YouTube!

YouTube. You can find absolutely ANYTHING here, from some guy showing us the contents of the dock on his Mac (a dictionary and a web browser, for starters) to the infamous Fainting Goats. And then some. As with most Web 2.0 services, YouTube's draw is also its downfall. ANYONE can post. Sometimes videos get flagged if they're extraordinarily raunchy, but pretty much anything goes. So be careful what you search for. There's even a video of Count von Count (from Sesame Street) singing his song about loving to count. Someone ingeniously bleeped out every utterance of "count" so that the viewer's mind fills in the blanks....I'm not going to post a link. The funny part is that it works so well...
Regardless, as evidenced by the St. Joseph and McCracken links in the Fontana Learning blog, libraries can indeed put YouTube to good use. Using it as a source to post library videos, then linking them to the library's own webpage, would be a safer way to get library information out there. Otherwise, I think it would get lost in the pool unless someone were to specifically search for it, and patrons may unwittingly run across information they'd rather not see while searching for our ads.

I have two videos to share, both of which I was shown by someone else. The first is awful, but my soccer-playing sisters find it HILARIOUS. They really do laugh every time they see it. The second video is a guy singing. It's pretty awesome--he has an amazing range.