Yoo Hoo Toob

November 26, 2008 at 5:54 pm 1 comment

YouTube. Where do I start? Who has time to watch all these things, much less record and post them? Or should that be vice versa? It’s kind of like being strapped in a chair and being forced to watch bad home movies of your relatives, except at least those didn’t have sound so you didn’t have to listen to vapid people asking each other “What’s going on?” “Did he do it yet?” or my favorite “Are you recording this?” OMG!!

I can see where this would be a valuable tool for libraries who wanted to reach the YouTube watchers and get the message out about events, resources, or general library coolness. The trick would have to be to tag it (hey, I used a techno-term!) or title it so that it got a lot of hits (there’s another one!) on a wide range of searches. I searched “Dachshunds.” It was a mistake. Lots and lots of idiots have video camera capability and think their dachshund is the cutest/funniest/smartest thing on this planet. They are wrong. Now if the library had a good videographer and did 2 minutes of a herd of dachshunds exploring the geneaology collection that might be worth watching! And the library would get serious coolpoints from all the (apparently) hundreds of thousands of dachshund lovers watching YouTube. Of course they would want to bring their dachshund to the library . . .Heeey, this sounds like one of those stories where you give a rodent a baked treat and so on. Maybe I’ll write it up, upload it to Lulu, publish it with my own original artwork, and become a millionaire!!

Okay, all of that up there? That’s now copyrighted, so hands off!!

Meanwhile, here’s my favorite dachshund-oriented (not oriental dachshunds) YouTube video. Notice that it is professionally done, with good clarity, excellent script, a through-line, and a climax.

And HERE!! Well, this is just the total L&P@CML experience, because I just found a video of Henry the Dachshund who is owned by a woman I met on Twitter when I was learning about that. We met because I searched for Twitterers with dachshunds, and we’ve been tweeting back and forth ever since. Now, thanks to L&P, I not only can see her dachshund, I can hear her voice and see her truck!! I feel like I have a new friend, even though we’ve never met face to face! Thanks, Learn and Play!