Sunday, February 5, 2012

TECHNOLOGY: Things Which Are Weird

This morning I woke up to a comment on this post, which was an innocuous reposting of Joshua Chamberlain's speech in the movie Gettysburg. The commenter, who was the person who posted the video, attracted my attention to this:


Did you miss it? I mean this:


Yes, that's right, by posting a YouTube video on my blog, it now becomes "AS SEEN ON" my blog.

Clicking the link reveals something even creepier -- a playlist of YouTube videos that have been on my blog. I can't brag -- Ian Moss' Createquity has the same treatment. So does George Hunka. And Parabasis.

Anyways, it's just an odd phenomenon whose use I can only wildly guess at.