It's about 2:30 but you get the idea pretty quickly
And there are plenty of photos that are over 20 gigapixels.
Some of you may have also come across this video lately
I saw it from a link on facebook, probably the day after it was posted on youtube on February 2. By Saturday, the 5th, the video had been seen over 10 million times. Today as I write this, it has been seen over 16 million times. Is there any way to communicate information to 10 million people in less than three days apart from the internet? Do 10 million people anywhere even watch the same news program?
Sometime later in the week I'll be talking about the T&T presentation project I did with Kelly and Danny, but I don't want to spoil anything right now.
Great point on the access to viewers the Internet has, Colby. Though as amazing as it seems, is there any issue with 16million people getting the same content? It seems to me a bit scary, as all this wonderful uniqueness we all have may soon be null. How can I tell anyone a unique story from my youth if every story is the same as their story? (Regarding access to viewers: I wonder if your blog viewership is different than others' due to it being linked at the very bottom? Page 2 of Google gets significantly lower hits than page 1!)
ReplyDeleteAs for viewership, it certainly didn't help that I messed up the link from Nicenet so that no one could access it from there for almost a whole month!
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Google hit thing. Maybe that's what McLuhan meant when he said information overload leads to pattern recognition: why dig deeper when you can default into Wikipedia?
Also, I'm not as much concerned about 16 million people getting the same content as long as they know it's the same content. What scares me is six conglomerates owning all the newspapers and everyone thinking they are getting hundreds of viewpoints when they are not. Bush's favourite tactic was to flood the airways with the same information so that when people heard it often enough they would think it was true.