Browsing YouTube and a few of my favorite blogs today I was quite simly blown away by what I was seeing and I wanted to share that experience here, 2 YouTube videos and a blog post. The first YouTube video really started it all off and it is called Web 2.0... The Machine is Us. For someone in the trade that's a pretty obvious statement but I have never seen it expressed this well before... see below:
The second really exciting video for me was a piece I saw in the comments of the previous video called black button. It reminded me a lot of the short plays the drama groups used to put on at school and really engaged me for the full 7minutes of the piece with just two actors talking. It also brought back memories of the play Copenhagen which I saw in london with my Physics class in my final year of school (and feel all scientists and engineers should be forced to see). Powerful moral content, strong acting and a simple set. Sheer brilliance:
The final piece I wanted to share is humourous but simply amazing and that is a post from the blog indexed. On Indexed Jessica Hagy draws little management consultant like graphs to explain everything. She does it with humour and her tongue firmly in cheek but she really often hits the nail BANG on the mark. This post is about the relationship between accessibility and desirability but read the whole blog, go back MONTHS, you will be glad you did.
So these three items... what do they have in common. Two things, 1. I loved them, really truly enjoyed watching them and thinking about them. 2. My web offerings don't equal the talent of these individuals and yet I am positive earn me more money. That's totally not fair and I hope that YouTube paying users a share of their revenue will rectify that, cos these guys deserve it!
Well, while these items are indeed very impressive and worthwhile they do not in any way lessen your input.
At the end of the day Jade Goodey gets paid more than you again and has no discernible talents whatsoever.
Posted by: Brendan Goss | February 19, 2007 at 07:00 AM