Vid-Technology Enticed, Seduced, Amused, and Informed: Most-watched Pieces of 2006

Vid-Technology Enticed, Seduced, Amused, and Informed: Most-watched Pieces of 2006 by Roxanne McDonald

Phone games and talking cars were almost nothing by the end of 2006, when we could not only e-text and e-navigate but e-watch e-xecutions.

It is well known that a majority of the population receive the world visually, or are visual learners, if you will (as opposed to kinesthetic, auditory, etc.)

The Trivia for Popularity of Video/PC Technology not so Trivial:

Video sharing was made accessible to anyone with a computer: YouTube, for instance, enables users to upload, download, and get his or her voyeurism kicks. Created by

Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, YouTube started with a video of Steven’s dog—and is now reportedly up for Google grab, for an eye-catching 1.65 billion (according to Entertainment Magazine and Wikipedia.com).
Artists got good with the short e-film and comics were caught re-heckling. But one comic—er, performer—made us do a double-take with his five-minute clip called “Evolution of Dance.” In fact, we did more than double-takes. We made Judson Laipply’s piece the most viewed video of 2006 (according to LBN and Break.com)—by sharing it, I suppose

And finally, after you enjoy the silly and dilly dalliances and dances, you can always jump on the most sensational clip of visuals since the on-tape slaughtering of captured reporter Daniel Pearl (though we have much different responses, to be sure)—the execution of Saddam Hussein, caught on “tape” by a cell phone owner who was in the front row, “filming”. Levine Breaking News offers the link, with the caveat that the content is unedited and therefore “graphic”

I remember when I had my first fully functioning computer. I had gone through an 80-88, which you geeks

know is the dinosaur of dinosaurs: the screen was orange, and the one capability it had was producing text (which was all I needed at the time). Then I got the pc with graphics and sound! And heard my first clip: a sound bite of Cartman of South Park telling his “bitch” to “get in the kitchen and make [him] some piiiie.”
Now, fortunately and unfortunately, we can watch and listen to more than comic bits and silly skits. We can, as if time- and distance-traveling to the pre-French Revolution days of Marie Antoinette getting hung or guillotined while the hecklers knit and munch cheese watch tyrants, watch tyrants die.

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