Jon Silk at the LEWIS 360 blog recently posted his top five favorite YouTube videos, and tagged me and a few other bloggers to do the same. He's tracking the progress of the whole thing using a memetag.

Jon's list includes a very impressive video that I'd never seen before: Urban Ninja. It may yet make it into my top five, but I'll have to live with it for a bit.

As is my wont, I thought much too hard about this. For instance: user-generated content only, or is corporate advertising okay? What about copyright-infringing videos that by all rights shouldn't be on the site at all? And then there's the matter of coming up with only five.

And yet:

WADE'S TOP FIVE YOUTUBE VIDEOS

1. cute kid ~ karaoke (My arm could be on fire and this video would still make me happy)
2. Darth Vader being a smartass
3. C-Walking
4. Nerdcore Rising Trailer
5. Wes Anderson - 'My Card, My Life' (American Express Ad)

I will resist the urge to link to "cat wheel" and "Portal demo", because that would be cheating.

I'm tagging my co-bloggers with this, and also Ed, Steve, Eric, and Rob. If and when you guys pick up this meme, would you do Jon a favor and include this memetag at the bottom of your post? It's for science. Internet science.

Here's the code:

<p>Memetag: <a href="http://www.lewis360.com/2006/09/youtube_gold_a_.html">YouTube chart</a></p>

Memetag: YouTube chart