What a tease

Posted on February 3, 2007 by Melissa Worden

LATimes.com has the most popular YouTube videos to go with the YouTube/Viacom dispute story. How fun!

I was all ready to watch them, but after clicking on the play button several times to no avail, I realized this is a PHOTO GALLERY, and these are only screen-grabs of the videos on YouTube.

Deep sigh. What a disappointment. Why do this when it’s so easy to embed the video player on the html page?

Note: The headlines are linked, so you CAN see the videos over at YouTube. AND I realized that I pretty much did something similar in the hip-hop multimedia I created this week, using the iPod player as a graphic. (It so much easier to critique others’ work!) I may go back and amend the multimedia project — and will keep in mind how frustrating and misleading this can be.

Back to the top videos, I particularly like this one (hee hee!):