mad dog in the fog

I saw The Police play at McAfee Coliseum (Oakland, CA) last night. The highlight of the show for me was ‘So Lonely’. Here’s a video of their performance of that song from last week’s Seattle show.

Happy Mothers Day to all of the Mom’s out there. Nightline recently blew the lid off of the Hipster Parenting phenomenon.

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Baron Davis dunks over Andrei Kirilenko towards the end of game 3 of the 2nd round NBA playoff series between the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz. The Warriors go on to win 125-105. The Jazz lead the series two games to one.

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Laughing Squid has details on the Spinal Tap reunion. “This one goes to eleven!”

By now, just about everyone who is interested in Web 2.0 has seen the The Machine is Us/ing Us video. Here’s a video of the creator of that video (Michael Wesch, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University) speaking at the recent Web 2.0 conference. He breaks down each part of the video, explaining what he was trying to accomplish and how he went about producing it. The video cuts off part-way through his talk. I will post a link to the complete presentation if and when I find it.

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Part 2 of Photowalking 8 is now available…

Last month I joined Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk and several other talented photographers in Half Moon Bay for Photowalk 8. Robert has posted part 1 of that episode on ScobleShow. I was also shooting some video that day with my little digital camera…

The last session that I attended on the final day of web 2.0 EXPO was The Social Media Revolution: You Oughta Be in Pictures (and Podcasting, and Vlogging). The panel was made up of Thomas Hawk, Chris Pirillo, Robert Scoble, and Jeremiah Owyang. There’s been discussion over the past week or so about whether the trend towards live video streaming and Twittering is information overload a Web 2.0 echo chamber. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, this was a very interesting panel discussion. I was able to get some video from the fourth row.

Thomas Hawk talks about photo-blogging.

Chris Pirillo talks about live video (using Ustream.tv) and the impact that it has had on his ability to interact with his audience in a new way.

The panel talks about the power of the “Sneeze Effect” - the ability for social media to spread around very rapidly.

The panel talks about the impact of Ustream.tv.

Robert Scoble talks about what it was like to do a live video broadcast at web 2.0 EXPO.

The panel talks about the challenges of finding the signal through the noise.

I saw this performance of “Wolf Like Me” by TV On The Radio on Kimmel a couple of weeks ago and I’ve had it in heavy rotation ever since.

I’m pretty late discovering this band with the weird name. I heard about them on Twitter last week (yes, I know - yet another use for Twitter) and I’ve had the album in heavy rotation ever since. Here’s a track called “Quiet As A Mouse” from their 2006 album “The Dust of the Retreat“.