Filed by Bil at 9:00 am under Fightin' Words, Stuff to Read, The Media
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Quick point of interest: while reading a post from socialmediaexaminer.com (don’t judge) about social media trends in business (I beg you don’t judge), I somehow found my way to a different article about what’s new this week in social media (for the love of Pete don’t judge). I took the time to watch a video about an iPad-only magazine, because for some reason every video I’ve ever seen on Vimeo has been between moderately and awesomely cool. I don’t know how Vimeo attracts cooler users than YouTube, but it does.

Richard Branson Launches Project, an iPad-Only Magazine: Project is “the first global magazine app for creative people about creative people.” Do you think this is the future of publishing?

PROJECT magazine demo - issue 1 from PROJECT on Vimeo.

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Filed by Bil at 7:07 pm under The Arts
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Just posting a bunch of videos is really lazy blogging. I am aware of this. And I sincerely apologize, but that’s exactly what you’re getting right now.

Somehow, I didn’t know about Xtranormal until just this weekend. I mean, I’d seen a few clever videos that made their way around the internet, but I didn’t realize that you could create an account and make your own. So I did.

I made a series called “SadBots” which is about (you guessed it) emo robots. So put on your thrift-store sweater, put your Morrissey LPs aside, and get ready to relate to emotionless (yet poetic) talking robots.