by Christian Grantham - 9:06 pm January 3, 2008
Here’s todays vids I watched all the way through.
by Christian Grantham - 9:17 pm January 2, 2008
Watch this video on [shorts] of Al Gore posted just minutes ago on YouTube by WarnerBrosRecords on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. The video and timing of the post raises Gore’s environmental cause as Democrats and Republicans face voters tomorrow in Iowa.
In the video, Al Gore talks about “the seven point pledge.” He stopped counting, but there is an inaudible moment in the video. What did he say?
“I pledge: 1) to demand my nation join an international treaty within two years to cut global warming polution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half world wide. Now the second part of the pledge is a little more personal. 2) I pledge to reduce my CO2 polution as much as I can and offset the rest in order to become carbon neutral. The other parts of the pledge focuses on things like renewable energy, conservation, planting trees, and protecting rainforests, fighting for legislation, new laws, new policies to greatly increase energy efficiency. Also, on the personal side the focus is on my home, my school, my work, my place of worship, [—-inaudible—-] to make sure those changes are underway there as well.”
[YOUTUBE: Live Earth - The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis - Al Gore - 01-02-07]
by Christian Grantham - 7:47 pm
Watch this peice on [news] from the Wall Street Journal’s Timothy Farnam. Listen as Farnam sounds … well, he REALLY wants to warn you about the kind of trolls and goblins he interviewed. The troll’s name is Brian O’Neill, a 33-year-old student at Northern Kentucky University.
“And while politics is certainly not the only blog topic PLAGUED BY TROLLS, it is an attractive prize for online goblins given its controversial nature. In the real world, the website Technorati now tracks 40,000 English language politics blogs. And by all accounts, the number of TROLLS has grown like MAGIC right along with them.”
[YOUTUBE: Web trolls plague politicians - Wall Street Journal - 01-02-08]
by Christian Grantham - 3:19 pm January 1, 2008
Perez Hilton will lose weight in 2008. I bet this is the year Perez becomes addicted to healthy eating, more excercise and respect for copyright owners. Happy New Year!
“Last year, when I was on MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration, they asked me for my predictions of what i thought would happen in the year 2007. And all of my predictions came true! Yes! I said:
- that Britney Spears would continue partying, and boy did she ever;
- that Lindsay Lohan would be hospitalized again, and she was. I think more than once;
- and I said that Nicole Richie would get fat, and she did.”
[2008 Predictions - Perez Hilton - 01-01-08]
