TikiRobot! » youtube http://www.tikirobot.net/wp Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2009/11/12/an-anthropological-introduction-to-youtube/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2009/11/12/an-anthropological-introduction-to-youtube/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:41 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/?p=2817 An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube is an hour-long presentation that Prof. Michael Wesch gave at Library of Congress. Prof. Wesch researches digital ethnography at KSU and previously made the famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video in 2007.

]]> http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2009/11/12/an-anthropological-introduction-to-youtube/feed/ 0 Announcing YouTubeFilter http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/03/05/announcing-youtubefilter/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/03/05/announcing-youtubefilter/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:58:58 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/03/05/announcing-youtubefilter/ YouTubeFilter is a simple tool that scrapes the MetaFilter RSS feed and embeds the YouTube videos inline. I wrote it to make it easier to find cool videos to watch on my Wii.

Unfortunately, the Wii runs out memory when loading YouTubeFilter! And of course, Firefox bugs on the mac prevent some of the embedded videos from showing up unless you resize the window just right. Stupid firefox.

The code is checked into SourceForge. I use Beautiful Soup for parsing the RSS. Someone please help me make it work on the wii!

]]> http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/03/05/announcing-youtubefilter/feed/ 2 Visualization of how an ISP in Pakistan hijacked access to YouTube worldwide. http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/02/26/visualization-of-how-an-isp-in-pakistan-hijacked-access-to-youtube-worldwide/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/02/26/visualization-of-how-an-isp-in-pakistan-hijacked-access-to-youtube-worldwide/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:19:14 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/02/26/visualization-of-how-an-isp-in-pakistan-hijacked-access-to-youtube-worldwide/ On Sunday, the government of Pakistan ordered ISPs to block access to YouTube in the country, for containing content that was offensive to Islam. (This occurred soon after videos exposing vote-rigging in the recent Pakistani election appeared on YouTube.)

In response to this order, Pakistan Telecom began advertising a hijacked route for YouTube, which caused all internet traffic to YouTube from around the world to be blocked for several hours. Here is a full writeup of how this happened.

I found this great Slashdot comment that explains how to use BGPlay to see an animation of Pakistan Telecom re-routed YouTube for the world.

Here is how the net looked during the hijack. The red dot on the left is YouTube, and the red dot on the right is Pakistan Telecom:
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After YouTube announced new routes, traffic returned to normal for those outside Pakistan:
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The animation is pretty neat! Also, Wikipedia has a good summary of the Border Gateway Protocol, which is the protocol that routers use to talk to each other.

]]> http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2008/02/26/visualization-of-how-an-isp-in-pakistan-hijacked-access-to-youtube-worldwide/feed/ 0 This is the YouTube Post http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/11/10/this-is-the-youtube-post/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/11/10/this-is-the-youtube-post/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:52:52 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/11/10/this-is-the-youtube-post/ The other day, may and peliom came over and we couldn’t find anything good on YouTube! I know that sounds impossible, but it really did happen. That will not happen again. I will keep adding to this post as I find more great videos. Feel free to add to this post, or post links in the comments.


Also, Adam’s post Growing Up on YouTube is very good. You should read it.

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