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The band the Presidents of the United States of America has produced the first music video using cell phones as cameras. An Australian production company filmed the video in Seattle using a dozen Sony Ericsson K750i’s, which are not available in the US. (US cellular telephony is a generation or two behind the rest of the world.)

The agency brainstormed the idea 18 months ago but was unable to find a band willing to take the risk. Director Grant Marshall said: "[T]he look [is] reminiscent of the movies available on
Quicktime in the 90s. The funniest part of the shoot was to see a
mobile phone sitting on a tripod-it’s quite a sight. With mobile phone
camera resolutions doubling every few years, people will probably look
back and say this idea was ‘so 2005’."

Of course, there are ringtones at Rolling Stone, including this latest single, "Some Postman."

Who knew? My first iTunes podcasts were from Apple’s library. Subscription is easy enough. But today I wanted to add Meet the Press. I had the link/web page at MSN and didn’t want to have to try to find it via the iTunes podcast library. I googled and on page two of the results, there was the answer: you just drag-and-drop! Color me suitably impressed with the background integration that makes this miracle possible. [FWIW, my preferred RSS reader is Thunderbird. Hands down. Seems I like the e-mail format.]

ABC News has launched a series of daily blogs with comments enabled, allowing viewers to provide feedback to journalists, who can now publish personalized accounts of their own news coverage. ABC follows CBS (Public Eye blog) and NBC News (anchor Brian Williams’ blog). ABC already has a blog-like feature, The Note, which does not allow feedback. ABC recently added a podcast, the AfterNote. (tip)