Time to bring some amazing video tools to our readers like Splicd and SnipSnip.it, which allow us to take small slices of YouTUBE videos in order to embed them in blog posts.

It’s a slow news day—our brains ate too much CES and now, like people after Thanksgiving dinner, they’ve become sluggish as we digest—but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have something extremely useful to talk about. Have you ever watched some extremely amusing video online and it’s 10-15 minutes or extremely boring with one tiny gem of amusement or insight somewhere deep within? Guilty of sending the video to someone and saying, “Just track to somewhere near the 9 minute point?” I am.

If you happen to run a blog, like we do, this becomes an even larger problem. For people just handing out links to friends a little inconvenience is acceptable, on a blog with our sound bite culture people want to get their media now at the click of a button. Two online resources, Splicd and SnipSnip.it, exist that can take a YouTUBE video and clip it to task in seconds.

Both of these services allow you to produce a video embed code for your blog that will play a particular stretch of video. It greatly simplifies the experience for visitors and takes it out of their hands to try to find the part you’re talking about. Plus, it means you don’t need to make your own video just to demonstrate that tiny part of the video.

Here’s an example that I made with a video full of cats doing funny stuff. It’s a tiny bit, but it should demonstrate my point.

Thanks to Brodie Beta over at The Next Web for bringing this to our attention!