Seriously! Check it out at www.youtube.com/lpgavideo!
Why does this matter, you ask? Well, for one thing, it gives Hound Dog added incentive to use YouTube as his platform. It's not just that he doesn't have to go to the trouble of uploading the highlight clips he makes directly into his Blogger account, but can instead set up a free YouTube account and embed the clips into his blog; it's also that the odds are good his clips will be featured in YouTube's "Related Videos" sidebar (hopefully displacing material that the LPGA may be more, uh, hesitant to be associated with).
Unfortunately, the LPGA has disabled the embedding function for their own clips, which to my mind kind of defeats the purpose of putting them on YouTube in the first place. Oh, and their commercials r teh boooo-ring. Plus, their voiceover narrator reminds me of that loser actor who always shows up in various Simpsons episodes ("Hi. I'm x. You may know me from such movies as..."). I shudder to think what Geoff Shackelford will make of the production values.
So, yeah, it's a work in process. But at least it's something.
2 comments:
Interesting. I thought about using YouTube but figured bringing a third party into the process might make it more cumbersome. If the clips download more quickly than they do to Blogger, however...
I'll give it a test run soon and if it seems to work better, I'll use it for the Safeway highlights. Maybe there's a way to label them with a link to the HD blog?
Sure, take a look at Marc Bousquet's How the University Works for a non-Blogger example of linking a youtube channel with a blog....
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