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You’ve probably already heard about this, but now there is video of the ABC News producer who was arrested in Denver.

The video doesn’t lie, these cops were aching to arrest someone. Pushing someone into the street and then telling them they are “blocking traffic” is just ridiculous. I am curious about what happened between the cut of cop pushing then suddenly the guy, identified as Asa Eslocker, is arrested.

Hmm, I wonder how much of this we’ll see in St. Paul next week.

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Via BigThink.

Just a note to BigThink, nix the ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ colors on the videos.

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My friend, former colleague and Orlando Sentinel Web producer Matt Simantov recently (and may still be) spent many an hour working as Tropical Storm Fay passed over Florida. Simantov, he also of Control Freak fame, made this short, hip little music video that I thought I’d share.

Sure, it’s not news but it’s fun, lighten up people!

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From the LA Times, this guy Twitter’ed his layoff from Yahoo! and it ended up landing him a new job. Sweet!

The embed code on the video wouldn’t work properly so I had to just do it as a link.

Still, it’s an interesting story.

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Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, explaining his take on storytelling. I think a lot of this can be appropriated to how we need to start telling stories online, be it by video, audio or just in words.

Now, this isn’t a cure-all template that can and will always work, but it’s a good way of thinking when it comes to good storytelling. If anything, if you are a big fan of TAL but don’t really know why, this sort of explains it.

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This is AdBusters’s video from the NCMR 2008 in Minneapolis. I am so upset that I missed this. I left Minnesota the week before this conference began. Hopefully they’ll bring it back to the city next year.

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If you haven’t seen the ‘Battle of Kruger’ yet take the eight minutes to watch it. It’s quite possibly the best act of nature caught on video.

The eyewitness video was so vivid and full of drama that National Geographic made an entire documentary about it. You have to watch the full thing to understand how amazing it is but simply put, it is a Disney movie brought to life.

Off topic yes, but this was too cool not to share.

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Disturbingly accurate and very funny. Via British sketch comedy collective Idiots of Ants.

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You may have heard that NYT columnist Thomas Friedman was recently hit with a pie at a speech he was giving. Yes, above is the video. The proof is in the pudding, or meringue perhaps.

Friedman has been under fire since an appearance on Charlie Rose where he summed up the War in Iraq by saying: “Suck on this!”

What does this have to do with online journalism? Nothing, it’s just rather hilarious. Carry on.

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