Reading Roars!

I have been checking out veevow (don’t you just love these Web 2.0 names?), an online video playlist site that launched just 10 days ago. 

Veevow, founded by former Reading PhD student Dr Matthew Ryan (I’m told that the veewow team is very fond of The Oracle), allows you to build YouTube video playlists.  I gave it a go 5 minutes ago and it really is very simple:

1. Sign up.  This is short and sweet (how it should be)
2. Create a playlist, in this instance “Reading FC” - got there first! 
3. Add videos to your playlist, taking the “embed” code from YouTube.  The playlist is automatically generated
4. Save or play your selection.  See my Reading FC playlist for yourselves.

You can share the playlist with your mates and add other videos found on veewow to your playlist. 

Further features are planned (it would be good to see enhancements such as video rating, a Facebook application, WordPress plugin and tagging, for example).  One new feature was added yesterday - a WordPress blog (nice one!).

One to watch, I think

I have found top-drawer musical talent in Reading - via YouTube.  Watch this brilliant video posted by the classically-named schubert06.  Lyrics follow.

Why did Fulham have to score?
Only twenty minutes more and we’d have kept the hoards at bay.
Or some other Lita strikes and we’d have lived again to fight
Because goal difference wouldn’t matter anymore.

Our dreams have vanished — just like Sidwell, Chelsea bound.

And I’m sad. I’m so sad…

Oh Royal Reading what are we supposed to do?
The pride of Berkshire, led by Murty - we love you.
Steve Coppell’s army singing in the White and Blue…

In old Division Two.

We know Madejski will be there, we know he cares.
He’s got big hair and we will never let him down.
We face the future without malice
Although we must play Palace near unsightly Croydon Town!
Our dreams are drenched in a Purple Turtle rain

And we’re sad, we’re so sad…

Oh Royal Reading what are we supposed to do?
The pride of Berkshire, led by Murty - we’ll stay true.
Steve Coppell’s army singing in the White and Blue

In the White and Blue…in old Division Two.

I will be using pun-free headlines from now on. 

Thinking about it, half of my previous headlines with what I thought was cleverly-engineered wordplay didn’t really work anyhow (several headlines I wrote many months back now appear baffling to me).   Now I will try to make them as relevant as possible.