During the last couple weeks a lot of people have posted videos on YouTube sharing their YouTube stories. The idea is to tell about what inspired them to start posting videos to YouTube and to share some interesting YouTube experiences with other YouTubers. Briefly, I first posted videos to YouTube back in June of 2006 on my blackturtleus channel. Most of the videos on that channel were mashups and, although permitted under fair use provisions of copyright law, those video would prevent me from becoming a YouTube Partner. So, I started my blackturtleshow channel in January of 2009. All the videos on my new channel feature entirely original material and so there aren't any copyright considerations to worry about with my new stuff. Embedded on this page is my "Weird Stuff" video and it more or less sums up some of my experiences as a user who regularly posts videos on YouTube.

Rusky Ed recently started his fifth unit of Russian lessons. This new unit is a grammar unit focusing on Russian verbs. Check it out at ruskyed.com! Rusky Ed also has his own YouTube channel featuring over two hundred short, instructional videos. Each video is backed up with an online lesson featuring sound files, written information, and an interactive quiz. Just for grins and giggles here are a few Russian words as they appear using the Cyrillic alphabet: СМОТРЕТЬ (to watch), ПИСАТЬ (to write), ГОВОРИТЬ (to talk), ИГРАТЬ (to play), and БРОСАТЬ (to throw). And here's the entire alphabet for even more grins and giggles: А, Б, В, Г, Д, Е, Ё, Ж, З, И, Й, К, Л, М, Н, О, П, Р, С, Т, У, Ф, Х, Ц, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ъ, Ы, Ь, Э, Ю, Я.