Will news find a home on YouTube? With little original news reporting surfacing on this web site, 'perhaps an important lesson learned is that tools don't make a tradesman.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)

The success of YouTube has amazed a media world already acclimated to the hyperbole of the Internet's developing traffic patterns. This free online hosting service for video clips established itself quickly as the leading platform for this next wave of personal online activity. By offering a quick and easy way for citizen videographers to post whatever they shoot, and with broadband access expanding, uploading video to YouTube is now as common as starting a Weblog.

It's little wonder that Google, despite its own might, decided to simply buy YouTube rather than try to compete with ...

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