Hi Sean, They are "freaking out" not because of "lost business". They are concerned because it is THEIR property. It's not up to you or me, or some other YouTube poster to determine what they should do with their stuff.

I love YouTube for all the wrong reasons. First of all, I love how a website that allows users to upload their own content causes media creation outlets to lose their sh**. They freak out because, for some reason, they feel that people across America and around the world will completely lose interest in watching the [...]

One thing I regret not bringing on this World Tour is a laptop. Of the 36 students and professors on the trip, about half of us brought laptops. I'm not necessarily struggling without it, but life would be a lot easier if I had it. There are several reasons why I decided [...]

According to the Mexican Federal Consumer's Bureau (PROFECO) 75% of Mexican citizens buy counterfeit DVD's. The main reason, they claim, is the low cost and the easy accessibility for obtaining them. The poll was performed last month on 300 residents of the Mexican Federal District (Distrito Federal) and surrounding areas. Eighty one percent of [...]

No technology will remove the need for a community or a study space, libraries will always exist. As for reading online, Paper like displays are just around the corner. I to prefer to read in a paper format vs [...]

I remember a time in high school when it seemed every English teacher and librarian given five minutes to soapbox would whisper about how computers are the end of libraries as we know them. Ominous visions of book burnings, craters overflowing with Wordsworth, ill-educated people speaking in IM-abbreviations... the horror. In academia, the digital front is [...]

I don't really remember learning to type. Sure, I recall classes with Mavis Bacon and boxes over the keyboards of a Macintosh with an 1/8 of the processing power that my PocketPC has now. I also recall not doing well in those classes. I remember pecking at the keys after using AOL to dial-up into my buddy [...]

Things are getting smaller. I notice evidence of this every day, almost everywhere I go. Today, I brought my car in for service. My car itself is proof that you can fit a lot of "stuff" into a small space. I'm one of those people that pride themselves on having the latest and greatest when it [...]

I've been traveling through Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam) for the past couple weeks and I've noticed many cell phone stores in several of the malls. They've caught my attention mainly because there are just so many different models of phones. I wonder why all these cool phones aren't available in [...]

Instant messaging and then some! Wow, I stumbled upon the IMVU site this week. It was a pop-up on my Myspace page, and I got curious. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I've never heard of this one. All of the sites that offer new worlds like this one are interesting to me, but [...]