In Praise of You Tube

Since its boom in popularity, You Tube continues to grow by the day. Its videos often make the news (i.e. the Michael Richard racial tirade). I log onto You Tube, not because of watching people doing stupid things in their videos, but because of its helpfulness in research for my newest novel. Without giving too much away about the new novel, I have learned a lot by watching old, old videos, courtesy of MTV and VH1, when they were still good channels.

Too many of us believe that research is only done in libraries. The Internet has changed that. However, much of what is on the Internet is bogus, so writer beware.