What’s good, blog reader? Another week down, another weekend passed, and what would you know, it’s already Monday. But hey, don’t be too sad – what a week last week was! We had dogs running around Richmond Park, we had deer running around Richmond Park. We even had a man chasing said dog, chasing said deer, around said park. And further to all of this, we even had someone filming it all. Yes it really was an interesting week. I mean where do you go from there? I really do not know.
I actually don’t. I’m struggling with the Digital Digest today. It’s been a bit of a slow one. In fact if this was a syndicated newspaper or televised news broadcast, this edition of the digest would constitute a slow news day. But I’ll press on nonetheless, because I’ll be damned if I miss a week of everyone’s sixth favourite blog, leaving all of my dedicated followers in the lurch. All three of you. Thanks for hanging in there, mum.
So here we go, last week… …online.
We all know and love Google Street View, which takes Joey from Friends idea of ‘getting into his map’ and makes it an online reality. Well, earlier last week Google extended the capabilities of their 3D maps to include Ski Slopes. (I told you it was a slow week, alright?). Just in time for this year’s Ski season, those clever chaps at Google jumped onto Streetview snowmobiles, and started taking photos of 13 different Ski resorts around the US and Canada. I’m not entirely sure why… it’s not as if they’ll give up to the minute, live updates of current conditions on the slopes. Like the current Streetview, the images are going to be quickly out of date. However, it does mean that there’s going to be an even higher chance of every now and then coming across some choice finds like this. Or this. Or maybe even this. Still, if you can’t afford your own skiing holiday, why not sit in a sled with a laptop, open the new Streetview, and pretend you’re hurtling down a snow capped peak in Whistler. It’ll be just like being there. Without the pain.
In other Google news, do you smell what Barrack is cooking? Well now you can, at all hours of the day. Because he’s joined Google+. 3,926 +1’s since last Wednesday evening… …is actually slightly underwhelming, surely? He’s the President of the United Bloody States! After Obama’s 2008 campaign was fuelled by an extensive internet campaign, particularly via YouTube and Twitter, then it certainly seems that the new social networking site has received a vote of confidence from the 44th President and his PR team. As it stands, The Muppets have 4,496 +1’s, which I think technically makes Sam Eagle more popular than Obama. And for good reason. Anyway, if the Pres wants to boost his popularity, he needs to upload more videos like this. And this.
I could go routing around for an app of the week, I could even nick Shortlist’s suggestion of Approach, but then I’d be done for plagiarism, and this very blog post would cease to be – so you can read all about it there instead. What I am going to do, is leave you with some of the greatest Fenton remix videos on the net – namely the Jurassic Park mashup, Fenton Planet and An American Fenton in London.
Oh, and for our American chums, I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.
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