Easter Egg in Google Maps – Personal Street View of Mountain View HQ
Google Maps with a personal touch. Search for the Google HQ in Mountain View and take a peek at the whole Google team. My personal favorite is the guy with the True Love “Candy” sign. Anyone know who he is?
Great Easter Egg in Google Maps! Stay on the lookout for more. :)
04:05:06 07/08/09 – Stay Up Late, Spread the Word on G8 Involvement
Will you stay up with me on the night of July 7th / morning of July 8th, 2009 to:
- Celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime moment, mindfully.
- Spread the word about the G8 Involvement in reducing Greenhouse gases.
04:05:06 07/08/09!
If anyone asks why you’re staying up, let them know your opinion on the G8 Involvement in reducing Greenhouse gas emissions. After that, it’s really just a matter of finding some good friends to stay up late with, and grabbing a few great movies, snacks, and drinks. Have fun with it! :)
How To Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek gave this presentation at WordCamp recently. His title: How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself.
[From ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse]
Iran Freedom March – GH1
If you’re on Twitter or live in Los Angeles, the Iranian Freedom efforts are probably on your mind (or fingertips). There’s a lot of buzz building in Iran, and support for those buzzing around the world. The voice of the people is a good thing.
My colleague Mike P. recently invested in a new camera, filmed a recent Iran Freedom March here in L.A., and pulled an all-nighter to edit an outstanding piece highlighting the local support of Iranian Freedom. Check it out below, and forward it to your friends. Spreading the word in creative and remarkable ways is the quickest means to rouse more worldwide support of the Iranian people. Enjoy:
Iran Freedom March GH1 from dynomike on Vimeo.
Social Evolution – The Atomic Unit of Online Consumption
The atomic unit of online consumption has changed. People no longer want to download full albums, but prefer streaming songs. No longer are full newspapers the medium; headlines instead roll through RSS readers and news aggregators. We are watching more and more TV and movies when we choose – not at regularly scheduled times or in corporate theatres. And the power is shifting more and more in the direction of the consumer (from the content “owner” or “distributer”). It’s a beautiful time to join the content market!
The Atomic Unit of Online Consumption
There’s an intense debate in the US about the future of journalism. Some news organizations say that Google News and other news aggregators need to share revenue with publishers. While Google provides an easy way to opt-out from indexing, news sites need Google’s traffic to gain new visitors. “We don’t want to pull out of the digital ecosystem. We just simply want a fair compensation for the content that we publish,” says Jim Moroney, publisher and chief executive of “The Dallas Morning News”.
Newspapers can’t figure out how to adapt to the online environment and Google is an easy target. News aggregators and search engines are the new destination for news, since users can choose from a lot of different perspectives. Marissa Mayer, Vice President at Google, found an interesting correlation between news articles, songs and short-form videos in her testimony before the US Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet:
The atomic unit of consumption for existing media is almost always disrupted by emerging media. For example, digital music caused consumers to think about their purchases as individual songs rather than as full albums. Digital and on-demand video has caused people to view variable-length clips when it is convenient for them, rather than fixed-length programs on a fixed broadcast schedule. Similarly, the structure of the Web has caused the atomic unit of consumption for news to migrate from the full newspaper to the individual article. As with music and video, many people still consume physical newspapers in their original full-length format. But with online news, a reader is much more likely to arrive at a single article. While these individual articles could be accessed from a newspaper’s homepage, readers often click directly to a particular article via a search engine or another Website.
Changing the basic unit of content consumption is a challenge, but also an opportunity. Treating the article as the atomic unit of consumption online has several powerful consequences. When producing an article for online news, the publisher must assume that a reader may be viewing this article on its own, independent of the rest of the publication. To make an article effective in a standalone setting requires providing sufficient context for first-time readers, while clearly calling out the latest information… Read More.
What do you think?
