Youtube and The Whole Earth Catalog

With the youtube revolution in full swing it is time to examine the impact it has had on society.  It might seem strange that a website like this can be compared to The Whole Earth Catalog but if you look closely at the content and idea of youtube the differences seem to fall away. For example if you type in this link into the URL:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1usT9C04Foc , you can watch a person sit down and give you opinions on the world in a way that they see it.  This may seem mundane to us from the 21st century but a video that you can access almost anywhere in the world that gives these ideas and can establish communities of people to follow and subscribe to these ideas is revolutionary to a "hippie" from the 1960's.  In a way we can see youtube and other blogs and various media sharing sites to be the new generations Whole Earth Catalog, and in that way we can connect to people across the country or the world and not be shackled by location. Just the same way The Whole Earth Catalog was a safe haven for the counterculture movement to allow for the founding of a community that belonged not to a place but to a set of ideals and that's the same way that we can view youtube or other sites like it.