Do not Watch This Video

Bostonist has proven in recent weeks that we’re a big fan of the video available for time wasting on YouTube. With our fairly daily dose of something at least tangentially relevant to Boston and surrounding cities or the news that’s going on in the Hub we’ve been happy to exploit the resource that is YouTube. The Phoenix's Mike Miliard recently put together a rather lengthy look at the YouTube phenomenon. Titled “Get it While You Can” the article talks about the ups and downs of the video sharing service – it’s great for hype, but hype as a balancing act with copyright laws. Let’s be honest here – we’re much more likely to watch Lazy Sunday when it was on YouTube right after we watched the Candy Girl video than we would be to browse away to some other site (iTunes or NBC’s own site) to find the video. For the wealth of wonderful things you can find on the video sharing services these days there’s also a whole lot of crap. Case in point - these two videos that came up when we searched for Somerville. Perhaps they're amazing to someone who understands them - to us, well, we won't toss out insults.