If you need an example of why those who benefit most from copyright legislation should not be involved in the reform of it, this is a good one. YouTube are responding to infringement complaints without checking the validity of them (which is impossible). Nestle are exploiting this. They shouldn't be able to.

I've been working with Mark Ball of the RSC on a research project about how culture organisations can engage with online communities. This is the first of a few posts. Comments and ideas very welcome!

Culture, Media and Sport select committee display a shocking ignorance of how online social spaces operate. You wouldn't vet how someone uses a park - you deal with problems as they occur.

The notion has occurred to me ever since I <a href="http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2007/07/15/supersonic-collective-memory/">tracked</a> all the videos from Supersonic last year, but this is the first time I've seen someone attempt to completely reconstruct a concert using mobile phone footage uploaded to YouTube. 12 out of 25 songs is not a bad hit ratio.

By the way, if you want to get analytical this is <i>real<i> crowdsourcing and citizen journalism. Not asking people to get stuff or send stuff to you but harvesting what the crowd collectively produces as autonomous agents. So there.

is a cool looking iPhone racing game that you play by tipping the phone from side to side. But as someone who doesn't really play games (for the same reason I don't use heroin - I'd never get anything done) what interests me is the part where it can take the raw data from your game and create a video which is then posted automatically to YouTube. The potential application of that sort of process is mindboggling (GPS + Google Earth = video flythrough of your walk, for example.)

Nice little mashup that takes your Last.FM top artists and creates a personal MTV channel from YouTube. This is mine and it's oddly not that embarrassing.

A collection of relatively brainy stuff swimming in the soup of YouTube. Some obvious, some new to me.

Speechification for telly. Interesting that while they rip and mp3 the radio shows they're embedding the iPlayer here, meaning the older posts are full of "no longer available" screens and therefore useless. Be useful for current stuff though.

Some interesting figures from the iPlayer like certain programs getting 40% of their viewers through it. Not sure about the YouTube comparison - apples and oranges, surely?

Fantastic Greasemonkey script that modifies the new YouTube layout to your whim, resizing the video and removing sections (like comments - yay!)

Thomas Moronic curates a bunch of inspirations Lynch clips. Lovely.