Guest Editors on YouTube: Training for the future?

YouTube will be selecting one user each month to be the Editor of the YouTube homepage. Participants will submit 10 videos they think belong on the homepage, along with a video of themselves explaining their choices.

Finally, we’re opening up the programming of our home page to guest editors. We’ll pick one user a month to take over for a few days. All you’ll have to do is send us 10 videos you’d like to place on home (make sure they adhere to the terms of service!) along with a short video about why you chose what you did and how you found the experience. If you’re interested in participating, please let me know.

via the YouTube Blog



I assume there would be a way to discern how successful each participant is in selecting "good" videos for the YouTube homepage, be it page views, comments, whathaveyou. Allowing a YouTube member to be the Editor of the homepage may also bring insights into what the community wants, as well as the individual's preferences. Could a brief stint as the Editor of a popular page result in an unexpected learning experience? Participants also have to describe the experience in their personal video, so maybe we'll find out.

Health advice on YouTube

Doctors in Wales are giving medical advice on YouTube.

7 videos cover topics from flu vaccination to blood sugar testing produced by Builth & Llanwrtyd Medical Practice in rural Wales.

Find Related...Video?

StumbleUpon now has StumbleVideo which brings videos from YouTube, Google Video and Myspace to your browser based on interests and ratings. Best of all, no downloads.

It just keeps getting easier to find what you didn't know you were looking for.

Video Killed the Radio Star

and maybe print news?

For my semester project in Communications on the Internet, we were encouraged to make use of multimedia on our Web sites. Professor Carlson encouraged us to scour YouTube for relevant videos, provided that including them would not be an infringement of copyright.

Guess what? YouTube ain't the only thing out there.

Video Jug's upload system looks as easy as YouTube's, with superior quality. The site's focus is on creating "how to" videos, their tagline is "Life Explained On Film."

Toufee is an online video editor which turns your videos into flash presentations. You don't even have to know what flash is to get this running.

Spresent helps you create flash presentations right in your browser, using built-in or custom animation. They have a library of clip art and you can also use your own pictures.

Just more examples of how the Internet dissolves barriers to entrance into the worlds of professionals. These amateur-friendly sites may not produce the next great filmmaker or flash artist. Or they might. It just has to be "good enough," right?