Above, TED co-founder Chris Anderson talks about the impact of Youtube and other online video has on the world.
Youtube was a powerful part of moving forward content dissemination on the web. Suddenly there was a free place to host, distribute and embed easily video that drove traffic and audience.
About which time Youtube was overwhelmed with kitten videos, personal photos looped under copyrighted music and clips of everything in between.
But, through all the muck, there is brilliance. That much I’ve found since I first clicked on a Youtube link in an email in my college sophomore year apartment and shared with my roommate. Universities are beginning to share lectures online, and more teachers, lessons and ideas are spreading on Youtube. (Perhaps not as much as kitten videos)
To prove there is more than the nonsense, below, I share the 10 videos that have made the biggest impact on me and the lessons I took from them.
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