Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

The highlights in links, photos, and videos from the past week on my Tumblr blog.

Hub Culture 2009 Global Cities Zeitgeist Ranking

Change is in the air, and it has a decidedly political slant. The third Hub Culture Zeitgeist Ranking debuts with a new No. 1, set amid a palpable shift in our collective expectations. Security, sober simplicity and quality of life are dominating the scene now, creating a very different vibe among the world's globerati. Hub Culture compiles this ranking as a measure of the moment, drawn from discussions, emails, and observations gathered from members around the world. What keeps coming up, and more importantly... where?

CNN and Facebook gave a glimpse into the future of social TV viewing during the inauguration. The NYTimes points out that the inauguration was a watershed event for online video, "Online Video of Inauguration Sets Records."

Data from CNN.com captured the uniqueness of the online surge. CNN said it provided more than 21.3 million video streams over a nine-hour span up to midafternoon. That blew past the 5.3 million streams provided during all of Election Day. At its peak, CNN.com fed 1.3 million live streams simultaneously, according to Jennifer Martin, a spokeswoman for the site.

Boston.com's The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of photos of the inauguration.




Aretha's hat made the rounds.




My friend, Andrew Sloat, made a beautiful new video to celebrate Obama's inauguration.




And this song, by Friendly Fires, has been stuck in my head all week.