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What was AT&T's vision of the Internet? Movies on demand? Bridges without stopping to pay toll? What about he CRAZY stuff, like: Meeting without your shoes on?! Faxing from the beach? Tucking your baby in from a phone booth? Who the hell knows what a phone booth is?

Couldn't be said better than a screenshot...

Thanks.

Free Range Graphics (makers of 'The Meatrix') have produced another great video about the dangers of PVC (aka Vinyl) in the home.

Did you know that PVC, the material used in shower curtains and kids’ toys, is dangerous to our health and our environment?

Free Range produced the video for the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ). This new movie is part of a national campaign asking Target Stores to phase out the poison plastic and switch to safer, cost effective alternatives, as other retailers have done.

A brief look at YouTube's most popular videos of the day, and what do you find? Cingular with the #1 video?! (391,397 views today alone!) Yep, the name of the video is "Cingular presents: YouTube Underground!" Cingular nabs the "Viral Day Action" award (VD Action) with this clever bit of marketing... a video announcing a YouTube contest for the best band, video or song on the hugely popular video social networking site. And, only a day after Warner Music signed a deal with YouTube - agreeing to a new royalty-tracking system... A good week for the 'Tube.

This can't be good...

3.4 magnitude quake from the USGS:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40183688.html

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-38.html

Many organizations don't think about how they can incorporate new types of content into their web strategies in order to compete in the “market� for their members' or constituents' time. The same goes for politicians and candidates. Podcasting and videocasting is really much easier that it looks and sounds.

Many organizations already do plenty of things that would translate well to the web. Politicians give speeches all the time. Non profits have member meetings, or board meetings, conference calls.

Recording these events, either audio or video, and then making this content available on the web gives site visitors a reason to come back over and over again. A conference call can easily be recorded using Skype and some desktop software. A press conference can be recorded with a digital voice recorder, or a laptop, or digital camera with video recording capabilities. Sites like YouTube allow you to upload video and serve it out to the web. GarageBand and Audacity are two applications that let a user edit audio on the desktop and encode it as an MP3 file.

I took this photo in a newstand at Sea-Tac on my way back to NY last week. I wonder what would have happened if I had purchased all of these titles and was reading them while waiting to board the plane?

Doesn't it seem kind of strange, maybe even disturbing, that guns like the one on the cover of "Guns and Weapons", first, even exist; second are on the cover of a magazine; third, a magazine exists to carry such a picture; and forth, that magazine is sold in an airport newstand?