The internet is a never ending fountain of knowledge anybody can spend hours surfing and sifting through the endless pieces of knowledge once only made available to those who were privileged. The internet recently has been flooded with millions of new users thanks to the mass popularization of online video. Internet subscriptions are up while TV viewership is going down, it is only a matter of time before Television is swallowed by the Internet.

Many new websites are offering embedded videos and many older websites are starting to catch up to the technology. No doubt, there is lots of money being invested in online video. No matter how you slice it, Videosift is in the middle of one of the most compelling competitions for viewers in media history. All websites are suddenly on a level playing field with all the major media corporations like News Corp and Time Warner.

With copyright and regulations the major media companies can try to slow the Internet, but as long as there are honest people willing to share video, the internet will endure these ongoing setbacks, Videosift will survive even without the Viacom videos and FOX cartoons. TV is merely an engine to advertise mostly retarded products from insanely rich corporations and it works, over the year TV has turned generations of people into ignorant fools  who buy retarded products. 15 minutes out of every hour spent in front of the TV is time spent watching adverts, sometimes more especially with the rising number of VNR's. (Thats when they package advertisements as news.)

Anyway...The Internet is populated with thousands of new users daily, who bounce around the Internet until they find a website that they are comfortable with enough to call their home. I have bounced many times in my 10 year surfing history and I currently have two jobs involved with online media, Videosift is the latest website that has caught me bouncing and I would like think my contributions here will attract other passionate video researchers.

The Videosift community is who creates the value of each page on this website, its the users contributions that make this website a destination for online video entertainment.  Videosift is also a unique destination for knowledge, many users come here to take advantage of the vast, ever expanding archives of interesting and thought provoking topics that engulf philosophical, political, historical and scientific videos. Comment fields under such topics are generally full of random opinions, It's mainly in these comment threads where Internet Research is most important, especially when first time visitors and fence sitting members are using the videosift archive to find information.

 

Take this example, a submission by Karaidl titled "Who Owns America's wealth?" A very thought provoking clip, It says that the richest 1% of Americans own 37% of the nations wealth, that is an incredible statistic.  The numbers come from the Federal Reserve. I was able to find a few appropriate more links, first a link to some colourful charts and also opinions from a university professor who dedicates much time researching the topic.

So suddenly this video submission becomes a collection of information dedicated to the topic in the title, so now a new person who enters videosift after typing "Who Owns America's Wealth?" into google he will not only be visually stimulated by the moving picture he will be pleased to find links that will help him/her continue on the journey for answers, who knows maybe that new user will appreciate the mix of video and information and sign up and start contributing himself. So next time you have a couple extra minutes to burn after watching a clip on videosift, think about the knowledge seekers and include some research to our video archive.