Explaining how the cloud works, the Daily Mail tells readers, first of all, it's not a real cloud. The resulting mocking hoots apparently caused the Website to remove the posting.

"If you’re a middle-class American below the age of 35—that is, you were six when the Nintendo Entertainment System debuted in the States—then you understand the appeal of watching someone else play video games, because you have done it yourself," writes Robinson Meyer in this Atlantic essay about why millions of gamers go to Twitch to watch other people play games. As a kid, you watched older kids play.

Maker Studios will premiere "Meet Me at the Reck" hosted by Andrew W.K. starting October 4. The "reckers" are kids who hang out at an L.A. rec center. 

Instagram introduced Hyperlapse last week, a new app for creating time-lapse videos. Here are some stunning but simple examples.

A researcher at John Carroll University who has been studying the bad effects of blue light for years has a warning about close-up nighttime viewing of tablets and any LED device.

What does good online video look like? It’s a question many publishers, with very little experience in the field, are struggling to answer. The New York Times thinks Mental Floss has Web video figured out. The “quirky 13-year-old magazine published nine times a year and specializing in knowledge and trivia … has become one of the industry’s biggest and unlikeliest video success stories by deploying a secret weapon -- John Green, the author and YouTube star,” NYT writes.  

For most amateur content creators on YouTube, advertising doesn’t translate into a ton of money, let alone a living. Encouraging their work with another modest revenue stream, the video hub is now letting producers request donations directly from their YouTube pages. “If [content viewers] do offer up a donation, YouTube will take a small cut to handle the transaction,” Android Police reports. “Just how much the company takes varies by country … In the US, it keeps 5% plus 21 cents.”  

"Not Too Deep With Grace Helbig" is her new project-- a subscription audio-video podcast, excerpts of which go on her YouTube channel. Its debut topped iTunes chart.