Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

Photos and Video from Trinidad

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Now with share-y, taggy, web 2.0 good-ness!

I’ve got about forty photos up so far on my Flickr page, and also a couple of videos on YouTube. The photos are a bit of a work in progress—I’m still adding descriptions and I don’t know the names of some of the other authors at the NALIS reading.

Little help, Ray?

YouRube: Bus Uncle

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Okay everyone, which would you rather read about today—the latest on my Linux adventures or the most popular movie in Hong Kong?

Yeah, I thought so… ;)

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This real-life altercation on the upper deck of a Hong Kong bus has been viewed in its many incarnations almost six million times! Click on the screen grab above or right here for the version with English subtitles.

And like every other internet meme, the Bus Uncle video now has its own portal page, rife with mash-ups, remixes and ‘official’ merchandise… Enjoy!

YouRube: The BBC Cock-up

Monday, May 15th, 2006

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It’s bad enough that YouTube is fast becoming the VCR for the MySpace set; now people are uploading crap without first getting their facts straight…

My weekend newsfeeds were all abuzz with the story of how the BBC mistakenly interviewed a London cabbie about a legal decision in the case between The Beatles’ Apple Corps and Apple Computer.

While the Cock-up did indeed take place, the gentlemen in front of the cameras was not a cab driver but instead an IT professional applying for a job at the Beeb. Watch the video for yourself and you’ll hopefully agree that all things considered the poor guy ended up doing an okay job!