This guy made a great music video for the latest Britney Spears song Gimme More (good luck on finding the performance at the MTV VMA’s - she was terrible). Funnily enough, this was out before the VMA’s yet he has all the actions pretty much spot on.
Update After going through his videos, he’s a kiwi too. 
I’m pretty into my internet TV these days, YouTube is one of the sites I visit every five minutes (or less – don’t judge me). Of course though, there are plenty of shows that have been around longer than YouTube, and Rocketboom is one of them. It is one of the most popular internet shows and has been for sometime. If you haven’t seen it before, now is the perfect week as they are re-releasing old classics - three a day - for this week. Check it out.
The program previously known as Democracy has been renamed to Miro. Miro is an internet TV platform that effectively lets you subscribe to video podcasts and video feeds, including YouTube videos, and it’ll download them as they become available. It’ll automatically expire videos you’ve seen unless you tell it to keep it.
The Windows version runs on XUL, as it was the easiest platform to make a GUI because the developers disliked the Windows native style. However, the Linux version uses GTK and Mac OSX version uses Cocoa.
Miro is free and open source, and has a neat Miro Guide to help you find some channels, there are 1,611 feeds available and growing (yesterday it was around the 1,500 mark). My picks are Rocketboom, Jetset, Diggnation and DL.TV.
By the way, the Participatory Culture Foundation (who make Miro) have a $500 reward for anyone that can get Miro to compile with GNU tools on Windows. At the moment, it depends on Visual Studio 2003 because of Python. Check it out.
The Scissor Sisters are going to release their fourth single off Tah-Da called Kiss You Off - perhaps my favourite track on the album. The song is lead by Ana Matronic and has that classic 80’s feel about it. Go listen. It’ll be out May 28th with a mix by Mr Oizo.
Also while looking on YouTube I discovered that Ana Matronic was featured in a song by 80’s group New Order from their latest album with the song Jetstream. Very pop, but good pop.
This video is taking the rounds since it was released on the 1st of April. Alanis Morissette made a parody of the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps and did a good job of pointing out just how generally bad the song is. Well worth a watch, and it just gets better as the song goes on.
YouTube strikes again. Fergalicious, a song by Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas has been parodied quite well - in drag! See the parody to the left, and if you haven’t seen it, the original is to your right.
Here’s something I caught on C4 the other day and ended up hunting it down. It’s Hey Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken. Very interesting song, and equally interesting music video. It’s by Camera Obscura, an indie band from Glasgow, Scotland as a response to Lloyd Cole’s song (Are You) Ready To Be Heartbroken?. How cute. It’s worth a listen.
Here’s a bit of history from the Dan News archives. The Sky Digital launch. Laugh at the $650 installation fee (it is now $99) and the single channel (Sky Sports). Then, think about what the CEO said:
Sky will soon offer all sorts of choice, channels dedicated solely to children, music, science and nature, business news, additional sports, additional movies are but a few of the options
Additional seems to be the operative word these days.
I got back from work today to discover that Don Brash has resigned from National leadership. This comes as he has placed an injunction on leaked e-mails, which subsequently blocked a book that was announced the same day the injunction came into force.
It has turned into a not-if-but-when situation, however it is still a shock, and after a year of constant calls for new leadership. It has been a very long time coming.
So, where to next for the party? There are already talks about John Keys being the next leader; he has been climbing up the polls ever so graciously over the past year. However, the Nicky Hagar book, The Hollow Men, involves him as well. It doesn’t look very good for the National party right now, despite high pollings.
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