Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

My favorite links, photos, and videos from the past week on my Tumblr blog.

At the end of the day, aren't we all just chasing a wheel of cheese down a steep hill? Fantastic photos on boston.com's The Big Picture blog.




Hulu introduced a desktop app, so that you can watch with a remote. I was playing around with it last night, and it works pretty darn well.

Now Hulu is releasing its own desktop application, allowing you to browse through the site’s content using your computer’s remote control (both the Windows Media Center remote and the Apple Remote are compatible). Both applications are native too, so you won’t have to deal with any quirkiness from Adobe AIR.

The same people who did that awesome Alice In Wonderland remix have moved on to Mary Poppins.




Rick Liebling wrote a great post about the term "social." I like his point about the difference between social interactions, between people, and content that through digital media becomes a thing that people use to be social.

All media isn’t social, all media is shareable. I don’t think we can attribute a quality like ’social’ to an inanimate object. To me, people are social (or not); videos, posts, photos, podcasts, etc. are simply content. Now, that content can generate social interactions between people – generate conversations, drive debate, challenge preconcieved notions – but the content itself is just that, content.

And I think I've blogged this before, but it's worth repeating. This is President Barack Obama as a college freshman in 1980.