NYO - Off the Record

This is a "must read" story for those wondering what it is about Youtube and all the new outlets for old TV and video that make that stuff so "sticky." "It breaks the synchrony of televsion." I agree and I think this is already one of those disruptive unintended consequences of new technololgy. NYO - Off the Record: "What it does, then, is break the synchrony of television. It makes television work like text. Last month, on the 20th anniversary of Len Bias’ death, newspaper let me down. The Baltimore Sun had no stories that described the Bias I remembered, the basketball player before he became a cocaine casualty. So I went to YouTube. And there he was, alive if a little blurry, on the court at No. 1 North Carolina, making the greatest sequence of plays I’d ever known: burying a shot, then flashing to steal the inbounds pass, rising up and—with the assurance of a man who did not know what limits were on a basketball court—dunking it, two-handed, in reverse."

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