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Keep Yr Sexual Fantasies About Neitzsche to Yrself. BlogNosh 07/08/08

Plus: A YouTube novice checks out the Screening Room, and Quentin Tarantino buys himself some more time before the freefall into total irrelevancy.

Viacom Can Watch You Watch YouTube

A court has ruled that Google must turn over logs containing the “log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details” of every single video watched by every user on YouTube. This is the result of a class action copyright infringement lawsuit, brought against the video sharing site by Viacom [...]

YouTube Quarterbacking. BlogNosh 06/19/08

A tour through the skepticism sparked by YouTube’s new short film platform, Screening Room.

IMDb for Web Video

Everything you ever wanted to know about every YouTube clip that started out funny but eventually became the scourge of your existence.

Miranda July on YouTube

Do you remember 2005, when Miranda July was blogging and making those bittersweet video diaries from the road whilst promoting Me and You and Everyone We Know? Remember how she filmed her walk up the red carpet at the Cannes, and it seemed so quirky and novel and maybe even a teeny tiny bit punk [...]

Webby Film And Video Awards: Best (and Worst) Acceptance Speeches

Michel Gondry, Lorne Michaels, and a young girl foolishly brave enough to publicly snog Judah Friedlander make our list of the best and worst 5-word acceptance speeches at the 2008 Webby Film and Video Awards.

Werner Herzog and Bolivian Marching Powder

Can he do this? Is this legal? How does he do it? What interview questions does he ask? What does he tell publicists he’s going to do? Will any of them ever let him do it again?
All of those questions, and surely more, are sparked by Jamie Stuart’s latest video, In Spring. Described as a [...]

Kevin Smith: MPAA Made Us Pull Porno

Who knew web-only content was subject to MPAA approval? Does the MPAA know how easy their archaic oversight laws are to circumvent?

Web Videos and Isabella Rossellini, Together at Last

It’s Internet Week in New York City! That means all my Twitter friends are going to three parties a night and texting from each about about how bored/drunk/drowning in nerdy masculinity they are. Because they keep going back night after night, I have to assume that either the NY tech community is full of self-destructive [...]

Michel Gondry Wins a Webby

Michel Gondry has won the Webby Film and Video Award for Person of the Year, for inventing the concept of Sweding, which took the internet by storm for seven minutes in February. Yay for him! Because I don’t care about Sweding at all, let’s use this as an excuse to watch 10 minutes of Eternal [...]