I love that the content is so varied. Really bizarre amateur videos, National Archives and Records Administrations videos (including NASA, National Parks, and Newsreel footage), popular culture (Leonard Nimoy sings "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"), music, and just a lot of random stuff.
Going to the Google Video homepage lets you search Google Video, YouTube and Crackle at the same time.
The Monty Python/Star Trek video in the post below really tickles my funny bone.
Features of YouTube that could be useful for library websites? Do you have a while? I'm just going to pick two:
Folksonomies - I really like the idea of patrons being able to tag services and books and other items we own, and building up a network of subject headings that, while subjective, are probably going to be of more use to more patrons than the very stilted language of the Library of Congress Subjects Headings. Don't get me wrong; I'm not advocating getting rid of the LCSH - they serve a very important purpose. They're just often not very accessible.
RSS - I would love to be able to have a list of authors on file in our catalog and get notified when we order something by one of them. Hit or miss is just so...hit or miss.
Melissa.
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Re: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Have you ever heard Brent Spiner's comedy bit where he's doing the voice of Patrick Stewart going through a McDonalds Drive-Thru? It is absolutely the worst thing you have ever heard. An abomination. Until you realize that it is the best thing that you have ever heard.
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