YouTube 2.0 helping new stars redefine TV

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2011-06-03-YouTube-creators-camp-Michelle-Phan-Joel-Jutagir_n.htm

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. — Blending as it does into a forgettable suburban strip mall, Metro Skateshop is easy to miss. Not so its owner, Joel Jutagir.

The skateboarding fanatic has turned his decades-long obsession with filming himself and his friends into a popular channel on the video-hosting site YouTube, where roughly 15,000 subscribers regularly tune in to see his tricks.

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