Cascades by Flakjakt

Photo: Cascades by Flakjakt: First Music Video Using iPhone 4 Footage

This is pretty amazing. Songwriter/musician Steve Failows (a.k.a. flakjakt) wrote Cascades in two days specifically for a project to see if he could produce a decent music video using the iPhone 4 camera. The video was shot in one and a third days and edited in two days. This is the result.

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How People Consume The News

Photo: Journalist Taking A Photograph

Presentation about how people consume the news given by David Erickson & Natalie Wires for the Associated Collegiate Press at the University of Minnesota on July 23, 2010.

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Text-Speak Is A Myth

Photo: Text-Speak Is A Myth

Distinguished linguistics expert Professor David Crystal discusses five myths about the effects of texting on children and teens’ language skills.

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Time-Lapse Twitter

Screenshot: Time-Lapse Twitter: Tweets Reveal The Mood Of The Nation

Researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University have analyzed 300 million tweets over a three-year period and mashed them up with census data and Google Maps.

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Twitter’s New Name Search Feature

Screenshot: Twitter's New Name Search Feature

David Erickson of the e-Strategy Internet Marketing Blog demonstrates Twitter’s new ‘name search’ feature that highlights Twitter accounts that include the same keywords in their username as those keywords used in a query performed by a Twitter user.

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Google News Updates

Google News Updates

David Erickson demonstrates Google News’ new layout, explaining what about the Google News updates are new, including personalization, popular news, and local news.

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