“Concurrent with the migration to the Web of professional video – ‘Desperate Housewives’ on iTunes and the like – there has been a nuclear explosion in the field of amateur video. The gatekeeper used to be “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” and it tended to let in mostly footage of people doubled over in sudden comic pain, but now the gates are wide open. YouTube, the leader in an increasingly crowded genre, claims 50,000 videos are uploaded to its site daily, a number that seems awesome until you think about some other numbers.”