Zeitgeist

Five minutes is a long time in online video — just long enough to tackle any subject.

These brave content creators are filtering something unspeakably vile for those of us too squeamish to directly interact with it.

YouTubers make their own memorials of the day.

The CW’s revamp of the early 90s Fox series attempts to capitalize on new media with the character of videoblogger Silver.

The Internet’s not addicted. It can stop ANY TIME IT WANTS TO.

Andrew Goldenberg writes and performs Sondheim-esque lyrics to famous movie scores. It sounds hokey, but his take on Batman is funny, but also surprisingly dark and poignant.

Avril Lavigne’s #1 single Girlfriend ousted the longtime most-viewed YouTube vid, but what does her success imply about YouTube’s policies?

The Battle at Kruger video proves that sometimes all it takes to become a massive viral video success is to be at the right place at the right time. David Budzinski caught a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence on video in South Africa’s Kruger National Park of the beast of Africa duking it out, circle or life style.

YouTube superstar Bryony Matthewman — alias paperlilies — is making a zombie movie, and the whole world is watching… or at least the BBC hopes so.

During the six months between its announcement in January 2007 and its June release, the iPhone was the focus of technology rumors worldwide, and the New York Times’s technology columnist, David Pogue, got in on the action.

More than just a freshmaker: when added to soda, Mentos make a fizzy volcano — and made Eepybird’s Fritz Globe and Stephen Voltz Internet celebrities.

It’s unclear exactly why a five-second clip of a rodent looking over its shoulder has shot to the top of the YouTube charts.

Don’t panic. It’s going to be okay.

First, Christian Bale, followed by Joaquin Phoenix. Who’s next?

Take one piece of music, several clips from your favorite piece of media — and you’ve got a new way of relating to a TV show or film.

Stefan Nadelman’s epic short depicts the history of 20th-century American warfare with food.

Stand up for the rights of online video’s disenfranchised.

A terrifyingly bad trailer for a children’s film gets the mashup treatment.

A mysterious big green gorilla helps a group of kids make a big green difference.

Celebrate the festival of lights with these serious and not-so-serious selections.

Who knew Hillary Clinton was a Sopranos fan?

Online video turns to the medium it knows best to spread holiday cheer.

An unrequited love song for the specialty grocery store.

Improbable Research Collections is a weekly series produced by The Improbable Researchers, a ragtag band of scientists with an unusual sense of humor.

Enterprising fans use online video to make the case that one artist might be stealing from another.

Jack and Hill strings together scenes from films starring on-the-record Hillary Clinton supporter Jack Nicholson, with titles that reflect the Clinton campaign’s typical “experience”-obsessed fear and loathing.

The flamboyant R&B star has a slight problem with impulse control.

The historic race embraces some new technology to replay races and share information about race culture.

Sharks and rays and fish swim by in this stunning and peaceful video.

Gleeful geeks give gamers something zippy to drink and some fine video to chew on.

Merlin Bronques returns to lower Manhattan, and this time his hipster exhibitionists are pretending to love an Austrian energy drink.

The public mourned the King of Pop in a two-hour live-streamed memorial.

Working out, watching longer videos, and other resolutions we probably won’t keep.

An unemployed buddy comedy in which a pink-slipped professional accompanies his hustler roommate in a series of for-hire adventures.

Not, perhaps, the most pertinent of debates — but really, which is cuter?

Some of Pixar’s award-winning, side-splitting, heart-breaking short films.

The Cardo Systems viral marketing campaign that still has us guessing.

Neil Cicierega’s animated and live-action puppet odes to the Harry Potter series.

The father of Balloon Boy made some attempts at web fame via an online science show.

When exactly did RickRolling start — and why?

It’s all audio, but you’ll probably listen on YouTube.

It happens to everyone eventually. But it happens much faster when you’re a famous person constantly in front of cameras.

Videoblogger Mary Matthews shows the Internet how to show their appreciation.

A series of short videos starring A-list talent that was produced and conceived by B-list talent and designed to promote United Hollywood

Meet Billy Mires – designated (if fictional) driver for John McCain’s Straight Talk Express.

Videos to guide you though our most culinary of holidays.

Author, Club Kid, and overall sensation James St. James runs giddily amok through the freakish and fab Hollywood scene.

Tracie “Slut Machine” Egan and Moe Tkacik from Jezebel guest on “Thinking and Drinking,” hosted by Lizz Winstead. Cross-generational feminist chaos ensues.

An obsessive film editor creates a favorites pastiche, inspiring criticism and sleuthing from viewers.

Celebrities on Twitter get the dramatic readings they deserve.

PBS partnered with YouTube to capture users’ Election Day experiences.

A roundup of the best videos from the 2007-2008 WGA Writer’s Strike.

A dancing fool spreads joy around the world, sponsored by Stride Gum.

An original series of smarmily produced, short form featurettes on contemporary oddball sports, Wild Frontier of Sports is sponsored by athletic footwear co. Saucony and produced by the hipster moralists at Good Magazine.

The art of morphing has come a long way since the day of screensavers on our families’ first computers, and for Philip Scott Johnson, an artist out of St. Louis, the same technology was the perfect medium to cycle through 500 years of art and cinema in hi

Whedon fans get horrible — Dr. Horrible, that is — with tributes, music videos, and vlogtastic fanfiction.

Other peoples’ footage is ingeniously repurposed for Adam Quirk, Aaron Valdez, and Erik Nelson’s non-partisan purposes.

The will.i.am music video’s influence extends beyond Barack Obama.

The classic martial arts video game is converted into an interactive YouTube experience with clever screen-embedded buttons and motion-capture animation.