Just now finally getting into the video age, sort of
As a “guy who reads the papers,” I confess it has been difficult for me to make the move from print to online, especially from text-oriented print news to some of the amazing video formats now available.
(I bought my wife one of those “picture frames” that let you load jpeg images that cycle through a slide show. She’s got the hang of it; me, not so much.)
Video and various video technologies for me are sort of stalled somewhere back in the 1980s or 1990s. Heck, I’m just as happy with something like photo graduation announcements for graduates as I am with the idea of student-created online video resumes and portfolios. I understand cards with words and pictures and like to hold something solid in my hand, not just read it or view it from a computer screen. (And I’m no where NEAR smartphones yet!)
What’s the point of all this? Well, last night I started looking around Hulu, a famous online streaming video site everyone in the world knew about but me, I guess. I found some great episodes of “American Experience,” the PBS American history series, and watched the episode I had missed about “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.”
My eyes now have been opened. You can expect me to toss aside our local newspaper rag and spend all my time now on Hulu and YouTube. I have arrived, finally, at the threshold of my own personal video generation.
Okay, I won’t exactly toss aside the print newspapers just yet. But I’m getting there!