Siljaline's Blog : You Tube

Jackson's death slows web to a crawl

Randy Knobloch — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:13:00 GMT

In life, Michael Jackson once ruled the pop charts. With his death, he dominated the internet. As reports of Jackson's death on Thursday spread, celebrity gossip websites crashed, news sites slowed to a crawl and traffic on social networking sites...(read more)

YouTube moves further into living room with widescreen video

Randy Knobloch — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:26:00 GMT

YouTube is taking another step in transitioning from computer monitors to television screens by displaying its videos in full widescreen format. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/25/tech-youtube.html...(read more)

YouTube poised to screen free full-length films

Randy Knobloch — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:38:00 GMT

The world's most popular video-sharing site, YouTube, is in talks to show full-length Hollywood films free over the internet. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/08/youtube-films-hollywood.html...(read more)

Scientology critics fight YouTube takedown notices

Randy Knobloch — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Push Me F*ck You Most users are fighting back against attempts to remove content critical of the Church of Scientology (CoS) from YouTube. American Rights Counsel LLC, apparently acting on behalf of the Church of Scientology, sent 4,000 DMCA takedown...(read more)

Hijacking huge chunks of the internet - a new How To

Randy Knobloch — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:58:00 GMT

It's easy. Those tubes are busted More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted...(read more)