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I ve been thinking about memes lately. About the self-propagation of interesting and cool objects or ideas. I read a fair number of diverse blogs - different topics with different geographies and different audiences. Yet I find that they often post the same memes. BoingBoing is one of my favourite meme factories. And Twitter is certainly a meme replicator on steroids!I saw Susan Blackmore earlier this year at TED and I was entranced by her presentation on memes ... how humans are meme machines ... as well as how temes have evolved - temes = technical memes. Love the ideas in her talk.

Last week I attended the CMA s Digital Marketing Conference (btw .. for some great followup coverage, check out OneDegree - Alexa Clark conducted 1/2 dozen interviews with speakers - some good stuff!). One of my fav presentations was the Creative 3.0 (yeah, I don t know why they called it that either - I guess to signify the latest thing?) which had a number of creative directors presenting what the coolest, cutting-edge stuff they had seen recently is. You can check out the Tweet stream to see about all the presenters (@thornley and I kept up pretty well).I did find Dré Labre s presentation on iPhone apps quite provocative. Both he and Adam Oliveira showed some amazing iPhone apps - but Dré made the explicit point that these apps are incredibly disruptive because a $10 app replaces a gadget that has cost between $10 and $500 - whether it s a GPS device, a metronome, a breathalizer or a simple lighter. And agencies are competing with kids in the basement (again!).Below are his slides from his presentation - definitely worth a walk-through just to wrap your head around the implications of this - how it can change markets and marketing. Great stuff! PH0N3D: Vanishing into thin air.View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mobile iphone) Photo Credit: stephentrepreneur

Flash QuickTime authors: ROBERT CROMA, J. S. BACH November was NaBloPoMo. Say What? National Blog Posting Month. Aha. Silly. Posting every day, for one month. For What? Peace? Thank god someone got ill! Link to the original posting: CLICK HERE Robert Croma: CLICK HERE Subscribe to Robert Croma: CLICK HERE More on the videobloggers @ NaBloPoMo: CLICK HERE

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This is a recipe Jeffrey posted on truthfairy.eu for Day 11 of NaVloPoMo. I read on Twitter that a few other NaVloPoMoers have been making it. So I thought I'd have a go myself. I'm not much of a cook, but as I mentioned the other night, one of my 15 failed 2007 New Year's Resolutions was to cook 2 recipes every week. So this is my second recipe for the third week of January. He called it Quick & Dirty Carbonara. My version isn't as quick, but it's definitely more dirty.

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This was actually preceded by a scene in which she was crying uncontrollably, and I tried singing Baa Baa Black Sheep, Row Row Row Your Boat, Five Little Ducks and Horsey Horsey to calm her down, to no avail. Then I had a moment of divine inspiration and started singing the Star Wars theme tune, and she instantly flopped in my lap, head back, as calm and attentive as if I were Julie Andrews singing Ave Maria.Not that she's seen Star Wars. The only time she's heard any of the music was in Car Going Fast film. Which was a bit of a favourite last week. So me singing the theme reminded her (a totally different part of the theme, though, so she's pretty smart to pick it up). Next thing I knew, she was sitting on the loo demanding Car Going Fast. Watch on Loo, Daddy. What am I doing to my family?

I don't know how you all do it. So many of you taking part in NaVloPoMo have been writing comments on my videos every day, so I know you're watching - AND you're making incredible films. Which is what it's all about, I feel - I don't want to just be making films here, I want to be watching and talking. But I haven't been able to find the time to do that for days. So I've tried to steal a couple of hours this evening to watch videos. I watched 5-10 films while the duck cooked between 8 and 9. Then I watched 5-10 more while Kate ordered our shopping online.And I still hadn't made a film myself. In fact, I was so busy watching that I'd totally forgotten that I was even supposed to make one myself. Until 11.33pm. So this is the only option left to me! I'm humbled by the talent and passion and generosity everybody's showing by both creating and watching other people. And a bit frustrated at why I can't get my shit together to do it better myself. At some point, I'm going to try to post links to some of the videos I've watched. But there are dozens being posted for NaVloPoMo each day, and I'm days and days behind. Now I'm really finally off to my bed on the floor. Kate and I usually hang out quite a lot in the evenings, so it felt a bit weird watching separate things in separate rooms. I wish I could both watch and hang with her. Perhaps I'm going to have to set up an Apple TV and drag her even further into our hell...

I handed the camera to Kate today. We were in Burnham Beeches, just outside London. The colours are incredible this year.I was trying to persuade her to sing her song The Falling of the Leaves so that I could cut it with a bunch of footage I shot all around the woods. But this is better. I think I'm going to give her the camera more often.

NB - THIS HAS NO SOUND ----- I said it before, I'll say it again. I hate technology. I'm thinking of going Amish. I've tried to upload this twice. I've been away from the internet this weekend. Shocking, but true. Just testing out the Amish thing. Anyway, here it is. I shot it in Canada in August, in the woods along Long Beach on Vancouver Island (map/satphoto). I shot a lot of moving snapshots on holiday, hardly any of which I've published - I usually shoot a lot of still photos on holiday. This time, I experimented with keeping the camera still and shooting a movie instead of a still. Slightly different compositions from what I'd choose for photos, but you see what I mean. This isn't a Lumiere, strictly speaking, because it's not under 60 seconds long, but I've muted it anyway because (in this case) I wanted to leave space for you to imagine the sound of a forest on the edge of the Pacific, and to imagine what's being said and thought. You can re-read Alice's encounter with a mushroom here:

This is one of the things I'm going to miss most about England when I go to Canada. I shot this on Monday in Devon, on the way back from Kate's dad's cottage to the station in the nearest town. 20 minutes of death star taxi adrenaline. I was wondering what I should do with it until I saw Gogen's NaVloPoMo Day 7 video of his drive back home through his town at night, set to music. Then I realised I'd secretly known all along what to do with it. NaVloPoMo is full of people responding to and being inspired by other people's videos. Organic video conversations. I love it. And I love how - when cutting to music - with a little tweaking and care, you can find and take advantage of chance interactions between image and soundtrack. It feels good to finally add the score for real, since when I'm actually driving at high speed along single lane country roads, this is *always* what I'm singing to myself in my head. And if I'm driving and there's nobody else in the car, maybe perhaps sometimes I might even possibly have been known to sing it out loud. Maybe even quite loud. Especially the bit that kicks in after he turns off the tracking computer. It's like being 11 again.

Hi to everybody who's stumbled here from Blip or Mefeedia homepages (or wherever) wanting to know about NaVloPoMo.NaVloPoMo is (Inter)National Videoblog Posting Month - a lot of video bloggers and artists making and posting films every day in November.The site is at http://nablopomo.ning.com/group/videobloggers - you can see people's films there, and also find a list of their blog URLS and feeds.Twittervlog.tv is my video blog, which I shoot, cut and post, all with my Nokia N93 cellphone. You can watch more or subscribe at the site. This is a reply to an email I got from Josh Cohen at Tilzy.tv asking about NaVloPoMo. I just riffed on his questions. Whatever I've missed, or whatever you think about it and about personal videoblogging, reply in the comments or on a video or however you like. - How'd you come up with the idea? And how'd you initially share it with the community? Did it take long to catch on? - About how many vlogs would you say there are involved? (I think there's a list on the Ning site, but was wondering if that was extensive) - Why do you participate? What type of people should participate? Is it for anyone? - What's the best part about it? - How do your videos for NaVloPoMo differ than your regular fare?

For some reason, I asked everybody to show their desks & workspaces, in response to Cheryl asking to see everyone's Junk Drawers. And I promised to show mine today. So here it is. Two years ago, a friend gave me David Allen's famous Getting Things Done. It changed my life. PS Dear Clients, This is a work of fiction.

A Lumiere of my father in law, rowing on the River Dart.I'm away for the weekend, staying at his country cottage on the River Dart in Devon. We took a trip down the river this morning, on the ferry to Dartmouth - I shot 120 clips and cut them together as a little moving slideshow. But then I went for drunken dinner and now it's 11.45pm and I forgot to compress it, and it's still stuck compressing. My own fault for using FCP to cut it instead of just doing it in the phone. Not following my own rules, and paying the price. But, luckily, I had a backup plan - in the late afternoon, we went back out on the river for a little row, and I shot this Lumiere. As soon as the other one is ready, I'll post that, too - so I might end up posting 2 tomorrow. Or I might not. There's no need to show off, is there?

Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you are already DEAD! Brothers, what we do in life... ECHOES IN ETERNITY!