Lately my son and I have been watching a lot America’s Funniest Home Videos reruns. It’s actually quite funny watching my sons reactions to back flipping cats and whiffle ball nut shots. He finds it all pretty hilarious.

I found it rather surprising that America’s Funniest Home Videos is currently working on it’s 20th season, however now it’s called AFV. The AFV acronym, while easier to say does little to revive the show.

It Got Me Thinking, What Can AFV Do To Get Back On Top

AFV was one of the first of it’s kind. A show that was solely built on UGC (User Generated Content). UGC is a term tossed around in the Web 2.0 discussion rather ominously but the original Bob Saget hosted show was a pioneer.

Rewinding back to the late 80’s America’s Funniest Home Videos had no real competition except for America’s Funniest People but it was on the same station. Fast forward to today, AFV competes with YouTube, Jackass, WebSoup and many other UGC or reality shows. (more…)

I became very aggravated with the fact that I couldn’t find this skit anywhere on YouTube or other sites. Every clip I saw was of a news station covering the skit. I finally stumbled upon the video here “The Huffington Post”.  I put it on my site to offer it to anyone who wants it.  I don’t want to write a post that has nothing to do with web building so… “Meta Tag!” that’s webby enough… Enjoy.