December 29th, 2006 by Wendy McAuliffe
The Christmas period has made me realise how much I’m addicted to online video. I didn’t miss email or even online news too much, but I couldn’t wait to turn on my PC this morning and check out the latest videos on YouTube.
I get the feeling I might not be the only one…
If you haven’t seen it already, the Justin Timberlake video of ‘A Special Christmas Box’ is one not to be missed. It is currently number four in the YouTube chart.
However, I am disappointed to see that The Guardian has abandoned its newsy style Viral Video Chart, in favour of a more mainstream consumer chart. It was a great idea to be ranking news and political videos separately, and I don’t know why they have abandoned it.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 am
I think the Guardian will continue to run the list of the most blogged about current affairs videos, just not necessarily every week. They’re still at quite an early stage with this kind of content and are experimenting…