I'm still amazed at some of the stuff that the 23 Things is asking us to do. Explore YouTube is one of the ones that kind of dumbfounds me. I have to keep reminding myself that Thing # 20 was originally posted in 2008.
By October 2008 YouTube only had 15 hours of video uploaded every minute. In 2010 it was up to 24 hours every minute. YouTube's own press statistics say that over 60 hours of videos are uploaded every minute. I'm not saying that in a first world country, in a suburban/urban area that it is NOT impossible that someone is not familiar with YouTube, I just think it would be incredibly rare and I'm not entirely sure if a graduate class actually needs to explore YouTube now.
I like how user-friendly the site can be. I really dislike, though, the recent homepage changes they've made. When you have subscriptions you get a list of videos recently uploaded. The old homepages allowed you to ignore/hide videos you didn't want to watch or have already seen. This update has removed that feature. I'm not a fan of having to scroll through uploads repeatedly.
That being said, this is one of my favorite covers:
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