Back in the early stages of my blog I made my first attempt to embed (sounds so militaristic!) a YouTube video of Elvis Costello singing my theme song in the blog. And I found the task pretty simple. This pointed up how easy it would be to include this kind of content in library endeavors. The handy thing about YouTube is that it serves as the host for all the videos your library might want to create. This means less server space used on your end. As an example one of the MPL branches did a video about a music program they had for kids. Once the video was done, how easy it would have been to load it onto YouTube and make it available on the library's website. What a nice way to promote your library, not only to your own community but to the wider web world. Think of a fundraising effort you may be undertaking and making a short film to sell the idea. The possibilities are immense.
All my cogitating aside, I'm not going to embed a video from YouTube today. Instead I'm going to embed an episode of my very favorite SF show from the new movie/tv service called Hulu. Hulu in their own words: "Hulu offers full-length episodes of not only current hit shows like The Simpsons and The Office but also classics like The Incredible Hulk, Miami Vice and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in some cases, as with Arrested Development, Firefly, and Friday Night Lights, we have every episode ever aired. Our expanded library of full-length movies has something for everyone, from The Usual Suspects to The Big Lebowski, Me, Myself & Irene, Mulholland Drive and (one of my personal favorites) Three Amigos!." Their movie selection is still pretty small but I'm thrilled with the tv shows on offer.
And without further ado here is one of my favs (and with this tip for embedding - paste the embed code into a Word document first otherwise the full code doesn't always come through):
3 comments:
Hi Veronica; Watched some of your Firefly (what show is that?) and my one comment is: oh, sure, they would really go into battle without their helmets! Cool that you can embed an entire episode into your blog. leereer
Hey, they're the heroes, they don't need no stinkin' helmets. Wouldn't want to cover any of Nathan Fillion's pretty face would they?
Hi Veronica,
Hulu is cool! I hadn't heard of that (or Firefly for that matter) service and will have to check it out. This could be another very addicting thing to add to my list of favorites. I really don't need to clean the house, do I?
Thanks for the tip and keep on playing!
Jean
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