Today’s New York Times highlights the cover of Pachelbel’s Canon by a Youtube guitarist named funtwo:

Eight months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply ‘€œguitar.’€? A black-and-white title card gave the performer’€™s name as funtwo.

This video, not to put too fine a point on it, rocks…

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Heather Armstrong, better known as Dooce, is always good for a laugh.

Check out the Hardest Working Dog on the Internet for an interesting video of her infamous dog Chuck.

Michael Arrington went out and videotaped a group of startup CEOs about Web 2.0.

The result is a 24 minute Web 2.0 Documentary.

It’s worth a watch – but only if to note that the real Web 2.0 is what was happening this past weekend at WordCamp.

When two folks working in their boxers at home can bring in $100,000 a month on a blog or website, I’m not really sure that I want to hear a bunch of CEOs and executives drone on about the “bubble” and so on… I’ll take the 20 somethings (or younger) anytime.

More interesting, more passion, more creative, and they keep it real.

These guys? I’m sure they’re great folks.. but they’re not the future… they’re the past…

Last week, Ana Marie Cox, formerly of Gawker Media, wrote an article in Time Magazine’s Online Edition outlining what she called The Youtube War, a look at how American soliders were telling their own story of the Iraq War in homemade videos.

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The Rocketboom saga continues with Amanda’s post late last night on her blog sharing the private communication between here and Andrew that led to the split:

Andrew responded the next day by saying he would not respond to this letter. This then was followed by days of back and forth negotiations, ending yesterday, on Independence Day, with Andrew telling Chuck Olsen, our mediator, that he was taking control of the show and my option was to be the “face” of rocketboom with no involvement beyond that (I might in the future be allow to “produce shows”, but not for the time being). Very old media. Considering I have personally written, produced, and hosted Rocketboom and was already a producer on Jet Set, this was totally unacceptable. I don’t know any “partnership” that functions like that.

And there’s plenty more as well.

There’s much argument in the back and forth email about the ownership of Rocketboom. I just hope for both of their sakes that they have a legal agreement in place that spells out each other’s obligations – or we’re going to see one heck of a fight.