This week we got to play with YouTube. I've been a huge fan of the site for well over a year now, mostly bc it only encourages my very serious StarWars fandom habit. Ironically, I don't spend a lot of time surfing through the site bc both my connection at home and my connection here at the library is sooooooooo slow that it takes a lot of time and patience to watch a video. I either need to watch it in starts and stops, or load the whole thing first and then watch. Truthfully, most of the vids I've watched on YouTube have been sent to me by friends, and I've enjoyed them immensely.
I love how YouTube plays to not only my fandom habits, but also to my giant nostalgia gene. I can watch old videos from 80's pop groups, vids fans have put together to music of their favorite clips of their favorite soap opera supercouple, or some of the best spoofs and parodies out there. For a library's use purposes, I can see programming being recorded and embedded into the library's website (like giving patrons a choice between a vid or a podcast), or any kind of tutorial, meeting, or training. It could really be used to bring the library "out" of the building, beyond what just the Web has done.
Ok, below you'll find one of the best vids I've ever found on YouTube (the all-time funniest I can't link to here, bc, well, it's not entirely clean), Star Wars Shortened. Three guys act out all 6 movies from the Saga. They're obviously total fanboys (George Lucas Appreciation Society??), but they're so funny and accurate and they know their stuff. Enjoy! (In two parts bc YouTube vids can only be 10 min or less.)
Part 1:
Part 2:
PS. I'd like to toot my own horn here for figuring out how to embed #1 since YouTube had disabled the embedding code for that vid. Go me!!
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