YouTube vs. Google Video
YouTube is, honesty, one of my favorite websites out there. I checked out Google Video and when you search for a video it gives you any and all websites, including YouTube, where you can that certain video.
Something that has made YouTube so successful is the fact that you can almost find any video that you want. I can find any CSI: NY video that I want (most of them I have seen). YouTube is really simple to use.
Movie Trailers
The difference between the standard quality and the high definition quality in the movie trailers is actually very interesting. With the standard quality, all you get is the actual movie trailer but with the High Definition trailer, you get behind the scenes stuff with the actors and directors from the movie.
There were not that many movies that I had not heard of (maybe I watch too much TV). But the few that I did watch, some I might go see and some I will not. All depends on how busy life is.
CSI: NY Nut Signing Off
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Podcasts and Audiobooks
Podcasts
The first podcast that I "listened" to was "Pinball Wizard" by The Who. The only thing was there were five sites that I could get the song from but only one of them was free. I was able to listen to a sample of the song but it was only about 20 seconds if not less.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT003565137&p=Pinball+Wizard
The second podcast that I went to was "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" by Fall Out Boy. This one had six sites that I could get it from but none of them were free.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&sngid=XXXXXXT007685065&p=Sugar%2C+We%26%2339%3Bre+Goin+Down
The last one that I went to was one at podcastalley.com. This one was a little bit more confusing and difficult to get around. It takes you to a separate website for you to get to the podcast itself.
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=7539.
My evaluation of the podcasting experience is kind of both positive and negative. The Yahoo! website was easy to use only if there were free ones to get, but at the same time, podcasting was not what I thought it was going to be. I do not really know what I thought that it was going to be but, in a confusing type of way, it really was not what I thought it was going to be.
Audiobook
For the Audiobook part of this assignment, I used audiobooks.org. I was able to find a book that I liked, which was "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The only problem was, was that it took me to the itunes website, where I had to download itunes in order to get the audiobook itself.
My evaluation of the audiobook idea is that it does not seem like the easiest and best thing to do. If I had to download itunes to get one simple book, I would much rather go onto amazon.ca and buy the book. It may not be cost efficient or time efficient but to me it is simplier then having to sit and wait for a program to download.
CSI:NY Nut Signing Off
The first podcast that I "listened" to was "Pinball Wizard" by The Who. The only thing was there were five sites that I could get the song from but only one of them was free. I was able to listen to a sample of the song but it was only about 20 seconds if not less.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT003565137&p=Pinball+Wizard
The second podcast that I went to was "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" by Fall Out Boy. This one had six sites that I could get it from but none of them were free.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&sngid=XXXXXXT007685065&p=Sugar%2C+We%26%2339%3Bre+Goin+Down
The last one that I went to was one at podcastalley.com. This one was a little bit more confusing and difficult to get around. It takes you to a separate website for you to get to the podcast itself.
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=7539.
My evaluation of the podcasting experience is kind of both positive and negative. The Yahoo! website was easy to use only if there were free ones to get, but at the same time, podcasting was not what I thought it was going to be. I do not really know what I thought that it was going to be but, in a confusing type of way, it really was not what I thought it was going to be.
Audiobook
For the Audiobook part of this assignment, I used audiobooks.org. I was able to find a book that I liked, which was "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The only problem was, was that it took me to the itunes website, where I had to download itunes in order to get the audiobook itself.
My evaluation of the audiobook idea is that it does not seem like the easiest and best thing to do. If I had to download itunes to get one simple book, I would much rather go onto amazon.ca and buy the book. It may not be cost efficient or time efficient but to me it is simplier then having to sit and wait for a program to download.
CSI:NY Nut Signing Off
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