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‘EPIC 2014′, revisited
It’s interesting how much of this video, made back in 2005, is starting to come true. Will they save the journalism industry? With today’s unveiling of the Google Android phone, Google continues it’s “epic” growth over the media landscape.
And I for one welcome our new media overlords and look forward to toiling away in their underground research labs.
Also of interest is the NYTimes profile of HTC and its founder, Cher Wang. Gives a little bit of insight on why Google chose HTC (and HTC chose Google) for the hardware of their phone. Investors, start throwing your money at HTC stock now, if you have any left that is.
P.S. And to further prove my point of the impending Google take over, I switched my theme to a Google Chrome-based one that was available about a day after Google Chrome debuted.
ABC News producer arrested in Denver (video)
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.
Jay Rosen on the political conventions
Overnight at the Sentinel
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!
Twittering your way into a new job
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.
Ira Glass on storytelling
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.
NCMR 2008
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.
‘Battle at Kruger’ best animal video ever
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.
Facebook, in real life
Disturbingly accurate and very funny. Via British sketch comedy collective Idiots of Ants.
‘Suck on this’ Thomas Friedman
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.
Mike Huckabee plays the ace up his sleeve
He eats fried squirrel!
OK, so he ATE fried squirrel.
McCain, you fail.
f*** planet earth
It’s vulgar, but hilarious.
Ann Coulter supporting Hillary Clinton over John McCain
Read that again.
And again.
One more time.
It’s true. The crazy, right-wing, venom-spitter that is Ann Coulter said that she would support Democrat Hillary Clinton over fellow Republican John McCain. She does go on record though as not so much supporting Clinton as trying to stop McCain. See it for yourself.
Personally I think this is clever ploy to get people to vote against the candidate she is choosing. Sort of like an endorsement from Hitler or Benedict Arnold. She knows she is so detested that perhaps her support will drive people away from a candidate.
Time will tell.
Itchy trigger finger
I linked to this video, not because the guy squeezes off 18 rounds of semi-automatic handgun, an amazing feat by itself, but because the guy doing it is cartoonishly fat. Something about that makes this hilarious.