I read in this week's Computerworld that Google's YouTube now generates traffic equal to the entire internet-load in 2000. The source for this quote is a bit suspect: Juniper, a rival of Cisco's that's always trying to talk-up internet traffic to goose sales of its routers. Still, yet another reason for us to get some ASDSL2+ happening. Please, please, Theresa (are you still there?)

More evidence that YouTube's eating the planet: the other week I had lunch with someone from the BBC who mused about YouTube's rampant video piracy. This week, the Beeb has signed a deal with YouTube to distribute its content, free and supported by ads (which the BBC has no problem with outside the UK). If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

The final sign of the YouTube apocalypse: LonelyGirl15, aka some-time New Zealander Jessica Rose (pictured, in case you've forgotten what she looks like), is to star in a real-life big screen analogue movie, alongside Lindsay Lohan.

That makes Jessica the second YouTube star after, um, those guys with the exercise machine music video, to crossover and smash the mainstream media.