This catchy music video stars a library, a librarian (right, played by Esse L. Maple), a fluffy library cat, a bunch of dancing kids, and a bunch of dancing Smittens. “Gumdrops” is from The Smittens’ third album, The Coolest Thing about Love. Scenes were shot in the Lawrence Barnes Elementary School library, Burlington, Vermont. The Smittens performed the soundtrack for the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium video.
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Gumdrops in the Library
Published by October 12th, 2008
in YouTube, libraries, video and librarians/information professionals.
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Author Stephen Chbosky shares a letter he received from a reader of his young adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (4:26). Alternately funny and moving, it demonstrates the effect that a book can have on a life—even (and especially) a book that some would have removed from library shelves. Filmed at ALA’s Banned Books Read-Out in Chicago September 27.
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Judy Blume on Banned Books Week
Published by October 5th, 2008
in libraries, video and censorship.
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Author Judy Blume discusses book challenges and ALA’s Banned Books Week on Chicago TV (4:12). “It’s so contagious,” Blume said, “this fear that leads to trying to ban books. If libraries gave in to all the requests to ban books, what would we have left? Fun with Dick and Jane?”.
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Errol Pierre-Louis writes: “Whether you’re looking to create the next YouTube sensation or just a good-looking video, you need to do some editing or your clips won’t have the shine and polish they deserve. But not everyone needs (or can afford) a high-end video editor. You can actually save money and skip the hassle of learning complicated software by using one of these three free but surprisingly capable video-editing solutions.”
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Columbia U Going Live on iTunes U
Published by August 31st, 2008
in podcasts, education, video and Apple.
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Columbia University has been beta testing its content through iTunes U, Apple’s education-focused portal within its popular iTunes digital media player. The New York-based university expects to go live with its release at the start of the fall semester. Columbia on iTunes U will allow students, instructors, and the public to search, download, and play content on computers or iPods. The site, accessible via the Web site, ccnmtl.columbia.edu/itunesu/, contains audio and video podcasts of course lectures, course media and campus events.
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Metacafe Flavors Video Search with Wikipedia-Type Perk
Published by August 31st, 2008
in YouTube, video and search.
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Erstwhile YouTube alternative Metacafe launches a new Wikipedia-like tool called Wikicafe, which lets users make video search more effective through open metadata tagging. Users can go in and edit information about the videos and add links and other content. The tool typifies Web 2.0 messaging and collaboration. Short-form video site Metacafe, one of a handful of sites looking to offer users a video experience that is not a carbon copy of Google’s YouTube video-sharing site, has opened its metadata for community contributions and editing. This means not only can Metacafe’s 30 million monthly viewers upload videos to the site, but they can edit video titles, tags, descriptions or any relevant notes about the videos. Called Wikicafe, the feature is designed to eliminate so-called tag abuse, where inaccurate or incomplete metadata thwarts users who are trying to find what they want through video search.
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Search Engine Helps Locate Video Online
Published by July 12th, 2008
in video and search.
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With YouTube, Blip, Hulu, and scores of other online video sites, just keeping track of what’s there has been no easy challenge. Well, it’s now easier thanks to a new search engine that specializes in finding TV clips, movies, and videos of all types. It’s called Yidio and it’s all about video. Keeping track, it claims, of 200 million different videos from all over the world.
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American Libraries Video Site Celebrates First Birthday with Top Ten Videos
Published by June 7th, 2008
in video and American Library Association.
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American Libraries Focus (ALF), the video home of American Libraries magazine, debuted in June 2007. Since then, the site’s collection of nearly 70 videos has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Editor Daniel Kraus celebrates ALF’s birthday by posting 10 of the most popular videos in the “Featured Video” and “Editor’s Picks” section on the homepage (alfocus.ala.org).
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National Library Week Video: Game On
Published by April 6th, 2008
in libraries and video.
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The spirits of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Pitfall live in this dot-gobbling, laser-firing celebration of National Library Week (April 13–19). This week’s fun fact: Americans spend nearly 10 times as much money on home video games ($9.9 billion) as they do on school library materials for their children ($1 billion). Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle and shot at Morton College Library in Cicero, Illinois.
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National Library Week Video: Super Sized
Published by April 6th, 2008
in libraries and video.
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Nothing is more popular than McDonald’s, right? Don’t be so sure. To help celebrate National Library Week (April 13–19), take a trip through the information drive-through and see what ends up in your take-out bag. Fact: There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.—a total of 16,549, including branches. Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle and shot at . . . well, the location should be obvious….
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National Library Week Video: Vending Machine
Published by April 6th, 2008
in libraries and video.
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Do you ever put all of your change into a vending machine, and then wish there were options other than Doritos, Fritos, Snickers, and Skittles? To help celebrate National Library Week (April 13–19), we spin a tale with a very happy (v)ending. Fact: Americans spend more than twice as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries. Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle
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StoryTubes 2008 National Contest
Published by March 29th, 2008
in YouTube, video, children and books.
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Kids across the United States in Grades 1–6 are invited to participate in a national contest. They can make a two-minute video about their favorite book, upload it to YouTube, go to the StoryTubes website, and submit a link to the uploaded video using the contest entry form before April 20. The four winners in each genre category will win $500 in books and select a school, library, or educational association to receive $1,000 in books
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Julie Andrews Shares Her Thoughts on Libraries in New Video
Published by March 16th, 2008
in YouTube, libraries and video.
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Academy Award-winning actress and honorary chair of National Library Week Julie Andrews discusses the value of libraries in a new video available on YouTube. The clip can be posted on libraries’ Web sites or blogs to promote National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008).”Libraries for me were a place of peace, quiet and joy,” says Andrews, recalling her library visits as a child. “Such a new world of adventure opened up for me when I took a book out of my local library.”
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The term “convergence” may sound retro, a notion tossed around in the 1990s that never really came to pass. But don’t be fooled. Today, the bulk of video consumed online is snackable video—bite-sized entertainment—rather than a complete meal of full TV episodes or full-length movies. The most popular online video content, watched by 40% or more of the US online video audience, consists of short pieces of five minutes or less: news clips, jokes, movie trailers, music videos, clips from TV shows and entertainment news.
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Librarians at the Young Adult Library Services Association Gaming Extravaganza, held January 11 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, share how they’re developing gaming in their libraries and the importance of creating a “safe place” youth, while librarian/gamer/author Eli Neiburger runs a live tournament and explains the secret of getting 115 boys to come to his library on a Friday night.
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The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners developed this TV spot to promote its new website that connects state residents with their local libraries, even virtually: “You can get everything the library offers, even when you’re not actually at the library.”
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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) announced the winners of the first Sparky Awards January 22. The contest called on entrants to imaginatively illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas and information of all kinds. In first place was Share (0:53), written and directed by Habib Yazdi, a senior communication studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Rethinking Knowledge Management: PersonalBrain User Accumulates 80,000 Thoughts
Published by January 26th, 2008
in Generation Y, video and knowledge management.
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The market for content and knowledge management systems and solutions is a crowded one—so much so that it can sometimes feel as if there are as many offerings out there as there are, say, neural pathways in the human brain. But there is probably only one knowledge management product that takes the inspiration for its design directly from that most complex and intricate of organs. PersonalBrain, a product of TheBrain Technologies, links networks of information including ideas, concepts, files, and webpages in a manner that attempts to mimic the thought processes of each unique user. Last year, TheBrain Technologies, a provider of visualization and dynamic mind-mapping software, released the fourth version of the PersonalBrain product, and last month the company celebrated a milestone in usage when one user surpassed 80,000 thoughts in his Brain.
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CNBC Strikes Deal with The New York Times to Share Video and News Online
Published by January 12th, 2008
in video and news.
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CNBC and The New York Times will share business, technology and financial news and video online as part of an agreement announced on Monday. Both news organizations are gearing up for a surge of competition from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is making a major push into business news with its recent purchase of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and the launch of the Fox Business Network cable channel.
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China Limits Internet Video to State-Controlled Companies
Published by January 5th, 2008
in YouTube, China, video and censorship.
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. It wasn’t immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and other providers of Internet video that host Web sites available in China but are based in other countries.
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2007: Top 10 Technology Videos
Published by December 29th, 2007
in YouTube, video and technology.
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From smooth grooving robots to revolutionary desktop fabricators, from prosthetic flippers to liquids with a life of their own, 2007 has thrown up more eye-popping tech videos than ever before. And so, to give you a flavour of the clips that have drawn in the most visitors during the year, here’s a list of the 10 most popular, in reverse order.
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Nielsen Seeks to Become Video Copyright Arbiter
Published by December 9th, 2007
in video and copyright.
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Nielsen has partnered with Digimarc to digitally “watermark” or fingerprint video clips from media companies circulating on the Internet. Clips would have a unique ID and specific rules could be assigned to govern their uploading and distribution accordingly, to prevent copyright infringement.
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Mobile Video Viewer Demographics
Published by June 25th, 2007
in mobile/cell phones, demographics and video.
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Eight million US people ages 12 and older watched video on their mobile phones in the first quarter of 2007, according to Nielsen. Videos created with the phones’ camcorders were not counted. Nearly half of mobile video viewers during that quarter were ages 35 and older, and 54% were male. As of May 31, 55% of primary users of video-enabled mobile phones lived in households with total annual incomes of $75,000 or more. At least 7% of 18-to-34-year-olds watched mobile videos in the first quarter of 2007, and at least a quarter used their mobile phones to connect to the Intenet. A total of 33 million people in the US used the mobile Web. Nielsen also examined viewing preferences of TV audiences by wireless phone brand, revealing that Verizon households tuned in to the May 23 American Idol finale at a higher rate than those who subscribed to Sprint or AT&T.
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