As you know from my previous three entries, I spent last Friday through Monday with three good friends, Tom (tlg847), Paul (renetto), and Peri (PeriUrban/UrbanBlog). Mixed in with all the fun and socializing that you've already seen, we discussed the future of online community, the nature of connecting through video, and building a web site based on our shared vision of how it could be.

We are not anti-YouTube. We love YouTube - it is what brought us all together. But we dream of something even better, and have a plan of how to get there. Stay tuned for more information as we're able to share it.

When you spend several days hanging out with the same small group of guys, one of two things is going to happen. Either you're going to be bored to hell after a very short time and not be able to wait until it's all over, or you're going to have such a good time that you just descend into complete male-bonding idiocy.

As you'll see in this video, by Sunday evening of my four-day YouTube gathering extravaganza, the second option is where we headed.

Tomorrow, you'll get  a glimpse of the more serious side of what we were working on.

Day two of my four-day viral video long weekend was mostly spent at Pier 39 in San Francisco, at the second annual SF "As One" YouTube gathering.

In the video here, you'll find some interesting remarks from YouTube founder, Steve Chen, as well as a lot of random nonsense and a pitch for Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Okay, so I've been offline for several days. From early Friday morning through Monday evening I've been spending most of my time running up to San Francisco (and Oakland, etc.) to spend some quality time with a few fellow YouTubers with whom I'm plotting the revolution.

Over the next several days I'll be posting videos from that long weekend, starting with this video from Friday of touring SF with Peri Urban and Paul / "Renetto", and leading up to a video in a few days with more details about that revolution thing.

An explanation of my lack of productivity as of late. Sort of...