David Emery OnlineWhat’s wrong with this picture?
I can’t see this concept (digital insertion of advertising into pre-recorded video) really taking off, as it surely takes far too much work to have a team of animators (badly) overlaying adverts on billboards in the background of every single episode of a program?
Also, why would anyone think this form of advertising actually works? Just because a logo of a film appears in a video doesn’t mean that has any impact on ticket sales at the box office.
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Beautiful site design – love the cartography-inspired background and the use of a grid.
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I’d noticed that In Rainbows had been dominating the top of the Last.fm charts a while back – it’s amazing to see it’s still doing so. Maybe for last.fm the biggest improvement in scrobbles per week would be a more interesting metric…
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Pretty nifty – you can now embed a Google Talk widget into your webpage/blog/wherever and let your readers chat with you without them having to do any setup, logging in etc.
Let’s see if this works:
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Ok, so this is officially the most childish and immature thing I have ever posted to this blog. It is also possibly the funniest. Please be aware that I, like you, have an extremely low tolerance to ‘funny’ internet videos – rest assured that these are not some of them.
First, watch this:
Then, watch this (which manages to maybe even be better):
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This is exceedingly annoying; I would switch away from Bloglines in a heartbeat if I could find a alternative that worked in the same way. The two features I need are marking all of the items in a feed read when you view a feed (as opposed to having to scroll through them) and a view all function that groups by feed (not mixed together like Google Reader).
EDIT: Of course, the minute I post about it it starts working again…
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More good thoughts around the whole video-games-as-art thing.
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Like an indie, lo-fi Later… with Jools Holland (but without the boogie).
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