YouTube Is Yoda, You Are Luke: How the Video Site Became Our Storehouse of Folk Knowledge - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

posted on 11/02/2013 18:41 #youtube

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I want to tell you a little story about how YouTube has become a unique repository for very useful information. What makes it special is that YouTube taps people who want to show you what they know, not write about it. Learning from YouTube is more like a momentary apprenticeship than it is like book learning, and that’s what makes it so great.

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