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In our second podcast of 2011, Kevin Allocca, Trends Manager at YouTube Trends, sat down with us in the studio.And returning champ and friend to Urlesque Brett Erlich (of Infomania and Viral Video Film School fame) Skyped in to play our tl;dr quiz, despite being sick as a dog (what a good sport).
After chatting with Kevin about what exactly he does at YouTube, we moved onto the hot topic of the moment: the rags-to-riches-to-rehab story of overnight YouTube sensation Ted Williams, the homeless dude from Ohio with a golden throat.
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Links for what we talked about this week:
From our tl;dr quiz:- Contrary to rumor, Facebook will not be shutting down on March 15th
- To My Husband, the new blog from our own Christine Friar, in which ladies send messages to their future hubbies
- Self-proclaimed geek Steven Thompson is copying every entry from his 1979 journal into a blog, to the day 32 years later
- YouTube phenomenon Ted Williams's first job after being discovered was for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
- One dude scared the bejesus out of Target shoppers by pretending he was talking about them as they shopped, which made for a superb prank video
- See what's going on at YouTube at YouTube Trends, where our guest, Kevin Allocca, is an editor
- Everything you need to know about Ted Williams, hobo-turned-celebrity
- Brett Erlich is an Urlesque fan, friend, and internet celebrity in his own right over at Current TV
- Also, check out his national commercial for Nissan (congrats, Brett!)
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