It is heartening to see the increasing role online video has played and is continually playing in the Obama campaign and consequent administration. The President took questions from Youtube, arguably the biggest symbol of the evolving media democracy, and answered them.

What role is video playing in your communications strategy?

The nominees for the “Best Picture” 2009:

1. Avatar

2. The Blind Side

3. District 9

4. An Education

5. The Hurt Locker

6. Inglourious Basterds

7. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

8. A Serious Man

9. Up

10. Up in the Air

Apple finally unveiled its most hyped, awaited product yet – iPad (btw – iTampon was a tweeting trend today).

Mashable – “[iPad] is designed to fill the perceived gap between the smartphone and the laptop.”

Crunchgear – “It’s a big iPod.”

Readwriteweb – “We expect to see a similar trajectory for the iPad in the enterprise as the iPhone has had in recent months.”

New York Times – “One question Apple faces is whether there is enough room for another device in the cluttered lives of consumers.”

Engadget – “There’s no multitasking at all. It’s a real disappointment.”

Gizmodo – “No Flash is annoying but not a dealbreaker on the iPhone and iPod Touch.”

Wall Street Journal – “People familiar with Apple’s thinking said that the company is still sifting through technology features that it has in the works to decide whether any of them might be ready before March to include in the first device.”

Being number 2 isn’t too bad a thing – if you’re number 1 also. James Cameron’s Avatar has become the second highest grossing movie (domestic) behind James Cameron’s Titanic. Congratulations for the number 2 spot and for the Golden Globe win.

Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 kilometres (140 mi) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu, the highest point at 727 metres (2,385 ft). The original name of the island in the Tahitian language might be better rendered as Pora Pora, meaning “First Born”; an early transcription found in 18th- and 19th century accounts, is Bolabolla or Bollabolla.

Greece attracts more than 16 million tourists each year, thus contributing 15% to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product Economy. Greece has been an attraction for international visitors since antiquity for its rich and long history and more recently for its Mediterranean coastline and beaches.^[1] In 2005, 6,088,287 tourists visited only the city of Athens, the capital city.*

* Wikipedia: Tourism in Greece

SprintCam v3 showreel, made for the NAB 2009 exhibition.
You can find the original video over at Vimeo.

The video is gorgeous, so enjoy yourself.