{"id":8808,"date":"2006-02-27T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2006-02-27T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T12:41:48","slug":"youtube-the-mtv-that-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"YouTube: The MTV That Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be late to the party, but I haven&#8217;t spent much time on any of the video services that seem to be cropping up like mushrooms in fresh cow patties. This weekend, through a &#8220;serendipity search,&#8221; I ended up taking a link to a Kate Bush video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" target=\"new\">YouTube<\/a>. Several days later, I peeled my eyeballs off of the monitor, having delved deeply into the thousands of music videos archived there. I went bananas. I tried searching on nearly every band\/artist I&#8217;ve ever been in love with, and found something almost every time: music videos, snips from rockumentaries, concert footage, TV appearances, mash-ups, YouTube members croaking through their own covers, and on and on. It&#8217;s heaven in there! I&#8217;m sure a lot of this stuff has been available on P2P for a while now, but frequently, when I&#8217;ve done searches, I&#8217;ve ended up downloading crap and just given up after a while. This is a far more satisfying (and addictive) experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be late to the party, but I haven&#8217;t spent much time on any of the video services that seem to be cropping up like mushrooms in fresh cow patties. This weekend, through a &#8220;serendipity search,&#8221; I ended up taking a link to a Kate Bush video on YouTube. Several days later, I peeled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube: The MTV That Never Happened&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}