Two months ago I added a new module to “Sites to See,” our blogroll. As I wrote in June:
In the past year YouTube has evolved from a curiosity into a major online resource. If you’re interested in seeing rare film and video clips by a fast-growing number of great performers of the past, you’ll find them there–but only if you have the patience to sift through the innumerable postings of nitwits who think the world is waiting with bated breath to see their homemade music videos.
From time to time I’ve passed on links to interesting videos that I’ve found on other blogs, but it never occurred to me to try making this blog a one-stop portal to the wonders of YouTube–until now. Take a look at the “Sites to See” module of the right-hand column and you’ll find that it ends with a brand-new roll of selected culture- and history-oriented video links, most (but not all) of them to YouTube. So far as I know, this is the first such list to appear anywhere on the Web.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, I strongly suggest you do so now. Last night I spent a couple of hours revising, updating, and expanding our list of video links. (All newly posted videos are marked with an asterisk.) It is, if I do say so myself, a spectacularly rich catalogue of on-demand online video treasure–and the audio-only links are pretty amazing, too.
As always, I encourage you to send me the URLs of any choice culture-related links that you run across in the course of your own YouTube explorations.
Have fun!