The New Media Musing’s blog brought this story to my attention. DV Guru compares the top ten video web sites. While I’m clearly a You Tube advocate, at least in their present pre-ad state, this article provides a good summary to start the conversation. And you may learn a site or two…

A mentor asked me to brainstorm all the things that new media is. I created a list of fifty. They didn’t all make sense to me, but that’s the way it is in brainstorms: You write it down first and judge later.

Here are the strangest things that appeared on my list. I don’t know why I thought this:

1. New media is clean.

2. New media plays nice.

3. New media isn’t infinite.

4. New media is democratic.

5. When we grow past new media, we’ll move onto something pure.

Here are the things I liked:

1. New media is a remote controller.

2. If new media were a president, it’d be Kennedy.

3. New media is a really bad phrase to describe what new media is.

4. A better phrase for new media is “our media.”

5. New media is a language.

Five pillars of new media:

1. Ross Mayfield
2. Tech Crunch
3. Mash Up Camp
4. Wikipedia
5. The Open API

Or is it?

1. Myspace / You Tube
2. Ipod
3. Text Messaging
4. Blogger
   
5. Web 2.0 (new media or no?)
   

This month, I’m going to explore the new media theme and ask some bloggers I respect for a hand. At the end of April, I’ll share my observations.