On the Yahoo Search Blog, Andy Volk has a great post on how to get search results from Yahoo Video Search into iTunes and on to your Video iPod. The cool thing is, you can do the same thing with Blogdigger Media Search! Just head on over to Blogdigger Media, select the Video button only, enter your search terms of choice, click that button, then click the orange XML icon () and copy the link into iTunes. My personal favorite is a Blogdigger Media search for 'daily show'.

Now, you might be asking, why would I would I want to use Blogdigger Media, when I have Yahoo Video? Good question; the answer is that since Blogdigger gets videos from blogs and sorts by date, you get a constantly-updating stream of new video matching your search criteria. As an example, compare the results for "daily show" on Yahoo and Blogdigger. Yahoo's first results are pieces on the Swift Boat Vets and Crossfire; Blogdigger has clips from this weeks' episodes! Both work well, but differently, so it's important to know your tool when searching.

On the subject of video iPods: I had never considered the possibility of video going through the same shift that audio went through with the creation of the iPod. And then all it took was for Apple to do a deal with ABC and get Lost, Desperate Housewives, etc. available by episode, and I was suddenly convinced that the whole thing would work for video as well, with the added benefit of video fitting well into the existing platform (i.e. your television). It's clear that Apple is quickly moving in on everyone in the consumer entertainment market, from the record/video stores in the mall, to Amazon, to Blockbuster. iTunes is becoming a virtual entertainment outlet; at first it was there only to push the hardware they were selling, now it's a gateway for the next generation of consumer transactions on the web. Anyway, I can only hope that the boom in video brings about the same growth in niche video content that podcasting did for audio. I think we're going to need a bigger pipe.