Archive for March, 2009

Snag Films: Free, shareable documentaries

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Continuing from yesterday's post -- using this blog to essentially bookmark stuff to check out later -- I give you Snag Films.  Search or browse over 600 documentary films to stream instantly (for free.)  Then embed some in you blog, like I'm about to do. Two "hero" related docs: Darkon Film description after ...

Using my blog as a bookmark

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Here are three things I'm currently looking forward to checking out in more depth; that is, spend some more time on: David Lynch Foundation Television -- The psychologically macabre director has launched a video intensive site promoting his love of transcendental meditation.  Good Magazine blurb here. Stereofame -- Chance to win prizes ...

Live iPhone OS 3.0 preview event

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

I was checking into embeddable live blogging web services to follow Apple's live event where the iPhone's OS 3.0 should be previewed.  The only such service I could find is CoverItLive.com.  But there is no one using it for the event in English (that I could find). Instead it looks like ...

A Digg for Indie Music: TheSixtyOne

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Techcrunch has just reviewed thesixtyone.  I suggest you go there if you want details on the ins and outs of how thesixtyone operates, but basically the service is like a Digg for indie music on steroids. A user gets so many heart points to heart up, or help make popular, songs ...

GMail rolls out status bar for attachments

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The image above is a selection of a screen shot from GMail showing a status bar when attempting to attach a file in GMail.  I've read somewhere that this may be happening soon, but today is the first I've seen it in the wild, in my GMail.  I applaud this ...