Saturday, June 13, 2009

Podcasting

So, I already knew what podcasts were, but I don't use them much, because I can read the same information (generally), and I can read faster, so I just look up the info myself. However, my dad uses some of these during football season for our fantasy football league, and in these are found opinions that you can't really find written anywhere, so they are useful for that. However, I went to podcast.com and typed in "Nintendo" as I am a huge video game fan. I found a podcast completely dedicated to the wii, and subsequently attempted to figure out how to subscribe to its RSS. I couldn't find it. I could subscribe with an account that I made, but I couldn't figure out how to do it with bloglines. Anyway, it had some neat stuff on it, but I had already heard most or all of it, so I don't think it will be something that I will use all the time.
Edit: Darn it, I forgot to look for Library podcasts. Oh well. I did it now, and I only found a couple, but they were relatively new.

Youtube

I love youtube. I always have, and I always will. There are so many hilarious, ridiculous, stupid people that I will never get tired of watching. For example: Miss Teen South Carolina.
Sad, but hysterical. Also, this is one of my favorite videos, because I love Saturday Night Live, but it wasn't on youtube, so I found it through the google video search.
Classic. Anyway, youtube is great, the only issue with it in my opinion is that sometimes there will be videos on the sidebars that you might not really want to see, or comments that you don't want to see. Video hosting doesn't really seem to fit with libraries, but they could in some tutorial sense, as in helping people that couldn't figure things out with step-by-step videos.