First off, I'd like to say thanks to Mr. Brooks (no, not Kevin Costner) for exposing me to Ted. It is EASILY one of the most fascinating sites I've ever been to. Dare I say that I could probably spend all day just watching Ted videos, and actually feel like I've done something constructive, personal fitness notwithstanding.
As far as my socially responsible blog goes, watch this:
The first part is what I find especially fascinating. The Sea Dragon presentation is mind-blowing. Imagine how many books can be stored! Encyclopedias, research studies, government documents, newspapers, etc. The possibilities are limitless, and that excites me.
The Photosynth presentation, while not as academically exciting in this blogger's opinion, is just downright cool. The compilation of thousands of photos on one location to reproduce a 3-d model is something that you'd see in the movies and say "no WAY that's real".
Monday, September 29, 2008
Well, here we go...
The Medium
This is the NYT blog that I will be following as part of my blog.
Here is the description:
With television and the Internet converging at last, who's going to watch all this here-goes-nothing online video? Everything from political propaganda videos to pseudo-candid celebrity rants seems to expect an audience. "The Medium" will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images: web video, viral video, user-driven video, custom interactive video, embedded video ads, web-based VOD, broadband television, diavlogs, vcasts, vlogs, video podcasts, mobisodes, webisodes, mashups and more.
This appears to be a very good blog that finds media content that most users wouldn't even think to try and find. Hopefully, it will not let me down throughout this great blogging experiment. I intend to follow it in the hopes of broadening our media horizons.
This is the NYT blog that I will be following as part of my blog.
Here is the description:
With television and the Internet converging at last, who's going to watch all this here-goes-nothing online video? Everything from political propaganda videos to pseudo-candid celebrity rants seems to expect an audience. "The Medium" will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images: web video, viral video, user-driven video, custom interactive video, embedded video ads, web-based VOD, broadband television, diavlogs, vcasts, vlogs, video podcasts, mobisodes, webisodes, mashups and more.
This appears to be a very good blog that finds media content that most users wouldn't even think to try and find. Hopefully, it will not let me down throughout this great blogging experiment. I intend to follow it in the hopes of broadening our media horizons.
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