Thing #21: YouTube

YouTube is so demanding of bandwidth that I rarely use it at home, and even in the library, it often just sputters along. But it does have some interesting effects. It is allowing a kind of journalism to develop that evades the prejudices and self-censorship of our local newspapers and of the American television networks. We can see things the way the rest of the world sees them, and sometimes that is healthy. Here is a link to a long posting on the Israeli assault on the Gaza strip, replete with YouTube videos, on Juan Cole's Informed Commentary Blog, which I think, over time, has been one of the best news blogs on the Internet.