In some ways YouTube and Facebook are two of the most defining cultural features of my generation, those and the war on terror. I am confident that the 20/20 vision of the future will reveal many of the flaws possessed by these things so I won’t gripe here. Instead I wanted to talk about how we have learned more about how to convey information to one another than ever before. 

We have learned to sign, talk, write, correspond, telephone, email, mobile phone, blog, and now vlog too; perhaps even in that approximate order. More importantly the art of deception has spread to the masses; it’s no longer the exclusive realm of the politician and mass media editor. Next time you spend an hour looking for the ideal profile picture you will know that any old truth just won’t do!

Where am I going with this? Well, for fear of finding myself completely out of date, I am moving into the world of streaming video. Here’s my first try.