During my keynote at this year’s Vidcon conference in late June, I talked about the flight of users I’m seeing from YouTube, and I commented on how I thought the site’s direction was misguided. It certainly got people talking. One of the top execs at YouTube chastised me for even saying it, while some blogs construed it to mean that I was calling for a wholesale abandonment of the platform. Of course, it didn’t help that I used a cartoon of rats jumping from a burning ship to punctuate my point, but in fact, I was preaching a bit of the reverse. Read the full story at All Things D.