Will VloggerHeads be better?

The worst thing about YouTube is the Orwellian way in which people disappear.

The second worst thing is the way YouTube removes videos without giving a reason.

“Inappropriate content” is not a reason; it’s roughly equivalent to saying “for some reason.” If a video gets removed, obviously it must have been removed because of the content, since the user had no choice in the first place about the form of the video. (YouTube rejects a video immediately if the form is unacceptable – e.g. if the video is too long – and always converts the video to flash format, not something the user has a choice about.) Any other reason (e.g. a copyright issue) is really a special case of “inappropriate content” (since e.g. it is inappropriate to post content that infringes on someone’s copyright). YouTube has a few special cases, and the rest are “inappropriate content,” which essentially says, “This video was removed for some other reason, and we’re too busy to put the reason into words.”

There are a lot of other bad things about YouTube – obviously not bad enough to outweigh the good things, or I wouldn’t still be on YouTube – but those two are the big ones. So here’s my question: is it going to be any better on VloggerHeads? From what I’ve heard so far, I worry that it is going to be even worse.

Hecatombs of Tofu

The images are of Isobel Wren (copyright by IsobelWren.com, used by permission), who is also the Monday vlogger on fivenakedmodels.

The originals (along with many other pictures, most of which couldn't be shown on YouTube, plus some videos and other stuff) are available to members (adults only!) of her Web site.



The sonnet is by Petrarch (14th cent.)

Translation:
Alexander, having reached the famous tomb
of fierce Achilles, sighing, said:
"Oh, fortunate one, that you found so clear a trumpet
and one who wrote so grandly about you!"

But this pure and white dove
of which I don't know if the like has ever lived in the world
in my frail style resounds so little...
(Thus to each one are their own fortunes fixed.)

...that is worthy of Homer and of Orpheus,
or that shepherd whom Mantua still honors,
that they might go always singing only of her.

A deformed star and fate, guilty only in this,
trusted her to one who adores her beautiful name
but perhaps mars her praises in speaking.


Footnote re title of video:
go to Isobel's MySpace and do a text search for "hecatombs" in the comments.

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