One of the most popular thing on YouTube today is (ironically) a bitty video of David Lynch bashing movies on mobile phones--an anti-iPhone manifesto. "You will never in a trillion years have experienced the film," he yells at cellular movie watchers, yelling as much as David Lynch can yell.
It's true. I dig mobile technology, I own a video iPod, and I love shooting little pieces for YouTube, but I still think he's right. The YouTube screen is not meant for big movie fare.
The only reason people watch big screen movies on mobile technology is because there isn't very much good content for the small screen. But there will be smallest-screen content soon, and you could be writing it.
Start thinking about movies, journalism, and videos that are meant to be watched on a YouTube-sized screen. If you can figure out how to tell that kind of story, you'll be leading the pack.
Here's some links to get you started. This page will tell you all about Reuter's first mobile journalists. Poynter.com has a sweet essay about mobile journalism and the Media Shift Lab has a touching post about worldwide web video watching. Listen to David Lynch and write something new...
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