Friday, December 17, 2010

'Nano-sharing' the brilliant scene from the 'Raiders of the lost Ark'


My family and I watched the Indiana Jones Stunt Show in Hollywood Studios this week.

The familiar Cairo Market Scene from the Raiders of the lost Ark, was re-enacted where Harrison Ford shoots the sword-wielding assassin.

I have seen this exact scene a dozen times before, yet there was this wonderful feeling watching it again.

From their smile-lit faces,I could guess that, many others in the audience would have seen this scene before as well.

Yet, we were immersed in the scene, in spite of it being very familiar and not novel.

Few brilliant scenes make a movie.

Shouldn't there be a simple way to enjoy individual scenes which Netflix or YouTube does not do today like the Cairo Market Clip

Sunday, December 5, 2010

New York Times and Nano-sharing



YouTube brought back our vocal chords, which was eliminated by Sound Recording Technology.
Blogs enjoyed similar status for a very short time.

The primary reason being: we could put in 1000 hours of practice and master the piano,without the fear of the 'pianist block'.


Yet, even 10,000 hours of writing would not free us from the writers' block.
While it is easy to tweet a few words rather than write a complete blog post. Even that is becoming harder, as it takes effort, to be interesting in 140 characters.

So, link sharing supplanted sharing original thoughts.
With thousands of new content every day, even reading is arduous. Thus, we skim tens and hundreds of shared links, on a daily basis.

New york Times now provides the ability to link paragraphs, to facilitate this emerging nano-sharing trend.

You can watch and share interesting segments of YouTube videos such as, the essence of Matt Ridley
Phillippe Starck
Ken Robinson and
Larry Lessig
using easybutton.tv