YouTube…Tubular!
So, the focus is on user generated content, specifically with YouTube. This week, Oprah has announced that she is planning to “Expand [her] empire with YouTube channel.” What’s it gonna contain? You can visit and see for yourself. I enjoy YouTube. Being a music lover, I now have access to music videos that I may not ever see. I can watch videos and concert footage as often as I want, whenever I want. This is yet another tool I use for familiarization of the unknown. New technology tutorials, new music, and the discoveries that are waiting for broadcast play.
YouTube is Tubular. Yes, I am dating myself a bit but couldn’t resist the bad wit I contain. Although I was familiar with YouTube before entering my LIS 768 course, I never really considered YouTube as being a topic for librariy studies. Looking at MySpace, I’ve seen how there is a communal relationship that often takes place with 2.0. I have found that user generated content has components that can enhance the effects of other components. Going back to my bad witticism, I wanted to refresh my Valley-girl lingo by looking up the full meaning of tubular. Interestingly, I found this word: gnartubularadacious-a combination of gnarly, tubular and rad. often used by surfers when making fun of how “gnarly, tubular or rad” something is/was. it is often said sarcastically making fun of the stereotype of stoner surfers. When I looked at this word, I thought of Del.icio.us. I then thought, maybe librarians should start using 2.0 lingo to describe combinations and practices of 2.0…”Like, that would be totally Furly.” or “MyTubular.” Sounds a bit, Flickr.icio.us you say? Ok, I’ll stop. Maybe history shouldn’t repeat itself, but the premise of my awe with 2.0 practices stems from how they build on and feed (rss) off of each other. I think we are living in a time that allows many options for experimenting and inspiring one another and ourselves. With that, I will leave you with this little YouTube goodie I found while searching YouTube as a topic in the Lib 2.0 section of Ning. Enjoy.
Ode to the librarian on YouTube.
