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Thing 20: YouTube

I've known about YouTube for awhile--my husband loves the political satire and humor (esp. Will Farrell). In fact, one of Farrell's most popular clips "The Landlord" stars his agent's 2-year-old daughter as a drunken, abusive landlord. It is probably borderline child abuse to make a toddler talk that way, but it is *very funny*, esp. to this mom who hears everything parroted out of her son's mouth these days. Anyhow, when I searched for the video today, I came across tons of spin-offs posted by people who made mashups of the video. So now there is a proliferation of fan-fiction type stories using Pearl and Will's heads on cartoon bodies!

Okay, but back to work--applications for the library? Sure, why not? I think we should have Vcasts on our website--how about booktalks from our patrons? How about snippets of our programming? What about ads for upcoming events?

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