Zakaria on Palin

Zakaria on Palin. Right on.

Google Audio Indexing - Finally

I'm excited about Google's "Gaudi" initiative. Google announced yesterday that they're going to start indexing the audio content on YouTube. Why is that cool? Because, it's going to make YouTube content a lot easier to search. New features will also allow you to jump to the specific time index in a video where the sounte bite you searched for begins. Searchable YouTube content is cool but I'm more excited about what this means for the future of search and the semantic web.

SNL Palin and Clinton Talk Sexism

For Luke, a Palin fan.

Everymoment Counts

Everymoment Now is providing a new view of the 2008 general election. Excellent graphs shed some light on the media trends surrounding the general election a little more visible. The graph on the home page caught my attention for a minute or two. Plans are in the works to make use of the technology and ideas behind the site beyond the general election.

The current version of Everymoment Now is focused on the 2008 US General Election. When the election is complete we'll have 100 days of data leading up to November 4th. We feel that being able to look back over the election, to see where media shifts occurred and what stories had the greatest impact on the final outcome is pretty important and powerful.

 

Executive Ecucation and Spelling

I'm can be a terrible speller and average wordsmith so I try to make the effort to always run the spellchecker and have my more important documents edited by somebody other than me. A poorly prepared document can reflect badly on you or your organization. Below, is a good example of a document that should have received a little extra attention before it was sent to thousands of people. I'm sure I'm not the only one that was surprised to see a misspelling like this from the U.C. Berkeley Center for Executive Education.