Modern Times - Modern Again

Thanks to the new project Google Video, there's a ton of stuff on the web that you won't find on youtube. One of my first searches was for one of my all-time favorites, Charlie Chaplin.

Take a look at Modern Times and when you are watching the factory workers, try to picture them in front of PCs in cubicles. In many ways, the workplace has come full circle from about one hundred years ago.

TV on Internet? Bah!

"A discussion paper prepared for this year's Banff World Television Film Festival, which kicks off Sunday, predicts that conventional Canadian broadcasters will weather the rise of on-demand TV and that the Internet, contrary to some soothsayers, won't become the primary way viewers watch TV." Full article

Hmmm. Don't commit to deeply to that mindset. Reminds me of when I asked for funding to take a web design class in 1996 and was told the internet "wouldn't catch on."

Jacking a Ride to Reflect My Style

The annual list of the most stolen vehicles on the road is out. For the fourth year in a row, the Cadilllac Escalade leads the pack. For sure it isn’t because of gas mileage.

No, it’s because it is seen in a lot in music videos. Athletes drive them. And Tony Soprano drives one.

According to Kim Hazelbaker, senior vice president of the Highway Loss Data Institute. "It's part of our pop culture as a very large, flashy SUV."

I’ve never boosted a ride, but I think back in the old days, cars were stolen because they were easy to get into and to get your grand theft self around. Now is it about style and emulating iconic media figures?

Here's the AP story

Oh! (Network) Janice

America's Next Top Model is a great concept. It's young women tricked into thinking they're in a modeling competion on TV. (OK. Exceptions are Eva, Danielle and Kim.)

But I still wanted a TV show about becoming a model. I'm thinking Oxygen (Oh!) network's The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency will deliver.

Hurrah! CNTM on YouTube

Thanks to Meighanm I can watch Canada's Next Top Model via YouTube and so can you (if you don't get Citytv.)