#20 I can youtube

Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?

OPTIONAL: Try placing a video inside your blog. After you've found a video in YouTube you want to place in your blog, copy the code from the "embed" field on the right of the video into a new blog post.

I like ease in which you can embed and share videos. I can copy and paste a video into a comment on a site or into my blog very easily. If I had a decent video camera I could also upload movies and clips that I have created.
As you collect favorite video clips youtube starts to recommend clips that it thinks you will like. This can be good and bad. If you go through a night where you save a lot of clips of the same thing, for example a car chase. Youtube will continually recommend car chases for you to watch.
The video I chose was very simple. It's about what makes something funny or considered comedy. It's very interesting to think about what can make something that is very tragic in real life extremely funny as comedy.

The video is of a cartoon character falling from a great height to an eventual death and by adding different elements to the characters predicament it makes it funnier and funnier. It lampoons several genres of comedy but also asks the question "What is Comedy?"
Youtube could be used really in conjunction with any website and especially with a library site. People love watching moving pictures so why not add a little flavor to our pages. We could add trailers to movies that we have on the shelves, interviews with authors, instructional videos on how to get the most out of the library or even how to use new WEB 2.0 technologies.
In summary, Youtube has revolutionized what we watch and also what we record with our cameras. There are a lot of people that do a lot of crazy things on film and almost all of them are on youtube.