FYI April 23, 2018

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On This Day

2005 – The first ever YouTube video, titled “Me at the zoo”, was published by user “jawed”.[1]

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.

YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can only watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to videos. Videos deemed potentially inappropriate are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.

YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. The vast majority of its videos are free to view, but there are exceptions, including subscription-based premium channels, film rentals, as well as YouTube Red, a subscription service offering ad-free access to the website and access to exclusive content made in partnership with existing users. As of February 2017, there are more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content are watched on YouTube every day. As of August 2017, the website is ranked as the second-most popular site in the world by Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company.[1]

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Born On This Day

1907 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (d. 1977)
Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.[1]

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FYI

By Adele Peters: Baby Bison Are Being Flown To Siberia To Try To Save The Permafrost

Glacier Hub Weekly News Letter 4/23/2018: Journey to Sajama, Bolivia, through photos taken by Karina Yager, a professor at Stony Brook University and more ->

Open Culture Ayun Halliday: Special David Bowie MetroCards Get Released in New York City

Open Culture Colin Marshall: Watch the Trailer for a Stunning New 70-Millimeter Print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Released by Christopher Nolan on the Film’s 50th Anniversary

Atlas Obscura: Go medieval by attaching a book to your belt, Death Valley After Dark, Giant Pumpkin Regatta and more ->

Messy Nessy 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXIV): Wonderland Inc, Kansas City, 1968 (under investigation), Inside the world of the Parisian “Fairground King”, The World inside a Spanish Globe and more ->

Camilla Ibrahim Christmas Island Crab Advocate, Google Australia & New Zealand: Shellebrating Christmas Island’s extraordinary nature with Street View and Google Earth

Grace Kvamme Head of Americas Books Merchandising: It’s World Book Day: Find a new read with Google Play Books

By Aaron Britt: Two Creativity-Boosting Hacks To Wipe Out Bad Business Writing

By Belle Beth Cooper: 6 Pieces of Advice From Successful Writers

The Passive Voice, A Lawyer’s Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing: Giving A Voice To Indies

By Gary Price: New Interactive Data Tool: New York City Population FactFinder (NYC PFF)

Victoria Larsen Stencils Hometalker Los Lunas, NM: A Privacy Wall Doesn’t Have To Be Boring Anymore

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