Musings from Bill
As part of the Seesmic Indiana Jones fest this morning we got to put a question to Shia Laboeuf, one of the stars of the film in Cannes for all the promotion.
Here’s the question (the sound quality is poor – sorry)
And here’s what he said in response
(embedding the video is messing up my page layout, so links will have to do until I sort it)
It was a very strange and strangely compelling experience – thanks to the guys for setting it up.
Steven Spielberg interviewed on Seesmic
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Gia and Sizemore are in Cannes interviewing cast and crew of Indiana Jones on Seesmic and posting to the timeline as live as they can – George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and the man. It’s a fascinating experiment in community interaction, with a lot of Twitter action supporting the Seesmic stuff… and it feels real.
It’s late on Sunday evening and I’ve just finished writing a column for Ariel, the BBC’s inhouse newspaper. I’m tired, but thought I’d spend five minutes installing Growl, the fabulous tool that tells you about what your Mac’s up to, on my new iMac.
And I came across a discussion thread on the Growl google group that included this fabulous aside from Brian Ganninger
Meta: Each discussion should be unto itself, bringing baggage in only leads to additional problems. We are in a neutral medium that doesn’t provide implicit contexts – your emotions, your tenses or speaking patterns, your anything else – and lends itself to exactly what is in front of the viewer.
Which is, of course, true. And is also what we want our social networks to make untrue.
Oh – and here’s my Seesmic video to show just how tired I am!