Just wanted to point out the RSS feed of “Links” to the right has been fix.  Click away.

Some friends and I were relaxing in my living room, while we waited for a habitually late comrade, when someone brought up a recent “viral video” he had just been e-mailed at work.

After he spent a couple of minutes trying to describe how ridiculous “Fred and Sharon’s Movies” (fredandsharonsmovies.com) were, I suggested we just watch them.

I turned on the TV and quickly hopped over to AV2 where I have a Mac mini hooked up. The computer takes up the space of a few stacked CD jewel cases on the shelf, and it fills the TV screen in full high definition. Surfing YouTube, we quickly found and watched the video, which instigated an involved discussion of other videos we should watch.

For the next 20 minutes (our friend was really late), we eagerly stared at the screen as the keyboard was passed around and each of us brought up another video. Some we had seen; some we had not.

Some were good; some were bad. Some were very bad. Nevertheless, our impromptu, interactive, cooperative “TV show” was a great time.

This YouTube Party got me thinking about how much video content I get from the Web instead of my TV. I first though about my viewing habits when I reviewed IP-TV from CenturyTel and it became clear I used my computer for most of my personal video viewing. I’d realized I use it all day long at work–downloading from iTunes and video podcasts, videoconferences, WebEx, and making or watching training videos. Much of my work uses video content and requires me to share it.

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Via Columbia Business Times