Archive for the ‘youtube’ Category
YouTube – not just about your 15 seconds of fame anymore
It looks like YouTube will be partnering with MGM to host some full length films (The Magnificent Seven) and old television programs (American Gladiators). I didn’t see anything about the quality of the videos, if you visit YouTube regularly you know the quality of uploaded videos is pretty poor, surely the shows will be better. Maybe if they are willing to play MGM videos at better quality it wont be long before we see the option for other accounts to have better video quality. Like accounts belonging to libraries. 
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Electing a US President in Plain English
It’s no secret that I love the In Plain English videos, so I’m sharing the newest one, even though this is a bit off topic.
SCOM Videos
MRRL now has a Self Checkout Machine (SCOM) and staff made videos to help patrons understand how to use it. I got a hold of them and put them on both MRRL’s Flickr and Youtube accounts. The flickr video is so much clearer, of course we’re paying for a pro account, but I can’t see why we’d bother with YouTube anymore. Am I missing something? What do you think?
