RSS feedThere’s a conspiracy to clog up Videoblogging Week 2006.
Let us all bow our heads, in the name of the cooking videoblog post, soon to be extinct.
So here we are, Videoblogging Week 2006, it seems like we only just did Videoblogging Week 2005.
The big difference this year, is all the new videobloggers trying to help out by creating forums, tag clouds and Videoblogging Week videoblogs, whereas last year was just shoot it and upload it. So what’s changed?
Beware the cult of Videoblogging Week 2006. Make it simple, make it accessible, shoot video and upload it. End of story.
… because you never know when someone is about to suck your guts out.
I was playing with this insect in the backyard, hopping around, flitting here, flitting there, when he finally figured he’d had enough play and flew off, into…
Last Sunday was an amusing day. With daylight saving set to end next weekend, a week later than usual, due to the Commonwealth Games, all Windows boxes decided to get in a week early, just in case. I was fairly confused when I got up and found that I’d gained an extra hour, until I jumped on my Mac, and found that it had not been so generous. That’s right, in a year when supposedly Windows is a pretty good O/S, Microsoft shows yet again, that they’re no match for Apple and OS X.
Spotted cruising above Sydney harbour’s Circular Quay the other day.
So someone beat me to it, and did a spoof of the Tourism Australia advert. Where the fucking hell are yous.
I was doing some research on the TV series Stargate Atlantis, and bumped into the following rather interesting entry in MGM’s official FAQ.
Q: Why do the aliens speak English?
A: Practical reasons that come with television production. The time constraints of an hour-long episode mean that it would become a major hindrance to the story each week if the team had to spend the first 10 minutes of each episode learning to communicate with a new species.
This seems to me like the first time a producer has intentionally officially broken the audience’s suspension of disbelief. Most other series’ seem to try to justify why such plot devices exist, in the context of the universe in which the series is set. e.g. a babelfish type device, all aliens are decendants of earthlings, or something similar.
Could MGM be actually assuming their audience is intelligent? Hey folks, we’ve finally taken a step forward, with a slight wink to Steven Johnson.