Nice work, guys! Way to team up. Here's the Stewart/Groening interview for those who missed it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Jon-Stewart-meets-Matt-Groening

Great sift, Groening talked about Fox News, I recently created a mashup of all the FOX bashing clips, I cant post here (self link rule) but if you want to watch it, you'll have to visit my blog

The Matt Groening & Friends Appreciation Society collective. You should associate the video you sifted up with it.

In reply to your comment:
“umm till I joined what?

In reply to your comment:
“Was this sifted up after you joined MG&FAS? I think so... please add http://www.videosift.com/video/Technocrats-learn-some-humility-in-Springfield to the off.videosift.com collective! ””

Is ant part of the Matt Groening... Appreciation Society?

so, is Family Guy welcome in Matt Groening's collective? I never knew that!

First off, here they are as they are currently ranked, with their average number of votes per video:

1 Rock & Roll: 16.6737
2 Did that Just Happen?: 29.3763
3 Sports Sift: 21.7181
4 Matt Groening: 34.6338
5 Arts: 19.4969
6 A Bit of Parody: 23.5148
7 Obscure: 15.2030
8 Cinema: 18.8780
9 All About Science: 29.3227
10 HorrorShow: 16.2270
11 Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs: 20.7457
12 Ball Flexin': 19.1796
13 Spanning Time: 17.4850
14 It's Raining Cats & Dogs: 28.9157
15 Sci-Fi Fandom: 22.1428
16 British Humor: 21.1465
17 Video (game) Sift: 21.6372
18 From Asia With Love: 22.4375
19 Religion... It's the Opium of the People: 22.7340
20 Nick's Nacks: 22.2526
21 Evolution in Action: 32.8437
22 Late Night: 29.1475
23 FemmeSift: 18.1975
24 Commercial Sift: 20.5070
25 Mind Blowing Documentaries: 15.9213
26 Kid Sift: 18.2676
27 80's High School Reunion: 16.1282
28 Islamica: 14.3103
29 The Clouds & Beyond: 19.0952
30 Hip Hop Culture: 16.0422
31 That's Terrible!: 19.3454
32 Good Eats: 20.8695
33 Stand Up Comedy: 24.0789
34 Bravo!: 15.7647
35 Humanitarian Sift: 17.4418
36 Army, Navy, Air Force: 20.75
37 Canadian World Domination: 19.5161
38 1st Tube: 15.7222
39 Grindhouse Cinema: 17.6538
40 How To...: 15.6428
41 221b Baker St: 14.4166


And here's how they line up when they are ranked by those averages:

1 Matt Groening: 34.6338
2 Evolution in Action: 32.8437
3 Did that Just Happen?: 29.3763
4 All About Science: 29.3227
5 Late Night: 29.1475
6 It's Raining Cats & Dogs: 28.9157
7 Stand Up Comedy: 24.0789
8 A Bit of Parody: 23.5148
9 Religion... It's the Opium of the People: 22.734
10 From Asia With Love: 22.4375
11 Nick's Nacks: 22.2526
12 Sci-Fi Fandom: 22.1428
13 Sports Sift: 21.7181
14 Video (game) Sift: 21.6372
15 British Humor: 21.1465
16 Good Eats: 20.8695
17 Army, Navy, Air Force: 20.75
18 Domestic Policy & Foreign Affairs: 20.7457
19 Commercial Sift: 20.507
20 Canadian World Domination: 19.5161
21 Arts: 19.4969
22 That's Terrible!: 19.3454
23 Ball Flexin': 19.1796
24 The Clouds & Beyond: 19.0952
25 Cinema: 18.878
26 Kid Sift: 18.2676
27 FemmeSift: 18.1975
28 Grindhouse Cinema: 17.6538
29 Spanning Time: 17.485
30 Humanitarian Sift: 17.4418
31 Rock & Roll: 16.6737
32 HorrorShow: 16.227
33 80's High School Reunion: 16.1282
34 Hip Hop Culture: 16.0422
35 Mind Blowing Documentaries: 15.9213
36 Bravo!: 15.7647
37 1st Tube: 15.7222
38 How To...: 15.6428
39 Obscure: 15.203
40 221b Baker St: 14.4166
41 Islamica: 14.3103

Interesting, non?

Huzzzah Zifnab! your diamond is here! Some of my favs:
Gandalf vs The Balrog (you…shall not….pass!!!)
X-files Intro
Star Wars Episode I, Duel of the Fates
No Capes! (Edna is too cool…)
The Princess Bride: To the Pain
(Plus he’s the currently atop the leaderboard in mlx’s R&R collective, those are good too!)
Well done, here's to 250 more!
[EDIT] He also leads in Matt Groening, Parody, Cinema, Commercial...damn! The Z cannot be stopped!

Why isn't this in the matt groening collective?

No, not even the collective owner can. But it's animated and there's a proud history of doing everything to cheat the system associated with Matt Groening (i.e., he drafted the Simpsons family quickly so he wouldn't lose control of the Life in Hell comic characters), so I say it should stay on anyway.

Which is why I award this video the first ever Best Use of the "& Friends" to Sift into the MG&FAS Collective Award.

The Best Friends award, for short.

Hey choggie, I think you can still add this to the Matt Groening Collective with a quick edit of your vid... I recommend that.

Oh, and *animation

collectives should really remain distinct from channels.

channels are like tags, and should be more or less objective and comprehensive. they're a way of filing and organizing all the videos here -- click "animation" or "vintage" or "cute" and you get a fairly well-defined cross-section of the whole site.

but collectives should be more individual and subjective -- more like blogs (collective blogs). people should be able to get a sense of what fits the style of the collective and include anything that fits, even if the total list of videos would have lots of different characteristics (in terms of how many are "animation" or "cute" or "vintage", etc).

a lot of the best collectives cut across multiple channels, including arts, obscure, nick's nacks, and "did that just happen?". none of these will be usefully reduced to a single channel, nor will any channel be improved by filtering collective-associated posts out of the bigger pool.

for example, "obscure" doesn't map out well onto anything more easily defined, like "music" or "vintage". "obscure" won't be better if all the posts that could be "music" or "vintage" are removed, and "music" won't be a better filter if it excludes any relevant posts from "obscure", "rock & roll", "arts", "spanning time", "bravo", etc.

the reverse situation is also a problem. our "arts" collective includes playlists that are supposed to serve as reference points for submissions. these include the plastiquemonkey animation, timelapse, and stop-motion playlists. "animation" is a useful channel, because there's quite a bit of animation (of all sorts) on videosift. but the plastiquemonkey animation playlist has a definite focus: no simpsons, no family guy, lots of award-winning artsy animations.

so if you try to make "arts" the collective into "arts" the channel, what happens to the artsy animation? probably it ends up in "animation" the channel (maybe this is the future "matt groening and friends"?), where it's going to be lost among the simpsons clips. then "arts" the collective probably turns into "visual arts" (painting and sculpture etc), which the current collective description specifically aims to go beyond.

the only fair way to administer the collectives as channels will be with universal invitations and more-or-less objective criteria for inclusion (how could you exclude an animation from "animation"?). but that goes against the whole individual idea of collectives. having everyone on the site a member will make the word "collective" meaningless (and boring).

please leave the channels / collectives distinction alone. it's a useful difference. maybe add more channels, but let the collectives exist according to their own definitions, with their own members lists, however inclusive or exclusive.

as for the rest of it, anything you can add to increase discussion and voting within collectives, and give collective owners more control over what shows up on their video list would be a great improvement...

no captain linear.....thanks for the exacting observation......the world is not a straight line......


In reply to your comment:
“Matt Groening?”

Matt Groening?

Yeah, well done all. Including lurkers. Fascinating creatures.

Well done Videosift, it's been a while since there was a communal pat on the back. You make my days at work far more bearable and far less productive. If it wasn't for you lot I'd be a couple of rungs further up the career ladder but would know a lot less about Matt Groening, sloths, basic html and the phenomenon we call Westy.

Hip Hip Hooray

P.s. This deserves a pinch of *quality for recognising Lurkers.

HOAX!

See the small characters in the end:

"Futurama, Bender all logos and associated concern copyright Matt Groening. Comedy Central logo copyright MTV Networks. Please Don't sue us. Hire us instead. It'll be cheaper. Probably."

Just sad...It gave me hope for a moment...