The Vlogbrothers were my introduction to YouTube.
Wait: lemme back up and give Beyoncé her well-earned props for creating my dependence on YouTube. Hey – when you have no television (so, clearly no cable) you do what you gotta do to stay entertained.
Back to The Vlogbrothers. They started a revolution on The Internet 3 years ago, when they took communication to the tiny screen and invited The Universe to watch. In my non-television, non-workday summer of 2009, I watched the evolution of internet communication. I learned not only that people like to belong to a community (Nerfighters.ning.com), but another lesson:
You don’t have to be LAZY about Internet 2.0, or Communication 2.0, or Social Media, or Online Engagement, or whatever you want to call it. You don’t have to exchange quality for immediacy. …just because you shrunk your interface doesn’t mean that you have to trade in 12 years of education, another 4 years of specialized education, and however many years of professional experience for 140 characters.
Enter this video:
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