Oct 10, 2006
The alarm went off just after 7. ‘The Today Programme’ popped on. I decided to listen to the news for a bit like I normally do when Brian isn’t around (when he’s here I tend to turn it off right away to let him sleep)… The story about Google buying YouTube came on. From under the duvet on the other side of the bed I heard a croaky:
“Why didn’t you invent YouTube?”
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- 2008-09-15 14:05:46Honestly, this isn't a blog just about Brian. That would be really weird... but... indulge me just a bit longer.
Some of you may have seen the article about Brian in the Observer today. Now, you guys are intelligent and realise that not everything you read in a newspaper is accurate. This was made absolutely clear to me this morning as I was sitting in my bathrobe, hair all over the place, barefoot, all coffee breath, unshowered and read, "he married his American wife, glamorous TV presenter Gia Milinovich, in secret." :-/
Ah well...
- 2008-09-14 10:26:58
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I think the more appropriate question is, why did anyone? The only reason anyone uses it is that it’s full of copyrighted material.
I think that’s a slightly sweeping statement – I think the reason many people use it is that it’s full of hard to find stuff. It just so happens that a lot of copyrighted material is hard to “find” :)
$1.56billion?!?! Sheesh. There are easier ways to get that copyrighted material.
I know Jakob Lodwick who started Vimeo well before YouTube existed – he’s been making web videos for years now… I bet they are *gutted*… I wonder why YouTube took off and Vimeo didn’t. Ahhh.. cos Vimeo is really well designed and works fantastically…
I use YouTube, not for copyrighted stuff necessarily – though being able to find clips of telly programmes is sometimes useful – but to watch videos that real people are making…
What I would like to know is, if Brian wasn’t around – who was under the duvet?
Who knows, RJ, but I’ll ask their name if I ever see them again.