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Austin – never handle a grounded bat
Austin - never handle a grounded bat, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. I'll admit it - I have a fondness for odd signs & admonitions. This one appears under the Congress St. bridge, where all the bats live. (Video of the batstream to come...)
David LaFontaine on Panel in Austin
David Lafontaine, originally uploaded by paulbrannan. This is from Paul Brannan's Flickr stream, of all the shots he took at the ISOJ. I still have to put up the shots I took ... after I process them ... after I deal with the balky hard drive in my Sony Vaio (aka the...
Friday Noon Videos – Best of the Web Week of April 24, 2009
The relentless barrage of bad news these days is making us all a little crazy (see this excellent Newsweek article on this topic). There’s a reason that John Stewart & Stephen Colbert are so popular – they report on the news, they give it the kind of context that is so often missing on these stories, and they do it in a way that makes us crack a smile. It’s the voice that I remember from my early b.s. sessions at seedy bars with grizzled news veterans. It’s a human voice. The voice that says, “Well, y’know, I hadda write the story about [local businessman X] getting the Nice Guy award for the paper. But the funny thing is that everyone knows that he’s a screaming tyrant whose wife tried to run away…”
It’s the kind of voice that can re-establish the trust that our audience has lost in us. The one that doesn’t feel the need to kneel and genuflect at the altar of he-said she-said “objectivity.” The one that can make us feel informed, energized, and in control a bit – because things that we can laugh at are no longer quite so scary.
Links for video “Story in Slices” (Efecto Telenovela)
I have learned the hard way not to dare to try to play video on the UT presentation system. So I'm using this blogpost as a way to put up the links to the examples that I want to use in tomorrow's talk about how to tell complex stories using the "Telenovela Effect."...
John Battelle – Packaged Goods and $100 CPMs
This is part 3 of John's keynote at OMMA 2009. ...and yes, I know, I don't have the excerpts and such that made the other videos interesting to watch. But I figure if you've gotten this far, you're probably already pretty interested in what this guy has to say.
John Battelle’s keynote at OMMA 2009 – part 2
"So much cash sloshing around that we forgot that the interface is going to change completely. Again." - John Battelle Excerpts to come... mmm