Is there anything Dan Brown won't do?

Wow.  Dan Brown.  What a guy.


For those of you who don't know Dan Brown, he's another YouTuber.  One that I haven't been following so much, but respected nonetheless.  From his early days as a Rubik's Cube expert, Dan has come to the forefront of the YouTube community, currently either forming giant collaboration projects or discussing user-generated questions in his basement, which looks like it could be a war room in WWII-era Britain.

Dan Brown in one of his better moments

Just now, Dan officially announced his new project, Dan 3.0, at VidCon.  Earlier this week, he posted a video leading up to the announcement.

Today, he announced the content of this project.  Starting August 1st, Dan is going to give control of his live into the hands of his viewers.  Wow.  I have to admire Dan's ambition here.  There are, of course, going to have to be limits on what people can do here.  In a world that can have 4chan, there are bound to be people that are going to try their best to make him buy a house or something equally lucrative.  Although I have yet to hear the full details on Dan's project, I really hope he can pull this off.  I'm going to be sure to pay more attention to his videos in the future.  To anybody reading this, what are your thoughts on Dan 3.0?

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YouTube makes jobs!

YouTube made a couple of big announcements at VidCon today that I wanted to address. First of all, there was the announcement that YouTube will soon offer 4k-resolution videos, which is actually better than Imax.

Holy shit.

YouTube kind of jumped the gun on this one, didn't they? Never mind that the necessary network speed to quickly download this is not available outside of South Korea, one big factor is that pretty much 99% of all monitors don't go above 1080p. You would need to get a projector that is "typically the size of a small refrigerator" (YouTube's words, not mine) just to watch the video to its full capacity. Although it's nice to see that we can take it that far, it just isn't really worth it to add on to the site, in my opinion.

The second announcement is the announcement of the YouTube Partner Grant Program. I've long been a fan of Internet commerce, and I really approve of the YouTube Partner program. I've seen many people who make their living off of YouTube (a person I mentioned in this blog before, Wheezy Waiter, just started vlogging full-time), and I personally have wanted to get into the business. Although I likely wouldn't qualify for this grant (I don't really have that many views), it's really nice to know that many young videographers are getting what they need to start making videos, especially in this economic downturn. I have to give YouTube a thumbs-up for that grant.

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Linky Linky (part deux)

I'm feeling a bit lazy today, so today's gonna be another link day.

For those physics geeks, like me: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/

Now, as a rule, I stay away from card games other than poker and blackjack. But this is a pretty fun game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/zanzarino/elements

Fail: http://failblog.org/2010/02/26/celebration-fail/

And, finally, I recommend you to try out the YouTube HTML5 beta. For those of you who are frustrated with the CPU-sucking Flash, this is a pretty good improvement over YouTube's current player: http://www.youtube.com/html5

That's it for now, I'll see you all tomorrow!

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Linky Linky

I got my Xbox back today!! You know what that means...

Yeah, I'm a nerd.

So, it's Saturday. I don't want to make you think on a Saturday, so I'll just make this a link day.

You already know about the show "Is it a good idea to microwave this?": http://www.youtube.com/user/JPizzle1122

Another channel I like to watch is Wheezy Waiter: http://www.youtube.com/user/wheezywaiter?blend=1&ob=4&rclk=cti

And 12Medbe, who has tons of clips from "Whose Line is it Anyway?": http://www.youtube.com/user/12medbe?blend=1&ob=4&rclk=cti

Also on my top list is "Least I could Do" and "Looking for Group", run by Ryan Sohmer and Lar deSouza: http://leasticoulddo.com/ ||| http://www.lfgcomic.com/

And finally, Wired.com, where I go for all my tech news: http://www.wired.com/

That's all for now, folks. I'll see you tomorrow!