Category Archives: YouTube
10th Anniversary of smays.com
Flying people in NYC
Interview with William Gibson (2012)
From book tour promoting Gibson’s first book of non-fiction, Distrust That Particular Flavor
Why SOPA is a bad idea
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. The best explanation I’ve seen of this subject.
Old radio commercials (KBOA)
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A YouTube playlist featuring oral history of KBOA, Kennett, MO. All of these are available as MP3 files at www.KBOA830.com.
How the Internet Will Save the World
Dr. David Eagleman gives lecture titled How the Internet Will Save the World: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilizations. Rome, the Mayans… lots of great civilizations assumed they would go on forever. Just as we do. Eagleman shows you this is not necessarily the case.
Robert Reich: The Truth About the Economy
Robert Reich describes what’s wrong with the economy in 2 minutes.
- The economy doubles since 1980, but wages flat. Where did the money go…
- All (or most) of the gains went to the super rich.
- With money comes political power.
- Taxes on super rich slashed, revenues evaporate.
You might disagree with his economics and/or his politics, but the guy can DRAW!
Help friends make switch to Gmail
“You’ve probably already improved the lives of your friends and family members by helping them switch to Gmail, but what about that one friend who still hasn’t made the switch? It’s time to take a stand and stage an intervention.”
Google+ Hangout
In the small town where Barb and I spent some of our best years, it was not uncommon for someone to pop in, without calling, with a six pack and just hang out. Before the evening was over, there could be 8 or 10 people, just hanging out. Nothing planned, no preparations.
I think that’s sort of what Google was going for with the Hangout feature on Google+. To make it that easy and that comfortable to hangout with friends. And I think they nailed it.
The video above does not do justice to the quality of the audio and video. Or to the ease of making it happen. I can easily imagine myself surfing mindlessly with the Hangout light on and people dropping by to chat for a few minutes..
You have to try it to appreciate it.