The YouTube impact

"The News
Like a host of other blogs and sites, YouTube has fostered the growing ranks of citizen journalists. It developed a "reporter's center" to educate aspiring YouTube journalists, and it entered into a partnership with the Pulitzer Center to recognize the best nonprofessional reporters."

This is just a fragment from an article 'printed' on PCworld.com (http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100214/tc_pcworld/theyoutuberevolutionturns5)

The fact that YouTube created the environment for nonprofessional reporters caught my attention; they even offer awards to these amateur journalists. YouTube is only 5-years-old and changed our world so much already. You can find almost anything, and some people can even be 'found.' These is this story about a man arrested after police saw on a YouTube video that he was carrying a gun. So, be careful what and who you're filming!

I think YouTube, just like blogging and FaceBook proves once again that the virtual world has no owner, and that the VIP designation is obsolete. We're all writers, journalists, actors, producers. Everything is out there, waiting to be posted and talented people have much more chances of being discovered or making a name for themselves.

It just makes you wonder, what's next?