Well that’s the sort of information you can now get from YouTube Insight. It’s all explained here in the Official Google Blog entry.

Now all we need are traffic sources and we’ll be there…

I wanted to search YouTube to see if a particular video clip was on there – the “Jim’ll Fix It” rollercoaster cub-scouts – and found that YouTube was offline for a good couple of hours.

It now appears that the cause of the problem was Pakistan’s order to block users from visiting YouTube.

Apparently:

“A leading net professional told BBC News: ‘This was probably a simple mistake by an engineer at Pakistan Telecom. There’s nothing to suggest this was malicious.’”

I see.

So what they’re saying is that some witless fecktard in one telecom company in one country can take down a massive online entity like YouTube/Google by mistake?

Well if that’s the case, I expect it won’t be too long before fundamentalists (always with the accent on “mental”) start taking down websites all over the world, just because it appears to be so easy to do so!

I started it in February 2007 and it hit a number of milestones between Friday and this morning:

• More than 1,000,000 video views
• More than 100,000 channel views
• 1,000 subscribers

It’s just a pity that neither the video views nor the subscriptions generate direct revenues…