Call it a means to fuel (or decimate) the ego, to better target a demographic or market niche, or merely an interesting tidbit of numerical information, YouTube’s launch today of a detailed statistics tool has given users a great deal of insight into where their clips fit amongst the video viewing masses.
Via Official Google Blog (“Insight into YouTube videos“, 26 March 2008):
“…uploaders an see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a …

One of the people I follow on Twitter, (jeff)isageek, asked the question today: “With services like friendfeed, twitter, disqus, google reader, del.icio.us, etc [sic] do i even need a ‘traditional’ blog?”
From the standpoint of eLearning and educational technology, my answer is a resounding: Yes.
Sure, it’s important to evaluate new technologies in terms of how they can be used to embetter our online activities – and more importantly our offline activities – however this must be ever tempered by proper investigation and inquiry.  Immediately flocking to the next new trend without …