Finding the good stuff on YouTube, Google Video

Dan Colman of Open Culture makes a great point when he says Google ought to make some effort to highlight videos of real social value on its YouTube and Google Video sites. Snippet:

With YouTube and Google Video now sitting under the same happy corporate umbrella, you can rest assured that the world will receive only a steadier stream of home-brewed videos of guitar riffs, treadmill dances, dorm room antics, and pet playtimes, the very stuff that makes up YouTube's all-time list of favorites. Lucky us. But somewhere within these vast troves of videos reside some valuable cultural and educational content. And although it will assuredly lose the popularity contest that determines relevance within the world of Web 2.0, it's there nonetheless, and we're happy to point it out, especially since GooTube doesn't do much to help on that front.

UPDATE: I guess GooTube has some bigger issues to contend with for the time being: Viacom is seeking $1 billion in damages in a new copyright violation lawsuit.