Posted February 11th, 2010, in: Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| Videos
(thanks, Stacey)
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Posted February 10th, 2009, in: Art Etc| Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Videos
If you make Art, you should watch this. If you don’t make Art, you should still watch it.
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Posted February 5th, 2009, in: 1| Technology| Videos
This is cool. You can use this to re-write chords or, of course, correct them.
Hey Celemony team! I’d love to Review this for you when it comes out! Hook a brother up?
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Posted November 3rd, 2008, in: Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| New Media| Videos
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Posted October 16th, 2008, in: Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Videos
Well shit, I don’t know what to say. Martha Stewart is teaching her fans to blog. OK. That’s cool. Seems kinds weird. But hey! Let’s do this!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52z7iOdmXNE]
I watched this while I typed this crap.
Wow. Martha has an aggregation of bloggers on her site. …And it’s not the whole episode. Well crap. Oh well. I did my job.
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Posted August 14th, 2008, in: Videos
What is ‘oozing out of our ground?’ Anyone?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8]
I should mention that I did have rainbows in my sprinkler spray more than twenty years ago. I guess this means that rural coastal Northern California well-water was hit first and then it spread to muni water supplies.
wtf.
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Posted August 10th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Videos
2 Videos from Jack Conte’s YouTube Channel
This is an interesting video. Reminds a little of the film, “The Science of Sleep.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzr32OqGlOA]
And this one is cool because it shows the recording process of the song.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M60Txqxtw4]
So who is Jack Conte? I have no idea. He’s awesome though.
Here’s his MySpace, his Last.FM Page, and where you can buy his EP “Nightmares and Daydreams” on CDBaby, and the same record via the iTunes Store.
I can’t afford to buy music, so maybe Jack will feel my pain and hook me up. Jack? Haha.
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Posted July 31st, 2008, in: Cultural Acceleration| Data Portability (DataPortability)| Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Intellectual Property| Marketing/Advertising In The Cloud| New Media| Semantic Web| Social Software and The Social Graph| Technology| The Semantic Web (Giant Global Graph)| The War on Free Culture| Videos| Web 2.0
Kevin Kelly gave this talk at TED in 2007. It’s worth watching.
He touches on a number of things ranging from history of the Internet and Moore’s Law to the future ubiquity of Cloud Computing and Kurzweil’s “Sigularity.“
He covers concepts like the Semantic Web, and the give-and-take between privacy and participation with relatively light language that any lay person should be able to understand. This is an interesting and entertaining little presentation. Thought I’d share.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M]
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Posted July 29th, 2008, in: Humanity, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics Etc| Marketing/Advertising In The Cloud| New Media| Social Software and The Social Graph| Technology| Videos| Viral Marketing| Web 2.0
I just heard about this from the Inside Silicon Valley Podcast from The San Jose Mercury News (the site of which, sadly, has no RSS feed metadata in its html head. Get it together, people!)
Anyway, this guy apparently made a fortune as a Texas oil man. Now he’s decided to spearhead a movement toward “energy-independence.” In a nutshell, he wants to shift our use of Natural gas over to transportation and replace its 20% share of electricity production with wind power by building out the “Wind Belt” with turbines. The result, he claims, would mean consuming about 38% less foreign oil. It would also mean cleaner transportation and electricity production.
Pickens has launched a totally kick-ass, Web2-savvy campaign to recruit online “foot-soldiers,” for his movement. He has already met with the “president” and says he also plans to meet with both mainstream presidential candidates “at the same time.”
He claims that the site moved into the top-1000 most-viewed sites in under three weeks, with 2.5 million hits and about a one-tenth conversion rate (people signing up to get involved, subscribing to get updates etc)!!! (three exclamation points!!!) In addition, he’s touring around giving “town-hall” meetings all over, and spending his money on TV advertisements.
Techno-Activism? Go to PickensPlan.com and look around. What do you think? I like seeing rich-ass people putting their dollars into making positive changes in policy and public perception (if that’s what this is (I’m the first one to admit that I’m no expert on what the best route to sustainable energy is)).
Whatever you think about the plan, you have to admit that the campaign is being smartly executed. He must have a great team working for him.
This video is an overview of his “plan” (the second is one of the TV advertisements he did, which sufficiently pulls on left-wing heart strings since it has plenty of imagery of smoke pouring into the air)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQa-ibNOKM&NR]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c]
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