{"id":31165,"date":"2016-03-14T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31165"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:30:32","slug":"experienced-points-how-youtube-can-fix-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31165","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: How YouTube Can Fix Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/16875-How-to-Fix-YouTube-s-Fair-Use-Problem\">My column this week is more cathartic than helpful<\/a>.  It shows a number of ways YouTube could make life better for everyone at no cost to themselves (and in some cases, for a small profit) but they won&#8217;t because the human beings at Google are insulted from public interaction by many layers of obfuscation, and company policy changes at a glacial pace. <\/p>\n<p>Also: YouTube rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/gaming.youtube.com\/\">YouTube Gaming<\/a> this week. As far as I can tell, it&#8217;s my usual YouTube feed with non-gaming stuff filtered out, with a black background. I don&#8217;t have anything bad to say about it, but I do find myself shifting back to YouTube Prime after just a couple of minutes. It&#8217;s not bad, it just doesn&#8217;t seem to offer me anything I need. But maybe it&#8217;s aimed at the Twitch streams and PewDiePie crowd? I honestly don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is more cathartic than helpful. It shows a number of ways YouTube could make life better for everyone at no cost to themselves (and in some cases, for a small profit) but they won&#8217;t because the human beings at Google are insulted from public interaction by many layers of obfuscation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}