This is a great site. It correctly addresses the often-dense web spaces that make available many of the narratives. Good to see the modern web approach. And the instructional stuff on github is worthwhile.
My work monitors are crappy, rendering speech bubbles invisible. I'll look forward to checking this out on my own machine though. Checked out your personal site from here, nice work on Sequence.js! (http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/sequence-js-launch/)
Here's a related and interesting article [1] titled 'Unraveling Google’s Product Strategy' from the author of a post that is linked to on the HN front page (Ode to Little Data)[2].
The author in this related article is really showing the total commitment to ads by google. I find it very unsettling.
i've gotten useful info via !yt comments, as well as had meaningful interactions.
the entire push to "use my real name" vis a vis my gmail account instead of my historical youtube account name, of which this new comments action is a part, bothers me.
also, it smells of an attempt out of desperation to beef up content on g+.
I've shared it with the major African American Studies listserv, H-Afro-Am (http://www.h-net.org/~afro-am/)