Youtube has become a go to place. With tags one can find the info they want very quickly. It’s kind of a neat experiment as it takes some of the tools that information professionals use and puts it into the hands of the user. The user who uploads a video needs to know how to tag, index, and classify their video if they want it to be viewed. Also creating simple titles that will include common but specific words that will promote their video to the niche they want. For example, “Library Tutorial” could be a great tag or title as someone who is looking for info on how to search catalogs could find your video easily. The problem then lies in the reality that “Library Tutorial” could also link you to tutorials about other things, but are offered in libraries. The solution that I like in Youtube is playlists. If I create a playlist for Library Tutorials, a number of videos present themselves, and I can easily browse through the sub-categories for the specific tutorial I want.
Kind of unrelated, but not really, I use Youtube as a music player. Instead of digging up random playlists on Pandora, I can immediately seek, through tags and titles the music I want. The problem here is the numerous violations of intellectual freedom and copyright laws. There are more bootlegs on Youtube than in a serious Deadhead’s tape collection. Gail Zappa (wife of the late Frank Zappa) hires people to scour youtube and pull videos of her husband which are violations of copyright…. But she can’t keep up with them. Here’s my favorite Zappa Video (Music conducted by Pierre Boulez)
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