Top YouTube videographers descend on S.F.

CNET News by Greg Sandoval | Feb. 17, 2007 (News Report)

In what may be a harbinger of the future, hardly anyone who attended Saturday's gathering of YouTube's most popular bloggers held a conversation without filming it. ... Many of the estimated 100 people who attended are examples of the democratization of media. YouTube, which sees more than 30 million unique visitors a month, continues to gain influence with the so-called user-generated generation. As a result, some of YouTube's better bloggers and ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Ari Hakkarainen - Feb 17, 2007 - 11:37 PM PST
Reviewed by: Ari Hakkarainen (review), Marty Heyman (review), Bob McInnis (review)
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Marty Heyman
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 by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a nice, personal, and well moderated piece. It doesn't go off the deep end about these people changing the world, overthrowing the world order, or starting a new industry. It just reports about a bunch of people with a passion getting together. It explains the passion pretty well, too. I was pleasantly surprised.

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Ari Hakkarainen
3.6
 by Ari Hakkarainen - Oct. 1, 2008

Bloggers who create their own videos and upload them to YouTube met in San Francisco. Their fans followed. They even had to sign autographs. For this generation, there's no such thing as 'user-generated content'. It's part of their life. A good brief report that shows the attitudes of YouTube bloggers.

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Bob McInnis
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