Friday, January 2, 2009

I like vimeo and blip.tv better...

As with most people I really like these video sites. I remember back in the eary days of the internet until youtube came on the scene, when I would want to see a music video, or a clip from a tv show, or any sort of video, I would have to wait a long time, and then hope that I had the right codec to play the videos... more often than not it wouldn't work, and I would have wasted all that time. Fortunately, now I can use youtube, vimeo, blip.tv, and even hulu. I don't like yahoo! movies though, they haven't quite figured out how to not suck. Similarly, my experience with google video removing copyrighted material has been less than stellar. Overall, the ability to continually watch entertaining and stupid videos has left me with a great big thumbs up for internet video players.

As the challenge option of this thing states the library could use this as a constant updater of what is happening in the library. Think of it as a video newsletter, kind of like the library channel only consistently accessible via the internet. Many companies have youtube channels, and therefore get their faces out there for the internet to see. The library could benefit from utilizing this form of communication.

I choose this video because it gets to the heart of an issue we face everyday at the library:

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