Micro-Celebrity Spotting
I’ve been in Chicago this week, speaking at Web Content 2008 (notes from my talks) and hacking up a lung. In one of my talks, I referenced the notion of micro-celebrity, and how many webby folks are...
View Article7 Billion People, 3 Videos and Some Dubious Imitation
About a year ago (as I wrote here), Capulet helped produce and promote a series of videos for Elastic Path, an eCommerce company in Vancouver. They were called “The Crazy Messed Up World of eCommerce”,...
View ArticleDoctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Seeking some mediocre television that wouldn’t interest my wife (we tend to watch the good shows together), I downloaded a couple seasons of “How I Met Your Mother”. It’s an ordinary, post-Friends...
View ArticleA Preview of Photoshop for Video
Via email, I got a link to this remarkable (if academic) video demonstrating a series of Photoshop-esque effects as applied to video. It’s from a group at the University of Washington–here’s a blurb...
View ArticleExcept Nebraska and Maine
Lee and Sachi have a new video explaining something much more baffling than RSS or wikis: the American electoral process. Lee does an excellent job of explaining the US’s somewhat baroque (and if you...
View ArticleGet Your War On Gets Animated
Get Your War On is a series of red-ink comic strips about post-9/11 America, and an important voice of satire and reason in an unreasonable world. And now they’ve gone all stop-motion on us. Here’s the...
View ArticleClient Plug: What’s the Worst Gift You Ever Received?
At BarCamp last month, Julie and I shot video of a bunch of people answering that question for DreamBank. If you’re in and around the Vancouver tech scene, you’ll probably recognize a few people in...
View ArticleThree Clever Videos Related to the US Election
These are three clever videos I’ve come across in the last day and a half. Monique twittered about this Slate V video, encouraging Americans to go northward in the event of another Republican...
View ArticleBalls, Balls and Adaptive Snow Sports
Just a quick post to pimp a couple of projects for friends. First, James of Adhack infamy is running a kind of mash-up contest featuring some very flash tennis players (including Lisa, whose forehand...
View ArticleVideo of the CBC’s ‘Q’
I discovered the podcast for the CBC arts and culture radio program ‘Q’ while we lived in Malta, and listened to it quite regularly. When we returned to Canada and I had less free time, I grew a little...
View ArticleBusy Day, Here’s a Cat in a Box
I’m short on time today, so (perhaps in a nod to Gill’s feline Friday posts), here’s a Japanese cat in a box: You may recognize this cat from such YouTube favourites as...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Video Camera Should I Buy?
Capulet needs a video camera, because we occasionally shoot video for client projects. It’s never anything fancy–typically just interview footage and the destination is always YouTube or a similar...
View ArticleLazyWeb Request: A System for Selling A La Cart Videos
I’m working on a new project that has some particular requirements. They’re not that unusual, though, and surely others have already solved this set of problems: We need to sell online videos (of, say,...
View ArticleWhat’s This Mormonism All About?
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I quite like this explanatory video about The Book of Mormon. The creators are liberally borrowing from (or, less charitably, ripping off) Lee and Sachi’s...
View ArticleThe First Ever Video on YouTube
I was doing some rewrites on the video chapter in our book, and discovered that this unremarkable clip was the first ever video posted to YouTube. It features YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim making a...
View ArticleSampling Video Popularity on YouTube
As I mentioned, I’m revising the video chapter of our book, and so I was happy to discover this recent Slate article. For a month, Chris Wilson monitored the performance of 10, 000 newly uploaded...
View ArticleGiant Ant Media’s Great Climate Change Video
As I recently mentioned, today is Blog Action Day. Ironically, because it’s Blog Action Day and I’m involved in the TckTckTck campaign, I don’t have a lot of free time to write a long, heart-rending...
View ArticleA Troika of Inspiring Videos
As regular readers know, I’m working on the TckTckTck campaign, fighting for a fair, ambitious and binding deal on climate change in Copenhagen. We’re in the second, final week of negotiations and...
View ArticleFour Lovely Minutes from Essaouira
Two years ago, almost to the day, we moved from Malta and Morocco. We lived in Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. We rented a lovely riad (according to Wikipedia, “a traditional Moroccan house or palace...
View ArticleHitler Furious Over the Olympics
The subtitled Hitler trope is a gift that keeps on giving. I don’t know why I find them so entertaining, but whether it’s the Sundin trade or problems with Windows Vista, they always amuse me. Maybe...
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