3 posts tagged “video”
Motivational speaker is a title with bad connotations. That is, until you hear someone speak who moves you. And by move, I mean you palpably feel the center of your self, sitting inside your body, being pushed off its chair. And you are left empty of the words used to describe the person who moved you.
Amid recent thoughts of What makes a leader?, I was given a video of the Vice Chairman of the company I work for, NetApp. In the video, Mr. Tom Mendoza (no relation... shucks!) talks about how NetApp came through the bursting of the tech bubble in 2001 (big zoom-out level) and how each person with a little self-examination, self-accepting, and commitment to the self can set you on course (micro zoom-in personal level).
The presentation is entitled "The Power of Corporate Culture" (player embedded in the page), but don't let the big-business sound of it repel you. Neither that nor the motivational-speaker platform of it. Running time: 67 minutes.
Hosted at: Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University
SeeqPod.com is a "playable search" site for music and video that Verbal turned me onto. It's like a search site for MP3s and video files - which can be hosted anywhere, it seems, such as private websites and even public storage sites - and you can play the streams right on SeeqPod.
It relies on folks to submit URLs of their content for indexing.
If you are a website owner and haven't bothered to set up a streaming server, or don't know how, or haven't gotten your hosting provider to finagle it for you, this provides an answer.
And for your music-hungry, RIAA-loathing, web-addicted selves, we all share the win by being able to search, (hopefully) find, play the stream, and stroke our ears to instant gratification. You can save your playlists, too.
This isn't Napster or Morpheus circa 2001, but it's something close. The catalogue is decent, but not wide (not so good for J-pop, for example), though you will find some rare surprises. And it's adding content all the time.
And the real boner to this is that SeeqPod lists the URL of the source file, so if you're industrious enough (that is, you bother to mouse over and type what you see), you can own it, too.
Here's one review of SeeqPod from Read/Write Web and how it "neatly sidestep copyright and legal concerns."
Also cool is that SeeqPod provides ways to embed its player into your own sites and blogs (a la YouTube).
Here are some winning free-kicks in the power pop vein:
- Princess Six by Ash
- Rescue Plan by Charlotte Hatherley
- I Want You to Know (acoustic) by Charlotte Hatherley
- More Than You Know by Peter Adams
- The Dog by Eggstone
- Hide Your Heart Away by Lewis Taylor
Wait for the file to load, then hit the Play button.
Charlotte Hatherley, former guitarist of power-pop wondergroup Ash, is set to drop her second solo record “Deep Blue.” The lead single is called “Behave” and is set to a very cool animated video. The artwork is bright and distinct, and the story told with precision. The video nicely complements – and doesn’t detract from – the catchy, shimmering song that hosts a beautiful, overflowing chorus and a chunky bridge with wayward chords.
Here’s my first post on Charlotte, after her solo debut “Grey Will Fade,” which featured songs with more hooks than a welterweight fight. "Summer" [YouTube] and "Bastardo" [YouTube] are killers.
For women with low-slung guitars and a talent for complex melodies, I’m a devoted fanboy.
Come on, when ya gonna happen...?
