On YouTube, the wildly popular video-sharing site, the most-watched video clips include David Letterman’s public evisceration of Paris Hilton, music videos by Rihanna and Soulja Boy, and, of course, a young man’s heartfelt plea to “leave Britney alone.”
But YouTube’s ocean of clips ”” some of them trivial, offensive or just bizarre ”” now find themselves competing with a Web site from a higher authority ”” GodTube.
GodTube, the Christian response to YouTube, is the fastest-growing Web site on the Internet, and the site’s top videos reveal a community that couldn’t be more different than YouTube’s.
The most viewed video on the internet? See [url=http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2007/10/godtube-goes-fo.html ]here[/url] for a very cute rendition of psalm 23.
Thanks you robroy….
Awww…so precious!
I attended a workshop on “Library 2.0 — developing a presence on the internet” oh, I guess two weeks ago now.
The presentor focused on two areas:
virtual hangouts (V-hangs) and
message sites (included blogs, etc.)
The site we went to for our demonstration of a v-hang was called second-life. Once we got there, the presentor gave us a warning: the site is being over-run with pornography, and on his second visit, he was ‘virtually propositioned’ by a young ‘lady’ user. Great. Just what we need! Plus, when I came back to the library to show ‘what I’d learned’, Second Life caused my computer to freeze up. And I have one of the newest computers in the Library, so I know it wouldn’t work on the public access computers!
The other space where we were told we need to be is on youtube. Because young people looking for libraries are going to go there first to see if you have an ad on youtube. Excuse me? Who goes to youtube to see a library commercial? There were some good examples of these, by the way, on youtube.
He also suggested, your library needs a teen presence on the internet, start a book club on-line.”
Um, most of our teens are in an impoverished area, and have to come to the library to use the computers. So are you suggesting that they come to the library to use the computers to access the library on-line book group? Why not just come to the library to meet face-to-face in a group for book club?
“Because many teens feel more comfortable conversing on line rather than face-to-face.”
(I’m thinking: isn’t this one of the criticisms of home-schooling? Lack of personal social skills?)
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