Everyone has something from youtube, even without the internet the clips make their way to the evening news. I saw it, now its gone!
but things vanish from youtube (like CNN segments have vanished into an Orwellian memory hole now and then). Things from CNN that pop up vanish, pirated bits of movies vanish, segments of SNL appear for a few days then are pulled. A student puts up something about school and after a few days it goes..... by the student's own choice or the youtube thought police.
Now you can track your lost faves! http://youtomb.mit.edu/ yes, you tomb, the tracker and explainer of yanked videos. Be it for copyright violation, terms of use violation, or the posters own choice.
AND make friends, the web has a thousand ways to meet people, some meetings may last longer than with meetmyplanet:
http://www.meetmyplanet.com/
MeetmyPlanet is a website that links travelers abroad to the locals in the area.
The goal is to connect travelers who wish to meet people from the area with
locals who want to get to know foreigners in their country. To get started, site
users search for the country or specific city where they wish to meet people.
From there, they are provided a list of profiles of people in that area, along
with their gender, age, spoken languages, and various other bits of interesting
personal information. Users also may specify on their profiles whether they can
host travelers in their homes. Users then are free to add other users as
friends, or send them messages to set up meetings. (from http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/MeetmyPlanetcom---Connecting-Locals-with-Travlers/ )
http://www.meetmyplanet.com/
I've read of house swaps with tourists (arranged by companies that do background checks) to cut costs and GIVE A REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE and thought that was interesting. (Paul would never stay with anyone he knows, yet someone he does not know -- so this is not for everyone).
Of course if a Count from the Carpathian Mountains emails you, or a guy name Mengele from Brazil you might want to meet in a well lit mall food court!
so let's go surfing!
if you rely on youtube as a source for your blog videos they can vanish (pulled by user, pulled by the legit owner, pulled by youtube for 'terms violation)
so this may be there a day, a year, forever (youtube 'forever')
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but this, that I 'liberated' from youtube is 'mine' on my hard drive, and on this blog (until google removes it - but do they know I am even here?)
Beach Boys - Surf in USA 1969
