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Archive for January 17th, 2008

Digg Reel Compiles Best of Digg’s Video

Posted by Ted Hopton on January 17, 2008

If you like Digg and/or videos, check this Fast Company blog post, “Revision3 Continues Social Strategy with Digg Reel,” about the Digg Reel on Revision3.

Hosted by Jessica Corbin, cohost of the company’s Tekzilla show, Digg Reel features a rundown of the site’s top weekly videos. As Jim Louderback, Revision3′s CEO, describes it, “It’s great for a top level filter of all the videos that are out there.”

I agree — all of the videos in Episode 1 had some sort of appeal, and the host’s witty and friendly commentary ties them all together into one overall entertaining episode.

read more | digg story

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Have You Heard About the New YouTube For Ideas?

Posted by Ted Hopton on January 17, 2008

The pitch — “a YouTube for ideas” — appealed to Mr. Summers. “Larry, to his credit, is open to new ideas,” Mr. Hopkins recalled recently. “He grilled me for two hours.” In the age of user-generated content, Mr. Summers did have one worry: “Let’s say someone puts up a porn video next to my macroeconomic speech?”

The image “http://www.bigthink.com/image/header/bigthink_logo.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.The NYT article, “Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly,” is good reading in and of itself, providing an inside look at the launch of a new concept and company, but what’s most interesting to me is the new website itself, Big Think. I’m looking forward to indulging my inner intellectual by checking it out.

read more | digg story

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Are They Really the Most Self-Absorbed Ever?

Posted by Ted Hopton on January 17, 2008

New research challenges the notion that young Americans are the most self-absorbed.

Perfect timing for me on this NYT article, “Generation Me vs. You Revisited,”: I was already grumbling this morning about how entitled my 18-year-old daughter seems to feel. She’s taking a year off after high school and after a rather industrious start, now is acting more like it’s an extended summer vacation! We’re going to have a little chat today about taking responsibility.

Back to the article, which I was the first to Digg (woke up way too early this morning, thinking about what I need to say to straighten out my kid): I recommend it because it challenges the trendy view popularized by “Jean Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, who along with colleagues has found that narcissism is much more prevalent among people born in the 1980s than in earlier generations”. Read the rest of this entry »

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