THIS IS THE BEST thing on the Internets I've seen today: the new Where the Hell is Matt? video (via PZ). Great design, presentation, and I love the concept. A great reminder to extract something special from each place I visit. Enjoy.
WHAT A GREAT FIND: Goolge has created a YouTube channel for their "@Google" series of in-house lectures and presentations. There are 341 online as of this moment. Many authors, policy wonks, and nearly every 2008 presidential candidate (go here for Obama, Clinton, and McCain). I'll be watching Michael Pollan.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS.
IF YOU MISSED THE DERBY OR THE PREAKNESS, (I missed the Preakness), here are Big Brown's performances in each. Perhaps this is the year? If so, we'll call him Triple Crown Brown.
The Derby
The Preakness
WHEN INTERNAL COMMUNICATION counsel goes horribly, terribly wrong. "Leading us all to / higher staaaandards"
HOW DO YOU KNOW your brand has extraordinary equity? When customers begin producing your advertising. And in this case, we could say as much for the brand equity of NYC as AAPL. (It's also an excellent example of how the Web is turning us from information consumers to information producers and distributors. See more here.)
A FEW DAYS AGO I posted Lee Lefever's "RSS in Plain English" video. He's now done one on wikis. Click and learn.
LEE LEFEVER has created a marvelous little video explaining the wonders of RSS syndication and RSS agregators called "RSS in Plain English." Anybody who spends more than five minutes a day online should watch it (Al & Gwen, John, Shannon, others ... this means you), and you may click below to do so (original post here). While on the topic, a few days ago I revisited Google's aggregator, Google Reader (which Lee's video highlights). I had played with it some months ago, and found I didn't like it as much as Bloglines. Not the case anymore, and with the improvements they've made in visual style and ease of use, I think it's my new reader.
I DREAM OF THIS, but I'm the guy in the car. (And look, a whole page of 'Ring videos!)
WATCH THIS NOW. (Thanks to Andy S. for the link.)
In 2004 I gave a speech on new media to the annual meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors. I've had the prepared remarks online for some time, but this past weekend I came across a DVD of my comments. New Mac-enabled powers in hand, I've put the address online here, and it runs about 30 minutes.
If you choose to watch the video note that it should stream from the site, meaning you shouldn't need to download it prior to viewing (although it might take a minute for the first bit to download and for an image to show on your screen). You might, however, need Quicktime viewer -- which is free, powerful, and something you should have anyway. You can get it here.
It's always a strange thing, watching yourself. Seeing this I take away three things from my 2004 self: Lose weight (in progress), get more sleep (doing much better), and speak more slowly (perhaps a lost cause).
CHECK OUT THIS INCREDIBLE indie short of a rock video done entirely with Legos:
From BlankTV, via the Google Video blog. Original link here.
Tags: legos, google video, videos, white stripes, indie
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