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Brian Oberkirch of weblogswork.com is working on a new project: PodSlam!
Right now it’s a month-long online video poetry slam. 15 poets celebrating Black History Month. You can watch or download the slams, rate them, setup your own blog, and start talking. If it goes well they’ll be doing another one in April for National Poetry Month.
This is awesome! Now, would you ever be able to watch something like this on network TV? Hell no! I love the Web!
OK, here’s a fun little marketing test. Axosoft is selling its $495 project management software for only $5 and it’s donating that to the American Red Cross. I’m not getting a thing, they just emailed me and I thought this was cool. It’s only for three days. It’ll be interesting to see how many takers they get. I’m a sucker for innovative marketing approaches.
Being on the A List isn’t what it once was! Seems a lot of new blogs have moved onto the territory. At least according to analysis of Technorati’s Top 100 by Tristan Louis.
Steve Gillmor calls Office 2007 “Office Dead.” Oh, yeah Steve? Take this video of Excel 2007′s business intelligence features, er PivotTables, and stick it into your browser. Excel 2007 does stuff in minutes that used to take hours to do. You know, for a “dead” product I sure am having fun using all these “dead” new features! And I hear this video only shows a small fraction of what is great about Office 2007.
Kathy Sierra posts the Clueless Manifesto.
My son lives about four blocks from the movie theater that inspired her post (er, the seven girls who pushed for it). Here’s the Minnesota Public Radio story. You’ll need Real Networks to listen.
More about the “Superb Seven” who got the theater done: American Profile. SF Gate. Roberts David films is making a movie about the seven. It indeed is an inspiring story. I drive by this theater every few weeks to pick up my son. I had no idea.
So, now when one of you says “Scoble’s clueless” I’ll take it as praise! 
What great role models Patrick has in Petaluma.
Update: Patrick just told me one of his friends’ sister is one of the seven girls.
Penny Arcade’s Tycho is incensed that Halo 2 will only be available on Windows Vista. Thinks it’s just a marketing decision. It might be, but there certainly are some sizeable technical reasons too. At Northern Voice I showed a Channel 9 video that’ll come out soon that shows just how many multimedia improvements have been made in Windows Vista.
In the video the audio team shows that Windows XP’s audio won’t play very well (sometimes not at all) if you start applying stress to CPU’s. On Windows Vista the audio and video continue playing just fine with the same level of stress (on the same hardware). It’s a dramatic example of how much better multimedia will be on Windows Vista.
