YouTube, Authenticity and the New Whatever

I just spent half an hour watching this video and loved it. For liberal arts nerds like me, a talk tying together McLuhan, YouTube and our emergent culture of public privacy is candy.
An alternate title of the video could have been, “A brief history of whatever and the origin of ‘meh.’”
It holds gems like, “Over [...]

Google kinda does DIY advertising

Google has done what seems to be a DIY ad campaign for Gmail in 4 acts.
Often in these situations I have a conflicted internal discussion. Something like this: The Optimist says:

Cool. This validates DIY ads.
This Kai (sp?) guy seems like the real deal. He tells us he’s an engineer. He seems like an engineer.
It [...]