Hulu. Who Knew?
The beginning of the end for YouTube? Long-awaited Hulu from the (mostly) good folks at NBC and Fox is finally in private Beta. And damn if it’s not being well-received by those who receive these things. Farhad Manjoo of Machinist says “in many ways Hulu is completely different from and better than YouTube ever was.” And it’s great, he says, because of the high production quality and minimal commercial interruptions. “It’s a pleasant surprise, really, and feels something like a candy store, only one in which the candy is free,” gushes Digital Wire. GigOm calls it “brilliant.”
We’re all big big fans of YouTube. Who isn’t? My life wouldn’t be nearly as rich had I never encountered that Filipino prisoner re-creation of Thriller. But with the production and distribution resources of Big Media delivering their archives to us in a mostly non-commercial format, I ask: shouldn’t we all have more episodes of”Arrested Development” at work?
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