Not clear if this is a student project or ad creative Firefox.org plans to actuallly buy ad time to show, but Screenhead (via Waxy.org links), seems to think it’s legit. Not bad, but then again, it’s not too direct about what the heck Firefox actually *IS*. Watch the Quicktime clip here at the Savannah College of Art & Design’s student website before the management yanks the clip for sucking too much bandwidth.
Kudos to CNN
Nice to see my employer, CNN, getting a tip of the hat from USA Today. CNN has created the first regularly scheduled segment on the blogosphere. Seen weekdays during Judy’s Wooruff’s Inside Politics, the brainchild of new CNN head John Klein launched on February 14th. Klein is quoted:
“We want to demystify blogging,” Klein says. “We want to peel back all those layers and also do a reading of the blogs that our audience doesn’t have the time to do.”
I couldn’t agree more. Yeah, if you’re reading this blog you probably have already heard most of what they talk about each afternoon – but the segment goes a long way toward educating the other 99.999% of America what blogging is all about. PS – They are using a couple of spiffy Macs for the segment. What’s not to like! ;-).
10 Days and Counting
This is it. Ten days till Baby Trotz is due. From here on out, I plan to try to blog daily as we enter the final stretch. And stretching we are – Amy feels like it’s a whole new ball game recently – the baby’s new head-down position has made the last few weeks a whole lot more interesting. We bought a large inflatable birth ball to help ease the stress on her pelvis. Amy loves it. As for other preparations, we picked up the glider from The Baby’s Room on Saturday, and it looks great in the room. We also had to visit our new neighborhood Target on Moreland Ave (Yay! No more trips to Buckhead for Target!) and picked up a CD/ClockRadio/Nature Sound Machine for the room. And I’ve finally found a good use for that old Lava Lamp – it’ll make a groovy night-light. We also picked up one part of the artwork we were having framed for the room on Saturday. As you faithful readers know, we’re going with the animal theme for the room. Amy saw a nice idea where three book illustrations were matted together into a bigger piece, but we’ve done something similar, except with photos of mine from the Atlanta Zoo. We’ll have three of these in the room, and the first set featuring a lioness yawning, a zebra looking over his shoulder, and a giraffe stretching his neck looks great! We used a spiffy brown glossy burlwood frame and safari-esque pale green rice paper for the matte. Come on by and see it sometime!
Yahoo! picks up Flickr
Flickr, that bastion of open source, creative commons, you show me yours I’ll show you mine photo service has been acquired by Yahoo! Rumoured to be on the trading block for a while, parent company Ludicorp confirmed the deal today. Flickr’s own blog put it this way:
Flickr will be continuing on the path it’s on — to Flickr 1.0 and beyond. We’ll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor of what is here. We’re going to grow and change, but we’re in it for the long haul, with the same management and same team.
I sure hope so. This site has a great concept, and should do well for a long time to come.