The Best of the Web
Twice a month, look for a link to my favorite web video of the week, as well as some of the best blogs I’ve come across.
Week of Dec. 7
This is Obama during his campaign.
Check out Greenpeace’s ad. Sad but true.
Week of Oct. 5
Are magazines dead? No, in fact subscriptions are increasing. Find out more in this great video, “Twenty Tweetable Truths About Magazines.”
Blog of the week: Check out this article “Publishers Should Protect Their Content” in Folio’s blog.
Week of Sept. 20
Check out this flexible and unbreakable prototype video screen featured on a video on livingartmedia.com. View “Hammer Time.”
Week of Sept. 6
Graphic PSA on texting while driving from Wales. Check it out.
Week of Aug. 23
A talented bunch of boys doing a Michael Jackson mix. Check it out.
Week of July 26
CCN gathered three envionmental videos that are well done. Check them out.
Week of July 12
This is a great video by Bicycling.com about the effect of banning race radios for two days in Le Tour de France (Stage 10 and Stage 18).
http://video.bicycling.com/video
Week of June 28
The music needs some help, but the video is funny and quite popular.
Week of June 19
An excellent viral video.
youtube.com/watch?v=iX8iVo5vc8o&feature=related
Week of June 5
This guy, Mark Malkoff, is living on an airplane for a month.
Week of May 31
This is kind of a photoillustration-style video. Check it out. It’s good.
Western Spaghetti by an artistic collective called PES
Blog of the week: BBC’s Ethical Man. He and his family tried to reduce their carbon emissions to a level that doesn’t risk major and irreversible climate change (2-4 tons of carbon per year) and blogged about it. This year, he’s touring the United States to evaluate green living here … its potential and its failures.
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman
Week of May 24
This is one of the BEST action adventure videos on the Internet right now.
Crazy Cliff Walk, El Camino del Rey
Blog of the week: The best travel blog, period. Be sure to take a look at the ones written by Rolf Potts.
vagablogging.net/advice-on-making-it-the-travel-writing-world.html
Week of May 17
Lesbian speed dating. Hilarious!!
gprime.net/video.php/lesbianspeeddating
Blog of the week: This is an environmentalist, liberal turned Thomas Friedman living style. Well done.
Week of May 10
My own canyoneering video.
youtube.com/watch?v=T5psRMUtPv8
Blog of the week: Great social experiment that got coverage in the New York Times.