BigShinyThing

Want to see the new Madonna video and can’t be arsed with HolyMoly’s 3 sponsored ‘exclusive’? Check the Madonna tag on YouTube. Missed Sly Stone’s blink and you’ll miss it appearance on the Grammys? It’s on YouTube. The video clip on TV last night of Johnny Cash. YouTube. ‘Hilarious’ beer commercials from the Superbowl? YouTube. It’s all there… just as anything zeitgeisty is tipping up on Flickr. Hell, Flickr and other forms of sharing media online are the zeitgeist. Users are making YouTube their own TV channel — where content is supplied and shared freely for anyone who wants to view it.

On a more serious note, those cartoons were published in full on Flickr last week: what traditional media outlets balked at publishing, a lone Flickr user just went ahead and did anyway. Citizen reporters, bloggers, whatever… the people now get to publish and be damned.