4.01.2007

Sunday reading

It's raining outside ...

I've officially started wearing contact lenses (man, they're excruciatingly frustrating to get in the first couple times) ...

And the Final Four games were far from exciting last night ...

In the meantime, some good reads before the 2007 baseball season kicks off tonight ...

Woo hoo!

a 'Grey's Anatomy': Real-Life Doctors Dissect the Drama

a Castle in Disrepair: It's been politicized and kitschified, and its luster is gone. The Smithsonian needs to get back to basics.

a Deaths noticed: Obituaries, long a newspaper art form, are branching out in cyberspace and soon, a magazine

a Becoming the media's Alpha Mom

a Why Do We Sleep?

... And for the YouTube portion of this post ...

... More and more I find myself passing time by searching for forgotten music videos, lost TV moments and anything else I might be able to dig up on YouTube -- and I gleefully love every moment of it. It's yet another great way to transport yourself to another time and place, and best of all, it's free.

... So when NBC announced a couple weeks it was launching its own video site I felt a sense of excitement and anxiety that YouTube would have a competitor. Excitement because a media giant was jumping into the ring and the caliber of its content could be really great, but anxiety because it's a media giant jumping into the ring, and the free and amatuerish form that makes YouTube so worthwhile could be thrown to the wolves ...

I'll anxiously wait ...

a For YouTube, This Is a Test
a Our Case Against YouTube
a Rules for YouTube: Make Art, Not Bore

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What do you mean the games last night weren't that exciting! GO BUCKS!