Top YouTube Videos via IceRocket

I've discovered a very interesting website called IceRocket. It provides various blog-tracking and online-video-tracking mechanisms, but the thing that first attracted me to the site was its "Top YouTube Videos" listing page. Now, YouTube itself has a page that constantly updates the Most Popular videos. And sometimes funny and amazing videos that I like to see make it on that list. But very often it also includes things I don't care about. YouTube has its own "community" of diehard fans and regular users, and certain serial videos have become popular, perhaps most of "Lonelygirl15", which became famous enough to warrant a cover story in Wired magazine recently. Since I don't care about those kinds of videos, I need a list that would weed those ones out.

The IceRocket "Top YouTube Videos" page should do that. This page tries to track which videos are getting linked the most at blogs and the like, and such videos would most often be (I'm assuming) stuff that people find funny, amazing, or otherwise worth mentioning. The latest episode of Lonelygirl15 might get a lot of viewers at YouTube, and creates lots of commentary at that site amongst fans, but it isn't likely to get a lot of linking from bloggers saying "You gotta ee this video... its funny/cool/amazing!". I'm sure other sites are trying to track such videos-mentioned-on-blog trends, but I like IceRocket's attempt at this.

As of right now, here are several worthwhile videos currently making waves in the Top 30:

• Ice is Dangerous, Even in Portland - amazing long skids and accidents on icy roads.
• Stephen Colbert Explains the Whole AT&T Thing - Clip that makes fun of Telecom companies splitting and merging over the years.
• Pachelbel Rant - funny comedy/music performance about an overplayed and overused classic
• 100 Person Flashmob Randomly Chasing After People - This is GREAT!
• Freak Accident at Football Match - Wow... crazy wind blast.

Not only does this list provide great videos, but it'll be interesting to see, week to week, how some videos move up and down the chart. I plan to check this out weekly, and I'll probably post links to my favorites every now and then.