YouTube Vloggers Respond to the Boston Marathon Bombings  By
Grant Pardee  If you're like me, you are glued to every news
source you can find right now. Bouncing among CNN, Huffington
Post, Twitter, Reddit and back again, hoping for some resolution
to the complete shit show last week has been. Later, you take a
break because you realize the futility of the whole exercise,
but just a long-enough break to have the thought I wonder if
anything more has happened? and then you begin the cycle anew.
Somehow that cycle led me to the strange world of YouTube
vloggers—teens and basement-dwelling weirdos offering their
reactions to the tragic events in Boston. I'm not very familiar
with the vlogging community, being that I'm over the age of 18,
but I was immediately transfixed. Cable news has had enough of
my attention. If I'm going to watch someone ramble about Boston
while we wait for new information, it might as well be this
awkward teenager.   Some of them are kind of awful, most are
pointless, all of them are pre