Saturday, July 28, 2007

Week 9

Video, Podcasts, and Downloadable Audio

Video
YouTube is one of a number of sites, including Yahoo!Video and GoogleVideo and many others which offer a place to view, to upload, and to share videos; and at least some of them organize the videos into categories, which helps a lot. Besides a lot of silly videos, there were some beautiful nature videos as well as a disturbing one of police zapping someone with a taser in a library. Some YouTube categories are Comedy, Entertainment, Pets & Animals, News & Politics, Sports, Travel and Places, etc.

Podcasts
Three podcast directories at which I looked are Podcast.net, Podcastalley.com, and Yahoo Podcasts. On Podcast Alley, I found several good sites which relate to books, some which deliver reviews and/or author interviews, and some which deliver selections from books themselves.

Downloadable Audio
YPL's Digital Books page offers both e-books and audio books to be borrowed electronically. The page is user-friendly in that one can search by genre or subject or a collection as well as by author, title, or ISBN. It is great that so many titles are now offered in electronic format!

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