links for 2007-04-11

“All of the above might sound totally egotistical since it implies that I am in any way the author of my own success. The reality is that Henry Jenkins can do all of these things because Henry Jenkins isn’t a person. He’s a brand.”

Craigslist vs common sense …

# 70 million weblogs
# About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
# 1.4 new blogs every second
# Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%

Video in which Cuarón answers questions about Children of Men, the DVD, the doco and the politics behind the whole thing!

YouTube gets politicial …

“In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.”

Sorry to debunk a good proto-urban myth, but soldier Kevin Garrad was not saved from a bullet by it striking his iPod. Rather his iPod took the bullet but the body armour underneath stopped it!

Great to see the New York Times reviewing fan-made mashups on YouTube. Case in point: Virginia Heffernan on the excellent Seven Minute Sopranos.

An iPod flash mob party took over London’s Victoria Station Friday. An estimated 4,000 dancers turned up for the spontaneous event before four vanloads of police moved in to break up the gathering. Videos, too.

Wonderful little YouTube mashup of hyper-masculine 300 with “It’s Raining Men” as a soundtrack. [Via Chuck]

By Eli Horwatt [Via Chuck]

Interesting DVD essay (or YouTube essay in the case of this version) about comic book adaptation, DVDs and the interplay between the two. (Flow TV, 5, 11, April 2007). I wonder if the clips will stay on YouTube all that long …