This weekend, Casey Nyset announced that he was ending the blog.

I honestly don't think that there's anyone who has done more for YouTube, for other

youbers, for the industry of online video as a whole than Casey

Nyset. I would be shocked if there were anyone watching this video who

doesn't already know who he is and hasn't already heard this news.

But I want to talk about it anyway because I think he's had such a profound effect

on the way all of us work.

The first time I remember seeing one of Casey's videos was actually before YouTube and it was the

Apple's dirty little secret video about the iPod and I remember at the time being blown

away because that was a really radical video to do when it came out.

Those were the days where no one ever said anything bad about Apple

unless you were a Windows user.

But Apple users were very loyal and we would bow down

and buy anything that the Almighty Apple would apple would release and here was some guy actually

calling them on something and it was pretty amazing and it was a very bold move.

I didn't really follow Casey much after that and I do remember in 2012 I was working at the

Dallas Museum of Art and one of my coworkers and I were constantly looking at

online video and at that time I mean this is kind of the cusp

where things could be produced with fewer people where you can just as one person

make videos and I also think that there was a shift at that point into the types of videos that

were being produced. A video was breaking out of this formal way of doing it that

was very expensive that involved a lot of parts and a lot of people.

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