The Canon of Online Video
We recently finished a lengthy paper for our PhD course work on the growing need to canonize online video (although other forms of media/entertainment aren't immune). We examined the Guggenheim's YouTube Play event which chose 25 video to be displayed at the museum and on their website. Hopefully we'll publish it here soon. Google has a version of this as well - Zeitgeist 2010. It is basically the top 50 YouTube events of the year. A much more populist and broader look versus the YouTube Play.