At the live Diggnation taping Wednesday night in NYC Kevin Rose messes up his lines and wants to “Do It Live!” A nice if subtle send-up of the Bill O rant which gained recent internet popularity. If you aren’t watching Diggnation, you’re missing something.
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This is clever. Linton Weeks of the Washington Post took an early retirement from the paper. In his final published article, he took the opportunity to send a message in code to his readers. When I first heard about this I was expecting something a little more rude or playful, but even though the message [...]
This story is about the Bay Bridge, but for hours CNN.com has been showing us the Golden Gate. It’s 8:15pm eastern on Saturday night…. is anyone paying attention, or is one bridge as good as another?
If you’re running Vista you might have a problem installing the new update for iTunes (which oddly enough should help functionality in Vista.) You might, as I did, run into an error message involving VBScript. If so, Stephen at www.covidimus.net has a great solution on his blog. By the date of his [...]
This is a very interesting story about Digg itself. Essentially it boils down to an open discussion about how much control can be put on the way information flows through Digg. The Digg concept is that the users control the visibility and importance of content. If there is an editorial decision made [...]
This seems like a fun idea. YouTube is opening up the door to their “beta” features so people can play with them and give feedback. It’s an area they’re calling TestTube, and while they continue to develop stuff, you get to try it out. Nice creative use of people power. Not unlike beta versions of [...]
This is kind of cool — The Chicago Auto Show has webcams set up throughout the show floor of their convention. Fun to check out the cars without going to Chicago! I also like controlling the cameras. The way it should be.
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This is interesting, mostly to see what the heck people are doing with their spare time. I would say I had only seen half of these prior to finding this summary. The number one spot has pulled in over 36 million views!
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Of course, we’re treading on sensitive ground here, a Beatles mash-up. Though, this one combines another closely related act from the past, The Monkees, and is a video mash-up to boot. All in all, a clever combo of Paperback Writer and I’m a Believer. Enjoy…
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Many are already musing about to take advantage of this new “click-to-call” functionality. Here’s a blog posting.
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