Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

A round up of my favorite links, photos, and videos from my Tumblr blog.

Side note: I'm trying to get back into the habit of saving more links to Delicious. I share so many links on Twitter now, that I have less inclination to post them to Delicious. But, I'm still reading and learning a ton that I want to share with you, so, look for those bookmarked posts and articles to show up on Tumblr and in my RSS feed.


BREAKING NEWS (5/1): Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire at the end of this session.

NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term. The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction.

Although, Souter is one of the liberal judges on the current court, he was actually appointed by George H.W. Bush. So, there will probably be extra pressure for Obama to not pick someone too liberal. Also, experts are speculating that Obama is very likely to pick a woman.


A beautiful music video with some really fresh design and motion graphics (via Fubiz):

A Lull "Skinny Fingers" from A Lull on Vimeo.

From the always awesome Big Picture blog, Human Landscapes from Above:




Henry Jenkins wrote about Susan Doyle's videos, how they spread, and what it means.

Susan Boyle's success is perhaps the most spectacular example to date of spreadability in action, and indeed, since we've discovered a fair number of busy corporate types out there who don't feel like reading the eight installments of "If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead," I figured I'd use this space to spell out again some core principles of spreadable media and show how the Boyle phenomenon illustrates how they work.

A very cool collection of video illusions with paper animation.

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.