… A taste of Cleese. [via laughingsquid]
August 19, 2008
August 18, 2008
FORA.tv – Videos Covering Today’s Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv – Videos Covering Today's Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues
FORA.tv is advertising for unpaid interns on CraigsList.
Toddled off to see what’s up with that. I’d seen a stack of FORA.tv lit over at the Commonwealth Club offices on Saturday.
Long Now talks. Aspen Institute talks. Commonwealth Club talks. …
Here’s a Roger Rosenblatt interview with Amy Tan at the Chautauqua Institution on July 10, 2008. The interview is broken out in sections. If you only want to hear Tan speak on “Writer’s Memory” you can click straight to the spot.
E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
The indexing is superb. You can select one of the broad subject ranges and then one of the sub-sections. You can search for subjects. You can find all videos from the Hoover Institution.
Brilliant stuff.
August 10, 2008
new video: "Republicans and military men on John McCain"
This election has the internet (columns, blogs, newsgroups, sites, videos, commentary, Web2.0 electioneering) playing a huge part, for those who use the internet.
And even for those who don’t, if they read the papers or watch TV.
McCain’s ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney didn’t have much play in paid air time, but it was on the Web getting a zillion views and MSM picked it up and talked about it and wondered about it and speculated about it and suddenly a fairly small media budget got a factor of n more traction than it would otherwise.
But it’s not just the videos produced by professionals and paid for by campaigns or major political parties. I am stunned by the brilliance of some of the non-campaign videos that are popping up. (And stupefied by the webisodes that were shot of John Edwards and paid for by his campaign, but that’s another story. …)
The younger nib grew up making videos and belonging to movie/video clubs and competing in movie/video competitions from his teen years as did many of the Y generation.
Those years of practice show up when professionals donate their work to the cause: will.i.am’s Obama ‘Yes, we can’ video and Paris for President.
Those years of practice show up too in the amateur videos made for YouTube distribution.
This morning I came across a link to “Republicans and military men on John McCain” in the comments tail of a Huffington post. Visuals. Captures. Background music. Amazing work from someone who seems to be the same age as the younger nib.
Director: Aaron Hodgins Davis, Skidmore. Uploaded 31Jul2008.
August 9, 2008
Found at Looney’s — Matt’s video
Watch Matt do his silly dance around the world from Thimpu to Timbuktu to the Giant’s Causeway to Rio.
Like Looney, I’d never seen this before, although it’s one of those viral things that swept the Web three years back. Where was I? Obviously not where Matt was filming his clips.
Looney said this was a happy vid and it is, but it also made me tear up a bit. All those places. All those people. Every one linked by Matt Harding and his silly dance.
Update: I figured what the tearing up was about. Matt and his dance reminds me of the younger nib, who will be “away” until June 2010 — dancing, like Matt, with people he meets along the way.
Update2: An earlier Where the Hell is Matt? and another.
August 7, 2008
Twitter StreamGraphs
Oooh. Pretty! Then take one of the ribbons and click on it.
Say, search for “Obama” and click on “jobs” and see how the ribbon runs through it, what the tweets say, &c. and forth.
If you check “towse” (why would you?), you can see tweets I’ve deleted and re-written and you can get a feel for just how compul^H^H^H^Hnscientious I am.
June 25, 2008
June 7, 2008
For those who say, "Sal, your Facebook presence is lame. …
LAME!”
Well, you’re right.
(Or as Heather said last month, “you don’t use facebook”)
Well. No. Not much. Guilty as charged.
I’m doing the Facebook thing because the younger nib pushed and Sue Hough pushed and others, well, you know who you are.
Facebook’d I now be.
But, all the poking and gifting and wall writing and all … Well. I’m a geezer here, folks. I have a hard enough time keeping up with blogs and newsgroups and e-mail.
Bear with me.
I did manage to write on Hana’s wall tonight. (And send Hana and Aarti friends’ requests today … um. yesterday.)
Do you know how many Aarti Singhs there are on Facebook? Aarti had said, “Sign up!” eons ago. Today I finally had the time to go through all the Aarti Singhs on Facebook and find those that were or might be relatively local and then go through all *their* friends lists until I found one who had friends I recognized (Hi, Hana!) in her friends list.
Bingo.
May 24, 2008
Twitter / Ev: Note: Before joining a mob,…
Ah. I’m getting a glimmer of what this cryptic tweet was all about.
What a world.
April 16, 2008
Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice
Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice
Way to get publicity for twitter, Ev.