P.M. Scouting Report: YouTube evolves, MSM bloggers, Facebook Funny Farm

...A couple of YouTube observations this afternoon. First of all, if you look at today's most viewed list, it's almost totally dominated by non-English content. That charge is clearly being led by excerpts of a Turkish TV drama called "Yaprak Dökümü," which occupies a whopping 7 of the top 20 most viewed spots. I can tell you little about this show, except that it has a cool website. Would any of Web Scout's legion of Turkish-speaking readers care to illuminate us?

...Also, the feature on YouTube that allowed you to sort search results by date added, number of views, and relevance -- has disappeared. Meaning you cannot, as of now, search the brand-newest videos coming in anymore. This may not be headline news, but since I just wrote about it, it's sticking in my craw.  Why would YouTube weaken its search tools so much?  Could be a glitch, I guess ... but it has been this way for at least 24 hours now.

...Mark Glaser at PBS' MediaShift has an article up about the converging arts of blogging and reporting -- and how any respectable media outlet should probably be doing both. I made a small contribution to the article -- but what's more: for the six or seven thousand of you who write me every day asking me to post a picture of myself (you know who you are) -- now you need look no further.

...FaceReviews found a Facebook word game they like called Funny Farm, where you have to guess your way through a web of related words. Like what 4-letter word connects to both "barn" and "farm"?  Don't ask me, I guessed like 15 different things and still couldn't get it.