MediaPost: Helio says that videos shot with its phones can now be uploaded to YouTube with only two clicks.

Beet.tv: Steve Rosenbaum was among the first television producers to provide inexpensive video cameras to the public to create video. His show "MTV Unfiltered" demonstrated the promise and power of user-generated video before there was a Web.

MediaPost: New content management platform Mediaseed will allow clients like American Express and Johnson & Johnson to create, distribute and track their video and rich media content in one dashboard.

Washington Post: Magician Uri Geller's tireless attempts to silence his detractors have extended to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, landing him squarely in the center of a raging digital-age debate over controlling copyrights amid the massive volume of video and music clips flowing freely online.

Daily Mail (U.K.): Seven students were expelled from a tony British private school after posting a video of themselves smoking pot on YouTube.

Financial Times: A 21-year-old American has posted a video on YouTube explaining how to use Google's search engine to download music and video games for free.

New York Times: Nielsen/NetRatings will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites. The change is in recognition of how online video and other technologies are increasingly making page views less meaningful.