Cinematech’s Scott Kirsner was recently a guest of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation“. The topic was the community video-sharing site Youtube. You can stream the entire audio segment online.

“Web sites like YouTube turned any wanna-be director with a video camera and an internet connection into a full-fledged broadcaster and has left most of main stream media struggling to keep up. But author Scott Kirsner argues in his op-ed in Sunday’s San Jose Mercury News that the online video pendulum is swinging from quirky home videos back to professional grade quality.”

Along the same lines, Kirsner’s new book `The Future of Web Video‘ is now available in paperback. As I previously mentioned, it’s a brilliant read and I highly recommend it.