Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Thing 20 - You Tube

1. Play around with YouTube and use the search tool to look for some videos that interest you.
2. Post the link to a video you found, blog about the clip that you found on YouTube.

YouTube is like the wild, wild west. You never know what you're going to find. I searched using the word "yoga" and about 90% of the hits posted by fordmodels and RipeTV are videos of beautiful, flexible women demonstrating asanas, largely with an (ahem) prurient audience in mind. Not what I expected. Well, there were some serious-minded ones too, and some laughing yogic videos, which I got a chuckle over.

Here's a clip from a BBC show featuring John Cleese exploring this phenomenon.

What I value YouTube most for though (above and beyond the joke videos that get passed around) is sharing homemade videos with family and friends. My husband's video of dolphins off the coast of NJ may not be of interest to anyone outside our inner circle, but it makes him happy.