You Tube: Voice of the People

Of all the applications covered in this week's lesson my favorite I think will always be You Tube. I love finding really bad fan videos people make and checking out music videos from the 80's. The best thing about You Tube is the fact that you can sees episodes of TV shows you would never see other wise, or episodes of TV shows that you haven't seen in many years like Rocko's Modern Life, or The Adventures of Pete and Pete. People have even been putting full episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that they have divided up in 10 parts. Someone keeps a catalog of them all on a Live Journal MST3K community I'm a member of.

One day I will put a video on You Tube and, I will be awesome.

Bloglines and Grokker

I tried out Bloglines and I did like it alright. I don't know if it is something I would use on a daily basis, but it's nice to have some favorite blogs together so you can just check them all at once for updates. I did find some cool Disney blogs when I searched and a feed for Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine which are two of my favorite comic strips. I guess I just have a thing for talking animals. I'll defintely have to mess around more with RSS feeds when I get home since I know there is a button on my internet toolbar for it, but I've never used it.

I did really like Grokker though. I did a search on Harry Houdini to see how the site worked and I liked how it took the information and categorized it. It will definitely come in handy when I do a research paper because it will be nice to know what the articles are about so I don't have to sift through them all.