System Update Outtakes

Watch Brandon embarrass himself.

www.youtube.com/frusterbatedboi

Digg plz.

Hey, friends,

I gave the final big push on Like a Donut yesterday and added almost all the features from the original want-list, including integration with Digg. :) Since the videos have unique urls, they're set up to be dugg individually; so I've been using ninja turtles as the promotional guinea pig.

So please have a look and Digg it! ... Well, only if you like it. I hope you do.

I've asked a special guest to join us this Thursday! His name starts with 'P' and ends with 'hill.'

Video on Flickr

Flickr pro members can now add 90 second video to their photostreams.

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/04/09/video-on-flickr-2/

Take Better Pics With Your Mobile Phone

Here are some tips for those of you shooting with your mobile phones.
http://www.thenokiaguide.com/my_weblog/2008/04/getting-the-m-1.html

Ding, the donut is done!

Hey, friends, Like a Donut is feature-complete and ready for your scrutiny!

I'd love to hear what you think - particularly about things that don't work as expected, work better than expected, or don't work at all. :) Please take a second to leave a comment or two, either here or somewhere on the site.

I'm going to put up another dozen videos on Friday, and three per week after that. There's a few fancy-pants extras still missing (draggable playhead, draggable mini-windows, streaming the videos, a theme song that won't get me sued), but all the building blocks are finally there.

Many thanks once again to Brandon, whose idea it was to let users suggest links -- the more I thought about it, the more that became a pretty central concept of the site. :)

Shift Happens

Some neat facts about what's going on in the world.  It might get you thinking.  Hope you can get through the fiddle music.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/shifthappens

New media that's decidedly *not* free

Admittedly I'm kind of posting for the sake of posting here, but perhaps this is suggestive of new media we might see with the slow-but-sure evolution of consumer hardware.

Tantalizing! But you can't have it now, unless you're Warren Buffet or something. That is a lot of zeros.

Now for something completely irrelevant, but which you might appreciate: I saw this guy in Hot Fuzz and couldn't help thinking, Holy crap, it's Dean Terry. Also see here 10 seconds in.

Meme-worthy

Poking around Youtube, I found a series of funny takes on internet memes from knowyourmeme.com.
For example:



So I put forward this discussion point: do we strive to make our content meme-worthy? What are the effects of our meme-dom (did our content become a meme because it's that good, or because it's laughably ridiculous)? Your thoughts, please.