{"id":5742,"date":"2009-03-17T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:25","slug":"the-greatest-waster-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-greatest-waster-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Waster of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis video is a clever music video composed entirely from mashed up instrumental videos found elsewhere on YouTube. It and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/kutiman\">others<\/a> by the same guy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=101959636\">Kutiman<\/a>) have been circulating around the blogosphere for the past week (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/markf.html\">Mark<\/a>!). There is not much more to say about them at this point. They are unabashedly brilliant. But one notion occurred to me:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaking it was a total waste of time that will probably bring the artist immeasurable success.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI am reminded of something that both William Gibson and Stewart Brand said independently, and here I paraphrase in my own words:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe internet is the world&#8217;s greatest waster of time, and that is its chief benefit to society.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOh, and I detect an entire new genre of video here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EsBfj6khrG4&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EsBfj6khrG4&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QAvS0pc9NIw&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QAvS0pc9NIw&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is a clever music video composed entirely from mashed up instrumental videos found elsewhere on YouTube. It and others by the same guy (Kutiman) have been circulating around the blogosphere for the past week (thanks Mark!). There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-greatest-waster-of-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}