scientists are using youtube

[miriam_e]

How cool is this? Scientists are posting videos online to show each other precisely how they do experiments.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061120/full/061120-12.html

I must admit I do find youtube annoying and tending to the evil side (typical of bloody Adobe and their involvement). You can't save the videos for posterity. When they disappear from youtube, they're gone. Truly ephemeral culture -- the historian's and archaeologists's nightmare come true.

Stuff posted to youtube leaves no footprints in the sand. It is about as close to a complete waste as you can come while still having some kind of immediate use.

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

Oops, I got it confused. It's FLV, not FLC. FLC is a really old format :) Still what I said about free video players still holds.

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

Yup. My favorite for .flv files is VLC Media Player. It's gradually winning me over from Media Player Classic.