John Gruber writes about the pitfalls of centralised video in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: The big problem is YouTube. With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independently, as it is for written content. I don’t know what the answer to that is, technically, but we ought to start working on it with urgency. I’m not sure this is the whole problem. Sure hosting video is one part of the picture, ...
