania Avenue, I swore my fingers had become completely frostbitten. Thank goodness not. Just temporarily dead in relation…
Great move from Chelsea – just posted about the fact that for me the brilliance of YouTube is not all about watching kittens fall into toilets, but about watching great “stuff” in bite-sized chunks from around the world – whether it is a song on American Idol, a goal (though preferably not a Chelsea one) or a clip from a TV news show
[...] Jeff Jarvis points out the Guardian (reg.) report that the Chelsea Football Club has cut a YouTube deal. It may be the first football club to dive into YT, but the NBA’s Washington Wizards, for one, have already staked a claim, most famously (302,000 views) through that Gilbert Arenas-DeShawn Stevenson shoot-out. (Alas, no footage of the recurring Hayward-Thomas fisticuffs.) In Sunday’s Washington Post, Michael Lee makes the case that Wizard star Arenas is an operator in the disaggregated media world: …[H]e jettisoned his agent in September and, unlike most of the game’s elite, lacks a major corporate-driven marketing engine behind him. [...]
washington d.c. and npr: part I
I’m in Washington D.C. and let me say – it’s amazingly cold. COLD I tell you. On my midday trek toward Pennsylvania Avenue, I swore my fingers had become completely frostbitten. Thank goodness not. Just temporarily dead in relation…
Great move from Chelsea – just posted about the fact that for me the brilliance of YouTube is not all about watching kittens fall into toilets, but about watching great “stuff” in bite-sized chunks from around the world – whether it is a song on American Idol, a goal (though preferably not a Chelsea one) or a clip from a TV news show
I debated about leaving this comment, but will because maybe Jeff will care to give his thoughts on the matter.
** flame on **
I freakin’ *hate* newspaper sites like the Guardian that make you register to read the stories.
** flame off **
-JC
ps. I’m a Zadi fan, too.
[...] Jeff Jarvis points out the Guardian (reg.) report that the Chelsea Football Club has cut a YouTube deal. It may be the first football club to dive into YT, but the NBA’s Washington Wizards, for one, have already staked a claim, most famously (302,000 views) through that Gilbert Arenas-DeShawn Stevenson shoot-out. (Alas, no footage of the recurring Hayward-Thomas fisticuffs.) In Sunday’s Washington Post, Michael Lee makes the case that Wizard star Arenas is an operator in the disaggregated media world: …[H]e jettisoned his agent in September and, unlike most of the game’s elite, lacks a major corporate-driven marketing engine behind him. [...]
What joe C said. Grrrr….