Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I heard about this, while listening to a talk contest show on NPR, driving home from the coffeeshop this morning.  According to the initial newspaper report, the clerk at a Dunkin’ Donuts foiled at robbery attempt by bopping the assailant over the head with a “big heavy ceramic” tip jar.  When asked what was going through his head, the clerk, Dustin Hoffman (no relation to the actor), said that he was concerned about what the robbery was going to look like on YouTube. 

Hoffman was later interviewed on CNN, and reported that the possibility of the surveillance tape going to YouTube was only one of the many things he mentioned to the reporter.  But that was the focus for the story they went with in the newspaper.

The NPR contestant said something about YouTube becoming the moral compass of the Internet age.  Do you care about what you’ll look like on YouTube?