Sure, YouTube can be useful for watching grizzly bears roll down hills, but for those of us who are looking for something a bit more intellectually substantial, it can take more time to hunt down short-form videos than it does to actually watch them.
The other, "even more useful", was Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox.
Google TV offers viewers other things they may not find useful, like watching YouTube videos and showing friends vacation photos on a bigger screen, or monitoring ESPN.com while watching the game and writing Twitter posts about "Mad Men" on the same screen displaying the show.
Live streams also are useful for watching live events, like "The 60th Annual Grammy Awards".
It has to make these changes if it is to be useful when watching TV or driving a car at speed.
From laptop to tablet, to standup monitor, which is useful for watching videos or sharing what's on the screen with others.
At some point, it will become possible, even useful, to watch the video footage of Sept. 11 without re-imagining these terrible scenes.
If your problem is a physical, practical one (for instance, if you can't figure out how to repair your refrigerator), rather than an emotional one, it's often more useful to watch your helper fix the problem than to try to remember their verbal advice.
The paper by the scientists in Hawaii, however, shows that the monitoring system on Kilauea provides a useful model for watching other oceanic volcanoes should the unlikely calamity occur.
The very title of Sontag's famous essay "Against Interpretation," which also became the title of her first collection of essays, is inimical to a useful way of watching movies, whether Hitchcock's or Godard's.
