I love it when people criticize a video, because then it gives me something to blog about ;)

I was inspired yesterday to write a new episode of krumbinesBRAIN (it's been a while, hasn't it??).  The inspiration came from one of my original vision for my "personal vlog show" in that it was a great venue to do video responses.

It goes without saying that the whole schizophrenic, talking to yourself routine ISN'T original ... but it's safe to say that I do it fairly well.  Well, the other day, through Victor's channel, I discovered the DanAndDanFilms channel which does, basically, the same thing.

Only way, WAY better.

Go check it out--every video is a creative and technical achievement that every youtuber should aspire to.

Since DanAndDanFilms is a partner channel, not only was it a good subject to riff on, it was also a good opportunity to wrangle in a new subscriber or two.  So I wrote and produced a new episode of krumbinesBRAIN yesterday ("Krumbine vs Krumbine vs Dan vs Dan") and submitted it as a video response to Dan's latest.

This morning, I see a comment that, in short, criticizes my advertising of other youtubers.  It's not an angry or mean comment, and if that's what was intended, I sure didn't read it that way.  But it is a good observation and one that I'd like to address.

Gimmeabreakman does a fantastic job of recognizing other youtubers and has established a precedent for partners, who are already in the spotlight, to shoulder the responsibility of acknowledging other creative people on youtube.

And what's wrong with that?  One person responded in the comments that talking up other youtubers is what makes it a community.  I don't know about that, but if you recognize talent you have a responsibility to share it ... more so if you expect others to do the same for you.

However, I was not pimping out Dan's channel.  Yes, I was sharing it with my subscribers, those who haven't already seen it, because of the creative and technical achievements I mentioned earlier.  The simple fact is that I was inspired by Dan's channel and it made for great material for a new episode of krumbinesBRAIN.

And linking the channel in the sidebar?  Hell, that's just the right thing to do.