I just found this out, thanks to this handy blog post, I'm just re-posting it here for future reference.

Check this out, you can skip directly to a specific portion of a youtube clip. Test it out with the clip below, when you hit play should jump directly to 3:56 into the video.

How did I do it? Well...take your everyday YouTube embed code and add "&start=20" behind a couple portions of code (see text box below). Replace "20" with the number of seconds into the clip that you want to jump to, so in the clip below I went to 3:56 Into the clip, that's 236 seconds.

<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uOIPRaTZ3kQ&hl=en&fs=1&start=236"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uOIPRaTZ3kQ&hl=en&fs=1&start=236" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />

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A Great Submission to Mahalo today that is now filed within our YouTube Page.

Michael Wesch who is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, recently spoke at the Library of Congress about YouTube and it's cultural impacts. It's quite fascinating.



He was the fellow who created the Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing us Video.