Social Technology: Are We Looking at the Wrong Price Tag?
Categories: Technology
While we love the idea of speaking three words to video-chat Grandma, is this type of technology making life easier, or just lazier?
Don’t Flip off your gadgets!
Categories: Technology
The Flip camera has been declared dead by Cisco, thanks to the rise of smartphones. Does it make sense to get rid of your gadgets for one “all powerful” solution?
Smithsonian controversy leads to larger censorship debate
Categories: Arts & Entertainment
It’s sad that even though America has come such a long way since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, we still face harsh setbacks when it comes to issues of homosexuality, religion and art.
YouTube makes a time capsule with Life in a Day
Categories: Technology
Ridley Scott, Kevin MacDonald and YouTube have teamed up for a world-wide experiment, a time capsule, a documentary, an exploration of what it means to be alive in the year 2010. The Life in a Day project has the potential to have very meaningful cultural value to our generation and those that come after.
Snack Attack: How we feel about ‘brand ambushing’
Categories: Business
“Brand ambushing” is seen as a way to cut through the clutter of advertising and shock consumers. The practice has been used by other brands like Domino’s and Wheat Thins. It works because it’s unusual, it creates a scene, and it really is surprising.
Video killed the radio star, Internet killed the MTV VJ
Categories: Technology
MTV is running a contest to fill the gaping holes left in our hearts by the departure of VJ favorites Carson Daly, La La Vasquez and Quddus (and, you know, actual music videos from the network’s airwaves) with something new – a Twitter Jockey.
Websites That Choose Function Over Design
Categories: Technology
I came upon TED.com accidentally. Searching for something entertaining in the cornfield maze that’s YouTube, I found a video about an MIT professor ‘s research and development of a technological sixth sense, a way to access information online using our environment. The nine minute video captivated me and led me to the website, where I [...]
How do you use video?
Categories: Lifestyle
It seems that video is as common and familiar and the spoken or written word. A way to record, express, and distribute ideas, feelings and opinions. So how do you use video and for what? Do you create? Share? Produce and edit finished pieces? And what’s your preferred equipment? Digital tape? Card? Or the ubiquitous [...]
