Boobis YouTubis
June 7, 2007
YouTube is apparently implementing some kind of insane Web 2.0 acrobatics to make an already clunky service completely unusable. Now we all get to try and watch a video file while links to other video files dance across the bottom of the player and two honking huge buttons take up either side of the window.
It’s a perfect symbol of the information age. There is so much information in the video player window that there is no room for the video. We end up watching a clip through a cloud of links to other clips.
Yuck.
Anyway, as this incredibly silly upgrade is taking place YouTube access has been flaky all day. Some clips are being presented as a black screen with a little swirling white dot. Some clips don’t even get that.
None of this is my fault, so stop sending me complaints about YouTube videos not playing.
YouTube served a purpose, but now I think it’s time to start looking for a better video delivery option. There has to be a simple way to keep the Folk Song of the Day going out to folks. . .
Oh well, time to start experimenting again. Good thing Dear Old Dad is doing tomorrows Folk Song of the Day!
Update – 6/8/07
The funky Mac OS X widget is gone today – but I have a feeling it will be back.
Folk Song of the Day 6/7/07
June 7, 2007
John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection
June 7, 2007
I stumbled across an interesting web site this morning featuring hundreds of folk songs recorded in the Ozarks from 1952 to 1970.
John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection
As a learning tool this is pretty cool because you get the lyrics and a rough field recording for hundreds of folk songs.
For me, the really neat thing about this site is that everything is presented in a “warts and all” fashion. Instead of pulling a Lomax and dropping or editing any material that didn’t fit a preconceived image of the community in question, this collection has everything from old ballads to pop songs of the day. In other words, it’s a complete picture of the music and the place.
To top it off, there is a Booker Washington White interview!
The Daily Frail 6/7/07
June 7, 2007
Karl requested Cripple Creek.
