The Wrong Advices

If you’re having trouble explaining to Grandma what a blog is, this video by the guys at Common Craft should help.

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The guys from Common Craft have created yet another great video tutorial, this time explaining social bookmarking.
If you missed them, their previous videos covering RSS and Wikis are worth checking out as well.

Stephen Fry is a British comedian who just happens to be insanely intelligent and creative. As well as being an actor and director, he has also been known to write the odd novel.
Most of you should be familiar with his film and TV work, but you may not know how big a technophile he [...]

Common Craft have created a follow-up to their wildly popular video on RSS feeds. This time around they explain what a wiki is.

While speaking at a conference here in Australia recently, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was the target of a prank by a satire show called The Chaser’s War on Everything.
Posing as a member of the press Andrew Hansen fired off 10 questions in a row giving Wales no time to answer.
Some footage of the prank has finally [...]

When Meg asked me to list my top 20 music videos I suddenly realised how little time I’ve spent listening to music of late. I really need to make more of an effort. My list is after the jump, but be warned there are 20 embedded videos.

Using a few pieces of paper and a magic marker the guys over at Common Craft have created one of the best introductory primers on RSS and feed readers I have seen.
If you want to educate anyone on RSS and it’s benefits I suggest you have them watch this video. For something so simple it’s amazingly [...]

In this video Intel gives us a glimpse of the technology they envision we’ll all be using in the future. It seems to me we already have alot this technology at present but for various reasons it’s not viable for mass consumption.

It’s cost prohibitive.
In some cases it isn’t mature enough. Take voice recognition for [...]

I needed something to laugh at today and as usual YouTube came through for me.
Are you blogging? You should be!

This video would be a perfect way to do a viral marketing campaign for the new Terminator film.
All they’d have to do is play a bit of the Terminator theme at the end and cut to a big chrome T4 title, and their work would be done.