No Way

Air Force launches 'BlueTube' site for online videos

0/2/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- When you get an interesting or funny Air Force video in your e-mail, do you ever send it out to family, friends and co-workers?

Now the Air Force has its own channel, called AirForceBlueTube, for those videos on the popular video-sharing site YouTube.com.

"We wanted to have a one-stop shop to host those interesting or compelling clips people were making and sharing about the Air Force," said Paul Bove, the site administrator for AirForceBlueTube. "The site is a great way to share them with relatives, friends and co-workers. It also provides a new way to tell the Air Force story to the public."

Because videos are often large they can eat up a lot of valuable bandwidth, especially when they get forwarded to others, Mr. Bove said.

I love the idea, but would have recommended a different name. When I saw that they're calling the channel "BlueTube," I couldn't help but think that legendary gay porn director Blue Blake is pissed he didn't claim the name for his own use.

I was also upset by this:

"If anyone has a video they'd like to share with other people, all they have to do is send it to our office. If it's compelling, informative or funny without being unprofessional, we'll post it," Mr. Bove said.

If any of my dear leaders find their videos rejected (or deemed "unprofessional"), send them my way, and I'll post them on my own youtube channel, which heretofore has only hosted videos of Kid Rock and a possum I found on Rockaway Ave. (note: I'll also exercise some censorship here, I'm not going to post anything that's morally offensive, and reserve the right to define that however I wish.)